The Healthy Seas Podcast
Join us as we dive into the depths to explore the challenges and solutions shaping the future of our seas. Hosted by Crystal DiMiceli, each episode features conversations with the people making waves in marine protection: divers, scientists, educators, business partners, and local communities.
Healthy Seas is a unique alliance of NGOs and businesses working together to tackle marine litter, especially ghost fishing gear, and transform waste into opportunity through circular economy solutions. Active across 20+ countries, we operate with a global mission and a local heartbeat.
Through cleanups, education, innovation, and partnerships, we’re restoring the ocean and inspiring action—one net at a time.
Backed by over a decade of impact and part of the UN Ocean Decade movement, this podcast invites listeners and companies alike to dive into a world where environmental restoration meets meaningful collaboration.
The Healthy Seas Podcast
From Employees to Ocean Ambassadors: Volunteering That Creates Real Impact
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How employees become ambassadors for ocean conservation
What happens when employees are given the knowledge, freedom and support to champion a cause they genuinely care about?
In this episode of the Healthy Seas Podcast, DWS employees and Healthy Seas Ambassadors Luxshmy Harikantha and Leon Vosse share what employee volunteering looks like in practice. Through the longstanding collaboration between DWS and Healthy Seas, ambassadors receive training, educational resources and ongoing support to bring topics such as marine litter, ocean protection and individual action into schools, community activities and events within their company.
Their experiences show that a meaningful employee engagement programme can extend far beyond a single volunteering day. Ambassadors can shape activities around their own interests and local opportunities, collaborate with colleagues and external organisations, and build relationships with students and communities over time.
For Luxshmy and Leon, this work also provides something different from their everyday professional roles: a chance to act on their personal convictions, learn more deeply about ocean conservation and see the immediate response of the people they meet. They describe children leaving activities eager to share what they have learned and sometimes changing their behaviour, and the behavior of their families, almost immediately.
The episode also explores what makes corporate volunteering feel genuine rather than symbolic. Time, flexibility and organisational support all matter, but so do trust and creative freedom. Employees need space to contribute their own ideas, take responsibility and adapt activities to the people and places around them.
For companies considering an employee volunteering programme, the DWS Ambassador initiative offers a concrete example of what is possible when a business and a nonprofit organisation build something together over several years. Healthy Seas brings expertise from marine conservation, education and field projects, while employees become multipliers who carry that knowledge into new settings.
The result can benefit everyone involved: communities gain access to engaging ocean education, employees find connection and purpose beyond their day-to-day work, and companies create opportunities for colleagues to come together around meaningful action.
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Healthy Seas is a marine conservation organization whose mission is to tackle the ghost fishing phenomenon and turn this waste into an opportunity for a more circular economy. They do this through clean-ups, prevention, education, and working with partners who recycle and repurpose this material. The podcast is hosted by Crystal DiMiceli.
