Film Projects
Beyond Zero
Beyond Zero was Nathan’s first film. It premiered in 2020 and has now been seen by many hundreds of thousands of current and aspiring business leaders, designers, architects, engineers, inventors, industrialists, entrepreneurs and visionaries of all stripes. Global demand has necessitated subtitling the film in 14 languages and counting. It has been used by many of the world’s largest companies (and many, many more smaller ones) to ignite the imagination and innovative potential of their teams.
Roughly 300 educators at roughly as many colleges and universities around the world (and counting) are using Beyond Zero to inspire and train students in a wide variety of fields to “abandon the comfort of the status quo,” and decline the false tradeoff between profit and sustainability.
Best Supporting Human
Though it may seem counterintuitive to some, a growing body of literature calls us back to our senses (and our humanity) by affirming with data what we already know in our hearts: the best way to get people to improve their performance is to ensure they feel cared about and help them grow as people. When company leaders consistently demonstrate genuine care for their teams and other stakeholders, they unlock a powerful set of business advantages.
Best Supporting Human was made to show what this looks like.
Ownership Works
In 2021, Charter Next Generation, a leading specialty film supplier to the food, consumer, industrial, and healthcare industries, made all 1,700 of its employees part owners of the company. The announcement was just the beginning. Nathan Havey and the team at HaveyPro Cinema are going behind the scenes to document their journey as they transition to worker ownership. Watch the trailer now and join the mailing list at Ownership Works to get new snippets of the film in progress as they are released.
One BIGG Island In Space (OBIIS)
In 2018, Bob Fish, Co-CEO of BIGGBY COFFEE realized his company’s success had been built on a purchasing model that paid no attention to the relationships with the people who spend their lives growing coffee. When Bob looked “behind the coffee curtain,” he saw a purchasing model that’s contributing to climate change, extreme poverty, and mass migration — and almost all coffee companies are complicit in it. As one of the fastest growing coffee franchises in the U.S. with over 400 locations, this was an issue Bob felt he couldn’t ignore. While other big coffee companies meet this realization (if they’ve had it) with a shrug and some greenwashing, Bob and his wife Michelle decided to explore solutions.
Together, Michelle and Bob co-founded One Bigg Island in Space (OBIIS), an homage to the famous “earthrise” photo as a reminder that we’re all in this together and want the same things in life. In his position as CEO, Bob saw the opportunity to leverage BIGGBY COFFEE as the vehicle to make change. He discussed what he’d learned with his business partner and Co-CEO, Mike McFall, and they announced that BIGGBY COFFEE would completely transform its coffee supply chain by 2028.
Nathan and the HaveyPro team are following their journey as it unfolds, creating a variety of storytelling projects along the way including the Field Notes, and Behind The Coffee Curtain series’ on YouTube, many event videos to help tell the OBIIS story, and feature films (like La Fortaleza) telling the backstory of each of the farm partners.
Learn more and buy the best coffee in the world.
Video trailer coming soon…
Hayward Healthy Homes
Bill Hayward
Hayward Healthy Homes are simply a better way to build housing. They use dramatically less energy, they are consistent with human health and thriving, and they are resilient to fire. Best of all, done right, they cost the same as the status quo home that has none of these qualities. What will it take to make Hayward Healthy Homes the new business as usual in the homebuilding industry?
La Fortaleza
A Mexican coffee buyer discovers a secret world of coffee growers and helps them face the constant threats to their environmental sustainability and economic survival.