Guilds
Global Zen Sustainability has a number of collaborative associations with individuals and organizations that work with us on a variety of client projects. Borrowing from the field of Permaculture design, we call this symbiotic relationship our business guild.
The following individuals and organizations represent our current guild associations:
Karass Creative
Karass collaborates with corporations and non-profits in equal measure, creating narratives that mean something to the right audience, wherever they congregate. We are driven by a simple credo: work with people you like, tell good stories, make the world a better place. For more information, see: karasscreative.com
The Natural Step Associates
Sustainable Seattle
OUR Ecovillage
Alice MacGillivray, PhD
Alice MacGillivray, Ph.D.
Alice MacGillivray is a consultant specializing in leadership development and change in knowledge-intensive environments. She frequently draws on principles from nature to help leaders rethink and re-work long-term challenges, and is developing the The Edge Effect™ Kit for leaders. Her clients’ areas of focus have included environmental advocacy, financial management, land management, training and development, counter-terrorism and food production and marketing.
Alice has graduate (MA) degrees in Human Development and in Leadership, and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. She has published several papers and book chapters and has presented at international conferences in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. For more information, see: 4KM.net
Rick Daniels, PhD
Managing Partner
EHRadption, LLC
Rick Daniels, PhD
Rick Daniels has over 30 years experience in IT management, specifically in the areas of knowledge management, and organizational change influenced by technology deployment. Dr. Daniels understands the importance of paying close attention to the organizational and social systems in order to shape concurrently both the technology and the organizational systems in order to derive the maximum value. The primary focus of his consulting/research organization – EHRadoption, LLC is to assist the sustainability efforts of small community health systems in the successful adoption of the electronic health record. He is also on faculty at Capella University in the School of Business and Technology. His focus in academia is mentoring and charing doctoral dissertations that are focused in the specialization area of strategy and innovation.
Rick is a true scholar practitioner having had the experience of operating within the consumer products field in which he was responsible for IT strategy for the sales and marketing function for a major international consumer products company. He has leveraged that practice experience, and complemented his education of graduate degrees in counseling and interactive telecommunications with a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems. His research and practice focus is in assisting organizations to better understand their capacity to embrace technology infrastructure that provides workflow efficiencies and the surfacing and sharing of organizational knowledge. This focus is clearly necessary when health systems bring the electronic health record into their operating environments.
Rick is an active researcher within the fields of strategy development, knowledge management, and virtual ethnography. For more information, please see: http://ehradoption.org/
Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD
Marilyn Price-Mitchell is co-founder and president of the National ParentNet Association, a nonprofit organization whose 15-year mission has been to build family-school-community partnerships that support youth. Marilyn is developing the program Sustainable Citizenship™, how adults foster the next generation of participatory and justice-oriented citizens. She leads workshops for school communities interested in supporting youth through involvement in social and environmental causes.
Linking youth development with an ecological, whole-systems approach to thinking, Marilyn synthesizes multidisciplinary research in the fields of positive psychology, education, sociology, adolescent development, social psychology, neurobiology, and philosophy to learn how young people develop into healthy and engaged global citizens. She has a PhD in Human Development and a MA in Human & Organizational Systems. For more information, visit her website at www.mpricemitchell.com.
Anne Acosta
Anne Acosta
Anne Acosta
Anne is an inveterate interdisciplinarian, boundary crosser and bridger. She works as a facilitator and collaborative process designer, team learning coach and action researcher in complex multi-stakeholder projects addressing “wicked problems.” Much of her work has been with research organizations developing technologies that contribute to sustainable and more equitable futures. To be effective, these organizations must partner with a wide range of stakeholders – not just to better target technologies, but because the process of interaction itself transforms the research. Anne is refining a reflective dialogue process – the CoPeRe model – that helps partnerships such as these share knowledge and build lasting relationships to achieve transcendent goals. A Seattle native, she has lived the last 21 years in the millennial village of Teotihuacan, Mexico, and has travelled and worked in Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, contact acostarks@gmail.com.
Sheri Herndon, MA
Sheri is a social architect who has been pioneering for the last 20 years at the nexus of social networks, technology, innovation and collaboration with a focus on the highest possible future and creating a world that works for all. She works in the areas of social innovation, civic engagement, participatory democracy, and positive media. Her background includes being a public radio news director as well as the cofounder of Indymedia, a global grassroots media network. She is a futurist and social entrepreneur who believes in the infinite wealth available in people and communities in terms of their creativity, their passion and their dreams. She seeks to create new ways to liberate those dreams online and onlife. She is founder of Thriving Blue Planet and a U.S. coordinator for the Oasis Game. For more information, contact: sheri@speakeasy.net
Tracy Lang
Tracy Lang
For more information see: tracylang.net
Deborah J. Milton, PhD
For more information, see: athanorarts.com & awakeningstorylines.com
