Advisors

John Adams, PhD
John is a professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader – has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession since 1969. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting. John has served as the Co-Chair of the Executive Faculty and the Co-Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program. His latest book, Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness, is the culmination of several years’ research, speaking, and writing. John is founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business. His clients have come primarily from the health care and high tech areas, including work with (Health Care) the NIH, the NHS in the U.K., Holy Cross system, Sisters of Mercy system; and (High Tech) Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Sun Microsystems, Naval Air Systems Command.
Website: www.eartheart-ent.com

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D., and Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D.
Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D., and Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., are Co-Founders of Syntony Quest. They catalyze leadership and learning opportunities for individuals and their communities through programs and projects that foster evolutionary learning communities and evolutionary development. Through participatory action research, teaching, and consulting, they empower people with the competencies to engage in self-directed sustainable development. In 2002, Kathia and Alexander received the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, for their work in social innovation and sustainable development, and were finalists for the 2003 Beyond Gray Pinstripes award of the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute for their educational work in sustainable business.
Website: www.syntonyquest.org
Odin Zackman
Odin Zackman founded DIG IN in 2004. Odin has twenty years of experience in community and environmental education, organizational and leadership development, and facilitation and community design. Dedicated to building community on a local level, and connecting communities nationally and globally, Odin strives to link lessons from nature and working in community with building more effective organizations and efforts for social change. Odin has worked with a range of environmental and community development organizations and consulted widely on a range of issues with non-profit, public and private sector groups. He has worked on national environmental policy issues, in youth engagement, in community building and organizing, and in leadership development for social change. Odin has trained extensively in facilitation, conflict resolution and permaculture and ecological design. He has offered workshops and classes around the country and holds degrees from Oberlin College in Politics and Environmental Studies (BA), Tufts University’s Agriculture, Food and Environment program (MS) and the University of California, Santa Cruz in Ecological Horticulture (certificate). He is also the recipient of a Salzburg Seminar fellowship on Environmental Policy and Public Dialogue.
Website: www.digin.org

Danny Ceballos
Danny Ceballos, MBA, is a leadership consultant, trainer and executive coach who works with individuals and organizations to exceed their own expectations and excel in their performance. He has worked with non-profit and for-profit professionals in 40 states for over twenty years. Danny’s clients have included CEOs and executive directors, management teams, and boards of directors across a wide spectrum of businesses and industries. He works with staff and volunteers at all levels of an organization to create systems and best practices that are sustainable and effective.

Danny has earned a B.A. in Psychology, and an M.B.A. (with an emphasis in marketing and human resources) from Binghamton University in upstate New York. He will have earned another masters degree in Psychology and Organizational Development from Sonoma State University in 2010. Danny is a trained executive coach with the College of Executive Coaching, and is a certified administrator of the Myers-Briggs personality typing instrument. Danny was raised in Binghamton, New York, and currently resides in Colorado.
Website: www.CeballosConsulting.info

Janet Beazlie, M.A.
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. Janet has been a steering committee member of the Sustainable Enterprize Conference, and is a 2009 Fellow of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy. Janet has an Masters in Organizational Systems from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center as well as a certificate in "Building a Sustainable World."
Website: www.beazliedesigns.com

Kevin Bayuk, Permaculture SF
Kevin is currently leveraging his skills and relationships to develop organizations and projects that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just environments. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability, and teaches with the Urban Permaculture Institute, Urban Permaculture Guild, and UC Berkeley Extension and Earth Activist Training. Kevin facilitates permaculture trainings and shares his skills in organic gardening and composting in playshops and community workshops.
Website: http://www.permaculture-sf.org/

Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Darian offers strong fundraising, coalition building, and marketing skills, as well as inroads into a variety of diverse communities. Heyman co-founded Beyond Interactive, the fastest growing digital ad agency during the dot com boom, which he sold to in 2000. More recently, Darian stepped down after five years as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting emerging nonprofit leaders. While there, he helped launch Nonprofit Boot Camp, a one-day conference that quickly grew into the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history, and he also founded and chaired the Environmental Nonprofit Network and the Next Generation Leadership Forum. Heyman served as a Commissioner for the Environment for the City and County of San Francisco, where he helped pass the largest solar rebate program in the country. Currently, Heyman is editing Nonprofit Management 101: A Field Guide for Social Sector Professionals, along with teaching at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and advising the United Nations’ GAID program. He is a frequent public speaker, and recently keynoted alongside Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Ralph Nader.

Allison Quaid
Allison Quaid is the Chief Eco-Catalyst of Creative Eco-Catalysts and Executive Director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities. She has worked with over 500 businesses, local governments and non-profit organizations to successfully green their operations. Areas include energy efficiency, renewable energy, environmentally-responsible procurement, green building, sustainable transportation, greenhouse gas emission inventories and climate action plans, waste management, and natural resource conservation. Allison believes in making systematic progress towards sustainability, so she developed the Sustainability Inventory, an innovative tool for assessing community resources. She conducted Inventories in 10 cities, managing extensive data research, analysis and inter-departmental team building. Policy and programmatic changes in municipalities occurred as a result of the process. She also developed and executed communication strategies (print, audio, case studies, internet, media, workshops, summits) for promoting energy conservation among companies, organizations and governmental agencies in California while at Flex Your Power. Allison also designs and installs outdoor public art which builds environmental stewardship, art, and community . Allison has consulted to the World Bank and USAID on protecting biological hot spots, multi-lateral resource protection programs and urban sustainability indicators. She is a LEED certified professional. Allison holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Public Policy.
Website: http://www.eco-catalysts.com/catalysts.html

Charla Chamberlain
Since 1996 Charla has been building and activating community collaborations in Portland as a founding Board member and past event coordinator of the City Repair Project. Her experiences in organizational development, event planning, group facilitation, and conflict resolution, inspired her to study Community Development at Portland State University. Charla also served on Portland’s “Vision PDX” Vision Committee, and Transition Team. She is currently a volunteer facilitator with the City of Portland's Office of Human Relations Inter-group Dialogue Project Series working to "build peace and understanding among groups that have deeply rooted conflict". She lives in Portland with 3 friends raising vegetables, chickens, flowers, and her cat Tucker. She loves keeping score at Mariner’s games, going to farmers markets, and playing guitar and singing on her front porch.
Website: http://visionactionnetwork.org