Katy Mamen
Katy Mamen is a creative and collaborative systems change consultant and facilitator helping leaders, organizations and networks find strategic clarity and build collaborative leadership. Recognized as a highly effective and culturally competent facilitator, systems change capacity builder, and nonprofit & philanthropic strategist with a track record of success working with diverse stakeholders to design aligned strategies for an equitable and regenerative future. Katy is principal and founder of Water Bear Collaborative, a consultancy that supports leaders in the climate change, food and agriculture, and water sectors to envision and implement system-informed strategies in service of social justice and ecological health. Katy is particularly skilled at cultivating the wisdom of the whole, whether that’s an organizational team or leaders spanning a field, creating the conditions for all voices be heard and honored while tending to power dynamics, group culture, and results. Her clients in the philanthropic sector have included Water Foundation, the Energy Foundation, UNFI Foundation, Garfield Foundation, and Lumpkin Family Foundation. Katy is a Fellow of the Academy for Systems Change and previously managed multi-stakeholder policy roundtables and led the California Food System Alliance Network as Director of Programs at Ag Innovations. Before turning to process work, Katy studied emergence in complex systems and the role of traditional knowledge in sustainable agriculture while pursuing her MSc in the UK. She also worked with an international think tank researching the impacts of the international mining sector on indigenous communities and supported traditional agrarian communities in Central and South America, Asia, Europe and North America. Katy currently lives in a rural, consensus-based intentional community in northern California, where she honed her group process skills over the past 20 years.
Alyssa Smaldino
Alyssa Smaldino (she/her, they/them) is an anti-racism organizer, facilitator, and coach supporting leaders and organizers to build thriving communities grounded in courage and care. They have nearly 15 years of multifaceted, cross-sector experience that enables her to imagine and build toward a more equitable future. In addition to running a coaching and facilitation practice, Alyssa is co-founder of Libertroph Magazine and curator of the Care Culture newsletter, both of which uplift stories and inquiries about how people can organize to disrupt racism. She is also an Undoing Racism trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Alyssa started their career in the global health field, most notably as Executive Director of GlobeMed, where she organized and trained students and grassroots leaders in the movement for global health equity. She has also worked with community development organizations to design and facilitate anti-racism curricula for public servants. Alyssa is a graduate of the Executive MPA program at NYU-Wagner and holds a degree in Public Health from George Washington University. In their free time you can find them taking long walks along the East River, exploring NYC’s art and culture, or breaking a sweat on the dance floor with her beloved queer community!
Mary Njenga Murimi
Mary Njenga Murimi is a Certified Organizational Development (OD) Consultant and an ICF PCC Accredited Coach. She works as Coach, Facilitator/trainer, Organizational Development and Development Consultant based in Nairobi-Kenya with assignments in Africa, North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. The main focus of her work is Organizational Development, Change Management, Leadership Development, Executive team, leadership Coaching, Training, Process Facilitation and Moderation. She holds two Masters Degrees in Sociology and Organizational Development and is currently working on a Doctorate in Business Administration dissertation on Leadership and change management. Her past and current clients are in the public sector, International Non-Governmental Organizations and the private sector. Some of her clients in the past have been Parliaments of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania, devolved governments in Kenya, International NGOs among them OXFAM, Global YWCA, Women for Women International, Women Link International, Womankind International, Mastercard Foundation Amnesty International-International Secretariat, Amnesty International UK section, Kenya Section and Regional offices in East, Southern and Western Africa, Europe and Asia, Plan International East, Southern, Middle East Regional Office, IPPF Africa Regional Office, Action Aid, SNV, DAI, VSO, WWF, UN Agencies and donor agencies such as USAID and GIZ.
Jenn Weidman
Facilitator, Peacebuilder, Resilience Builder, Trainer, Accompanier Jenn Weidman helps leaders and teams do hard work better. She’s who you call when the conversation is important, complicated, or difficult, and you need the group to actually get somewhere. As founder and CEO of Space Bangkok, a social enterprise, Jenn facilitates tailored processes to help groups make sense of what’s happening, and move forward with greater clarity and purpose. With over 25 years of experience and fluency in Thai and English, Jenn and Space Bangkok bring structure, neutrality, and deep cultural insight to the rooms that matter most. Jenn is also an author.
Beth Kanter
Beth Kanter is a Master Trainer, Speaker, and Author She is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, digital transformation, philanthropy, wellbeing in the workplace and training. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for thousands of social change activists and nonprofits on every continent in the world. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop leader. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. She received the lifetime achievement award from NTEN in 2021. She is the author of the award-winning Networked Nonprofit Books “The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout” and “The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Age of Automation” published by J.Wiley. Her clients include foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.