I am an architect in a large national practice by day and a father of one 2 year old and a husband by night.

I have the honour to serve at a leadership capacity at work. So I lead teams in service of our clients to deliver the best outcomes of the project. Along side my colleague we are currently working towards a Sustainability Action Plan for the office.
At home, I am a partner to my wife and her greatest cheerleader. I am a dad to my daughter and her provider and protector.

We all get somewhere in life. But few of us do it on purpose.
My dream is to be a man of influence and impact that everyone in my sphere of influence will live to their fullest potential, to see each day with a purpose greater than themselves, their families and their world.
And sustainability and regenerative design is a means to that end.

I struggle with imposter syndrome a lot. I believe it has something to do with the fact that I do not always practice what I preach. When no one is looking, I tend to take the easier way out. I believe it is the disconnect between where I want to be and what I am actually doing on a day-to-day basis that makes it dissonant with my sphere of influence, and therefore, I am not seeing the change that I long to see.

Working with commercial realities, I often find myself defaulting to business as usual because it is easier. And often, I do not have the right words to say or the right tools to frame a direction/idea. And so again, there is this disconnect between what we are trying to push doing better and what we do not actually do. It creates disillusionment and leads to apathy, which just creates such a toxic loop in the working culture that I hope to break.

Getting registered as a Living Futures Ambassador was a great introduction to the world of regenerative design. I also read Dominique Hes' book - Designing for Hope. Beyond this daily I follow thought leaders and captains of industry on LinkedIn to learn from their activity feed.

Dominique Hes and her network of regenerative thinkers; and the Living Futures Institute.

I frame my worldview through the lens of Christ and my relationship with Him. I believe that it is within the Christian worldview that all God's children should steward the Earth as God's precious gift to us. Historically, Christians have turned 'dominion' into a dirty word by justifying their selfish ambitions with the word of God. Humans have the unique ability (whether by design or evolution - doesn't matter) to imagine futures and to create that future. Traditional custodians have demonstrated that innate ability for ages. And we are only just catching up with history. Except unlike the traditional custodians, we have gone and complicated things a whole lot for ourselves by entrenching ourselves into systems of society that makes it so hard for us to get out of a consumerist life and mind. We have lots to unlearn and relearn. I have lots to unlearn and relearn.