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Steve Byers (www.helpinghumansystems.com) is an interdependent consultant whose impact is to increase leadership capacity for wise action based on mutual learning, systems intelligence, and awareness of adaptive challenges. Steve is a graduate of the Organization Systems Renewal program at Seattle University, and teaches in the graduate leadership studies program at St. Mary’s College of California. He designs and teaches interactive workshops about systems intelligence, leadership, and mutual learning for teams. He consults with community groups and organizations in several sectors. He advises leaders and leadership teams regarding their own development and organizational change.
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Paul Horton (www.athenaplace.com) is a facilitator, strategy coach and community development and organizational change professional with 25 years of leadership-level experience working with the public, private and non-profit sectors. He is committed to harnessing diversity, building community, fostering shared responsibility, and working across boundaries to implement collaborative approaches to organizational change. Paul specializes in using participatory leadership practices to build social capital and improve organizational outcomes. Paul is also ad adjunct faculty for the Evergreen State College's Masters in Public Administration Program.
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Amber Huffstickler (www.athenaplace.com) brings 12 years of experience in community development through partnership building, equity-promoting public engagement, and community-driven program planning and implementation. Her broad network of parent leaders, direct service providers, and community based organizations complements her gift of engaging diverse, historically marginalized communities through bridge-building dialogues about issues relevant to all participants. She specializes in equitable facilitation strategies rooted in the Art of Hosting. Amber has a B.A. in International Development & Social Change / Spanish and an M.A. in Teaching, Elementary Education.
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Teresa Posakony (www.emergingwisdom.net) is a Leadership and Dialogic Organization Development Consultant specializing in building healthy resilient communities and organizations. She teaches dialogic organization development using a trauma and resilience informed approach. Teresa is certified in the Community Resilience Initiative Trauma Informed curriculum and developed a 6-week trauma and resilience informed Self-Leadership program rooted in understanding of the N.E.A.R Sciences (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACEs, and Resilience). She recently worked with DOH Essentials for Childhood to launch the statewide Community of Practice for ACEs and Resilience. This included a convening statewide COP meetings, SELF Leadership training, and designing and implementing a Leadership Development Program. Teresa loves working with leaders and team to convene the strategic conversations they care most about and invite teams into their brilliance.
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Stacey Ray As a Senior Planner for the City of Olympia Office of Performance and Innovation, Stacey specializes in strategic planning, community outreach and engagement, meeting design and facilitation, and performance management. Since joining Olympia in 2008, Stacey’s significant work efforts have included development of Olympia’s first Shoreline Restoration Plan, updates to development regulations to include low impact development standards, a periodic Comprehensive Plan update, development of the city’s first Action Plan to carry out the Comprehensive Plan, and most recently, completion of a community Homeless Response Plan. In addition to her long-range planning work, she provides internal consulting and support to staff in all departments on team development and facilitation, public engagement strategies, strategic planning, data-informed management, process improvement, and service innovation. Stacey has BS in Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry from the College of Forest Resources and a MS in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance from the University of Washington. Her and her husband, Tyler, have two young sons and love to live and play in Olympia.
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