About Us
Natural Pod is a sustainable learning solutions company that designs and builds beautiful, flexible furnishings for learning spaces around the world. We are proudly Canadian, female-founded and led. Using in-house design, and product partnerships, we provide furniture elements that enhance student well-being and educational outcomes.
Our commitment to sustainable materials, processes and practices is fundamental to our mission of supporting children, communities, and the planet. We believe that business can be a force for good, a value that cemented our choice to become a certified B Corp™ in 2022, part of a network of mission-focused, impactful businesses around the planet.
We source all materials for our furniture elements from within Canada, and our manufacturing facilities proudly support local communities. Through intentional conversation and collaboration, we transform learning environments into places where students and educators want to be.
Ultimately, our aim is for every student to learn and play in healthy, beautiful and inspiring learning environments. That’s big and bold and we believe in it fully. If you stand for that, we invite you to join us on our mission to positively impact communities.
We can do this together, one learning space at a time.
Our Design Process: From Concept to Completion
We’re better learning environments
Our goal is to create and support your vision of a better learning environment by offering quality, modular items that can easily adapt to your teaching and learning goals. As we enter a new era of learning where collaboration and cooperation drive innovation, education environments need to reflect this change.
Thoughtful, well-designed spaces invite new ways of interacting. By working with us to make meaningful choices, community stakeholders at all levels are beginning to create new education paradigms.
Our furniture and classroom designs support students in thriving in their work, play, and the ways they learn best. Our products encourage children to trust and discover their ideas, abilities and creativity by constructing an environment that supports active learning.
We work with educators to create beautiful, inspiring and calming learning environments.
Message from our CEO
To our community,
The Natural Pod team and myself are and always will be committed to creating the most healthy, beautiful learning spaces that welcome and inspire students and educators. Although there is still some uncertainty within education, I truly believe that by staying in a place of creativity we can support each other through this time. Students still need us to create inspiring spaces where they can thrive, now and for their future. By creating learning environments at the intersection of pedagogy, sustainability and great design we can do just that. Educator’s wellness also needs to be at the center of decision making. Educators need to know that we care about the environments where they work and hold space for our children. Through collaboration and open, honest conversation, we can navigate any challenges and find real solutions, together.
Please know the whole Natural Pod team is here to support you however we can.
Bridgitte Alomes, CEO and Founder
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We acknowledge these lands
At Natural Pod, we are committed to restoring our relationship with the natural world and honouring the diverse peoples and cultures connected to the lands where we operate. We craft our products using sustainably harvested and managed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, wood materials.
Our team and business are rooted in the traditional territories of several Indigenous communities: the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh in Burnaby, BC; the lək̓ʷəŋən, Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ in Victoria, BC; the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh in Vancouver, BC; and the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN in the Cowichan Valley and Gulf Islands, BC. We deeply respect the historical relationship these communities have with the land and are dedicated to working towards truth and reconciliation.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
News + Stories
At Natural Pod™, our purpose is to ensure every learner and educator has a practical, healthy, sustainable environment in which to learn and be inspired, enabling them to reach their full potential. You can find all our news and stories here, where we share ideas and thinking that inspire our work to help inspire yours.
How Voyagers’ Community School Have Adapted Their Spaces For This New Era Of Learning
Voyagers' Community School was already a very intentional and inspiring learning environment to be part of. In light of the pandemic they have been working hard to adapt their learning environments to meet physical distancing needs while still being the...
Supporting Women Through A Collaborative Mission To Offer Quality Affordable Childcare
Photo shows from left to right: Aliki Gladwin, interior designer for the project; Candice Harper and Carol Choi from Union Gospel Mission, responsible for setting up the new center; Sharon Gregson, child care consultant and provincial spokesperson for the...
Where Do We Turn For Bold Leadership In This New Era Of Learning? – Thinking Out Loud Issue#2
With so many questions around the future of learning and education, it is certainly a challenging time. But I do feel this is also an unprecedented moment full of potential should we wish to take it. With bold leadership I think we have an opportunity to shift away...