About · Founder & approach
Built from lived experience, backed by evidence.
Southeast Asia’s first inclusive-economy consultancy — founded not from a business-school thesis, but from the experience of being a transgender professional in a system that had no place for her.
Nikki Phinyapincha
Founder & Lead Strategist
Nikki built Southeast Asia’s first inclusive-economy consultancy from the ground up — translating lived experience into the systems, training and benchmarks Asian organisations now use to perform and report better.
She co-developed the UNDP Business Inclusion Toolkit, authored Thailand’s WorldPride 2030 feasibility study for TCEB, and maps the LGBTQ+ inclusive economy across the region — bringing primary research to every engagement.
- Co-Chair, Global Transgender Task Force — InterPride (2025)
- Co-Founder, Trans Pride Thailand
- Policy Author, Thailand’s National Trans Well-being Charter
- APCOM Asia-Pacific HERO Award recipient
- Tatler Asia Gen.T List honoree
- Speaker, WorldPride Washington D.C. 2025
employees reached via the co-developed UNDP Business Inclusion Toolkit
GDP opportunity identified in Thailand’s WorldPride 2030 feasibility study
organisations mapped for LGBTQ+ economic resources across 17 countries
How we work
Four principles behind every engagement.
Evidence-based
Primary research grounded in Thai organizational data — not imported assumptions.
Constructive
Inclusion as business strategy, not politics. We build, measure and report.
Asia-grounded
Strategies tailored to the Thai and ASEAN context, delivered bilingually in Thai and English.
GRI-mapped
Every training course mapped to GRI standards, so culture work becomes disclosure evidence.
Partnerships
Working alongside the institutions shaping Asia’s inclusive economy.
- UNDP
- InterPride
- U.S. Department of State — YSEALI Next
- National Health Commission Office (Thailand)