The Team
Heidi is an experienced leader with a track record in transforming individuals, teams and organizations, both as executive director, developmental coach and as external facilitator and consultant. Heidi has a background in IT and strategic marketing. She served as a CEO for a digital service design agency, undertaking a successful transformation, prior to co-founding Amara Collaboration. Amara is an international consultancy and social enterprise founded in 2014. In Amara Heidi works mainly with organizational transformation on three levels, the individual, team and the systemic level. She is known for her attentive listening and presence and the energy she brings to any intervention. She is fluent is the top executive environment as well as sensitive to pick up the subtle, somatic dimensions. Heidi is an expert of adult development and part of the team certifying coaches and consultants to use the Global Leadership Profile. She is a certified executive coach and has the right to use the Leadership Circle 360.
In addition to her work in Amara, she serves as the Chair or the Advisory Board for two self-managed/Teal organisations, is a frequent speaker at international Business Forums, is the country manager in Finland for Women’s Board Award and an author of the book Street Smart Awareness and Inquiry-in-Action.
Heidi Gutekunst
Joel Yanowitz is a leading consultant, executive coach and senior advisor renowned for his ability to help leaders accelerate progress on critical business challenges through leveraging the human side of their organization.
Over the past thirty years, he has helped countless business leaders drive growth, improve innovation, and build cultures capable of extraordinary performance.
Joel has hands-on experience launching and running companies. He was the co-founder and managing director of Innovation Associates, the firm that brought the prestigious work of Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline, to companies worldwide, and pioneered the field of Organizational Learning.
As a Vice President of Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting and technology development company, he led their Organization Practice and co-led their Strategy Practice. Joel has served on a number of corporate and non-profit Boards, including The African Food and Peace Foundation, CorStone, and Upstart Bay Area.
Joel is a graduate of Columbia University’s Advanced Program in Organizational Development and Human Resources Management. He lives outside of San Francisco where he enjoys mountain biking, playing guitar and holds a fourth-degree black belt in Aikido.
Joel Yanowitz
Heidi, Joel and Dana
Support Team
Johanna Hobart Crane
Caitlin Gwen Taylor
Caitlin’s personal path has been one of many experiences through the lenses of transformation and learning with deep roots in environmental and social activism. She has a background in Cultural Anthropology and Leadership and Communication, which has been the catalyst for her commitment to creating a more regenerative world.
For the past 15 years this commitment has guided Caitlin’s passion in working with consultants, organizations and entrepreneurs who are making a positive impact in areas of regeneration, social justice, transformation, and organizational development. She enjoys working with complexity and breaking down the details of a project or challenge in order to understand better flow and functionality. Communication, accountability, and integrity are the bases of her personal and work foundation.
In 2021, Caitlin permanently relocated from the Bay Area, California to Somerset, UK where she lives with her husband, step-children, and feisty parrotlet, “Naku.”
Johanna Hobart Crane has been working with Dana Carman Integral Consulting for over five years. She is currently responsible for managing an array of tasks ranging from client communications, organizational duties, technological support, billing, scheduling, implementation, and management of The Leadership Circle projects.
Johanna received a BA from Western Washington University where she focused on marine bird population research and learned large dataset management.
Her previous experience includes 15 years in customer service and as manager and supply buyer for an outdoor retail store.
Outside of work Johanna spends her time with her family biking, skiing, backpacking and traveling.
