Darcy Winslow (Program Director) has been a pioneer and active practitioner of sustainability frameworks and principles, exploring and experimenting with the application of these to all aspects of business. Darcy worked at Nike, Inc. for over 20 years and held several senior management positions within the business. She most recently served as General Manager for Nike’s Global Women’s Fitness Business and as Senior Advisor to the Nike Foundation, which seeks to empower disadvantaged girls ages 10 to 19 years, through poverty alleviation and creating economic livelihood opportunities.

Website: DSW Collective
Blog: DSW Collective Blog
Twitter: DSWCollective

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Anne Murray Allen is Director of Willamette University’s Executive Development Center located at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management.  She had a long career in high tech industry in a variety of executive  management positions that span manufacturing, strategic planning, strategic change,  IT and knowledge management.  She has also worked for years as a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors. Anne, Dennis, and Nick Zeniuk have offered retreats to global audiences on the nature of performance in social systems.    

Website: Willamette University Faculty Page - Anne Murray Allen
Twitter: WillametteEDC

Mary Hansel is the Sustainability Manager for Carollo Engineers, a consulting engineering firm with ~ 800 employees in 25+ offices. She is leading a strategic initiative to integrate sustainability into the daily operations and professional services of the company, which offers planning, design and construction management services for water and wastewater utilities. She has an extensive and varied background in sustainability principles and strategies and water use efficiency programs. Ms. Hansel was a Certified Public Accountant from 1985 to 2003, working in management accounting and information management.

Ms. Hansel is also Treasurer of The Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes learning from and then emulating natural forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable and healthier human technologies and designs. She is a member of the Biomimicry Speaker’s Bureau, and is currently a student in the graduate level, multi-disciplinary Two Year Certificate Program in Biomimicry offered through the Institute.

Website:  Biomimicry Institute
Twitter: AskNatureTweets
Videos:  Available on the Biominicry Institute's website
Articles:  Available on the Biominicry Institute's website

Bill Harris of Facilitated Systems will be the instructor for session one, "Systems Dynamics" .  He teaches graduate courses in systems dynamics at several colleges and universities. Bill has observed companies for over 30 years as an engineer, manager, and internal and external consultant and facilitator. He has worked in a 4,000 employee European company, a Fortune 50 multinational, and a Fortune 500 high tech company, filling roles in R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, and Finance and Administration. 

To spread the word about simulation-based systems thinking (system dynamics), he writes an interactive column for Pegasus Communications.

Website:  Facilitated Systems
Blog: Facilitated Systems Weblog
Twitter:  FacilitatedSys
Articles: Available at the Facilitated Systems website

Andrew P. Jones (Drew) of the Sustainability Institute will lead a webinar on climate change. Currently his primary commitment is contributing to breakthroughs in climate change strategy internationally and within the U.S.  Trained in Environmental Engineering and System Dynamics modeling through a B.A. at Dartmouth College and a M.S. in Technology and Policy at MIT, he worked as a research assistant in the Systems Dynamics Group at MIT and at the Rocky Mountain Institute.  Since 1996, he has focused his practice on helping individuals and teams solve problems by applying system dynamics modeling and systems thinking in the areas of corporate sustainability, public health, global climate change, and land use policy.

Website:  The Sustainability Institute
Blog: Climate Interactive Blog Page
Videos: Available on Drew's website
Articles: Available on Drew's website

Anne Kershaw has over 18 years of experience of travel and logistics in Antarctica, owning and operating the only company in the world offering flights to the interior of Antarctica.

Several firsts in the aviation and Antarctic world were achieved by Anne during her administration. The first C-130 aircraft to land on an ice runway in the Antarctic, the first Environmental Impact Assessment completed by a private company in the Antarctic, the first flight from Cape Town, South Africa with a landing in Antarctica and a yearly program offering six children (from three different continents) the opportunity to travel to the Antarctic and recognise the necessity to preserve this incredible continent.
In 2003 Anne was awarded an MBE by the Queen of England for her outstanding services to Antarctic Aviation.

Anne and Robert Swan have been friends for more than 20 years and share the same passion for the icy continent. Robert persuaded Anne to join him at the helm of Mission Antarctica and 2041 as he continues his mission to inspire young people to achieve extraordinary results through Leadership, Teamwork and personal development in Antarctica and around the world.

Website:  2041
Articles:  2041 News Site
Videos:  2014 on You Tube

Norman Miller is a Staff Scientist in the Climate Science Department at Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley and in the Hydrology and Water Resources Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Dr. Miller is a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports since 1995.

His research is focused on quantifying weather, climate, and hydrologic processes, and reducing model prediction uncertainties. His research group uses remote-sensed observations, reanalysis data, and global climate model projections as input forcing to regional climate models and statistical downscaling schemes to understand climate and impacts at site-to-regional scales. This includes advances in coupled atmosphere - land surface - groundwater modeling; climate variability and change analyses; scaling theory; nonlinear coupling, feedbacks and sensitivities within the climate system; and high performance computing.

Website: Berkeley National Laboratory

Dennis Sandow is the president of his consulting firm, Reflexus. He will be co-instructing in both session two and session three. Since 1987 he has been developing social action research as a process to promote social, biological and financial well-being, and to study Dr. Humberto Maturana’s biology of cognition and biology of love. Dennis is a research member of SoL and has been conducting social action research in the U.S., Sweden, and China.  Dennis has worked with Fortune 100 organizations, non-profits, national, state, and local government organizations. He has published numerous articles on social systems, value creating networks, and social action research. Dennis has also created and  published a primer on The Accomplishment Model- a systemic tool to building coordinated action across organizations.

Robert Swan is a polar explorer, environmental leader and the first man ever to walk to both the North and South poles. He is an exceptionally gifted communicator and is regarded as one of the world’s top motivational speakers. The unique insights and lessons he has learned enable Robert Swan to educate and stimulate his audiences.

Robert speaks all over the world on leadership, teamwork and inspiration. He compares his icy experiences to boardroom maneuvers and his inspirational addresses have received the acclaim of discerning audiences worldwide.

Nicole Thibodeau will be teaching in session three on developing a strategic action plan for sustainability. She is an assistant professor of accounting at Willamette’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management. A graduate of the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh, Nicole has been teaching at the graduate level for 10 years. In addition to teaching, Nicole also worked in public accounting for over six years. Her research focuses on the role of accounting information and incentives in public sector and healthcare organizations.

Website: Willamette University Faculty Page - Nicole Thibodeau