Organizer

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Executive Director

Principal, 108 Tech

Oren Wool works as an Internet Technology consultant promoting ideas, policies, companies and products that embrace sustainable development and foster social equity. From his home in Northern California, he works to help organizations find Internet solutions to operational, organizational and communication deficits - generally using available open source technology. Recent clients include organizations focused on food safety, organic agriculture, plant medicine, fair trade, biodiversity and healthy lifestyles.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Steering Committee

Executive Director and Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Prior to joining the Leadership Institute in 2005, Tanya held various IT development, support and management positions with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. She is currently the Board Chair for Routes for Youth and is a member of the Pacific Region Advisory Council for the National Parks Conservation Association. She is the Chair of Santa Rosa’s Community Advisory Board and previously served on its Green Building Policy Advisory Committee.

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2009 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Janet Beazlie has more than fifteen years of training and consulting experience in business in change management and organizational effectiveness. She has a wide field of experience: she has been Executive Director of the World Business Academy, served as System Administrator for the Sonoma County Office of Education's School to Career Program, and developed her own business leading night hikes for women.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Program Director

Sonoma State University, School of Business and Economics

Robert Henriques Girling is a Professor in the School of Business at Sonoma State University. He received his Ph. D. from Stanford University and has taught and consulted in 20 different countries. Recently he has served as a consultant to the Caribbean Development Bank on sustainable development strategies for the island of Dominica and as a founder and organizer of the Sustainable Enterprise Conferences on Tools for Sustainable Businesses and Communities series.

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Founder & President, Global Genesis
2008 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Terry D. Taylor is an independent consultant who has worked successfully with organizations from small non-profits to international Fortune 500 entities and governments in all areas of the globe.

Terry received a MA in Educational Psychology from Stanford University and has worked with several organizations before forming his own consulting business in 1980. He specializes in strategic planning, training, and consulting in the arenas of negotiations, conflict resolution, high performance teamwork, and strategic change facilitation.

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2005 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Jen Thille came from the Corporate World with over 15 years of experience in business and finance. After returning to college, she graduated from Sonoma State University in 2005 with a BA in Geology and she then went on to earn a Green MBA from Dominican University.

Jen served on both the Sebastopol Planning Commission and on the Sebastopol City Council. She is a founding board member of the Sebastopol CERT (Community Emergency Response Training) program and she recently served as Incident Commander on the Countywide CERT Training Drill. Jen is a fellow of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy and a new member of the Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce. Jen is currently looking to start a sustainable business that will assist with the transition to more sustainable communities.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Greening Director

Sonoma State University, Campus Recreation

Pam Su is currently the Director of Campus Recreation at Sonoma State University, but has been with the university’s non-profit auxiliary, the Sonoma Student Union Corporation, for almost 20 years. After discovering her love for recreation as a soccer, basketball, and volleyball player while growing up, she received her BA in Human Physiology from UC Berkeley, and MS in Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance from Eastern Michigan University.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Steering Committee

Board Member and 2007 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Dominican University of CA, San Rafael-- Program Manager, Green your MBA

In the spring of 2006, Ryn Longmaid attended the first Sustainable Enterprise Conference as a function of her position as Economic Development Specialist for the City of Sebastopol.

Having owned and operated a local business for years, sustainable business management resonated with her deeply. Ryn officially joined the Sustainable Enterprise Coalition in 2007, and served as the marketing director for the conference in 2008. Ryn has managed various sustainability programs and is currently the program manager for the executive certificate program: Green your MBA at Dominican University of California in San Rafael.

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Principal and Founder, Sustainable Progress

Susan Briski, Principal and founder of Sustainable Progress Consulting, provides consulting services to leading organizations to help them create a sustainable future and improve their triple-bottom-line performance; where business, the environment, and people prosper. She helps people understand and apply sustainability principles in practical, common sense ways, and provides systematic approaches to produce measurable improvement. Her clients include businesses, colleges, and community groups.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Steering Committee

Program Coordinator, Transition US

Carl Shuller has over 18+ years of corporate experience, primarily in the areas of IT and program management, and recently made the transition into the social-profit sector. His formal education culminated with a Master Degree in Human Environment Relations from Cornell University. He is a trained facilitator of the Pachamama Alliance's 'Awakening The Dreamer ' Symposium and maintains that “together we can bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as a guiding principle of our times." Carl has participated in numerous programs at the the Regenerative Design Institute including the 'Permiculture Design Course' and 'Ecology of Leadership'. He resides in Petaluma, CA where he is involved in the local Homegrown Guild and is grateful to be a part of such an amazing, evolving, and increasingly resilient community.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Master of Ceremonies

Vice President, Global Genesis

2008 Fellow, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy

Genevieve Taylor received her BA in Political Science with an emphasis on International Relations and a minor in Geography at UC Berkeley. At Global Genesis, she has been delivering programs in the topics of leadership, communications, conflict resolution and meeting management for five years.

Sustainable Enterprise 2010 - Volunteer Coordinator

Robin Parvin is a ropes course facilitator, on the event staff for Sausalito Parks & Rec, dancer, gardener and paralegal. She is an active volunteer for www.sustainablefairfax.org