Naava L. Frank, Ed.D.
Naava L. Frank, Ed.D. is a nationally recognized, published expert, with 20 years of experience in the use of communities of practice (CoPs) and networks for non-profits. Naava consults to foundations and nonprofit organizations to launch and support the growth of communities of practice and networks. Her expertise in designing and implementing network evaluation to measure outcomes allows her to maximize the strategic impact for her clients.
Knowledge Communities helps foundations and nonprofits build their capacity to launch and support the growth of networks and communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs use systematic knowledge sharing to focus on improving professional practice.
Kevin Hiebert
Kevin Hiebert, Principal of Resonate Consulting, is a facilitator, trainer, leadership coach and strategy consultant who supports collaboration to create social and organizational change. Kevin is passionate about collaboration, participatory leadership and seeing collective wisdom and action emerge. For the past 20 years Kevin has been working with people, teams and organizations to take the next steps of growth, collaboration and action.
email: kevin@resonatenw.com
Thea LaGrou
By identifying story threads and patterns we weave the world around us. Not only do our stories connect us – they define our perceptions and shape our behavior. Stories frame our future.
Fascinated by systems architecture and the stories that network mapping conveys, Thea applies her experience as a cross-disciplinary “creative entrepreneur” to network communications, digital storytelling, systems analysis and sense-making. Weaving between diverse networks, she creates virtual learning journeys, presentations on the concept and value of social system mapping, and evaluates network weaving approaches, resources, and tools to enhance network cultures and the discovery of emerging trends. Driven by curiosity and imagination, she supports clients seeking creative opportunities to expand their network's potential.
MaryAnn Martinez
MaryAnn Martinez is a non-profit director and interdisciplinary food systems scholar, currently a PhD candidate at Antioch Graduate School of Leadership and Change. MaryAnn’s current academic research is focused on an emergent hunger prevention network during Covid-19. In addition, MaryAnn also brings years of expertise as a consultant for non-profit and local government around childhood nutrition, substance abuse prevention, and other social issues, as well as practical experience as a vegetable and livestock farmer, in both for-profit and social enterprises.
MaryAnn’s primary consultation focus is on network and social system mapping of people, communities and ideas to ignite discussion around issues of local and regional food systems, food insecurity, food justice and equity.
When MaryAnn is not engaged in growing food and networks she can usually be found running in the woods, playing scrabble, or hanging out with family, friends, and pets.
exdir@communityfoodinitiatives.org
Kimberley Jutze
Kimberley Jutze is the founder of Shifting Patterns Consulting, a Certified B Corporation that helps changemaker leaders get their colleagues on the same page and put collaborative processes in place to achieve greater impact. Her company applies organizational and human systems processes that enable organizations collaborating at the intersection of social, economic, and environmental justice solve problems that prevent people from working well together in ways that stay solved. This involves pinpointing the underlying causes of poor performance and unhealthy conflict, building the commitment to take effective action, supporting people in coming up with their own solutions, and putting a support system in place to monitor improved performance.
Bianca Campbell
Bianca Campbell (they/she) is the Movement Building Senior Manager at Forward Together. She has worked in reproductive justice work since 2011 with organizations like SPARK Reproductive Justice Now! and the National Network of Abortion Funds. She has also been a doula for births, abortions and personal transformations. Now, she is a weaver of the Strong Families Network, centered on family recognition and definition through a cultural strategy. She also shares her commitment to holistic mind and body wellness through her coaching via Spektra Wellness.
bianca@forwardtogether.org
Sahana Chattopadhyay
Sahana Chattopadhyay is a global Speaker, Writer, Master Facilitator, Organization Development Consultant, and Coach. She works at the intersection of Complexity, Human Potential, Organizational Transformation, Systems Thinking, and Emergence. Her passion is to enable organizations to develop the capacities, skills, and mindsets to become “thrivable” in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
The core of her work has been to build a culture of transformative learning and collaboration in distributed and fluid organizations across diverse global cultures. At present, she synthesizes her experiences to help build capacities for Regenerative Leadership, design spaces for Emergent Learning, and communities for Generative Conversations through Facilitated Dialogues, Workshops, Master Classes, Consulting, and Coaching.
Ben Roberts
I am a systemic change agent and a process artist. Since March 2009, when I began leading a local weekly “Discussion Salon,” I have been convening and hosting both in-person and virtual conversations on a regular basis, in service to initiatives for change.
I specialize in making virtual events come alive, either as stand-alone engagements or in conjunction with in-person gatherings. I have extensive experience adapting large group conversational processes such as World Cafe, Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry to the virtual realm, as well as integrating in-person and virtual formats within a single conversation, gathering or engagement. I use these processes to support collaboration, build communities of practice and purpose, and to host large scale conversations in service to the work being done across multiple dimensions of global systemic transformation.
Amy C Moritz
My most satisfying consulting moments happen when I am facilitating a group of people to bring a vision of social change to reality. Every engagement is unique because every group is driven by their specific passion for equity and social justice.
Every group has a distinct set of skills and resources from which to innovate for their unique community. I am grateful for those who do not let the complexity of the social challenges that confront us limit what they believe is possible.
Ammie Kae Brooks
Ammie Kae, co-founder of Fluff, a digital marketing startup, is a licensed Social Worker and Clinical Therapist in the Chicagoland area. She currently sees clients both one-on-one and in group settings for therapy, and works as a Lead Designer and Brand Strategist: digitally growing small businesses. Additionally, Ammie Kae is certified at the Masters level in Nonprofit Administration.
She has worked with organizations, such as Goodwill and the Department of Education's Title IX Office to write curriculum, implement and evaluate programming, as well as complete data analysis to make applicable recommendations for the future.