Founder & President, Life Crafter
Expert Advisor, Translational Technology Integrator
Innovative Systems Architect: Lead on multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and US government programs in civil aviation security, counter-terrorism and counter-WMD
Successful Entrepreneur: Founded two successful tech startups, a current solo-led venture in commercial space and as a partner in an Android development company.
Adept Change Agent: Designed and implemented a sustainable business-model for a groundbreaking conservation program
Practiced Corporate Advisor: on Board of Advisors of three international corporations
CFO, Charter Collaborant
Strategic Change Agent
Passionate about working with organizations during critical transition phases, Deborah supports founders and leaders that share her own personal values, she discovered her true calling implementing turnaround strategies that help people and organizations recover, reinvent, and grow their businesses. Her superpower is shepherding companies and their leaders through profound transformation.
As a strategic change agent in top companies such as LucasFilm, Spectrum Organic Products, The Nelson Family of Companies, and Straus Family Creamery, Deborah’s turnaround management techniques have resulted in increased profitability while improving cashflow, staff morale, and building client and vendor confidence. After two decades in-the-trenches, she has come to believe that sustainable business is much more than environmental activism, it is nourishing catalytic resiliency in organizations to enable them to embrace their potential.
Charter Collaborant, Senior Team Lead
Organizational Catalyst
John Wesley Days, Jr is an educator, facilitator and expert in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). His areas of expertise include facilitating group processes, global finance, intercultural communication, global project management, simplifying value exchanges, designing for interconnectivity, and conflict mediation, focusing on creating conditions to eradicate systemic causes of conflict in the long term. From his work with the United Nations to his contributions to numerous global non-governmental organizations, Wesley generates opportunities to reveal the complexity of conflict and help people navigate an uncertain world. His work is motivated by the need for greater global cultural understanding and cooperation. It designs and provides process frameworks, content, and theory on adaptive change and innovation, and supports leaders, organizations, and networks in embedding and operationalizing adaptive skills. His proven and documented greatest talents, such as his understanding of platforms and ecosystems: multiple, interconnected actors, driven by intentionally designed incentives with situational awareness.