24th Oct - 26th Oct, 2017
BUILDING RESILIENCE IN A CHANGING WORLD
presented by Inspiration Developers
NW SPEAKERS
Incredible local speakers coming together. Will be an honor and an adventure to see them together on one panel and at our tables. To discover there great work and to recognize how much we have and are shifting management cultures here in Seattle and around the world. changing the stories together.
Brenna Davis
Vice President of Social & Environmental Responsibility, PCC Markets and Author
Brenna Davis
Vice President of Social & Environmental Responsibility, PCC Markets and Author
Brenna Davis is a sustainability expert, thought leader, and writer. Brenna began her career in the energy industry, and has nearly two decades of sustainability experience. She is the chair and a co-founder of Washington Business for Climate Action, and has spoken on climate change across the state, at the White House, and at COP21 in Paris. Brenna is the author of an upcoming book: Regeneration: How the Resilient Heart, Creative Mind, and Compassionate Soul Light the Path to Global Sustainability.
Nick Licata is a retired member of the Seattle City Council, having left office at the end of 2015 after being elected to five terms and serving 18 years. Books: Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World.
Nick became a Seattle city councilmember despite being significantly
outspent and the majority of the council, the mayor, and both daily newspapers supporting his opponent. Elected to five terms, served as Council President and in 2012 he was named by the Nation as Progressive Municipal Official of the Year and twice named Best Local Politician by the Seattle Weekly. His election in 2013 broke all previous records for the highest votes received citywide for a city council member in a contested race. He initiated the founding of Local Progress (www.localprogress.org); the national municipal policy network and served as its first chairman until the end of 2015.
While in office he sponsored and had adopted as legislation paid sick leave and a minimum $15 an hour wage for all employees in the city, a city wide registration and inspection program for all rental units, required registration for all those lobbying city council, and created funding for cultural facilities throughout the city and initiated the city’s Civic Poet program. BecomingaCitizenActivist.org
Danne Stayskal
Principal engineer, Oracle. Artificial intelligence, cryptography, scalable systems, mathematical modeling, and computational linguistics and author.
Tom Everill
Retired in 2016 as President and CEO of Northwest Center
Tom Everill retired in 2016 as President and CEO of Northwest Center and is working on a book about the inner journey of emergent leadership. For 27 years Tom trudged through a succession of corporate finance positions in the global logistics industry. But it was at Northwest Center where Tom’s passion for social justice intersected with his experience as a business executive.
A $50 million diversified social enterprise conglomerate, Northwest Center’s sole purpose is to promote full inclusion of people with developmental conditions such as autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy into mainstream society. It applies lean manufacturing processes to harness the unique skills of people who experience the world differently to create extraordinary value for demanding brands such as Boeing, Starbucks, Comcast, and Amazon. And it reinvests 100% of its profits in early intervention therapy and inclusive early learning programs for children with developmental disabilities.
Having experienced the power of business to produce social justice at scale, Tom is impatient with companies whose primary intention is profit and shareholder value with discretionary bits of “corporate social responsibility” around the edges. He knows we can do better; he has seen it work.
Tom is also an experienced practitioner of emergent leadership, having nurtured the transformation of Northwest Center from a company burdened with staggering operating losses, mounting debt, and moral drift into a flourishing thought leader with a highly collaborative culture, businesses that are both both profitable and inclusive, and a strong balance sheet. On the strength of this turnaround, Tom was introduced to the 2015 International Dialogic Organization Development Conference in Vancouver BC as the “poster child” of emergent leadership.
CEO and Research Director for Sunyata Group. Regional-level Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) examiner, senior member and past Chapter Vice-President of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a Vice Chair in the Human Development and Leadership division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Primary analytic strategy is adaptive design approach (inferior treatment groups) employing mixed methods designs using qualitative context and content analysis techniques, and quantitative clustering and classification techniques such as Binary Logistic Regression Analyses, ANOVA, Repeated Measures ANOVA, Multiple Regression Analyses, Discriminant Analyses, Decision Tree Classification Analyses, Bayesian Analyses, and Scale Equivalency Testing.
Mario Juarez
Independent Entrepreneur at StoryCo
Mark Hower, PhD, MS
Adaptive Leadership
Cultural resilience is built upon social resilience, which comes from developing institutions that support the universal exercise of human rights. Institutions including Universal Basic Income and Single-payer healthcare are among the best models for supporting a society and culture of resilience.
For over fifteen years, Bill has passionately pursued studies in change resilience and adaptability, along with positive psychology, human performance, and mindfulness. With extensive experience in organization development and change leadership, he has led initiatives across a range of companies, countries, and cultures. Bill sees resilience and adaptability as largely untapped and misunderstood disciplines that offer tremendous promise for change leaders. With his depth of knowledge and engaging, humorous style, Bill leads workshops on resilience and adaptability that leave participants with practical skills and strategies for thriving through change and adversity, while helping others to do the same.
Cylvia is an award winning New Economy strategist known for speaking truth to power. Her mission is to do her best to accelerate the transition to an economy that is environmentally restorative and provides opportunities for people to prosper regardless of income, ethnicity or gender.
She is founder and CEO of 3EStrategies, a new economy and social enterprise consulting firm. While serving as First Lady of Oregon Cylvia led the Oregon Prosperity Initiative taking a systemic approach to poverty-prevention. Cylvia is also a Resiliency and Empowerment coach and is certified through the Tony Robbins – Chloe Madanes Strategic Coaching Institute. She is a gifted speaker and writer including publication in Huffington Post, Grist, Green + Solar Building and others.
Mr. Samad Aidane, MSc. PMP, is a cross-cultural leadership development researcher, trainer, and coach. His industry experience spans telecom, finance, health care, and government projects in the U.S., Germany, Austria, and Belgium, with organizations such as HP, Cap Gemini, Time Warner Telecom, and Telefonica. Samad holds a Master of Science Degree in the Neuroscience of Leadership from Middlesex University, U.K. His current Ph.D. research interest in Applied Neuroscience investigates how findings from social and cultural neuroscience informs our understanding of the effect of culture on emotions, cognition, and behavior and their practical application to leadership and Cultural Intelligence development. Samad is certified by the Project Management Institute (PMP). He has been a featured speaker for organizations such as Nike, Emirate Airlines, and T-Mobile.
Kimberly Woodland, OTR/L, Director
RISE Resilience in Service
Building resilience in challenging environments
Kimberly Woodland is a practicing occupational therapist in acute care and director of the US based non-profit organization RISE, providing resilience training for individuals dedicated to helping others in their professions. She has a master’s degree in occupational therapy, where she discovered her passion for providing client-driven care. RISE emerged in response to the understanding that the pressures of the current health care environment are negatively impacting both workplace satisfaction and positive client outcome. Kimberly’s unique perspective stems from diverse experiences including 30 years in the non-violent martial art of Aikido, meditation, and the practice of Leadership Embodiment*, resulting in an approach based on the belief that physiological reactions are at the frontline for creating positive change in personal & professional development. Kimberly’s experience includes workshop facilitation, group facilitation, teaching, and public speaking. Kimberly was the owner of a successful graphic design firm specializing in developing communication strategies that met the core needs of both the client and the audience.
Mr. Samad Aidane, MSc. PMP,
is a cross-cultural leadership development researcher, trainer, and coach.
Mario Juarez works with businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals to drive transformation using strategic storytelling. By revealing the biological and sociological dynamics that make storytelling central to the human experience, he shows people how to unlock the power of their unique personal and organizational strengths and put them to work through story. In presentations, workshops, and 1:1 coaching, he focuses on empathy and meaning as the cornerstones of effective storytelling, guiding people through a creative process that connects them to deeper levels of purpose, trust, and empowerment. A longtime executive communications leader at Microsoft and award-winning public radio and newspaper journalist, he recently launched StoryCo, a Seattle-based consultancy.
value collaboration when tackling difficult challenges, not because collaboration is easy, but because working through the inevitable contradictions, paradoxes and creative tensions -- when engaged with clarity and courage -- yields superior outcomes while building resilient teams and organizations.
Hany Maurice
Managing Partner at Milestone Consulting Inc.
He leads the team driving the strategy and delivery of tech startups to bring inspiration and innovation to every sector. Prior to establishing the firm, Maurice held various senior strategy and business development roles within Fortune100 information technology industry. Mr. Maurice holds an MBA with focus on mergers and acquisitions. He is a seasoned speaker and panelist who has participated in a broad range of regional technology-focused conferences with Fortune100 as well as with IDC. Mr. Hany Maurice is Eaton’s regional channel and alliance leader for the Middle East. He has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years and has held senior positions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He began his career as a systems analyst at Xerox, moving on to hold various positions at international firms such as Tech Access, Intelligent Decisions, and Dell. He is a seasoned speaker and panelist who has participated in a broad range of regional channel-focused conferences.
Ron Harris-White, M.P.A., M.A., NUF
Director of Urban Environmental Leadership and Diversity at Antioch University Seattle
Ron Harris-White is Director of Urban Environmental Leadership and Diversity. His responsibilities include the promotion of environmental educational and cultural enrichment programming and activities for students, while at the same time, increasing cross-cultural understanding for the total University and surrounding communities. Ron researches best practices in diversity initiatives and uses those findings to inform decisions. He develops unique programs and communications strategies to promote diversity, and assesses the outcomes of those initiatives with a particular focus on their impact as related to recruitment and retention.
Danny Cords, MEd - Danny is a leader in the field of training and development. Most recently employed with Starbucks as a Sr Specialist, Danny maintains the guiding principle that equity and inclusion are the foundations for growth and development. Danny currently serves on the Board of Directors with the Greater Seattle Business Association, the Alumni Stewardship Taskforce at Antioch University Seattle, and the Board Development Committee for the Seattle Men’s and Women’s Choruses. Danny speaks often about diverse cultural competency, intentional inclusion, and equity as a driver of performance in the workplace.
Margo Rose
Enterprise Continuous Improvement at Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Margo leads a Continuous Improvement Center of Excellence, where she builds operations infrastructure to support the enterprise continuous improvement framework. With over 20 years of operations experience, primarily as the program leader of technology installations and data integration initiatives for financial institutions, the experience of facilitating a series of regional bank mergers prompted her to deepen her understanding of the conditions for success to effectively lead change. Of particular interest is the connection between emotional intelligence, consciousness, and our intentions to discover purpose and meaning. Her current writing focuses on implementation of lean management and its effects on employee well being and engagement.
Suzane Van Amburgh
Aikido teacher, Consultant at
Space To Move
Suzane crafts embodied learning programs that give people a sensory experience of conceptual ideas. Founder of Space To Move consultancy and Chief Instructor of Aikido Multnomah Aikikai, Van Amburgh has actively practiced the connection between martial arts, somatics and organizational effectiveness for the past ten years. A 35 year practitioner of the non-competitive martial art of aikido, Suzane has learned to make good use of the ground and practice embodied resilience. As a certified aikido teacher (shidoin, 5th degree black belt) and somatic practitioner, Suzane has a gift for coaching people to recognize what they do and introduce small changes to improve effectiveness. Combined with her 20 years experience organizing groups of people to collaborate on projects, Van Amburgh brings a unique expertise to the challenges of change, leadership and organizational effectiveness.
Linh Thai
Servant Leadership's Believer
a consummate professional with extensive background and experience in public relations, international affairs, and organizational leadership development. I am passionate about exploring and bringing out the best in individuals and organizations. Every day, my intent is to be purposeful and attract learning opportunities by being fully engaged and present. Whether in personal or professional capacity, I embrace all challenges life has to offer with enthusiasm and curiosity through the lenses of compassion. I believe in the principles and practice of appreciative inquiry. I lead with purpose, integrity, and service. Strategize and partner with API's and Vietnamese American community organizations in the greater Puget Sound area to cultivate and develop leadership capacity, especially in civic engagement.
WORKSHOPS AND PAPER PRESENTERS
How do we experience meaning and purpose? That question compels Diane’s work to help others flourish in their work. She supports individuals and groups in transition through one-on- one coaching, leadership development, and organizational consulting. With a background in data analysis and management, Diane weaves together assessment data with intuition and creativity to help her clients gain perspective and make productive changes. Diane holds an MA in organizational systems from LIOS/Saybrook University and an MS in computer science from the University of Washington. She is currently training in the Hakomi method, a practice for facilitating others in mindful self-study. Her inspirations include neuroscience, applied behavioral science, and improvisational theatre.
Mr. Samad Aidane, MSc. PMP, is a cross-cultural leadership development researcher, trainer, and coach. His industry experience spans telecom, finance, health care, and government projects in the U.S., Germany, Austria, and Belgium, with organizations such as HP, Cap Gemini, Time Warner Telecom, and Telefonica. Samad holds a Master of Science Degree in the Neuroscience of Leadership from Middlesex University, U.K. His current Ph.D. research interest in Applied Neuroscience investigates how findings from social and cultural neuroscience informs our understanding of the effect of culture on emotions, cognition, and behavior and their practical application to leadership and Cultural Intelligence development. Samad is certified by the Project Management Institute (PMP). He has been a featured speaker for organizations such as Nike, Emirate Airlines, and T-Mobile.
Ginger Andersen is committed to helping organizations prosper and their people thrive. An HR professional for 10 years and currently Director of Talent and Development at Intellectual Ventures, Ginger has expertise in leadership development, facilitation, coaching, and HR. She has an MA in Organizational Leadership through Pinchot University and an MA and BA in Humanities through Brigham Young University. Drawing on mindfulness practice and her love of the arts, Ginger facilitates leadership development experiences that are experiential, engaging and that foster insights in the participants. An avid learner, she is currently studying improvisational theatre, west coast swing dancing, and the Hakomi method.
CEO and Research Director for Sunyata Group. Regional-level Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) examiner, senior member and past Chapter Vice-President of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a Vice Chair in the Human Development and Leadership division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Primary analytic strategy is adaptive design approach (inferior treatment groups) employing mixed methods designs using qualitative context and content analysis techniques, and quantitative clustering and classification techniques such as Binary Logistic Regression Analyses, ANOVA, Repeated Measures ANOVA, Multiple Regression Analyses, Discriminant Analyses, Decision Tree Classification Analyses, Bayesian Analyses, and Scale Equivalency Testing.
Deb Needham works as a director in local government and is also a certified executive coach and organizational consultant. She holds an MA in Organizational Systems from the LIOS program at Saybrook University, with a specialization in Leadership and Organization Development. She is passionately committed to equipping others with the information and practical tools that increase interpersonal harmony, maximize work satisfaction, and optimize organizational effectiveness. With three decades of experience working in public safety and emergency services, she is drawn to high-stakes, high-pressure situations. She particularly gravitates to leaders and teams that are navigating crisis, chaos, or change, and those that are proactively building resilient and healthy organizations.
Anna Góral - organizational and management researcher, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Her professional interests are heritage management, community building and governance, communities’ self-organization and networking.
M. Mansoor Ahmed, MA is a holistic leadership coach and an organizational systems consultant and facilitator. He received his MA in Organizational Systems, specializing in Leadership and Organizational Development, through the Seattle campus of Saybrook University--formerly LIOS. He has served leaders in the for-profit, non-profit, government, and academic sectors. Mansoor’s practice is finding and reframing maladaptive narratives in order to reveal the joy in organizational and personal systems through curiosity, creativity, and compassion. He enjoys playing, recording, and listening to music.
Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska - organizational and management researcher, PhD, Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Affairs Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Her professional interests are nonprofit and social enterprise management, cooperation among public and non-governmental organization and civil society.