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Past Conversation Starters

 

Since The Presidio Dialogues began in late 2000, a number of people have served as past conversation starters, and are listed below alphabetically. These people have graciously donated their time and knowledge, for which The Presidio Dialogues is very grateful. To date, these generous people have included: 
 


John Adams, Chair, Organizational Systems PhD Program, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center; author, Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered; editor, Transforming Work

Verna Allee, Owner, Verna Allee Associates; author, The Future of Knowledge and The Knowledge Evolution

Sherry Anderson, psychologist and consultant; co-author, Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World

Walter Truett Anderson, author, The Next Enlightenment and Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be

Cherie Arnold, CEO, Visionary Ventures; SVN member; former CEO, Whole Life, Inc.

Angeles Arrien, author, The Four Fold Way; editor, Working Together: Diversity as Opportunity

Lauren Artress, Grace Cathedral's Canon for Special Ministry; founder, Veriditas: The Worldwide Labyrinth Project

David Batstone, author of Saving the Corporate Soul; professor of social ethics, University of San Francisco

David Bennett, Founder, Parachute Associates (based on the work of Richard Bolles, author, What Color is Your Parachute?)

David Berenson, MD, innovator in family treatment of alcoholism, theorist of fundamental change and creator of the "Map of Emotions" and "Domains of Reality"

Georgia Berland, international consultant for cooperative community change.


Mary Berry, Human Resources Department, Wells Fargo Bank

Susan Blake, co-host, Bay TV's "The Show"; anchor, KRON-TV, San Francisco

Elizabeth Bloom, co-founder of The Presidio Dialogues and internationally acclaimed health and lifestyle coach; President of Here There & Beyond, Inc., a manufacturer of therapeutic essential oils blends

Rose Braz, Director, Critical Resistance

Joanne Brem, leadership coach and founder,JCB & Associates

Alan Briskin, author, The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace; senior editor, Collective Wisdom Initiative

Juanita Brown, Founder, The World Cafe ; Fellow, World Business Academy

Karen Wilhelm Buckley, contributor, Transforming Leadership: The Invisible Side of Leadership; consultant and coach, Communicore

Tolly Burkan, author, Extreme Spirituality: Radical Journeys for the Inward Bound

 

Betsy Burroughs, President, Future Catalyst- Bringing Your Insight Out


Elizabeth Carrington, Leadership Coach; Founder, Marin Coaches Alliance; member of the Board of Directors, International Coach Federation

Dinesh Chandra, CEO, Eternet, Inc.; contributing author, Learning Organizations and Community Building

Annemarie Charlesworth, Project Director, The Kids TV Project; President, Board of Directors, Action Coalition for Media Education

Gaynor Chun, Vice President of Marketing, Tech TV; founder, Kindred Strategies

Diane Cirincione, co-founder of 150 Centers for Attitudinal Healing around the world with Jerry Jampolsky

Rick Crandall, author, Marketing Your Services: For People Who Hate to Sell.

Lisa Craze, anchor for a popular Seattle all-news radio station; more than 20 years experience in media, primarily radio news

Bob Culver, veteran Bay Area chiropractor, specializing in the structural- emotional chemical components of the body

Kevin Danahar, Co-Founder, Global Exchange; veteran human rights activist

Gordon Davidson, co-author of Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out and co-founder, The Center for Visionary Leadership

Andre L. Delbecq, Ph.D., McCarthy University Professor at Santa Clara University; director of the Institute for Spirituality of Organizational Leadership

Phil Dixon, former CEO of Colliers International; executive coach and management consultant

Paul Dolan, President, Fetzer Vineyards and author, True To Our Roots

 

Michael Doyle, Advisor, Pivot Point, apprenticing on collaborative strategic planning and large scale change across the globe for the last 30 years


Bob Dunham, founder, Enterprise Performance and contributing author, Being Human at Work

 

Bob Dunn, former Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Levi Strauss & Co.; Chairman, Business for Social Responsibility


Riane Eisler, cultural historian; author, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future; President, Center for Partnership Studies

Urusa Fahim, adjunct faculty, Center for Clinical Psychology, Pakistan and intercultural communication specialist.

Matthew Fox, Founder, University of Creation Spirituality; author, The Reinvention of Work; Episcopal priest

Gil Friend, Founder, President and CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.; systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 30 years experience in business development and environmental innovation

Bob Fuller, author, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank

Chris Gallagher, former President, Social Venture Network (SVN)

Ric Giardina, consultant; Founder, Spirit Employed; author, Your Authentic Self: Be Yourself at Work

Joline Godfrey, CEO, Independent Means; author, No More Frogs to Kiss and Raising Financially Fit Kids

Paula Goldman, International Museum of Women, Founder and Director of Imagining Ourselves: A Global Generation of Women, a platform for young women to create positive change

Robert Gould, Director of Organizational Development, Schwab Operations, Charles Schwab & Co.

Kaz Gozdz, consultant; editor, Community Building: Renewing Spirit & Learning in Business.

Dr. Richard Gray, Founding President, World College West; Board Secretary, Presidio World College

Lewis Griggs, Founder, Griggs Productions, a San Francisco production company that specializes in diversity products, such as books, CD Roms, training videos and Internet courses.

Ed Gurowitz, Partner, Integrated Business Solutions, LLC; a consultant on strategy implementation and leadership to Fortune 500 companies worldwide

Mimi Hancock, bio-technology inventor and entrepreneur; Senior Partner, Heidrick & Struggles Executive Search; former IPO specialist

 

Amber Hanlin-Rowney, TPD's Dialogue Anthropologist

Kirk Hanson, ethicist; founding Executive Director, The Business Enterprise Trust; Director, the Stanford Sloan Program at Stanford University

Jay Harman, CEO, PAX Scientific, Inc.

Krista Henley, coach and trainer, Inside-Out Communications.

 

Elliot Hoffman, co-founder of Just Desserts in San Francisco; Executive Director of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities in Northern California

 

Joshua Holcomb, Policy Consultant, The Politics of Trust Network, An initiative of The John Vasconcellos Legacy Project; Consultant, Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies


Carol Holding, Founder, Holding Associates, a branding and new product positioning firm

Gail Holland, journalist; author, A Call for Connection: Solutions for Creating a Whole New Culture; Associate Editor, IONS Review

 

Bob Horn, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University; Distinguished Consulting Faculty, Saybrook Graduate School; author Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century

Gail Horvath, co-founder (with her husband Elliot Hoffman) of Just Desserts; Communications Consultant with Beam Inc. an SF based International Management Company focusing on breakthrough strategies, winning brands and creative cultures.


Firehawk Hulin, carrier of an ancient body of Earth Wisdom Teachings.


Brent Hunter, Project Manager, Secure Access Engineering, Wells Fargo Bank.

Tom Hurley, writer and poet; former managing director, Chaordic Alliance; former program director, Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Raz Ingrasci, President, The Hoffman Institute.

Theresa Isaacs, Director, Corporate Diversity, Charles Schwab

Phyllis Jackson, Vice President for Diversity, Charles Schwab

Susan Jamison, Senior Manager, Sun Microsystems

Jerry Jampolsky, MD, author, Forgiveness - The Greatest Healer of All ; co-founder of 150 Centers for Attitudinal Healing around the world with Diane Cirincione

 

Jette Winckler Jensen, Board Member, United Nations Association, San Francisco chapter

 

The Very Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (since 1985); past professor at the General Theological Seminary in New York City; author, Living the Truth


Hardy Jones, Founder, Jones Whitty Productions, a Northern California-based naturalist producer of films and television programs

Prasad Kaipa, Ph.D, co-founder of a community that focuses on practical ways to bring spirituality into work and life

Debbe Kennedy, Founder, Leadership Solutions Companies

Marilyn King, two-time Pentathlon Olympian; Founder, Olympian Thinking

 

Peter Kingsley, internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy, and culture; author, Reality and In The Dark Places of Wisdom

 

Dennis Klocek, Director, Goethean Studies Program, Rudolf Steiner College

Joe Kresse, Director, Foundation for Global Community

Michael Lee, diversity consultant and author of several books on marketing to multicultural customers

Michael Lerner, Rabbi; Publisher, Tikkun magazine; author, Spirit Matters

Stewart Levine, attorney; author, Getting to Resolution, and The Book of Agreement

 

Beata Lewis, leadership coach; creator, Collaborative Leadership workshops


Larry Liberty, Co-Creator, "The Liberty-Mann Executive Maturity Profile"; author, Leadership Wisdom and The Mature Manager


Walter Link, chair Global Academy, former chair Social Venture Network Europe, co-founder Empresa; core faculty and co-chair for sustainability of Presidio World College's MBA for Sustainable Management

Hunter Lovins, Co-author, Natural Capitalism; faculty member, Presidio World College

Sergio Lub, Founder, Sergio Lub Jewelry; member, State of the World Forum; Founder, Friendly Favors

Fred Luskin, Director, Stanford Forgiveness Project, the largest research project to date on the training and measurement of a forgiveness intervention; author, Forgive for Good

Pat (Barrett) Lynch, Creator, the National Women's Calendar; founder, Women's Radio


Willem Maas, founder, Means to Grow, Inc., and former Vice President, Fair Isaac Corporation


Sally Mahe, Director, Organizational Development, United Religions Initiative

Karen Mathews, Quality Manager, Loral Space & Communications

Avon Mattison, Co-Founder, Pathways to Peace

Corinne McLaughlin,co-author of Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out and co-founder, The Center for Visionary Leadership

Merrily Milmoe, masseuse and physical therapist; owner, the Healing Arts Studio, Marin County

Haley Mitchell, Program Director, Full Circle Fund and Radical Spirit.

Veronica Monet, sex worker, courtesan, and professional speaker

Fehrunnisa Moore, personal performance coach and founder, Say YES! To Life, individual and group coaching; co-host of The Presidio Dialogues Santa Cruz

Rick Murray, CEO, Marina Capital, Inc.; Director, Resource Development, United Religions Initiative

Bob Muson, Fine Artist, Creator, The Painting Seminar

Ted Nace, author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

Rhoda Nussbaum, MD, Founder of Women Physicians in Leadership for the Permanente Medical Group; former Women's Health Leader, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California; former Assistant-Physician-In-Chief, San Francisco Medical Center

Craig Neal, Co-Founder, Heartland Institute, Inc./ Thought Leaders Gatherings

Jacob Needleman, philosopher; author, The American Soul

 

James O'Dea, President, The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS); co-author, Social Healing for a Fractured World (SHIFT Magazine, June-Aug 2005); former Director, Washington office, Amnesty International


Jay Ogilvy, author, Creating Better Futures; co-founder, Global Business Network; former director of research, SRI's Values and Lifestyles (VALS) Program

Dr. Maureen O'Hara, former President, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center


Neil Olson, JD, lawyers' coach and former partner in a mid-sized civil litigation maritime law firm

Tama Olver, VP and Chief Information Officer, Alpera Corp

John O'Neil, author, The Paradox of Success: A Book of Renewal for Leaders , and Leadership Aikido; founder, The Center for Leadership Renewal

Dean Ornish, Founder, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; author, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

McCrae Parker, Senior Associate for Children Now's program, Children and the Media

Hina Pendle, Ph.D., organizational consultant; active in the SF Bay Area consulting fractal of the Chaordic Common

Stuart Perrin, New York-based spiritual teacher; author, A Deeper Surrender: Notes on a Spiritual Life

Joy Peterson, 25-year veteran psychotherapist and executive coach

Steve Piersanti, Publisher and Founder, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Mike Pogue, President and CEO, Angel Capital Network, a Sausalito-based Venture Investment bank; Chairman, San Francisco chapter, Angel Investors Network

Tom Portante, Social Anthropologist, Wiki guru, Strategist for business knowledge and organizational change

Kate Powers, Founder, Powers Consulting

Kathleen Pratt, lawyer who represented sex workers in a local high-profile San Francisco trial

 

Steven Pritzker, Ph.D. Director of The Creativity Studies Certificate and The Consciousness and Spirituality Concentration at Saybrook Graduate School; former network television writer-producer; Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Creativity


Robert Rabbin, author, Invisible Leadership and Echoes of Silence; contemporary mystic


Tina Rasmussen, founder, Enteleky Associates Consulting


Michael Ray, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Business; author, Creativity in Business

Paul Ray, Founding Partner, Integral Partnerships, LLC; co-author, The Cultural Creatives

 

John Renesch, businessman-turned-futurist; author, Conscious Leadership and The Conscious Organization, Getting to the Better Future; creator of numerous business anthologies and a new book on conscious evolution tentatively entitled The New Human: Beyond the Naked Ape

Whitney Roberson, Episcopal priest; originator of the Bay Area Spirituality and Work discussion groups

Daniel Robin, Founder, Integrated Investments International, a private equity investment, market research and "venture catalyst" network

 

Belvie Rooks, writer, educator and executive producer of programs such as Watts Up! Demaria's Journey from Watts to the Frontiers of Consciousness, Courage and Hey! Listen Up, Board Member, The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS); Vice-President of Project Development, Danny Glover's Carrie Productions


Will Rosenzweig, lecturer and Executive Director, Socially Responsible Business Leadership Initiative, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and former CEO, The Republic of Tea

Pele Rouge, carrier of an ancient body of Earth Wisdom Teachings

Peter Russell, futurist; author, The Global Brain and Waking Up in Time; co-author, The Creative Manager


Jacqueline Sa, former AT&T executive; former Partner, Tea Garden Springs Spa; consultant to holistic businesses

Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist; author, Biology Revisited (with Willis Harman) and A Walk Through Time

Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer, Yahoo! and author of Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Len Saputo, MD, co-founder, The Health Medicine Institute, and advocate of "Health Medicine" -- integrative, holistic, person-centered, preventive care; author, radio show host, fitness expert


Rayona Sharpnack, Founder and President, The Institute for Women's Leadership

David Sibbet, President and Founder, The Grove Consultants International, an organization development firm focused on visualizing change


Maureen Simon, Business and life design consultant; facilitator of numerous workshops, including "Living Leadership"

Bill Sonnenschein, Communications Group Faculty, Haas Business School, University of California

Marilyn Steele, Ph.D., Jungian psychologist; President, Steele Rose Consulting, advancing women to leadership, bringing the transformative feminine to cultural consciousness

Greg Steltenpohl, Founder, Odwalla juice makers (a company which went public and was then sold to Coca Cola)

Francesca Sterling, Co-Founder, Sterling Rana Group, LLC; former Director, Public Relations, The Men's Wearhouse

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, President, The Strozzi Institute, author, In Search of the Warrior Spirit and editor, Being Human at Work


Dr. Howard Teich, Clinical Psychologist; Managing Partner, Quadrix Partners (transition change management and executive leadership development)

Tim Tosta, Esq, Partner, Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a San Francisco law firm; prominent SF Bay Area land-use attorney who's represented numerous development projects across California


Lynne Twist, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Institute of Noetic Sciences; co-founder, The Pachamama Alliance; author, The Soul of Money

Lauren van der Lauren, success strategist

John Vasconcellos, former California State Senator representing Silicon Valley; author, The New Politics of Trust

Frances Vaughan, psychologist; Trustee, The Fetzer Institute; author, Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

Bill Veltrop, a leading "architect of generative initiatives" in the fields of leadership development, organization design, learning and change; www.theinfinitegames.org


Brooke Warrick, Co-Founder, American LIVES, a consumer research firm

Dr. Allyson Washburn, Director, The Vital Seniors Project, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center


Kim Weichel, Co-Founder, The Campaign for Positive Media; radio producer


Robert White, human potential movement pioneer; former president, Mind Dynamics Inc.; founder, Lifespring; Chief Learning Officer, Balance Point International


Michael Whitty, Professor of Management and Labor Relations, College of Business Administration, University of Detroit Mercy


David Wick, Co-Founder, Pathways To Peace and Peacebuilding Through Business

Gary G. Williams, Dean of the USF School of Business and Management

Susan Williams, Senior Editor, Business and Management Series, Jossey Bass publisher; works with Warren Bennis on the Warren Bennis Signature Series

Ian Wilson, former executive, GE; consultant, SRI; author, The New Rules of Corporate Conduct

J. Kim Wright, JD, Chairman and founder of The Renaissance Lawyer Society

Vivian Wright, Internal Strategy and Organization Consultant, Hewlett-Packard, a founder of the "Work Innovation Network," which became a community for exploration of innovative work practices across the company


Ruby Yeh, Founder, Wisdom Business Network/IONS

Chris Yelton, Executive Director, The International Museum of Women
 





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