CULTIVATING FLOWS - Key Persons
Anne Caspari is a specialist in change management, for both personal (coaching, training) and organizational development. She focuses on deep transformative processes in all contexts. In the face of the adaptive complexity, she works with great understanding and finesse to integrate resistances. With organizational work, she uncovers systemic design flaws and immunities to change in the business ecology. She also works with handpicked leaders, visionaries to help them integrate personal barriers to clarity, power and impact. She operates in a subtle and sensitive way, with laser sharp and highly effective precision.
With a MSc/MPhil in Environmental Development from Hannover University, Germany, she draws on two decades of experience with complex systems, adaptive pushback and obstacles to self-organization. This knowledge, combined with more than a 15 years of work on adult development (developmental coaching) and transformation gives her a unique edge. She sees blind spots were most people do not.
She has worked on projects throughout the EU and worldwide (Syria, South Africa, USA).Integrating different disciplines, she has taught MBA/MSc Courses in the field of Corporate Sustainability, Business Ethics and Leadership (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza'; European School of Economics London). She has designed, led and facilitated transformational workshops and trainings worldwide for private and corporate clients, NGOs and institutions (EU, GIZ, PLAN, University of Oslo, NO; Uni WITS, SA). She currently operates from Basel, Switzerland, working with private enterprises on conscious business. She is also part of the think tank and action research group around collective insight, Alderlore Insight Centre, Ct.USA. She is part of the European Center for Leadership Practice (ELCP) and is Partner of Entz von Zerssen, Caspari & Partner Couching & Training, Berlin/Basel. She is a certified TLC practitioner.
Laszlo is a cultural alchemist. In Culture Culture Inc. he works with leaders and change-makers harnessing the power of culture and consciousness to nurture change and transform the world. He is also a serial entrepreneur, meme-researcher, investor and coach. He co-founded Europe's biggest and best week-long music and arts festival, Sziget.hu, when he was 20. His second startup, Carnation Group was acquired by WPP in 2012. In 2015 he founded Purpose & Play Co-creative Consciousness Technologies where he does transformative co-creative coaching and guided journey sessions. He has lived in San Francisco since 2011.
Brian J. Robertson developed Holacracy while experimenting with management techniques within his own companies, originally as a CEO. He previously founded and led a fast-growth software company, and he now works with HolacracyOne, the organization he launched to support Holacracy. His efforts have helped hundreds of companies around the world install and practice the method. He is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He lives near Philadelphia.
Brian is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World.
Deanna Zandt is an award-winning media technologist, the co-founder of and partner at Lux Digital, and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Berrett-Koehler 2010). She is a consultant to key media and advocacy organizations, and her clients have included The Ford Foundation, Deutsche Telekom, Planned Parenthood, and Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown. Zandt has advised the White House on digital strategy and public engagement; she has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com, as well as NPR's flagship news program, "All Things Considered." Zandt specializes in emerging media, is a leading expert in women and technology, and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN International, BBC Radio, Fox News and more.
Zandt works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and cultural agency, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise. She has spoken at a number of conferences, including TEDxBerlin, SXSW Interactive, Tribeca Film Festival, re:publica, Personal Democracy Forum, Ignite (NYC), Netroots Nation, the National Conference on Media Reform, Facing Race, Web 2.0 Expo,Bioneers, Women Action & The Media, and provides beginner and advanced workshops both online and in person.
In 2012, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America awarded Deanna their first-ever social media Maggie Award for Media Excellence for her work on the Planned Parenthood Saved Me Tumblr blog during the Susan G Komen crisis. Deanna was a fellow at American University's Center for Social Media (2010-2011), and at the Progressive Women's Voices program at the Women's Media Center (2009). She is on the board of the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and home for media and activism, and Women Action & The Media, the activism home of gender justice in the media. Deanna also serves as an advisor to Social Media Week NYC, and the Media Ideation Fellowship.
In addition to her technology work, Deanna writes and illustrates graphic stories and comics, and volunteers with dog rescue organization Rat Terrier ResQ.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Isshinkai Aikido
Denis Burke, Founder of Isshinkai Aikido (and Sofia's Aikido teacher) has laid out 6 levels in his recently published book, "Purpose & Practice". The 6 levels can be experienced on the mat when practicing this martial art and correspond to real world dynamics off the mat.
Herman Wagter is a program manager specialized in developing and managing large multi-stakeholder initiatives. Through his work at Connekt, he has done strategy development for Lean and Green, Green Deal Zero Emission City Logistics, and acted as Program Manager for Topsector Logistiek Programma Secretariaat, as well as Programme Manager IDVV Track 2 (Impulse Dynamic Traffic Management Inland Waterways).
Howard Silverman teaches applied systems thinking in the Collaborative Design program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. and in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. For many years, he was senior writer and analyst with Ecotrust, a Portland, Oregon-based NGO, working on food, fisheries, forestry, urban ecosystem services, and other initiatives. He is a partner at Pattern Labs, writes at Solving for Pattern (More about S4P.), and serves on the boards of Mercy Corps Northwest and Recode.
Jean is passionate about cultivating thriving social ecosystem. She received an honorable mention on the Enrich List as one of the top 200 people enriching our path to a sustainable future. She is also listed as one of 100 women globally co-creating a P2P Society. Demonstrating collaboration, she curated, "Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch" in 2010 with 65 inspiring people, which has been seen by well over 30,000 viewers. She wrote "Thrivability: Breakthroughs for a World That Works" (Triarchy Press, 2013).
She has published articles on organizational design strategies, and her work on thrivability, innovation, philanthropy, and cultural shifts has been highlighted in Spanda, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Jean Russell is on a quest to catalyze group productivity. She has been facilitating strategy retreats, conferences, and workshops since 2007. She brings to her facilitation a keen understanding of social network analysis, motivation and behavior patterns, group dynamics, and culture change. Jean often custom designs participatory structures for group engagement that evoke play to achieve purpose.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group
Kevin Marks is on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based Digital Rights campaigning organization and is an Open Web Advocate.[1] He is one of the founders of Microformats.
Marks was listed at #13 in the The Daily Telegraph‘s 50 most influential Britons in Technology.[2]
Marks was Vice President of Web Services at BT. He became Principal Engineer for Technorati[3] after working for both Apple and the BBC.[4] At the TechCrunch event Realtime Stream Crunchup he announced that he would be joining BT to work together with JP Rangaswami. He worked at Salesforce.com from 2011 to 2013 as their VP of Open Cloud Standards.
Nathaniel James leads Exponent Philanthropy's Next Gen Fellows Program and Master Juggler Executive Institute, and manages our resources on the family philanthropy, effectiveness skills, and transition points. Nathaniel has worked almost exclusively with social sector executives for nearly a decade, serving as facilitator, strategy advisor, and coach. Previously Nathaniel served as a strategic consultant to Black Girls CODE, The Kapor Center for Social Innovation, The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Vision Maker Media, and The Mozilla Foundation. His transition to philanthropy began when he founded the Seattle chapter of the Awesome Foundation. Nathaniel earned his bachelor's degree at The Evergreen State College, then hopped the pond to complete a master's degree at the London School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Author Peers Inc
- Co - Founder and Former CEO of Zipcar
Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is also co-founder of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things.
She is on the Boards of Veniam, the World Resources Institute, and Tucows. She also served on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the OECD's International Transport Forum Advisory Board, the Massachusetts Governor's Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force.
Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and received an honorary Doctorate of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
AWARDS
Harvard College Women's Leadership Award (2014)
Honorary PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology (2014)
Massachusetts Public Health Award (2011)
Time 100 Most Influential People (2009)
Top 10 Designers (BusinessWeek, 2007)
MA Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit (2003)
Innovator of the Year (SBANE, 2002)
Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (2001)
Fast 50 Innovators (Fast Company, 2001)