Who we are
Common Light is an impact consultancy illuminating paths to ecosystem-wide flourishing. We guide individuals, teams, and organizations through a journey of self-directed inquiry and purposeful realignment, helping them cultivate cultures where human and nature’s potentials thrive.
Our approach integrates cutting-edge research on humanistic management with immersive experiences, including site visits to flourishing communities that are leading from a place of abundance.
What we do
We empower leaders and teams to examine and realign their agreements—both implicit and explicit—with their deeper purpose and values. Through a blend of data-driven assessments, experiential learning, and tailored frameworks, we enable our partners to scale meaningful impact across their entire stakeholder ecosystem. Common Light is dedicated to kindling the spark of human flourishing in every individual, organization, and community we touch, creating a ripple effect of positive change in the world.
Why Common Light?
We are the ideas we choose to illuminate.
Common Light works from a recognition of this inner light from which we can co-host new abundance-based agreements with ourselves, others, and the planet.
We are a holistic practice that draws upon the latest in humanistic management research and experiential learning.
Founder & Principal
Michael Draskovic is a social practitioner and strategist with a wealth of experience working with philanthropists, public officials and advocates, artists and talent, technologists, and corporate leaders.
As Founder and Principal of Common Light, Michael brings fifteen years of experience working across private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He has led projects in public policy development, advocacy campaigning, tech startups, and digital media and entertainment properties, working with organizations like the ONE Campaign, Snapchat, New America, and the Democracy Policy Network. Working at the intersection of imagination and impact, Michael’s track record includes managing local, state, national, and international creative and policy campaigns and partnerships with global brands and artists.
Michael’s life experience has led him to appreciate the diverse ways of knowing the world that honor the totality of human experience and its potential. He strives to empower people to develop social initiatives that foster new capacities in themselves and others, addressing social challenges in original ways. At his core, Michael strives to demonstrate the connection between what we see in the world and how we move through it.
Michael holds a dual MPA/MBA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the MIT Sloan School of Management and earned his BA at the University of Southern California. He’s currently a part-time PhD student at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Michael’s work has been featured in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Billboard, USA Today, Axios, The Nation, American Prospect, Fox News, CNBC, CNN, VICE, & FastCompany.
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