Even after dealing with extremely challenging pandemic and climate disasters over the past few years, Kelly O’Shanassy, CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation, is optimistic. “The future is not a linear extension of the past,” she says, and sets about to help shape an exciting new future. A few things that give her hope include moving from focusing on symptoms to recognizing sources, and tapping into the power of interconnectedness while honoring the “infinite ways to be an incredible co-author of our collective future” by being fully you.
