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Nature holds the answers to innovation.

We transform nature’s intelligence into strategic solutions for companies and leaders.

Amazu Biomimicry

"A 3.8 billion-year benchmark in Research and Development (R&D) at your project table and people development."

Amazu Biomimicry has been providing consultancy, education, and training in biomimicry, bioleadership, and innovation for over 10 years. We transform nature’s intelligence into solutions for companies and individuals through conscious innovation, biomimicry, and holistic sustainability.

We are pioneers in bringing biomimicry to Brazil and are partners with the American Biomimicry Institute, the Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8.

We are a reference in the application and practice of biomimicry, conscious innovation, and sustainability through our consulting services, indicator programs, training sessions, classes, lectures, and mentorships.

Our work in biomimicry, innovation, and sustainability is supported by exclusive proprietary methods and proven results.

We firmly believe that the future of business and leadership lies in the symbiosis between sustainability, profit, purpose, and innovation, and we bring these principles to companies, business models, and people development, to create value and results in a systemic way, positively impacting business, society, and the planet.

Nature has the solution!

Who we are

Giane Brocco is the Founder and CEO of Amazu Biomimicry and one of the pioneers in introducing biomimicry in Brazil. She was among the first 100 people in the world to become a Certified Biomimicry Specialist by Biomimicry 3.8 (USA) and brings over a decade of experience applying biomimicry in practice within companies, products, and leadership development.

Combining her engineering background, systems thinking, and a deep connection with nature, she promotes innovation, creativity, and leadership while inspiring the Amazu team to innovate with nature as a reference.

As a consultant, together with the Amazu Biomimicry team, she has developed projects for companies such as Danone, Unilever, Dezon, L’Oréal and Sicredi, among others, positioning Amazu as a global reference in biomimicry applied to business.

She is also a partner in two other companies (Mercobor and Asha) and co-founder of Biomimicry Brasil, the organization that represents the Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8 in the country.

Giane holds a Master’s degree in Production and Systems Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Production Engineering, as well as additional training in leadership, governance, and innovation. She is a Biomimicry Specialist certified by Biomimicry 3.8, a BioLeadership Specialist certified by the Amani Institute, and has completed the Leadership for Transition program at Schumacher College (London and Brazil). She also holds a postgraduate degree in Corporate Governance for Family Businesses from the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), a specialization in Neuromarketing from Unisinos, and certification as an ISO 9001 Auditor (BVQI), among other qualifications.

In addition to consulting, she is also a speaker at national and international events and a guest lecturer at universities, recognized for her work applying biomimicry to innovation and leadership. She has participated in more than ten podcasts and has been a speaker at four TEDx events, as well as major events such as South Summit and Rio2C. She also served for more than eight years on the New Leadership Council (CONLIDER) of the FIERGS System, was a member of the Innovation and Technology Committee at ACI-NH, and currently serves on the Sicredi Futures Committee.

Throughout her career, Giane has developed proprietary methodologies that apply biomimicry strategically in different business contexts, such as BioSprint, a consulting framework for practical innovation inspired by nature; the Companies as Forests program, based on industrial indicators inspired by natural ecosystems; and the BioLeadership programs, which gave rise to the Leaders Ecosystem initiative focused on people and organizational culture development.

Through Amazu Biomimicry, Giane and her team work alongside organizations seeking to innovate in a smarter, more sustainable way aligned with nature’s principles, developing solutions, strategies, and leadership capable of generating value for businesses, people, and the planet.

Would you like to explore how biomimicry can drive innovation for your company?

Press

Across industries, Amazu empowers leaders and organizations to rethink business through nature-inspired innovation.
Amazu Biomimicry in the media:

Innovation inspired by nature

Nature has been solving complex challenges for 3.8 billion years. Biomimicry connects organizations to this intelligence — applying the strategies of living systems to innovation, leadership, and business transformation.

By learning from nature’s principles, companies can develop products, processes, and business models that are more efficient, resilient, and prepared for emerging economies. Biomimicry strengthens innovation, sustainability, and ESG strategies, inspires new leadership approaches, and generates solutions with high strategic value, competitive advantage, and positive impact.

What is Biomimicry?

The word biomimicry comes from the Greek bios (life) and mimesis (to imitate). In essence, biomimicry means innovation inspired by nature. Nature is the world’s most advanced innovation laboratory. Within living systems we find strategies capable of inspiring new ways to create value, use resources intelligently, and design solutions aligned with the challenges of the future.

Rather than extracting resources, generating waste, or simply mitigating impacts, biomimicry invites organizations to learn from systems that have operated successfully for billions of years — systems that are efficient, adaptive, and regenerative.

Adopting biomimicry means adopting a new way of thinking about innovation. It transforms complexity into opportunity, sustainability into competitive advantage, and purpose into performance. Organizations that learn from nature develop solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and built to last — not only for today, but also for future generations.

Nature has already solved many of the challenges we face.
Biomimicry teaches us how to learn from it.
More than a trend, biomimicry represents the evolution of innovation.

What do we do?

We translate nature’s intelligence into strategic solutions for businesses and leaders.
Discover our solutions for your organization:

BIO SPRINT© CONSULTING

Our proprietary biomimetic innovation method

BIOSPRINT© combines Biomimicry Thinking with the Sprint methodology to develop a biomimetic solution for your company’s challenge or opportunity. The innovation process results in a validatable biomimetic MVP, supported by specialized technical guidance to help with its implementation.

BIOLEADERSHIP

Our training programs for people development

BioLeadership promotes a leadership approach inspired by nature, integrating sustainability, innovation, and systems thinking. Through training programs and team-building experiences, we support leaders in understanding their organizations as living ecosystems, strengthening adaptability, continuous value creation, and the development of innovative and sustainably responsible corporate cultures.

Our Training Programs

EVENTS & KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Content that connects biomimicry, business, leadership, and innovation. Bring biomimicry to your stage. Strategic content curation for events.

MENTORING

Leadership development for more strategic, conscious, and effective decision-making. Begin your BioLeadership journey.

CO-CREATION

Let’s create together!

Do you need a specific solution for your challenge? Talk to us. At Amazu, we co-create customized projects, defining together the theme, format, and duration according to your company’s real needs — always aligned with business strategy and the results to be achieved.

Awards & Recognitions

In 2025, the biomimetic packaging developed for Danone, applied to the 100g packaging of the Activia, Danoninho and Actimel product lines, was recognized among Brazil’s leading awards in design, innovation and sustainability, reinforcing the potential of biomimicry as a powerful strategy for innovation.

Awards received

These recognitions reinforce our innovation approach: inspired by nature and guided by science, engineering and measurable sustainable impact.

Results achieved – Danone Project

The project was developed through a partnership between Amazu Biomimicry, Danone, Cazoolo Lab and Graham Packaging, demonstrating how — just as in nature — collaboration among different areas of expertise strengthens the creative process and enables the development of smarter and more sustainable solutions.

Is biomimicry relevant for all types of companies and leaders?

What makes us different?

Biomimicry is relevant for all types of companies, teams, and challenges. Our approach is designed to adapt to this diversity. We operate with an agile and lean structure, allowing us to act as strategic partners in projects of different scales and levels of complexity, always with objectives clearly aligned with those of our clients.

We connect teams — the Amazu team, the client’s team, and strategic partners — to co-create solutions while simultaneously developing internal capabilities in a consistent way. Our focus is to generate concrete results and measurable positive impact by integrating strategy, execution, and continuous learning.

To achieve this, we develop and apply exclusive biomimetic methodologies created by Amazu, translating nature’s principles into strategic solutions for companies and leaders.

Count on Amazu as your partner to innovate with nature’s intelligence, strengthen sustainability strategies, and develop solutions with consistency, competitive advantage, and lasting impact.