Meet Our Team

The EthicalCoach initiative would not be possible without our team of dedicated volunteers from around the world, all of whom give generously of their time, energy, and talents in support of our mission. From coaching to communications to fundraising, here are some of the people actively engaged to bring our vision to life

Kathryn Bean

Canada

A Certified Human Resources Leader in the talent management space with deep experience in coaching, career development, strategic resourcing, learning and development, recognition, engagement, and change management. Leverages excellent consultative, analytical, and problem-solving competencies to achieve business objectives. Have led teams of learning specialists, business analysts and customer service agents, achieving 93% engagement scores with national teams. Recognized for strengths in the following areas: Leadership and Team Building | Project Planning and Execution | Innovation and Continuous Improvement | Negotiating and Facilitating | Customer Focus and Stakeholder Management

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Katherine Holt

President, Peakinsight LLC and Global Coach LLC

United States

Katherine Holt provides global talent management and leadership development consulting. She works with clients to identify changing role requirements and strategic competencies for upgrading current and future talent. She helps companies revamp competency models and design new approaches for dealing with global complexity, paradoxes and multicultural effectiveness – along with tools for assessing and developing people in different cultures. She serves as an outsourcing liaison, facilitating the smooth integration of services from multiple global vendors.Transformational coaching is one of her specialties – working with global executives to leverage their “being” dimension and unique skills to achieve breakthrough possibilities for themselves and their businesses. Katherine designs programs to develop leaders who will grow healthy and sustainable organizations as well as high performing ones. With her passion for innovation, she helps leaders shift their cultures and enhance innovation in teams. She challenges clients to take a systemic view of change, build relationships with diverse stakeholders and engage everyone in addressing key challenges. Her collaborative learning approach stimulates awareness about new possibilities. Her practice is based on the values of courageous leadership, authentic action, collaborative learning, respect for diversity and sustainable living. As a ZERI practitioner, Katherine promotes the adoption of sustainable practices to eliminate waste and achieve triple bottom line results. She devotes 25% of her time in pro bono activities to support leaders and non-profit organizations pursuing sustainability. Specialties: Asia-Pacific is a niche practice area. Katherine commutes between California, Japan, and China – where she coaches local nationals, facilitates the development of cross-cultural teams, supports the on-boarding of expatriates, and assists companies to acquire and develop the talent they need to succeed. She is certified in a variety of tools, including Cultural Intelligence (CQ), Global Competencies Inventory (GCI), Global Mindset Inventory (GMI), and Hogan Leadership Forecast Series.

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Veronica Wantenaar

Organizational and Individual Change Facilitator, Consultant and Coach

United Kingdom

Veronica is an organizational and individual change facilitator, consultant and coach. She is an ICF PCC and coach mentor as well as a COMENSA (Coaching and Mentoring South Africa) Senior Practitioner and Registered Supervisor. With over 35 years of experience, she has worked with non-profit organizations involved in early childhood development through to aged seniors programs, international conservation, education, emerging entrepreneurs and social outreach. She believes in taking coaching to areas that were previously unable to access it, so helping to build a more equal society for the future. Veronica has over 35 years of experience in business consulting and change management in the UK, Europe and across Africa, working in diverse industries such as government, financial services, retail, education, healthcare and community /NGO. She added coaching to the mix over 10 years ago as she could see that many individuals and organizations struggled with change and needed the additional support that coaching brings. Having run her own businesses, she could understand the many requirements and challenges that leaders face. Her experience has led her to believe that as individuals we have many roles to play in our lives, both personal and professional, and we want to be the best version of ourselves in all of them, whilst staying true to our values. That insight underpins all of Veronica’s work with her clients, assisting them to adapt to their changing world while retaining their integrity. Veronica trained as an Integral Coach where the focus is on the individual and how they are in relationship to others and to the systems of which they are part, both personally and professionally. Veronica has also been devoting time and energy over the last ten years to working with non-profit organizations and communities to enable them to engage more effectively and strategically with their work and stakeholders. Veronica has facilitated focus groups, community building events and training programs for a variety of individuals and organizations that include teachers, emerging entrepreneurs, youths, health workers and professional organizations.

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Sharon Jansen

Executive Coach at MindShift Executive Coaching - Past President ICF Gauteng - Faculty Member SACAP

South Africa

Sharon Jansen specializes in coaching, team development, design, development and delivery of personal insight initiatives that increase self awareness and create a desire for full consciousness living. Successful leaders are those who have a healthy relationship with themselves and can combine management of self with their leadership capabilities and technical expertise. Relationship and conversation capabilities are critical executive competencies and Sharon coaches executives and teams to enter this territory. Building skill and courage to have the fierce conversations that can change the course of lives and businesses is where Sharon does a great deal of her work. Starting with the fierce conversations we have to have with ourselves before we can have them with anyone else. In South Africa there are a number of definitions of transformation, chief of which is the Black Economic Empowerment aspect, however there are environments where integral transformational change is at the heart of the business, and Sharon is attracted to organizations who are committed to work of this nature. She coaches transformational leaders at all levels of the business. Sharon has a strong business, leadership development and organizational change background in the financial services industry where she spent 26 years with one of South Africa’s leading financial service organizations.

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Neil Edwards

Purpose & Inclusion at PwC | Corporate Coach, Team & Relationship Coach, Coach Supervisor

United States

Neil Edwards is a soulful leader and perceptive coach who works at the intersection of leadership, relationships, wellbeing, and DEI. He believes wellbeing is the lowest common denominator for fulfillment in life and performance at work, that inclusive leadership and leadership and inseparable, and that leaders are always in relationship. Neil supports leaders and teams, and centers self-identity, self-authority, values, and purpose. He sees mature leadership as an outgrowth of identity work. He draws from co-active leadership, organization and relationship systems work, emotional and social intelligence, adult development, leadership embodiment, and health and wellness to help his clients to increase their capacity and capability to lead in any context or system. Neil teaches clients to use whole body knowledge, and to examine their thoughts, emotions, and biases from multiple perspectives to be more skillful and authentic when working across differences and with conflict.

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Denice Hinden

President at Managance Coaching

United States

Denice is a seasoned leadership coach and masterful meeting facilitator working at the senior leadership and C-suite levels. She has worked in and with socially responsible organizations and professional associations in a wide variety of positions ranging from Executive Director to Program Director, facilitator, trainer, researcher, and evaluator since 1983. She is on a mission to take leaders to their next level and to ignite passion and a sense of opportunity and well-being into nonprofit and association and nonprofit workplaces through conscious energetic leadership and positive productive conversations. As founder and President of Managance Consulting & Coaching since 2000, Denice has invigorated the management and performance of more than 120 nonprofit, for-profit and public organizations, and hundreds of leaders with transforming strategic planning facilitation and leadership coaching.

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Anushly Sithamparam

Executive, Organizational Relationship & Systemic Team Coach | Catalyst for Evolving Coaches & Communities that Support People & Planet Wellbeing centred Profit | Mentor Coach | Coach Supervisor | ICF PCC Assessor | Founder/Director - ImproShare Global

Sri Lanka

In this life process, Anushly’s intention is, for her to be an instrument of Love, Compassion, Empathy, Kindness, and Gratitude to every life she touches through the collaborative spaces that she holds for, coaching, mentoring, therapy, and supervision conversations. Her promise is to hold spaces that matters the most to the individuals and systems, for them to discover their Truth, Authentic Potential and Possibilities. In this co created process, as we collectively evolve and heal, her intention is to contribute to manifest consciously or unconsciously and to elevate the Collective Human Self Consciousness for the Greater Good of the People & Planet! Founder of ImproShare Global Coaching, Consultancy & Clinic. We conduct Team Coaching, Group Coaching, Leadership & Life Coaching. Our coaching work promotes people & planet centered approach for the wellbeing of the community & sustainable profits. We hold clients from individual, companies & communities as well, with holistic coaching ethos. More than 10 industries served which includes youth, professionals, women, leaders & Teams. Stepping into my 20th year of my career. My whole journey has been a naturally evolving journey and the journey led me to the path that I am travelling right now. Professional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF), Certified Coach Supervisor, ICF Certified Team Coach, Certified Organizational Relationship & Systemic Team Coach, Dr Marshall Goldsmith certified Stakeholder centred Coach Scholar & 360 Global Leadership Assessment Coach, Executive & Team Coach (EMCC), ICF certified PCC Assessor, etc.

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Christopher Day

Integrative Change Practitioner and Coach

Taiwan

I support expats, leaders and field personnel in international development institutions, non-profit sector organizations and social change initiatives. My main focus is to build capacities to better address today’s global challenges and to support individuals and organizations to thrive in new, sustaining ways. Over the past 20 years I have worked in the private sector, with government organizations, with civil society actors and supranational institutions across three continents. My career included working in Uganda, New York, South Sudan and Afghanistan. Collaborating on continent-wide organizational change initiatives as well as with many stakeholders and change agents across cultures, I know first-hand what it feels like to live in volatile environments, to be responsible for people and to work with resources that don’t always stretch to meet the size of what’s required. My work, methodologies, attitudes and worldviews are shaped by these experiences: underpinned by the principles of equity, collaboration, acceptance and compassion, and informed by what it means to engage right at the edge where plans and decisions face the messiness of reality. I will support you with all my heart to explore the inner landscape of your unfolding, to identify new ways of orienting your work towards ever-increasing impact, and how you can give your life, relationships and organization new directions, vitality and purpose. MSc in Consulting and Coaching for Change; Certified Integral Development Coach (ACTP/New Ventures West); ACC Accreditation with the ICF

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Dirk Nieuwoudt

Executive and Team Coach and Coach Supervisor

South Africa

My thinking about coaching: Coaching happens in partnership. It is a collaborative and dialogical inquiry process. In organizations, coaching should create value for individual clients, the teams they are part of, the organization, and all stakeholders involved. Why I coach: To play my part in creating positive systemic change. To provide individuals and teams with more options to achieve what they set out to do, to find meaning in who they are and what they do, and to be in service of who and what is important to them. Experience: 1. I have been coaching for more than 12 years and hold several certifications. 2. Primary focus areas are Executive and Leadership coaching with Systemic Team Coaching a current priority. 3. Working in large organizational leadership development and change projects has enabled me to connect levels of work/horizontal process flows and culture through coaching programs. 4. For the past 10 years, I have been involved in developing individual and team coaches. I have developed internal coaches and have set up internal coaching programs. Since 2020 I am a faculty member of an international team coaching training organization (Group and Team Coaching Institute – WBECS). 5. I am an individual and team coach supervisor, having done my first training in that regard in 2015.   Associate Certified Meta-Coach, Systemic Team Coaching Master Practitioner Diploma

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Karin Wellbrock

Leadership & Executive Coach to develop transformational leaders and high performing teams

Tokyo, Japan

Karin is passionate about helping people to be at their best – especially at the workplace. As a coach her focus is on leaders who want to be genuine and authentic. These leaders know themselves and know how to have positive impact on the people and world around them. Karin has a German background together with international education and work experience. She holds an MBA and MA international relationships from Germany and the United States and has worked for UNESCO in Paris, NEC Electronics in Europe and almost two decades for Deloitte Consulting in Europe, North American as well as East and South-East Asia in progressive roles. She found her true calling in people development as a coach, mentor, and advisor when she joined Kay Group – an executive coaching and team development firm in Tokyo – in 2017. Her concentration is on awareness coaching to enable personal break through and learning as well as systemic coaching to allow for context and stakeholder interests to achieve the stated objectives. She frequently works with first time leaders who want to become confident and find their unique voices. Karin is native speaking English and German. Breakthrough Coach, Gallup Strengths Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach and Team Coach

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Lucy Shenouda

Leadership & Systemic Team Coach

Canada

Lucy Shenouda is founder of FosterEssence Inc. and a leadership and systemic team coach. With deep understanding of business processes, Lucy fosters coaching conversations on operational excellence, team alignment, and resilient leadership. As a corporate professional, Lucy held leadership roles in marketing and strategic planning. With Fortune and Global 500 organizations in the MENA region, she partnered with brand ambassadors in India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the GCC. Lucy co-led learning integration of stellar brand and people experiences for Unilever, McDonald's, Nestlé and Showtime Arabia (now OSN). Lucy facilitates and curates online live speaker sessions, provides pro-bono coaching for Up With Women and Coaching.com Foundation, is an advisor for the Durham College International Business Program, and a published author. MCC, CPCC, ORSCC, EMCC ITCA Practitioner

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Meet Our Inaugural Coaches

The concept of EthicalCoach has been supported from the beginning -- when it was nothing more than an aspiration -- by some of the world's foremost coaching pioneers. We could not be more grateful to our team of Inaugural Coaches for lending their influence and creativity to lifting this endeavor off the ground and keeping it alight.

David Clutterbuck

Practice Lead at COACHING AND MENTORING INTERNATIONAL LTD. Practice Lead at DAVID CLUTTERBUCK PARTNERSHIP

United Kingdom

Professor David Clutterbuck is a mentor, coach and entrepreneur, as well as one of Europe’s most prolific and well-known management writers and thinkers. He has written more than 70 books and hundreds of articles on cutting edge management themes. In addition, David is a serial entrepreneur, having built and sold two consulting businesses. He now works with an international network of mentor trainers and researchers, Coaching and Mentoring International, supporting organizations in developing capability in coaching and mentoring. He co-founded the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, the primary professional organization in the field within Europe, and is now its Special Ambassador, promoting good practice in coaching and mentoring internationally. He founded the International Standards for Mentoring & Coaching Programs and recently completed a three-year term as external examiner for Ashridge Coaching MBA. He was voted Coaching at Work magazine’s first Mentor of the Year and is a visiting professor at four business schools — Henley (Reading University), Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes and York St John. He maintains a continuous program of research into mentoring, coaching team coaching, talent management and leader development. He is an accomplished and controversial public speaker in high demand around the world. Among his current projects is one to create five million school-age coaches and mentors globally over a five-year period. He likes to practice what he preaches, setting himself the goal of achieving at least one major learning challenge each year – these range from sky-diving to becoming a stand-up comic.

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David Peterson

David Peterson

Director, Executive Coaching & Leadership at Google

United States

As Google’s head of Executive Coaching and Leadership, David coaches senior leaders, manages Google’s network of external and internal coaches, and supports leadership, learning, and executive development initiatives at Google. Before joining Google in 2011, David served as leader of world-wide coaching services for PDI Ninth House (now part of Korn Ferry). In addition to coaching top leaders in organizations such as Salesforce, Sandisk, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Target, Wal-Mart, Shell, Genentech, Mayo Clinic, Harvard, and Stanford University, he provided consultation and thought leadership on how to design and manage organizational coaching programs, how to develop high potential leaders and critical talent, and how to accelerate learning and leadership development at all levels. David has published dozens of articles and chapters on coaching, is co-author of Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development and Leader as Coach, with over a million copies in print, and co-editor of the Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring. Vikki Brock’s history of coaching (2008, 2012) names David as one of the primary influencers in the field, both for his early influence on the emergence of executive coaching and for continuing to shape the field as someone “on the cutting edge of the profession, doing and saying surprising and thought-provoking things.”

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Judith E. Glaser

Judith E. Glaser

World’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence®, WE-centric Leadership, and Neuro-Innovation

United States

Judith E. Glaser (1946 – 2018) was an Organizational Anthropologist and one of the world’s most pioneering and innovative change agents in the consulting and coaching industry. With over 40 years’ experience, Judith was the world’s leading authority on Conversational Intelligence, WE-centric Leadership, and Neuro-Innovation. A best-selling author, Judith wrote seven business books including the best seller – Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results. By applying “the Neuroscience of WE™” to business challenges, she demonstrated how CEOs and their teams can elevate levels of engagement, collaboration and innovation to positively impact revenue and profitability, even in challenging and dynamic environments. Judith was the founder and CEO of Benchmark Communications Inc. and the Chairman of The Creating WE Institute. Her transformational approach, with its integration of neuroscience and anthropology, continues to empower leaders as they raise their Conversational Intelligence and their ability to lead and develop agile, high-performing, individuals and teams.

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Frances Hesselbein

Frances Hesselbein

Former CEO Girl Scouts of America, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whom Peter Drucker once described as "the greatest leader of our time".

United States

One of the most highly respected experts in the field of contemporary leadership development, Frances Hesselbein is the President and CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, founded as The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and renamed in 2012 to honor Hesselbein’s legacy and ongoing contributions. Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1998 for her leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976–1990, as well as her service as “a pioneer for women, volunteerism, diversity and opportunity.” Her contributions were also recognized by the first President Bush, who appointed her to two Presidential Commissions on National and Community Service. In 2009, the University of Pittsburgh introduced The Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement. The Academy’s aim is to produce experienced and ethical leaders who will address critical national and international issues and advance positive social and economic initiatives throughout the world. Also in 2009 she began a 2-year appointment as the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She was the first woman, and the first non-graduate to serve in this chair.

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Carol Kauffman

Carol Kauffman

Founder Institute of Coaching, Harvard Faculty President at Coaching Psychology LLC

United States

For the past 25 years Dr. Kauffman has taught at Harvard Medical School where she is an Assistant Professor and the Founder/Executive Director of the Institute of Coaching. In 2009 she received a $2,000,000 award from the Harnisch Foundation to create the Institute. As a leader with an entrepreneurial spirit she launched: The Institute of Coaching, Founded and co-chaired the Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference at Harvard Medical School, the International Coaching Leadership Forum and the European School of Management and Technology Coaching Colloquia. She recently chaired the annual meeting of the Consulting Psychologist division of the American Psychological Association and the International Positive Psychology Association conference. Dr. Kauffman has published in many venues, and was the Founding Editor of the first academic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to coaching, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. Her Harvard Business Review article, What Coaches Can Do for You is their most frequently cited piece on coaching. Carol appears regularly in the media including New York Times, Forbes, LA Times, New York Magazine and is interviewed for local and national television and radio. She has coached live on television, radio and for a documentary film on positive psychology.

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Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith

#1 Leadership Thinker & NYT Bestselling Author Executive Coach

United States

Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 35 books, which have sold over two million copies, been translated into 30 languages and become bestsellers in 12 countries. His two other New York Times bestsellers are MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – the Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. In February 2016, Amazon.com recognized the ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books’ in their To Read in Your Lifetime series. The list included classics and newer books – management and self-help books. Both Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There were recognized as being in the top 100 books ever written in their field. Marshall is only one of two authors with two books on the list. Marshall’s professional acknowledgments include: Harvard Business Review and Best Practices Institute – World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Global Gurus, INC and Fast Company magazines – World’s #1 Executive Coach, Institute for Management Studies – Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, American Management Association – 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek – 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Economist (UK) – most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources – Fellow of the Academy (America’s top HR award), World HRD Congress (India) – global leader in HR thinking. His work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field. Dr. Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He is one of a select few executive advisors who has worked with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, International and American Red Cross leaders – where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.

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Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

Coach to many Global Business leaders including Richard Branson, Charles Schwabb, Founders of Pinterest

United States

Mark Thompson is a highly sought after executive coach, VC and New York Times bestselling author. Forbes called Mark one of America’s Top Venture Investors with the ‘Midas Touch’, and the American Management Association ranked him one of the “World’s Top Executive Coaches”. Mark advises top leaders in Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 1000 companies as well as the executive teams who are leading high growth startup companies, from Apple, American Express and The World Bank to Pinterest.com and Smule.com. He was founder Charles ‘Chuck’ Schwab’s former Chief of Staff and Chief Customer Experience Officer, and the Executive Producer of Schwab.com. He is a founding patron of Sir Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Centres, and founding advisor of the Stanford University Realtime Venture Design Lab, his alma mater. He was a founding board member of Esurance, now an Allstate company, and Interwoven, now an HP company, and the Frances Hesselbein Institute. He is a founding member of the World Bank President’s Leadership Advisory Council and bestselling author of Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters; Now Build a Great Business; and Admired, 21 Ways to Double Your Value.

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Professor Peter Hawkins

Professor Peter Hawkins

World Leading Consultant, Writer and Researcher in Leadership Chairman at Renewal Associates

United Kingdom

Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Chairman of Renewal Associates and founder and emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group and Chairman of Metaco South Africa. He is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in leadership and leadership development and an international thought leader in executive teams, and systemic team coaching. He has just led a major global research project on Tomorrow’s Leadership and the Necessary Revolution in Today’s Leadership Development for Henley Business School and finished writing the third edition of Leadership Team Coaching to be published in June 2017 by Kogan Page. Over the last 30 years he has worked with many leading companies all over the world, co-designing and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects and coaching company boards and leadership teams. He has helped several senior executive teams develop their vision, values and strategy for the future, both in commercial companies, public sector, higher education and large professional service organizations. He is the author of several best-selling books including Leadership Team Coaching in Practice; Supervision in the Helping Professions; Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development; Creating a Coaching Culture; and The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership.

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Meet Our Leadership Team

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, EthicalCoach relies on a volunteer board of directors and leadership team to set the vision, keep us in alignment with our mission, actively participate in partnership building and strategy development, and help to steer the ship as we navigate the globe.

Contributing Volunteers Past and Present

Powered by the passion of our amazing team of volunteers from around the world who are working together for a shared vision.