Michael McCormick is a social entrepreneur, and the Founder and President of Farallon Strategies, a certified B Corp focused on capacity building for community resilience. Michael works at the local, regional, state, federal levels, and in non-profit, business, and government. These perspectives allow him to see the interconnectedness of work across governance and organizations, and to help create the vision and strategy to affect change. Michael has piloted, tested, and scaled hundreds of initiatives, programs, and policies throughout his career that have created positive social change.Michael is passionate about supporting a middle way for the ongoing evolution of consulting to help prioritize an anti-racist and equity centered community benefit mindset. He actively supports the evolution of the community of practice and is currently serving as a Regional Advisory Committee member at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Advisor to Bright Action, Board Member for Community Climate Solutions, Circle of Advisors at the Cool Davis Foundation, Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum: Mountain Valley Chapter, and a member of the American Planning Association (AICP certified in 2004).