Adam Mostogl’s passion for entrepreneurs has come from his work with young people, where since 2010 over 15,000 students have undertaken entrepreneurial education programs lead by Adam as the Founder / Inspirer of illuminate Education Australia, which focuses on inspiring students to be the confident, creative and capable people they have the potential to be. Not only are these programs changing the lives of young Australians, it is shifting the way schools across the nation teach and inspire students with the skills that they need to thrive. This has been expanded into the adult space with illuminate Future, which has delivered entrepreneurial programs for young people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, within the disability sector as well as within organisations to build innovative leaders for the future.

Adam Mostogl was announced as Tasmania’s Finalist for Young Australian of the Year in 2015, and in 2017 was the only Tasmanian listed in Anthill’s 30under30 list for Australian entrepreneurs under the age of 30. In 2017, he was chosen to participate in the International Visiting Leaders Program to study innovative ecosystems as a guest of the US State Department. In 2018 and 2019, Adam was selected to attend UNLEASH, the world’s largest innovation process focused on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals as a participant (in 2018 in Singapore) and a facilitator (in 2019 in Shenzhen). And since 2019, Adam has been the Founding Curator of the Launceston Global Shapers Hub, bring the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, to Tasmania to support more leaders into the future.

And while Adam Mostogl is often very busy with these work and community commitments – alongside being based in Tasmania with his wife Jessi and sons Timothy, Zachariah and Joel – you will often see him out and about across Tasmania and Australia because of his passion and drive to see more young people believe in tomorrow today. Living by his motto that “if you want something done for the community, you need to get out and do it”, Adam inspires young people to realise their potential, unleash their creativity and seize the opportunities, because, as he says, “the world is ready”.