Stephen Thorpe

Stephen is a proud Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Yorta-Yorta person and company founder and director of Sustainative. Stephen has experienced an incredible amount of personal transformation over the past 10 years with virtue of constantly improving and learning, both professionally and personally empowering him to self-determine ways to help revive and thrive our cultural practices. Stephen delivers this ancient wisdom and modern tools into the communities
where we live and work via Sustainative, meaning ‘sustain’ with ‘native’ wisdom. He has gained 18+ years’ experience specialising in merging the intrinsic connections, profound knowledge and intergenerational Indigenous wisdom into the client’s projects for collaborative, innovative, and adaptive financial-climate resilient solutions. He is passionate about community engagement to help address health, economic, social, and personal challenges of our First Nations People.