Associates
Jesse majored in psychology, has an MBA in corporate strategy, and trained in software design, development and architecture. He has worked as an engineer with a team of scientists responsible for designing and building communications systems for the International Space Station, and as a management consultant helping leaders achieve greater impact on the individual, team and organisational levels. Jesse has been designing and delivering integral leadership programs for 14 years.
Jesse has a broad inter-cultural background with professional engagements in Germany, Russia, Australia, Spain, USA, Sweden, Korea, Canada, Ethiopia, Estonia and Brazil.
Jesse McKay
Matt Cesaro
Matt Cesaro is passionate about working with individuals, groups and organisations to increase awareness, impact and performance through people development, change leadership and strategic facilitation. He loves to work with other people who are passionate about what they do, to support them to make the shifts they need to have the impact they want.
His operational and leadership experience developed over 20 years in SA Health and Country Health SA. Working both centrally and in regional teams, he successfully led many change and reform programs in Organisational Development, Health Service Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Business Systems and Project Management.
Matt has a range of qualifications and certifications to support this lived experience, including Management, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Embodied Practitioner (Integral Theory), The Leadership Circle (TLC), Advanced (Gestalt) Facilitation, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and as a Resilience Skills master trainer. Matt is a busy cricket coach, an uber-driver/Dad, and a gifted teller of Dad jokes, according to him.
Susanna Carman is a Strategic Designer specialising in leadership, learning and design for a rapidly changing world. She works with practitioners and consultants who are committed to fulfilling potential in others. She also supports educational leaders and their teams to transform complex challenges into practical opportunities for learning, growth and innovation.
With a masters degree in Design Futures, Susanna joins a select cohort of research-practitioners in the emergent field of Transition Design - a trans-disciplinary approach to learning, leadership and problem solving that advocates for, "design led societal transition toward more sustainable futures" (Irwin, Kossoff & Tonkinwise). Susanna's research and client work has generated a high value toolkit that draws from Futures Thinking, Systems, Complexity, Embodiment and Integral Theories, Vertical Leadership Development and Speculative Design to support design led leadership amidst VUCA conditions.
She holds degrees in Geology, Music and Education, as well as an advanced diploma in Holistic Counselling. She is also certified as a MetaIntegral Embodied Practitioner with over a decade of combined experience facilitating business performance, cultural alignment and leadership development outcomes for the education, health, community development and financial services sectors.
Prior to her consulting efforts, Susanna was a musician, songwriter, recording artist and music teacher who lectured at Southern Cross University and performed at Australia’s top festivals. Her design expertise is grounded in fifteen years of collaborative artistry, live performance, music education and creative entrepreneurship
Susanna Carman
Danielle Conroy
Danielle Conroy is a specialist in transformation leadership, coaching and organizational change. With over 25 years working in a large multi-national company, and experience running her own consulting businesses, Danielle understands the complexity, challenges and rewards of working in organizations of all sizes and stages of growth. Her clients value her creativity, integral thinking, emotional intelligence, focus on results and partnership approach. With a deep commitment to meditation and her own personal development, she guides and supports leaders to unlock and accelerate powerful mental, emotional and relational capacities that support them in navigating the complexity of today’s world and have a greater impact in their organizations. Danielle has a graduate degree in Business & Leadership from Curtin University in Australia.
Jacob has spent the past 30+ years working as an Aquatic Ecologist researching the inter-connectedness of organisms and their river and lake environments. Simultaneous to this career, he delved into his own connectedness to the natural word, experiencing the deep space that wilderness (wildness) fosters, allowing masks to fall way and layers to shed, revealing a deeper peace, and a deeper truth. Through this connectedness and love of the natural world was borne a natural inquiry into the potent questions arising in life. This inquiry is informed by personal inquiry work with a variety of teachers over many years, as well as by the wildness of nature, tapping into the profound transmission and innate wisdom emanating from the still- yet wild and uncontrollable aspects of nature. It brings Jacob great joy to serve as a guide and to support the natural unfolding of inquiry into the nature and resolution of whatever potent personal or collective issues are arising.
In addition to obtaining a B.A from Rutgers University, an M.S. from University of Idaho, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Jacob attended the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), has over 40 years of experience playing in wilderness, has guided wilderness trips, and facilitated numerous inquiry circles as well as rites of passage/mentoring groups for youth.
Mia Handshin is passionate about inspiring and developing those who want to lead with greater authenticity, resilience and courage. She is an engaging facilitator, insightful coach or mentor, an experienced and compelling speaker and an aspiring author.
A lawyer by training, Mia spent the first decade of her career writing a weekly column and blog for ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper in SA. She worked in the law in Australia and spent time at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Brussels. In 2007 she was a candidate for Federal Parliament, went on to work as a policy adviser to a Federal Minister for Sport and then as an Associate Director at a national Government Relations and Strategic Advisory firm. Between 2012 and 2016 Mia chaired the Board of the Environment Protection Authority in addition to working for The Leaders Institute for SA.
Mia has experience as a Trainer in Wellbeing and Resilience at the SA Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and is an accredited practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She is also a single mother to three children, a meditator, avid bush walker and loves to sweat-it-out doing hot yoga.
Mia Handshin
Bridgit is an integral coach, organizational development consultant, and equine facilitated learning specialist. She is passionate about supporting individuals and teams in moving towards greater awareness and collaboration, focusing on the ways that management and leadership informs and impacts the health and functionality of entire organizational systems. She also holds an active practice in equine facilitated coaching through EquusLibere, serving leadership teams in on the ground team development in partnership with horses. She serves clients from a wide range of sectors, from non-profits and educational institutions to Fortune 100 and across all areas is a passionate facilitator of holistic, sustainable human and organizational systems transformation.
Bridgit is a Certified Integral Coach and also holds certifications in
Hogan Assessment and Advanced Interpretation, Leadership Circle Profile,
Facilitation of Groups as Living Systems, and Clinical Pastoral Education.
Bridgit Wald
Jacob Kann
Katie is an award winning documentary filmmaker (Money & Life) and former Sundance grantee (99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film). With a Masters degree in Depth Psychology, she turned her tending of the world soul from the counseling room to the craft of visual story making. Her most recent film is RE:MEMBER: where grief and beauty co-exist. Katie’s passion and purpose lie at the intersection of grief tending, healing inter-generational trauma and building inner and outer resilience for navigating the complexity and uncertain futures of these times.
Katie is most recently trained in Warm Data Lab/People Need People; Prosocial Facilitation; Conflict Transformation.
