‘What you seek is seeking you.’
Rumi
Our vision and purpose are dedicated to working towards more balanced, inclusive and nurturing systems for us all as we collectively co-create what it means to do future-positive business.
The real questions are, what does ‘future-positive’ business look like, and how do we get there?
We hold a vision where pursuing our highest technological and innovation aspirations will return us into alignment with people and planet, and together, we’ll find our way of thriving in relationship and reciprocity.
We recognise this requires profound personal, business and systems changes that must take place for this to emerge, and, that not all of us are here for this.
For those who are, our purpose is to support you - those who are leading this innovation and transformation - knowing that:
We’ll all have different goals and will be at different stages of our evolutions;
The blueprint and roadmap for ‘future-positive’ business is not yet written - it’s for us all to create; and,
That the journey of a pioneer, changemaker and early adopter is not always an easy road, both personally and professionally.
We aim to support these visionary leaders by holding spaces, programs, and retreats to explore the pathway to doing business more consciously, whether we’re entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.
Our values are intrinsic to how we operate.
We aspire to walk through life and do business with:
Integrity: Our moral and ethical guiding principles that enable us to be true to our highest standards, with self-awareness and consideration for others.
Respect: Respect is part of the fabric of right relationship. We respect one another, our stakeholders in business and in life, our community, the country we live on, the original custodians of our country, the laws that govern where we live, the laws of other jurisdictions, and our global community.
Growth mindset: We can’t make things better by doing the same things that we have always done. We embody a growth mindset, are committed to continually learning, growing and expanding, and to supporting others to do the same on their unique path.
Nature-alignment: We acknowledge and include the Earth and all living creatures as stakeholders in our businesses, and aspire to engage with those without a voice as if they had as much agency as others, ie. giving them a seat at the table. We aspire to honour and learn from the cyclical nature of life, recognising it is not consistently linear and up-and-to-the-right as our systems demand. We aspire to live and work as true custodians of the Earth.
Transparency: We are transparent in how we operate and work together. We acknowledge transparency’s important role in how we do business, at all levels. Opacity is power-over, transparency is power-with.
Collaboration: We collaborate with others towards values-aligned goals, knowing that we’ll all achieve exponential outcomes by working together. Want to partner with us? We’d likely love to partner with you - please get in touch.
Our Team
Ashleigh Camm, Founder, Strategist, Consultant, Facilitator & Senior Lecturer
Ashleigh Camm is the Founder of Future Within and the creator of our foundational philosophy and resources. Ashleigh is a Business Strategist, Consultant, Facilitator, Mentor, and Senior Lecturer based on Bunurong land, in Naarm, or Melbourne, Australia.
For the last 20 years, Ashleigh has supported CEOs, founders, leadership teams, boards, and investors in roles that span Corporate Finance at Macquarie, Strategy and Finance at Westpac, and working with one of the world’s most successful retail entrepreneurs, to name a few. Throughout her career across corporates, innovation, and startups, Ashleigh has visioned, shaped and executed material organisational strategies that have driven real value and impact for stakeholders.
Most recently, Ashleigh was Head of Labs and Board Course Director at LUNA, where she worked in the the innovation ecosystem and designed, developed and facilitated the Australian-first Startup Board Course for founders and ecosystem professionals. The Course is designed to support founders with the need-to-knows of the board, as well as the keys to successful management team, board and investor relationships, to amplify their performance and the trajectory of their venture.
Prior to this, Ashleigh was Expert in Residence at Sourdough Business Pathways in Byron Bay, NSW, where she facilitated Startup Northern Rivers and a purpose-driven Pre-Accelerator Program. She also served as the founding Executive Director of The Community Well, an innovative lending initiative of impact investors to support local businesses contributing to resilience and regeneration.
In addition to being an experienced strategist, consultant and operator, Ashleigh is also a highly engaging and skilled facilitator of offsites, programs, workshops, and retreats for a range of audiences, including corporates, growing companies, founders, and changemakers. Ashleigh is also currently studying to be a ICF Certified Executive Coach with Thought Coach in Australia.
And, while Ashleigh deeply understands and works within the mainstream ecosystems and their norms, Ashleigh is also a forever student of human dynamics and potential, ancient wisdom teachings, and shamanic and earth-based practices. Respectfully drawing on these intelligences gives Ashleigh a uniquely expansive, well-rounded, and almost polymathic approach, enabling sessions to go where they need to, making them more insightful and effective as a result. In the words of Einstein: “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”
If you know Ash, you’ll know she’s deeply passionate about supporting great people to innovate and create the change we want to see in the world, and she would love to support you.
Explore the potential to work 1:1 with Ashleigh or for Ashleigh to facilitate or MC your next offsite, workshop or program below. Find Ashleigh on LinkedIn here. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Discover our past Program partners
Belle Budden
Belle Budden is a Wakka Wakka woman living and working off country in Bundjalung Country. Belle’s extensive career and work focusses on engaging Aboriginal communities to access processes in the arts, community and government to increase autonomy and positive outcomes for Aboriginal people.
Working with visual arts mediums including paint, printmaking, ceramics, multimedia and dance, Belle is a teacher, choreographer and dancer of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal dance. Belle’s work expresses and maintains her cultural identity and reflects issues of contemporary Aboriginal culture and politics.
Bharat Mitra
Bharat Mitra is a visionary heart-centered entrepreneur, whose work manifests in many forms, including business, philanthropy, community co-creation and loving seva. In 1990 Divine Grace brought him to the feet of his master, Sri H.W.L. Poonja, Papaji, whom he has been inspired by and devoted to ever since.
He is the Founder of ORGANIC INDIA, a regenerative and wholly ethical company that, from its beginnings, has been guided by its vision to be a Vehicle of Consciousness in the corporate world. ORGANIC INDIA is now a thriving profitable business that works with thousands of small farmers across India, nourishing land, communities and livelihoods, producing a diverse range of organic Tulsi teas and wellness products retailed in over 30 countries.
Alexis Zahner, Human Leaders
It's through Alexis’ experience of management - the good the bad and the ugly - that her passion to bring a more conscious, mindful, and human-centric approach to leadership was born.
Alexis’ experience spans local government, marketing, media consultancy right through to Management at global brand Patagonia, working and living in multiple countries around the world.
Through her privilege of travelling to over 40 countries around the world, her professional experiences and hobbies, Alexis has learnt her core values are adventure, continuous learning, collaboration, truth seeking, being of service and gratitude. She’s a keen surfer and snowboarder who spends most of her spare time outdoors, connecting to nature and human beings.
Sally Clarke, Human Leaders
After burning out as a corporate finance lawyer, Sally ran a successful copywriting and translation businesses and led yoga, meditation and personal growth retreats around the world, living on 4 continents.
Today, as a Human Leader and a Researcher, Sally’s mission is to make work a space where we can evolve and thrive, and embed wellbeing at work so burnout becomes a redundant term.
Sally’s personal values are authenticity, growth, connection, joy and adventure. Australian-born, I live in Amsterdam, speak 8 languages and travel extensively. Sally gets her energy from being in nature, conversations that stretch her brain and sharing a laugh and a Barossa shiraz with friends.
Tyneal Alexander, Ritual Consulting
Tyneal Alexander of Ritual Consulting is an industry leader and expert when it comes to branding and marketing.
Having worked in the industry for 15 years and counting, Tyneal has gained invaluable experiences working for large corporate companies, with multi-million dollar marketing budgets, to award-winning creative agencies across Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Rago Dahlsen
Rago Dahlsen, born in the Netherlands in 1958, and has lived a varied, mystical life that has included living in a kibbutz in Israel, practicing meditation in the Osho International Ashram in India, living in the Green Gulch, Allan Watts’ Zen Buddhist Centre, and Tassa-Hara Buddhist Mountain Retreat in the US, and living and working in an International Osho Commune in Zurich, before returning to the Osho Ashram and joining the Osho Mystery School in India until 1992. From there Rago found her way to Australia, before returning to the Oneness University in Chennai, India, where she was trained in energy work and transcendence.
Over the years Rago has also trained in Meditation, De-Hypnotherapy, Counselling, Divine Healing and Reiki. She has been giving private sessions, energy readings and conducting therapy groups and Retreats over the last 30 or so years before pausing her teaching 5 years ago. We are grateful that Rago returned to teaching on our Wisdom Within Retreat.
Hunna Armstrong & Katherine Bibby from TØTUM Naturopathy
TØTUM was born through the purpose of two Naturopaths, Hunna Armstrong and Katherine Bibby, with a goal to inspire change in the way individuals view their bodies and health.
Hunna and Katherine’s driving motivation is to offer services that focus on education, to provide people with foundational skills to benefit their lives long term. The core values of TØTUM are to promote awareness of holistic education and health with authenticity, integrity and transparency.
Caterina Boutagy
Caterina is a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic wellness coach, and retreat facilitator. She grew up in Byron Bay and has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager. Having taught yoga for the last 10 years, her love for the complexity, depth, and beauty of yoga has only deepened. Cat considers herself a lifelong student of this path. Drawing on her background in anthropology, her classes seek to inspire a sense of global connection and global responsibility. She encourages students to explore the ways in which they meet the world, how to regulate their nervous systems so as to meet the world more fully, and to live a full and embodied life. Totally obsessed with yoga philosophy, her classes will deeply inspire and enliven a fire within.
Shawna Fortin
Shawna Fortin spent many years in the corporate sector before awakening to her dream of working with others at heart level. She learned that there is no fulfilment without connection.
Shawna’s journey into Tai Chi and Qigong commenced as a means to bring into balance her body/mind and spirit, and she has spent the last 25 years studying intuitive development, psychology, reiki, intuitive and remote healing, alternative therapies such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture as a means to understanding how energy works and holds influence over our entire lives.
Shawna is also an avid writer, life coach and empowerment facilitator, and love loves what she does, bringing much hearty passion and friendliness to her sessions.