OUR CORE TEAM
OUR CORE TEAM
We have worked with organizations and businesses all over the world to help them solve deep systematic problems. With backgrounds in Green Building, Impact Investing, Design Thinking, Branding, Systems Design, Software Platforms, AI, Organization Design, we are uniquely positioned to support a regenerative way of living, working and playing together.
MARK DEHNER
45 years Commercial Real Estate; Pioneer in Transformational Experiences; Founder Land as Art.
ESTEBAN JACQUES
Mathematician &
Founder C3 Consensus,
Paris, Boston, Mexico City. Consultant to Harvard
& MIT on Artificial Intelligence.
MARK BEAM
Co-Founder Social
Capital Markets (SOCAP)
CATAPULTA Social Innovation
Festival and Former Dir. Innovation
& Design, Kauffman Foundation.
BOB BERKEBILE
FAIA; Principal Emeritus
BNIM Architects; World
Renowned Environmentalist;
Co-Founder USGBC and
LEED Building Certification
NEERAJ SONALKAR
Executive Director of Stanford Center for Human Innovation & Design Research.
ADE MABOGUNJE
Stanford Senior Research Engineer focused on building and developing ecosystems that support accelerated innovation.
BRIAN WEINBERG
Former COO NEXUS;
$100+ million in
impact investments
transactions
JESSE BEAUDIN
Director of Research and Institute Programs UMKC; Business Development
DR TONY CARUSO
Assistant Vice
Chancellor for Research
and Professor Department
of Physics and Astronomy
DR SARA MORRISSON
Professor of English at Jewell College; Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder
THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL
JENNIFER TIDWELL
City of Kansas City Neighborhood Housing Services, previously Region 7 Administrator at US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
PRENTISS EARL III
Director of Development at Sion Preparatory Academy; 20 years in local community development with a focus on minority empowerment.
DINA NEWMAN
25 years of community engagement; Director of the UMKC’s Center for Neighborhoods
KATIE BAKER
Director of Innovation
at Anthem Health; 12 years in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Kauffman Foundation
DR DANIEL WILDCAT
Professor and Co-
director of the Haskell Indian Nations University Environmental Research Studies Center
SHOMARI BENTON
Attorney/ Partner at Benton, Lloyd and Chung; 20 years community development
OUR ADVISORY GROUP
Our Core Team is emboldened by a group of leaders from across the country who have all broken new ground before - leading by example to imagine and then build new regenerative pathways; those pathways include developing perennial food crops, innovative products that mimic nature, strategies for carbon drawdown, investing through an inclusive social lens, activism addressing racial injustice, storytelling aspirational futures, and new technologies for a net positive humanity.
WENDELL BERRY
Poet, essayist, activist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry's work is grounded in the notion that one's work ought to be rooted in and responsive to one's place. The author of more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors,
REV DR GERALD L DURLEY
A student leader in the 19060’s Civil Rights Movement Dr. Durley is Pastor (Emeritus) of Providence Missionary Baptist Church is an activist in the environmental justice movement advocating for the educational, scientific, business, political, and faith communities to seek common solutions.
NICK TILSEN
Nick Tilsen is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and founding Executive Director of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation that works in the development of a sustainable regenerative community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
JANINE BENYUS
Janine Benyus is a biologist, innovation consultant, and Co-Founder of the Biomimicry Institute. Her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature in 1997, led to a practice that learns from and mimics strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges.
MAJORA CARTER
Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcasteren business and the environment.
PAUL HAWKEN
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and activist. He is author of Drawdown, a comprehensive plan to reverse global warming and a soon to be released book entitled Regeneration.
WAYNE SILBY
Wayne Silby co-founded Calvert Investments, a $13 billion socially responsible investment management group, founding chair of Impact Assets, a $1billion donor advised fund and Syntao, Ltd., a CSR consulting firm based in Beijing with offices around China.
TOM CHI
Tom Chi is Founding Partner of At One Ventures investing in early-stage deep tech ventures where humanity is a net positive to nature; Former head of product experience at Google X including Google Glass and Google's self-driving cars.
TALIA ARNOW
Talia Arnow's experiences studying ecology, building a social enterprise, and investing in social good challenge our inherited operating models that perpetuate siloed, solutions responsible for inequality and environmental destruction.
WES JACKSON
Wes Jackson is a biologist, botanist, geneticist and leader in the international movement for sustainable agriculture. He is founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute.
