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

Robin Morris Collin is professor of law at Willamette University College of Law in Oregon.  Her latest publications include “Restoration and Redemption” in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (a collection including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and others, 2010), and the Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Environment and Ecology, Business and Economics, Equity and Fairness (coauthored with Robert William Collin, 2010).  She is the first US law professor to teach sustainability courses in a US law school.  She has been awarded the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference as well as the Campus Compact Faculty Award for Civic Engagement in Sustainability.  She has been recognized as a Founder and Leader of the Sustainable Futures Section of the Oregon State Bar. Morris Collin also served as the founding chair of the legislatively created Oregon Environmental Justice Taskforce and a founding board member of the environmental Justice Action Group of Portland, and Lawyers for a Sustainable Future. She cofounded the Conference Against Environmental Racism and the sustainable Business Symposium.

Website: http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/faculty/profiles/collin/

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: http://climateinteractive.wordpress.com/tag/andrew-jones/
Blog: Climate Interactive Blog Page
Videos: Available on Drew's website
Articles: Available on Drew's website

Elliot Maltz received his MBA from the University of California at Davis and his Ph.D in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to coming to the Atkinson School he taught for 6 years at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. His teaching and research interests include marketing strategy, new product planning, and supply chain planning. He has recently developed curriculum for sustainability management at the Atkinson school.

Dr. Maltz’s current research focuses on: How market information can be effectively transmitted from marketing to other functions within a firm (e.g., R&D, Manufacturing) or across firms (e.g., in distribution channels, supply chains or across business units) in order to facilitate efficient and effective new product development, value chain effectiveness or other marketing initiatives.

Dr. Maltz’s current research focuses on:

1. How market information can be effectively transmitted from marketing to other functions within a firm (e.g., R&D, Manufacturing) or across firms (e.g., in distribution channels, supply chains or across business units) in order to facilitate efficient and effective new product development, value chain effectiveness or other marketing initiatives.
2. How business practices can be adapted to facilitate the sustainability of the firm and the broader system in which it operates.

His research has been highlighted in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Long Range Planning and Sloan Management Review.

He has consulted and conducted workshops for a variety of concerns including: Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson and Johnson, 3M, The Samsung Corporation, The Monitor Group, The Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, The Sony Corporation, Weyerhaeuser, and The Center for Telecommunications Management.

Website: Willamette University Faculty Page - Elliot Maltz

Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and a founding member of the MIT Green Hub. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and governments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has co-designed and delivered award-winning business leadership programs for client firms including Daimler, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fujitsu, and Google. He also facilitates cross-sector programs for leaders in business, government, and civil society that focus on building people’s collective capacity to achieve profound innovation and change. Scharmer holds a Ph.D. in economics and management from Witten-Herdecke University in Germany. He introduced the theoretical framework and practice called “presencing" in his book Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (2007), and in Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (2005), co-authored with Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. With his colleagues, Scharmer has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. More information about Scharmer and his work can be found at: www.presencing.com

Lucy Walker
Lucy Walker is best known for directing four feature documentary films: DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND (2002), BLINDSIGHT (2006), WASTE LAND (2010) and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO (2010). Her two most recent movies both premiered at Sundance 2010 – the first time a documentary director has had two feature films in one year at this festival. COUNTDOWN TO ZERO, a terrifying exposé of the present-day threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation, premiered at Sundance 2010 and played in Official Selection at Cannes before being released in the US by Magnolia Pictures to tremendous acclaim.

WASTE LAND also premiered at Sundance 2010 and has won over twenty film festival awards. It is the first film ever to win the Audience Awards at both Sundance and Berlin, as well as Audience Awards at Vancouver, Seattle, Full Frame, Provincetown, Paulinia, Durban, EcoFocus and Maui film festivals, in addition to the Amnesty International Award at Berlin and Durban, the Jury Award at Trinidad and Tobago, Paulinia, Flagstaff, EcoFocus and Durban film festivals, the R$30,000 Prêmio Itamaraty for Best Documentary Feature at São Paulo International Film Festival and the $25,000 Target Best Documentary Award at Dallas International Film Festival. It is currently nominated for Best Documentary 2010 at the British Independent Film Awards and the International Documentary Association awards. WASTE LAND is the uplifting story of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and a lively group of catadores, or pickers of recyclable materials, who find a way from the world's largest garbage dump in Rio to the most prestigious auction house in London via the surprising transformation of refuse into contemporary art. 

Walker is also the first filmmaker to ever win the Berlin Audience Award twice, for both BLINDSIGHT and WASTE LAND. BLINDSIGHT premiered at Toronto and won further Audience Awards at Ghent, AFI and Palm Spring film festivals and nominations for Best Documentary at the 2007 Grierson Awards and British Independent Film Awards. It was also short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. BLINDSIGHT follows the emotional journey of six blind Tibetan teenagers who climb up the north side of Mt. Everest with their hero, blind American mountaineer Erik Weihenmeyer, and their teacher, Sabriye Tenberken, who founded Braille Without Borders, the only school for the blind in Tibet. Walker's first feature documentary DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND examined the struggles of Amish teenagers during their period of experimentation (rumspringa). It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Karlovy Vary and Sarasota film festivals, three Emmy Award nominations for Best Documentary, Best Directing and Best Editing and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Documentary.  

Walker's credits also include Nickelodeon's "Blue's Clues," for which she was twice nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Direction in a Children's Series.
Lucy Walker grew up in London, England, started directing theater in high school and continued as an undergraduate at Oxford University, where her plays won prestigious Oxford University Dramatic Society awards. After graduating with starred First Class Honors in Language and Literature she won a Fulbright Scholarship to attend New York University's Graduate Film Program, where she earned her MFA, directed short fiction films, won a competition to direct a music video for Cowboy Junkies, and moonlighted as a musician and DJ.