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Meet us
Our directors and founding members are motivated to work collaboratively with our neighbours to connect communities. We do this through our charitable purpose: rehumanising people in the information age for the benefit of the world.
Why such an open-ended cause?
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We've settled on a non-linear approach to advancing. We think accumulating positive influence is more powerful than a control approach.
Our broad mandate gives us scope to gain alignment on causes and shared situations rather than just a license to correct a specific issue. Focusing on a single issue doesn't help synchronise people's energy and effort across economic sectors. To advance prosperous ways, we need to connect disconnects.
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Rod mcdonald
Rod is the inaugural chair and a co-founder of thepeopleproject institute, an elected leader of Engineers Australia and director of several innovative businesses.
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Rod inspires change for new practices and standards to shift beyond conventions that no longer make sense or don’t help.
Peter Sokolowski
Peter is a co-founder and co-CEO of thepeopleproject institute, an elected leader of Engineers Australia and a collaborator of RMIT University.
Peter draws on his practice in electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, pre-natal medicine and endocrinology, music, mathematics, philosophy, hospitality and business.
patrick cross
Patrick is a custodian member and the creative director of thepeopleproject institute, with time and energy for doing good things.
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Patrick’s explorations are non-linear - actor, singer, musician, comedian, business person, aspiring chess master, and reluctant philosopher.
steve rodgers
Steve is a co-founder and co-CEO of thepeopleproject institute and has long practised at the intersection of Australia’s national energy policy, renewable energy innovation, sharing practice and micro-economic reform.
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Steve's passion is helping talented people find their jam and unlocking contributions.
kate summers
Kate is a co-founder of thepeopleproject institute and an experienced power systems and control engineer with extensive electrical experience, and market and regulatory knowledge.
Kate is a fierce critic of black tape approaches: using rules and algorithms to substitute for needed judgement by skilled people.
stefan Lodewyckx
Stefan is a co-founder and director of thepeopleproject institute, a collaborator at Swinburne University, and a bee keeper.
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Stefan probes beyond the appearances of technology to appreciate what's needed to harmonise people with their surroundings drawing on his experience with comparative policy.