Michael Coleman

2022 Cohort

Pronouns: he/him

Michael is using carbon funds to provide opportunities for restoration of Country, as well as cultural and social cobenefits.

Michael is based in Narrm (Melbourne) where he is General Manager Partnerships at Greenfleet, which plants native biodiverse forests in Australia and New Zealand to restore critical ecosystems and capture carbon emissions.

With a background in forestry, finance and volunteer management, Michael has spent many years in local government, private enterprise and not-for-profits. These experiences have given him the strengths of focus and resilience. By bringing different groups together, he seeks to leave the place better than he found it - creating space for communities to work on Country and restore some of the damages of colonialisation.

Social change work

Micahel’s work aims to bring opportunties for Indigenous-led ecosystem care, using ecosystem services to unlock funding streams to restore Country.