There are people everywhere putting ideas of stewardship and participative community into practice. Here are some people I know personally who offer help in implementing lasting and authentic change. To learn more about any of them or talk about who might be best to talk to, give Maggie a call at 860.572.0346.

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  • Organization: Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-cultural Education Research
  • Address: P.O. Box 1278
  • City: Sausalito, CA 94966
  • PH: 415-331-1890
  • Website: http://www.angelesarrien.com/
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  • Name: Dick and Emily Axelrod
  • Organization: The Axelrod Group
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  • City: Wilmette, Illinois 60091
  • PH: 847.251.7361
  • Website: www.AxelrodGroup.com
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  • Name: Peter Blachford and Joseph Maalouf
  • Organization: Effiqual / Designed Learning Canada
  • Address:
  • City: Montreal Quebec Canada
  • PH: 514.385.0580
  • Website: www.effiqual.com
  • Description: We support people in creating cultures of accountability flowing from the free expression of the human spirit.
  • Name: Dorie Ellzey Blesoff, MS OD
  • Organization: Independent consultant/coach - Organizational Learning & Change; Faculty, MS Learning & Organizational Change program, Northwestern University; Executive coach/facilitator, Karlin Sloan & Co
  • Address:
  • City: Oak Park, IL 60302
  • PH: 708/660-1280
  • Website: www.dorieLZblesoff.com
  • Description: Consultant and coach who partners with leadership teams to create shared vision and to design and implement innovative learning/development programs and sustainable culture change. Her approach is based on living systems thinking, appreciative/strengths-based discovery, and participatory methods to involve all stakeholders as fully as possible. She works primarily with family businesses, healthcare and non-profit organizations. Also a singer/song-writer, she shares music in classroom and team-based settings to inspire and engage.
  • Name: Mary Pierce Brosmer
  • Organization: Consulting for (a) Change, LLC
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  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • PH: 513.708.1292
  • Website: www.marypiercebrosmer.com
  • Description: Teaching individuals and organizations to design and maintain themselves as living systems responsive to what is needed now--and next.
  • Name: Gloria J. Burgess, Ph.D.
  • Organization: Founder: Jazz, Inc., The Lift Every Voice Foundation, & Legacy Living Network
  • Address:
  • City: Edmonds, Washington 98020
  • PH: 206.954.0732
  • Website: www.gloriaburgess.com
  • Description: Consulting and coaching for intercultural intelligence and values-driven leadership. We renew and lift up the human spirit through individual and organizational stewardship, creativity, and innovation.
  • Name: puanani burgess
  • Organization: One Peace-at-a-Time
  • Address: 86-641 Pu'uhulu Road
  • City: Wai'anae, O'ahu, Hawai'i 96792
  • PH: 808-630-7260
  • Description: My objective is to help people see beyond the "crisis" or "opportunity" model of experiencing change and sharing principles and practices which give them a bone structure to build the beloved community they want to live in.
  • Name: Steve Cady, Ph.D. SC&A
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  • Address: 580 Craig Drive 8-234
  • City: Perrysburg, Ohio 43551
  • PH: 419.255.6800
  • Website: www.stevecady.com
  • Description: We offer education, consulting and coaching in strategic planning, organization design and leadership "engagement" roadmaps; large-scale or whole system change initiatives; and creating conditions that inspire passion and innovation at all levels.
  • Name: Dinesh Chandra
  • Organization: Founder, DNA Global Network
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  • City: San Jose, California
  • PH: 408.573.6240
  • Website: www.DNAGlobalNetwork.com
  • Description: Seamless Execution of Global Strategy by Creating Global Mindset
  • Name: Michael F. Cristiani, Ed.D.
  • Organization: Cristiani Consulting Group, Ltd.
  • Address:
  • City: Saint Louis, MO 63132
  • PH: 314-993-3700
  • Website:
  • Description: Work with people who want to collaborate, to connect, to build teams within and across work boundaries in order realize results -- whole greater than the sum of its parts! We also work with and coach those who want to grow organization leadership talent to achieve both personal as well as organizational goals.
  • Name: Allan L. Cohen
  • Organization: Allan L.Cohen Consulting, a private strategy consulting practice
  • Address:
  • City: Cambridge, MA 02139
  • PH: 617.515.1654
  • Website: www.allancohen.com
  • Description: Providing management consulting services for executives as they address critical strategic and organizational challenges: creating breakthrough strategies, achieving strategic alignment, and building strategic momentum
  • Name: Ken Cunningham and John Spencer
  • Organization: KCAI Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners
  • Address: 1429 Main Street
  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
  • PH: 513.381.7131
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  • Description: KCAI is an urban design firm working with diverse neighborhoods creating inclusive community projects since 1975. We created a grassroots design process tailored to the community, developing essential design statements based on the participants' seeings, knowings, assumptions, and visions. Our design process involves the participants throughout the process, so that they see their contributions and gifts in the final built environment.
  • Name: Joyce DeShano, CSJ
  • Organization: Congregation of St Joseph (Consulting & Facilitation)
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  • City: St Clair Shores, MI 48081
  • PH: 586-872-3706
  • Website: www.csjoseph.org
  • Description: I have the privilege of walking with leaders of organizations, particularly in congregations of women religious inviting them to release and maximize their gifts and talents for the needs of a world hungering for relationship and community.
  • Name: Ed Everett
  • Organization:
  • Address: 50 Horgan Avenue #18
  • City: Redwood City, California
  • PH: 650.216.6595
  • Website:
  • Description: Community Engagement Consultant/Executive Coach. Based on 24 years as a successful city manager, I am devoting my time to my passion, Community Building/Civic Engagement, which we successfully accomplished in Redwood City.
  • Name: Linda Fabe
  • Organization: Oasis Consulting, LLC
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  • PH: 513.631.5002
  • Website: www.performanceforpurpose.com
  • Description: Consulting and coaching for individuals, organizations and communities. Our mission is to build communities of purpose for performance, passion and contributon. Focus on strategic planning, teamwork and collaboration, and leadership development.
  • Name: Charles L. Fields
  • Organization: The Fields Company
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  • City: Tolland, Connecticut 06084
  • PH: 860.380.7605
  • Website: creativeleaders.net
  • Description: We equip people for leadership. Equipping means practicing the skills you're learning. Practice builds confidence and confidence builds courage. Courage strengthens your heart and encourages you to apply what you've learned. Application releases creativity and that causes organizations to thrive and grow.
  • Name: Roosevelt Finlayson
  • Organization: MDR
  • Address: PO Box SS-5679
  • City: Nassau, Bahamas
  • PH: 242.322.1605
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  • Description: We use lessons from festivals and the arts to design transformational learning experiences that stimulate and challenge people to become their most creative, passionate and productive selves while experiencing joy, meaning and fulfillment.
  • Name: Todd Henry
  • Organization: Accidental Creative
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  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • PH: 877.795.9377
  • Website: www.accidentalcreative.com
  • Description: We free up creative people and organizations to do brilliant work and change the world.
  • Name: Meredith Hogan
  • Organization: Freelance healer, yogini and singer
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  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • PH: 513.313.1018
  • Website: www.Merhogan.com
  • Description: My work in the world is to heal and ignite the human spirit through yoga, and song. A yogi is one who creates positive change in the world.
  • Name: Charles Holmes
  • Organization: CE Holmes Consulting
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  • City: Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • PH: 604-783-5130
  • Website: www.ceholmesconsulting.com
  • Description: Engage, connect and mobilize teams and communities to created desired futures.
  • Name: Joan and Michael Hoxsey
  • Organization: Relationship Resources LLC
  • Address: 5300 Hamilton Avenue Ste 109
  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio 45224
  • PH: 513.681.2513
  • Website: www.relationshipresources.net
  • Description: We specialize in working with individuals, couples, partners and organizations to leverage their strengths to create great relationships. Joan is an Appreciative Inquiry practioner and has worked with a wide variety of public and private organizations using the priciples of positive psychology and the Values in Action (VIA) strengths assessment.
  • Name: Sylvia James
  • Organization: Dannemiller Tyson Associates
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  • City: Goodyear, Arizona 85338
  • PH: 623.925.5818
  • Website: www.dannemillertyson.com
  • Description: Consulting for whole-systems approaches to organizational change; design and facilitation of small and/or large group interactions that enable organizations and communities to create the strategy, processes, structures, and culture to realize results and be what they yearn to be.
  • Name: Jill Janov
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  • Address:
  • City: Denver, Colorado 80206
  • PH: 303.394.1444
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  • Description: A probono consultant with nonprofit organizations that seek to develop organizational capacity and the person at work. Jill applies her 36 years of consulting experience - in private, public, and government organizations - to enhance the public sector's engagement and support of individuals, communities and the world at large.
  • Name: Michael Johnston
  • Organization: Michael Johnston and Associates
  • Address:
  • City: Swampscott, Massachusetts 01907
  • PH: 781-595-5122
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  • Description: We provide consultation and coaching to address the challenges of change and transition, assisting leaders and managers to create futures of their own design and achieve successes beyond what they consider possible for themselves, their teams and their enterprise.
  • Name: Dan T. Joyner
  • Organization: Consultant, Trainer, Facilitator
  • Address:
  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • PH: 513.520.2869
  • Website:
  • Description: Developing leaders and building organizational capacity for optimal impact. Expertise in the six conversations, management, restorative and community justice, and building partnerships.
  • Name: Amy J. Katz, Ph.D.
  • Organization: Baker & Daboll, LLC
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  • City: Cincinnati, OH
  • PH: 513-339-1007
  • Website: www.bakerdaboll.com
  • Description: Executive coaching , team development, and facilitation for organizations in the for-profit, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
  • Name: Peter Koestenbaum, Ph.D.
  • Organization: Philosophy in Business
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  • City: Carmel, California 93921
  • PH: 831.626.3600
  • Website: www.pib.net
  • Description: Brings leadership philosophy to business people globally. Is close to business executives and their deepest concerns, sharing with them insights and feelings, new perspectives and more serviceable adaptations.
  • Name: Jo Krippenstapel
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  • Address:
  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio 45209
  • PH: JoKripp@cs.com
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  • Description: Offers facilitation, consultation and training focused on enhancing quality lives for individuals, more responsive organizations, and richer community life. She faciiltates strategic planning conversations designed to create clear images of positive futures, collaborative and creative strategies and the contribution of all members.
  • Name: Gina Lavery
  • Organization: Synchronicity Partners
  • Address: 1445 West Belden, Suite 4M
  • City: Chicago, IL 60614
  • PH: 773.935.7629
  • Website: www.ginalavery.com
  • Description: Creates opportunities for leaders to unleash their gifts, talent and creativity and expand relatedness, possibilities and positive energy in their organizations, communities and teams!
  • Name: Samuel P. Magill
  • Organization: S. Magill Consulting, Inc.
  • Address:
  • City: Edmonds, Washington 98026
  • PH:
  • Website: www.sammagill.com
  • Description: Focusing on deep change in how we think, relate, feel and act in order to get important things done personally, in organizaitons and around the world. 
  • Name: Ward and Kranti Mailliard
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  • Address: 455 Summit Road
  • City: Watsonville, California 95076
  • PH: 408.847.8832
  • Website: www.mountmadonnaschool.org/values
  • Description: Ward and Kranti are part of the founding group of the Mount Madonna Center in California, and Ward teaches at Mount Madonna School and is engaged with his students in discovering how to transform the learning process to produce the citizens the world now needs.
  • Name: David Markwardt
  • Organization: David Markwardt Consulting
  • Address: 20 Alcalde Road
  • City: Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508
  • PH: 505.204.8820
  • Website: www.davidmarkwardt.com
  • Description: With his unique educational background (two Master's degrees, one in Organization Development and one in Poetry), David combines experiential learning with poetry, story, and conversation. His original approaches create stronger relationships leading to shared values and longer-lasting solutions.
  • Name: Barbara McAfee
  • Organization: Singer/songwriter, voice coach
  • Address: PO Box 19662
  • City: Minneapolis, MN 55419
  • PH: 612.840.9255
  • Website: www.barbaramcafee.com
  • Description: I bring music and meaning to groups of people who are together to learn. I offer keynote concerts, weave music through conferences, and compose custom songs for organizations and campaigns. Rooted in 12 years experience as an organizational development consultant, my songs explore the rich territory of change, community, vitality and balance.
  • Name: Elizabeth McGrath
  • Organization: The Lakeland Group, Inc.
  • Address: 407 Kazimour Drive
  • City: Barrington, Illinois 60010
  • PH: 847.842.8312 / 312.590.6693 (cell)
  • Website:
  • Description: We focus on the critical role conversation plays in organizational efficiency and effectiveness; we help individuals and groups increase their contribution to the organization's bottom line by becoming become better decision makers, problem solvers, negotiators and change agents.
  • Name: Barry Morris, Ph.D.
  • Organization: Left Lane Consulting, LLC
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  • City: Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
  • PH: 513.604.3988
  • Website: www.leftlaneconsultingllc.com
  • Description: Facilitates the development of for-profit and not-for profit organizations and their leaders through engagement, strategic planning and alignment, organization and leadership development, and Human Resource Management.
  • Name: Catherine Norton, PhD
  • Organization: Norton Consulting Group
  • Address:
  • City: Brisbane, Australia
  • PH: +61 7 3876 3166
  • Website: www.nortonconsultinggroup.com
  • Description: For two decades Catherine has motivated women through renewal and empowerment programs in Australia and internationally. Her projects include helping establish a women's hospital in Kuwait, working with Aboriginal communities in Far North Queensland, and crafting renewal activities for female executives and managers. She is deeply committed to facilitating conversations that transform.
  • Name: Ray Patchett
  • Organization: Patchett and Associates
  • Address: 2181 Twain Avenue
  • City: Carlsbad CA 92008
  • PH: 760.579.9954
  • Website:
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  • Name: Ann and Gary Ralston
  • Organization: Ralston Consulting Inc.
  • Address:
  • City: Columbus, Ohio
  • PH: (614) 761-1841
  • Website: www.ralstonconsulting.com
  • Description: Helping people - from Fortune 500 companies to aboriginal First Nations groups - create dramatic, sustainable business results without losing their humanity.
  • Name: Charlotte Roberts
  • Organization: Blue Fire Partners, Inc.
  • Address:
  • City: Sherrills Ford, North Carolina 28673-0309
  • PH: 828.478.5933
  • Website:
  • Description: My work focuses on executive team productivity, building a learning culture and strategy implementation.
  • Name: John Schuster
  • Organization: Schuster Kane Alliance
  • Address:
  • City: Kansas City Missouri 64112
  • PH: 816.753.7055
  • Website: www.skalliance.com
  • Description: My colleagues and I are evocateurs and increase business literacy and financial know-how by developing deeper, more systemic thinking, often through the use of simulation. In addition to executive coaching, I give green speeches on a variety of topics, and do workshops on purpose and calling; my Berrett-Koehler book is entitled Answering Your Call.
  • Name: Leslie Stephen
  • Organization: Developmental Editor
  • Address: 8605 Oakmountain Circle
  • City: Austin, TX 78759
  • PH: 512.346.0247
  • Website:
  • Description: Your meaning and message, my respect for your voice and know-how to reach your readers. Peter has never done a book without Leslie.
  • Name: Frances Strickland
  • Organization: First Lady of Ohio
  • Address:
  • City: Columbus, Ohio
  • PH: 614-995-2000
  • Website:
  • Description: I chair the Family and Children First Cabinet which focuses its' social service resources on strengthening communities with the goal to maintain and grow healthy families and children.
  • Name: Chene Swart
  • Organization: Transformations
  • Address:
  • City: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
  • PH: +27 (0) 83 467 1891
  • Website: www.transformations.co.za
  • Description: Working with the Narrative approach in co-creating transformational learning contexts and journeys that enable individuals, teams and organizations to re-write their stories as they re-author their lives and live into their preferred alternative narrative.
  • Name: Louise van Rhyn
  • Organization: Symphonia for South Africa
  • Address: PO Box 6552, Welgemoed, 7538
  • City: Cape Town, South Africa
  • PH: +27 21 913 3507
  • Website: www.symphonia.net
  • Description: Louise is committed to mobilise citizens and communities to create a South Africa that works for all. She is passionate about her country and her vision is for all South Africans to discover that their country is Alive with Possibility
  • Name: Nancy Voss
  • Organization: Voss Consulting, Inc.
  • Address:
  • City: Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
  • PH: 847.392.9980
  • Website:
  • Description: We work with individuals, organizations and communities to engage in the essential and authentic conversations that lead to meaningful change. We provide leadership development, coaching and consulting; we design and facilitate small and large group processes that reach across boundaries to achieve critical results.