Your Name | Julie Hirigoyen |
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Email Address | hirigoyenj@gmail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Europe Summer-Fall 2023, Cohort 1 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Having worked for 25 years on sustainability in the built environment, I am now moving into a phase where I want to work on fundamental systems change to achieve more positive environmental and social outcomes from property investment, development and manaagement. I am taking on a few non-executive roles on company Boards to challenge and inspire a new way of thinking for those businesses, as well as a portfolio of advisory projects where I hope to make a significant difference to both places and organisations. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Challenging businesses to fundamentally alter their business model to one that can yield genuinely positive and regenerative impacts on people and planet. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To make more of a positive transformational impact than I have in the past. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Spiritual development. |
5. And for professional growth? | Regenerative development. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have worked incredibly hard over 25 years in various different roles spanning start up consultancy, in house corporate roles, and most recently as CEO of a charity. I have sacrificed significant personal and family time to pursue professional goals that I felt to be paramount - but now worry that the impact I have had has been incremental and that the system itself is perpetuating social inequality and ecological decline. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Ecological economics; environmental management; Gaia theory; sustainable development; social value... |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Planet Earth and its surrounding cosmos is a living system that is in a constant state of flux. All living species and natural matter are Sacred, inextricably connected and in perpetual relationship - constantly evolving while maintaining perfect balance and harmony. Nature itself if Sacred and a manifestation of the divine. |
Date Created | August 30, 2023 |