Julie Fulkerson, M.A.
Julie Fulkerson is a consultant to small business owners in business planning, trouble-shooting, and financing. She is the founder of Cascadia Center for Leadership.

Currently she serves as Trinidad City Council Member as well as Board Member for Dell Arte, Humboldt County Film and Digital Media Commission, and Humboldt-Del Norte Community Health Alliance. She formerly owned the Plaza Design Stores in Arcata, McKinleyville, and  Eureka. Julie now consults with various organizations and businesses.

Julie also designs and facilitates workshops for non-profit, government, and public organizations. She has led programs for the Job Market, Humboldt Area Foundation, Internews, Humboldt-Del Norte Community Health Council, Arcata Economic Development Corporation, The North Coast Co-op, Humboldt Woodworkers Guild, U.S. Post Office, North Country Clinic, Healthy Families, Simpson Timber Company, National Secretaries Association, Urban Management Consultants, Women in Cooperatives, American Planning Association, Department of Rehabilitation, Headstart, U.S. Forest Service, Public Health Department, California State Department of Education, State Associations of Psychologists, Marriage and Family Counselors.

Julie served as a Humboldt County Supervisor and Chair of the Board of Supervisors; Arcata City Council member and mayor; and, co-director and founder of Options, a counseling and training center.

Julie studied at Humboldt State University and received a B.A. in German and Music; a Secondary Schools Teaching Credential; and an M.A. in Psychology. She is a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. Additional studies include Carl Rogers Person-Centered Training Institute, Colorado College and University of Vienna.

Mary V. Gelinas, Ed.D.
Mary Gelinas is a Managing Director of GelinasJames, Inc. She has 30 years of experience as a consultant to or leader of organizations. Her experience includes acting as a principal of a national consulting firm, directing operations for a behavioral research and development company, and managing a team of consultants for a national training and consulting center.

In her consulting work, Mary has specialized in collaborative approaches to complex, comprehensive change and has developed and refined a number of approaches. She has been the lead consultant for many large-scale change projects. She has served clients in the not-for-profit, for-profit, education and government sectors including Humboldt County Children and Families Commission, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Genentech, Chevron Research and Technology Company, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Forest Service.

Mary has authored or co-authored many books, articles, and papers in the areas of organization development, consulting skills, and change management. Publications include Collaborative Change: Improving Organizational Performance (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1998), Collaborative Organization Design, and Consulting Skills?Bringing Our Authentic Selves Forward.

Mary received her doctorate in Applied Behavioral Sciences from the University of Massachusetts in 1978. She was an invited participant in the Dialogue Project sponsored by MIT's Sloan School of Management and served on the Editorial Review Board of the OD Practitioner. She is a director of Path Setters Institute and is co-director of the Cascadia Center for Leadership.

For additional information, see www.gelinasjames.com.

Roger G. James, Ed.D.
Roger James is a Managing Director of GelinasJames, Inc. He has 25 years of experience as a consultant, during which he has focused on the development of high performance/high commitment organizations through large-scale, collaborative redesign processes. Each of these redesign efforts included elements of strategic planning and program/organization evaluation.

He has consulted in a wide variety of organizations in the not-for-profit, for-profit, and government sectors including Area Agency on Aging, Humboldt Area Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Intel, Contra Costa County and U.S. Geological Survey. Roger also serves as Co-director of the Cascadia Center for Leadership.

Prior to forming GelinasJames, Inc., Roger was the Director of Organization Development for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. In that capacity, he managed a consulting group that received the American Society for Training and Development’s national award for consulting excellence.

Roger has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles, and papers in the fields of organization development, leadership, and consulting skills. Recent publications include Collaborative Change: Improving Organizational Performance, Collaborative Organization Design, and Leading and Transforming Organizations.

Roger received his doctorate in Applied Behavioral Sciences from the University of Massachusetts and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Advanced Program in Organization Development.

For additional information, see www.gelinasjames.com.

Robert Maurer, Ph.D.
Bob Maurer has devoted most of his professional life to the study of excellence: how people create and sustain success in work, health, and relationship. He is a clinical psychologist, the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at the Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital. He is an Associate Clinical Professor with the UCLA School of Medicine and the founder of the Science of Excellence, dedicated to enhancing enthusiasm and performance in all areas of life.

Dr. Maurer has provided individual and executive coaching and consulting to organizations including the British Government, the US Navy and Air Force, the EPA, Xerox, World Savings, Walt Disney, and Kaiser Hospitals. His work on conflict management has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and his programs on creativity were highlighted in the Los Angeles Times. He has won the US Navy’s civilian award for his contributions to their negotiation skills training courses. He is currently working on a book on strategies for individual and organizational change, scheduled for publication in 2003.

Dr. Maurer is the author of the recently released One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way.

For more information about Dr. Maurer and his publications see www.scienceofexcellence.com.

Kristin Roach Johnson
She currently serves as the Regional Director for the Northern California Small Business Development Center Network. This network includes ten service centers in 14 counties from Monterey to the Oregon border. Prior to this she was Executive Director for the North Coast Small Business Development Center.

A native of Humboldt, Kristin returned to the area several years ago after 12 years in the Bay Area and Portland developing high-growth small businesses and consulting with non-profit and governmental organizations. She prides herself in being an action-oriented and collaborative change agent within the local economic development community.

As entrepreneur, Kristin has started three different companies in the industries of consumer products, wholesale distribution, and e-commerce. She has raised over $4.2 million in venture capital, was named the 1996 Business Person to Watch by the Sacramento Business Journal, and accepted the award for 1995 Start-Up Business of the Year for an eight-county region of the Sacramento Valley region.

Prior to her involvement in start-up companies, Kristin worked as a Planning Aide and Strategist for the United Nations Environment and Economy Program (UNEP) and as a Spokeswoman for the non-profit, Earth Train. In these capacities she created financial partnership agreements with companies including Hyatt, Ford, and Coca-Cola.

Kristin attended UC Davis, majoring in design and economics. She is a graduate of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and is currently working to launch a similar academy in Humboldt. She also served as a facilitator for the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program (community-based leadership) for two years in Portland, OR.

Kristin serves on the Redwood Technology Consortium board of directors, the Humboldt State University (HSU) Business Advisory Panel for the President, the advisory board for HSU Office of Economic and Community Development, the Prosperity Network Steering Committee, and as Chair for the local Collaborative Resource Development Steering Committee.

Peggy Mark

Peggy is a partner in Breakthrough-Partners, LLC, an organizational consulting business based in Humboldt County, California. Her expertise is in the areas of leadership and organizational change.

Peggy’s lifelong love for the natural environment, along with her years of experience in music, has provided a philosophical foundation of deep appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things, and an understanding of the importance of each unique contribution to the creation and perfection of the whole. Peggy and her husband, Joe, formed Breakthrough-Partners, LLC to assist organizations in achieving prosperity through the creation of authentic relationships between individuals, organizations and the larger community within which they function.

Peggy has 27 years of experience in healthcare leadership. Through her career, Peggy has provided leadership in hospital settings and community organizations. Her areas of expertise in leading organizational change include; strategic planning, systems thinking, program development, team-building, employee engagement, shared governance and leadership development.

Peggy is pursuing her PhD in Leadership and Change through Antioch University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.

Cindy Porter

Cindy Porter is the Program Director of YouthServe AmeriCorps, a program in Humboldt County that provides school-based mentoring and service learning opportunities to court and continuation high school students. Since 1997, Cindy has worked with local non-profits, schools, and other government agencies to collaboratively create programs which assist youth in developing the skills they need to successfully transition into adulthood.  She is a member of the leadership team of the North Coast Regional Network for Service and Volunteerism and serves on several grant review panels for foundation and federal grant competitions each year. She is certified to teach Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) through the Interstrength Method® and is working on completing her MA in Psychology. Through her work with AmeriCorps and the California Conservation Corps, Cindy has been able to indulge in work that nourishes her love of creating collaborations, fostering a sense of community among service providers, and providing opportunities for people to learn and grow. She resides in McKinleyville, CA with her husband and two children.

Heather Equinoss

Heather is a Community Strategies Program Officer at Humboldt Area Foundation and is currently active in collaborations working to build community capacity and resiliency; environmental and policy change efforts focused on health and equity; and grassroots leadership development. 

Through her work with Gelinas-James, Inc., Heather has gained extensive recording and facilitation experience.  She specializes in using recording tools to engage meeting participants, capture the group’s wisdom, focus their work, and improve implementation.

Prior to coming to the foundation, she worked in secondary and post-secondary education both in the United States and overseas with Peace Corps, with a focus on developing service learning, volunteer, and employment opportunities for students.  

Heather studied at Humboldt State University and received a Special Education Teaching Credential and a B.A. in English Education, with Minors in Leadership Studies and Communications.  She has also studied Graphic Facilitation and Recording with The Grove Consultants International. 

Shayne Green

A fourth-generation Humboldt County resident, Shayne has been working in the field of natural resources management on the North Coast for fifteen years. His professional experiences have spanned the disciplines of forestry, biology, conservation planning, and community development. He has become increasingly interested in the way community process influences interactions between human and natural systems.

As a planning consultant for the Northcoast Regional Land Trust, Shayne co-directs the North Coast Dialogues. This multi-stakeholder effort is creating a 100-year vision for working lands in the region and a plan of action for attaining it. His role as convener and facilitator has necessitated deeper inquiry into human responses to change and our capacity to meet the challenges of an uncertain future.

Shayne holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Geography from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in Biological Sciences from Humboldt State University. He is a Cascadia Leadership Program graduate and a New Warrior initiate.

Diane Cipperley

Diane leads boldly with an adaptive leadership style serving as Director of Finance and Administration since 2002 at Humboldt Area Foundation (HAF) in northern California.  HAF manages over $65 million in community assets providing multiple services in support of their mission “To serve as an independent staging ground for residents, individually and in concert, to build social, economic and environmental prosperity on California’s North Coast.” 

Diane joined HAF after 30 years of business consulting in the for-profit sector, providing accounting and management system development for numerous small to medium sized organizations in diverse industries.  She continues to provide expertise for local non-profit organizations through HAF, serves on the Oral Examination Panel for the County of Humboldt Personnel Department, and was recently elected by membership to serve on the Eureka Rotary Board of Directors.  Diane completed her Bachelor’s Degree with honors from the University of Nevada and has completed numerous leadership training forums including RAPPORT Leadership, Landmark Forum, and Cascadia. 

Diane believes building leadership capacity in our communities is critical for personal success and civic participation in our democracy.  She participated in Bay Area YMCA teen leadership programs in various capacities for 20 years including program development, group facilitator, group facilitation trainer, high adventure program director and international caravan director.  She has led community play-days and taught cooperative games to teachers, camp counselors, and scout leaders as a tool for group management and as an alternative activity that allows all participants to be winners.  Directing recent corporate strategic planning with HAF staff and board members, Diane has emphasized processes that focus on team building through inclusion, resulting in transformational organizational outcomes.