Your NameMichael McElligott
Cohort AssignmentCohort D (Australia)
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Regenerative property development focussing on enhancing human settlement patterns

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

My role is to bridge the gap between the investment and finance sector and the built environment that facilitates a better future for the planet

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

To produce as many pilot/demonstration projects as possible to steer the industry and legislative frameworks to make better decisions

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

Years of study, failed businesses, and hard work

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Within this field, it's daunting, and I am constantly out of my depth, which is what I use to grow personally

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

The sustainable built environment certifications have helped me get here, but the regenerative thinkers like the Regenesis group, Carol Sanford, John Fullerton, and Bill Mollison have changed the way I view the world

5. And for professional growth?

Same field

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

I work towards developing the future of a globally coordinated, multi-planetary society, governed by participatory democracy, geared on a regenerative economy, where we accept our role as custodians of the Earth