Argerie Vasilakes leads strategy, innovation and consulting at Lake Erie Institute, an education, publishing and consulting enterprise that cultivates local ecological community, business and leadership through an earth-honoring ethic. She co-founded TimeZero, a consulting firm that works with organizations as flourishing living systems. She has more than twenty years of experience as a business leader shaping the evolution of cultures in organizations undergoing disruption. She and Nurete Brenner are developing a course on ecological leadership to launch in 2020 at the Lake Erie Institute. Argerie holds a Master of Science in Positive Organization Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and an M.Ed. from Cleveland State University  

Dr. Nurete Brenner, Director of Ecological Leadership, holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University where she studied organizational cultural change. She teaches courses in Intercultural Communication, Ecology and Economics, International Management from a systems perspective and Leadership for Sustainability. She has written extensively on dialogue and on leadership and -- along with Argerie Vasilakes -- is developing "Leading by Mandala," a philosophy and method of emergent participatory leadership pioneered by Lake Erie Institute. She co-authored the article, "Leading by Mandala," for the Center for Partnership Studies. She brings more than 10 years of expertise in designing programs and facilitating dialogue in small groups.