We are Regenerators, a living ecosystem of change-activators reimagining how we live, lead, and design.

Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the most influential voices in the global regeneration movement. As the author of the seminal book Designing Regenerative Cultures, he has helped shape a shared language and practice for those seeking to heal our relationship with Earth and redesign the systems. His work spans education, design, ecology, and social innovation — always centred on the question: How do we create conditions for life to thrive?

Daniel advises organizations, communities, and networks around the world in transitioning towards regenerative cultures. Daniel connects the wisdom of living systems with practical pathways for transformation — from local food systems to global policy, from bioregional design to leadership development.

His writings and teachings continue to inspire thousands of practitioners to become stewards of place, collaborators with nature, and active participants in the evolution of our civilisation.

We cherish the sessions he hosts for our Regenerators Alumni practicing holding the questions together.

Giles Hutchins is a leading voice in regenerative leadership and organisational transformation. As former Global Head of Sustainability at KPMG and author of several seminal books — including The Nature of Business and Leading by Nature - he has helped leaders transition from extractive, control-based management to life-aligned ways of organising and relating.

Through his transformative work at Springwood, his regenerative leadership centre set within ancient woodland in England, Giles guides leaders, teams, and individuals into deeper connection with living systems. His approach integrates ecology, embodiment, systems thinking, and spiritual wisdom — offering not just tools for change, but pathways for remembering our innate relationship with life.

Giles supports companies across sectors to evolve toward regenerative cultures — fostering clarity, resilience, relational intelligence, and transformational leadership capacities. He reminds us that nature is not a metaphor, but a mentor; not something “out there,” but a living web we are part of.

We are delighted to have Giles as a partner in our ecosystem — and honour the role he played in the early days of Regenerators when Laura and Giles collaborated on retreats and workshops around the world that led them to co-authoring the book Regenerative Leadership. Today this book has been translated to 7 languages - with more on the way. 

Joshua Konkankoh is a respected elder, activist, and regenerative community leader from Cameroon. As the founder of Better World Cameroon, he has spent decades nurturing youth leadership, community resilience, and agroecological land stewardship rooted in Indigenous wisdom. His work bridges ancestral knowledge with modern innovation — cultivating pathways for African communities to thrive while staying deeply rooted in their cultural and ecological heritage.

Joshua is a guardian of the Ndanifor Permaculture Eco-Village, a pioneering site for regenerative agriculture, cultural preservation, and bioregional development. Through this work, he supports young changemakers in reconnecting with Mother Earth, restoring degraded land, and designing community-based systems that honour reciprocity, dignity, and collective wellbeing.

Konkankoh collaborates internationally to champion Indigenous leadership and to show how regeneration is already alive in African communities through resilience, creativity, and deep relationality.

We are honoured to have Joshua as a partner and wise elder in our ecosystem — a teacher of courage, culture, and community-based regeneration.

Michelle Holliday is a leading thinker, author, and practitioner in the field of living systems and regenerative practice. With a background spanning business strategy, community engagement, and ecological design, she invites organizations and communities to remember themselves as living, breathing ecosystems — capable of creativity, reciprocity, resilience, and renewal.

Her book The Age of Thrivability has become a touchstone for changemakers around the world, offering a profound shift in how we understand leadership, organizations, and the purpose of work. Through her facilitation and consulting work, Michelle supports teams and sectors in cultivating the conditions for life to thrive — bringing clarity, warmth, and deep relational wisdom to complex transformation processes. Michelle is also one of the founding members of the OD for Life. 

We are grateful to have Michelle as a partner in our ecosystem — a trusted ally in the movement towards life-giving leadership and regenerative ways of organising.

John Fullerton is a pioneering voice in regenerative economics – author of the book Regenerative Economics. A former Managing Director at JP Morgan, he left Wall Street to explore a more life-honouring approach to finance and ended up shaping an entirely new paradigm. Through the Capital Institute and his framework of the Eight Principles of Regenerative Economics, John has inspired thousands of leaders worldwide to reimagine business, capital, and value creation in alignment with living systems.

His work bridges rigorous economic theory with ecological wisdom and deep human values. John collaborates with communities, businesses, investors, and policy makers across the globe to activate regenerative economic practice — demonstrating that finance can be a healing force and a catalyst for systemic transformation.

Today, he continues to serve as a mentor, educator, author, and advisor for transformational projects that seek to move beyond sustainability and into systemic regeneration – and we are happy he’s a frequent guest to the Regenerative Leadership Journey.

Anton Chernikov is the visionary steward of Selgars, a living laboratory for regenerative practice and the cherished home of Regenerators’ annual community retreat. With a background in social entrepreneurship, architecture, and community building, Anton has dedicated his life to exploring how land, people, and purpose can come together to create thriving living systems.

At Selgars — a former mill in the Devon countryside — he has cultivated more than just a venue. It has become an ecosystem: a place of learning, rest, experimentation, and belonging.

Anton brings a rare combination of practical skill and soulful vision. He facilitates immersive experiences in nature, prototypes new models of land stewardship, and supports communities in designing spaces that foster creativity, collaboration, and wellbeing. His work is a living example of how place can become a teacher — and how land can regenerate both people and ecosystems.

We are grateful to have Anton as a partner in our ecosystem — and Selgars as a vital node of nourishment, learning, and regenerative possibility.

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. Her work asks the question “How can we improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. 

Sahana Chattopadhyay is a writer, speaker, and facilitator working at the intersection of pluriversality, emergent learning, regenerative organisations, and decolonial practice. She is committed to inviting more-than-one worldview into organisational life — challenging dominant paradigms and opening space for relational, contextual, and life-centred ways of working.

As the founder of Proteeti, a consulting practice focused on regenerative transformation, she partners with organisations and communities to lay the groundwork for businesses that honour complexity, interdependence, and collective wellbeing. With 20+ years of experience in multinational corporations, she bridges practical strategy with deeper systemic insight — helping leaders move beyond extractive models and towards regenerative cultures.

Sahana has been recognised with the Jay Cross Memorial Award (2021) for her contribution to the field of organisational learning design and strategy. Through her writing and facilitation, she continues to nurture dialogues that integrate decolonisation, facilitative leadership, and regenerative design — inviting organisations to evolve as living systems capable of reciprocity, creativity, and continuous becoming.

We are honoured to have Sahana as a partner in our ecosystem — a courageous guide helping to cultivate regenerative futures from the inside out.

John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and highly regarded thought leader. Currently, he is a Founding Partner of, and Chief Pollinator at Volans. His latest books are Tickling Sharks and Green Swans. John has helped create and incubate movements the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008. 

Lyla June Johnston is a Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) scholar, poet, and community organiser whose work bridges Indigenous wisdom, ecological renewal, and social healing. Through her research, storytelling, music and activism, she shares wisdom about  Indigenous land practices - offering pathways toward regeneration, food sovereignty, and biocultural resilience.

Her powerful talks and performances - including the viral “3000-year-old solutions to modern problems” - have inspired millions around the world. As a doctoral researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she explores Indigenous land management techniques that regenerated soil, water systems, and biodiversity at scale. She powerfully demonstrate that reciprocity-based agriculture is not an ancient practice but a vital blueprint for our future.

Lyla June calls forth a remembering: that culture, spirit, agriculture, ceremony, and community are inseparable - and that healing our relationship with the Earth is inseparable from healing our relationship with each other.

We are honoured to Lyla June as a part of our living ecosystem and a frequent guest teacher on our learning journeys.

Báyò Akómoláfé is a globally respected philosopher, storyteller, and facilitator of transformative conversations at the edges of culture, ecology, and identity. Born in Nigeria and rooted in Yoruba cosmology, he invites us to slow down, “become fugitives,” and listen to the more-than-human world — not as a metaphor, but as a teacher and collaborator in shaping new ways of being.

His work lives at the intersection of post-activism, decolonial practice, and deep ecological awareness. As the founder of The Emergence Network, Bayo convenes spaces of unlearning and collective inquiry, where questions become portals and where complexity is welcomed as a companion rather than a problem to solve.

Through his writing — including These Wilds Beyond Our Fences — and his deeply resonant talks and teachings, he offers a poetic, courageous invitation: to meet our times with humility, creativity, and radical imagination. He reminds us that the future cannot be engineered — it must be composted.

We are honoured to have Bayo as a partner in our ecosystem — a guardian of the in-between spaces and a companion on the path toward regenerative, post-conventional ways of living.

Jeremy Lent is an author and integrative thinker known for The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning. His work explores how worldviews shape civilizations and offers a vision for ecological civilization grounded in interconnectedness.

Dr. Tamsin Wooley-Barker is an evolutionary biologist, biomimicry expert, and author of Teeming: How Superorganisms Work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World. She helps organizations learn from nature’s collective intelligence to design regenerative systems.

 Dr. Leen Gorissen is a biologist, innovation strategist, and founder of Centre4NI – Natural Intelligence. She applies insights from ecology and evolution to help organizations innovate in harmony with nature’s principles.

Carina Lyall was born in Northern Canada with deep roots with the indigenous people but now lives in the forest in Denmark. For the past 10 years Carina has guided women to come closer to nature, their inner and outer wild in deep immersive and transformative experiences in the forest. She hosts the popular podcast ‘Becoming Nature’ and is currently finishing her first book around storytelling, nature and elderhood.

Anna Denardin is a Brazilian designer and facilitator centering her practice on strategic, yet creative interventions that reveal, disarm, and demolish the toxicity still embedded within mainstream theories of change, while fostering cultures of health and reparation to replace them. As an artist and designer, she developed the habit of approaching ideas through non-obvious ways, questioning perspective,s and exploring topics from multiple angles.

Anna created many of the visuals for the Regenerators Academy learning journey.

Connect with her on LinkedIn.

Tre’ Cates is a regenerative thought-leader and a Founding Partner of nRhythm with over 25+ years of senior-level experience as an executive and consultant in a variety of industries on six continents and 35+ countries. He has worked directly with executives at several Fortune 1000 organizations in addition to multi-stakeholder cross-sector projects that involve government, communities, industry and NGOs. He has significant experience in technology, food and agriculture, community and cross-sector development.

Louise Kjellerup Roper is CEO at Volans, an organization dedicated to supporting forward-thinking business leaders to catalyse change that benefits people and the planet. Louise has worked at the frontier of innovation, starting her career in the tech industry before successfully launching, running, and advising cradle-to-cradle and circular economy brands across Europe. Louise mentors, teaches, and advises at several universities and global sustainability initiatives.

Tom Mansfield is the founder of Pale Blue where he offers coaching and consulting in service to planetary health and creates frameworks for regenerative practice in business and organisational design. He has developed the tool Cards for Life which supports individuals and teams to bring living systems thinking into cultures and organisations. The cards work as a guidance system and a shared language to define regeneration in particular situations, sectors and contexts. 

We know many of our Alumni love his card deck both for their individual practice and when coaching groups in anture.