Currently I work as an entrepreneur in my own firm where I am a sustainability consultant with a focus on businesses, but I want to transform my work into the regenerative field and become more of a coach than a traditional consultant. However, I do not yet know how to do it, but I have a lot of ideas and thoughts, and my plan is to put them into action in the near future.

I want to be a support and inspiration to individuals and organisations that identify themselves as change makers, those who want to make a real positive impact in the world as opposed to incremental step-by-step reductions of harm. I want to help people and organisations think better for them to choose regenerative ways forward.

My primary aim at the moment is to figure out how to transform my business into taking the role I mentioned above. My goal is to be a real force for good and make a visible impact for a more regenerative future.

I believe I have done a lot of work for developing as a person during the past years, including educating myself as a coach for individuals and teams. I have also done a lot of self-reflection and I feel that I know quite well who I am, how I think and what I want to do in my life. I think the main arena for personal growth right now is to internalise and embody even better regenerative thinking, even if I have studied the topic a lot in the recent years. I feel I also need to identify my role better and find the ways forward on the regenerative path, in particular in my professional life. How should my business look like in the coming years and where do I start?

See above point 4.

My most important investment has been the emphasis on my personal growth in the past years. I have needed this transformation for being open to new ways of thinking and seeing. Another important investment has been to educate myself as an executive and team & systemic coach, because I believe that the conventional methods for working with sustainability do not work. Also, in the recent months, I have turned down "conventional" sustainability assignments from clients to make space for the new and have time to think.

Already many years ago, I found it very interesting to learn about personal development and self-awareness. Then I found the regenerative movement where the most eye-opening thinkers for me have been Laura Storm, Giles Hutchins and Leen Gorissen. More recently I have read Carol Sanford's books and other literature in the regenerative field. In the coaching field, I have learned a lot from Peter Hawkins and the climate-conscious coaching network.

Oh, such a hard question. But maybe I could say that my life philosophy is to be a force for good and make an impact for a clearly better future where everyone (not just human beings) could live a good life. I feel very connected to nature and I feel that I am a part of something bigger. I want to be a human being and not a human doing. One of my biggest wishes is that humans take a role as a custodian species on this planet and participate as a force for regeneration instead of degeneration.