Core Team
The creators of 7th Generation Labs are social artists, organizational and leadership development consultants, systems thinkers, educators, strategists, ethicists, technologists, visionaries, facilitators, personal coaches, leaders and learners. We are dedicated to igniting the ability of individuals, organizations and communities to know and offer their unique contributions for serving the common good.
Stephanie Nestlerode, MSW
Founder & Chief Synthesizer 7th Generation Labs
Driftwood, Texas USA
Founding Partner – Omega Point International, Inc.
As Chief Synthesizer for 7th Generation Labs, she is joining with kindred spirits to create a treasure trove of ways to learn what matters.
William Nestlerode, PhD
Chief Technology Architect 7th Generation Labs
Driftwood, Texas USA
Founding Partner and Chief Technical Officer – Omega Point International, Inc.
Bill weaves 7th Generation Labs’ platform, hardware and software together into an integrated system to ensure its effectiveness and efficiency.
Lisa Heft
Chief Curate, Culture & Learning Facilitator 7th Generation Labs
Berkeley, California USA
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator – Opening Space
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow Emerita, Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution
Lisa provides guidance, facilitation and consult for 7th Generation Labs and its users in realms such as access and inclusivity, experiential learning, interpersonal communication, content and service proposals and the curation and care of resources, culture and community.
Jyo Maan
Chief Social Systems Architect & Culture Artist 7th Generation Labs
DeMoines, Iowa USA
#joytitude facilitator of regeneration in communities
Jyo Maan lives to co-create communities of social learning that enable meaningful connections around our work and lives. Her trauma informed approaches are focused on emergent facilitation, social innovation and leadership development. In designing structures for freedom, her work is informed by understanding the complexities of social dynamics, relying heavily on emotional, social and spiritual intelligence. She thrives in finding meaning in uncertainty, adaptability and conscious emergence.
She bridges old paradigms with new transformative systems to create spaces where every person belongs. She weaves the hearts and minds of humans throughout. Her hope and aspiration allow every person's story to see the light of the day and inspire future generations to come.
Based on her passion for all things human and systems, she volunteers her energy to nurture culturally diverse communities. In leisure, she likes to read, travel, listen to music, dance and makes time to watch standup comedy.
She can be found on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyo-maan/
DuAnne Redus Chief Confidence Supporter 7th Generation Labs
Wimberley, Texas USA
After retiring from her work as a consultant with Amadeus International, based in London, DuAnne used the skills and knowledge she gained in executive leadership and organizational behavior with multi-national organizations, to develop programs with youth as Executive Director of The LifeWorks Institute.
Through collaboration with 7th Generation Labs, her current focus is to support young leaders and entrepreneurs who are ready and willing to co-create a collective global future that serves everyone.
Her book, The 6th-Dimensional Blueprint for Shaping the Future, addresses the right to ‘be’ in work and life.
Maya Townsend
Chief Communitarian &
Master Chocolate Connoisseur 7th Generation Labs
Watertown, Massachusetts USA
Founder of Partnering Resources
Maya Townsend, founder of Partnering Resources, brings diverse people together to tackle complex problems. Her work is based on understanding how to leverage networks: the complex, interrelated, and often messy webs of relationships that drive all group activity.
Laurie Roberts
Bayfield, Colorado USA
Laurie Roberts is Paula Underwood's daughter and lineage carrier for the wisdom tradition.
Jon Roberts
Bayfield, Colorado USA
Jon Roberts is Paula Underwood's grandson and lineage carrier for the wisdom tradition.
Odette Bovenberg
Rotterdam Netherlands
Over many years I have collected listening and communication methods. It is a unique combination of old learning stories, modern listening methods and empathy-based consulting. They cover all the elements of achieving results as a group. They are easy to learn. People immediately feel and experience that it is useful and effective. I wish I had been taught those skills very early in life.
The listening/communication nuggets I offer are not original to me. I stand, respectfully, on the shoulders of those who initiated these ideas. One of my great inspirations is the work of Paula Underwood.
For close to ten years I slowly discovered the work of this Wisdom Keeper. What touches me is the language she uses. This is wisdom that uses words that reach me. Stimulate my Mind. Nourish me.
This is Wisdom that works. I liked trying out walking on one leg, then the other. Then on both and ask myself what I could learn from that.
I am the guide with the New Eyes, the Child Eyes to this material you might say. Lucky for me Paula writes: Everything that enables disables also. And anything that disables, enables also.
And lucky for us she writes for all with Ears Willing to Listen.
Hal Robinson
Kerrville, Texas USA
Hal Robinson is a teacher, author, public speaker, and Gestalt therapist. He shares a very old Medicine Way that looks for our connection with Spirit in all people and events, even those we find most painful, bringing clarity, learning, and harmony back to the relationship. The Medicine Way is aboriginal from the Americas. In practice for over 40 years, Hal is an ordained minister in the Circle of the Sacred Earth Church and is a Sun Dancer. His last Teacher in the physical form was Germaine Sitting Crow. He is in partnership with a Holistic Family Physician at the Healing Arts Center in Kerrville, Texas and is the founder of Dancing Bear Teaching Lodge serving both groups and individuals.
Leilani Henry
Conifer, Colorado USA
Leilani Henry is a proven pathfinder in workplace creativity, whole-brain integration and change. She is Founder of Being and Living® Enterprises, creator of the Leadership Vitality Checkup TM and Brain Jewels®, a multisensory process for transformation. She is licensed in Educational Kinesiology, founded a national Playback Theatre company and is a Connections radio show host on KGNU in Boulder/Denver. Her lifetime experience in the performing arts is integrated into her approach to wellness, leadership and learning. Leilani’s Fellowship from Regis University recognizes her work in mind-body connection for collective metamorphosis. Her clients include Harvard, Denver Water, Regis University, Seagate, Symantec, Time-Warner, and University of Colorado. As the daughter of George W. Gibbs, Jr., the first black explorer to set foot on Antarctica, Leilani is writing about her father’s experiences with Admiral Byrd’s III expedition to the South Pole.
Erika Canales
Austin, Texas USA
Erika Canales offers over ten years of experience in planning, marketing, community outreach, training and project management. Her roles have ranged from case manager to diversity practitioner in the mental health non-profit industry. Her activities are designed to improve access and health outcomes. Erika has pioneered non-traditional outreach projects with community partners that focus on implementing innovative learning opportunities. She provides guidance to senior leaders on developing enterprise level strategies for collaborating with diverse stakeholders and role-modeling a diversity/inclusion orientation. Erika holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and Health Education from The University of Texas at Austin and Master of Business Administration from Texas State University.
Jeremy Solomons
Kigali Rwanda
Jeremy Solomons is the UK-born and USA-naturalized founder, owner and president of both JSA Consulting (Rwanda), Ltd. and Jeremy Solomons & Associates, Inc. Both firms help current and future leaders to connect and communicate effectively across all cultures – geographical, organizational, professional and individual.
Prior to his consulting career, he worked for six multinational institutions: Citibank, JP Morgan, Lloyds Bank International, Reuters News Agency, United Press International and the World Bank.
Rwanda is the ninth country in which he has lived, studied and/or worked for an extended period. The others are: France, Germany, Hong Kong (and China), Israel, Italy, Switzerland, his native UK and his adopted country of the USA. He has traveled and done business in 40+ nations, mostly in Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and throughout Europe.
E-mail: [email protected] – WhatsApp: +1 512 917 0293
Nadine Binder
Brake Germany
Nadine Binder is a researcher, trainer and coach with a passion for creating virtual learning spaces and enabling joint learning, personal growth, and mutual understanding. Nadine is currently based in Germany. She holds a PhD in psychology and has over 5 years of experience in designing and facilitating face-to-face, blended, and virtual learning programs for a variety of clients such as multinational corporations, SMEs, NGOs, universities, and law enforcement. Her specialty is designing virtual spaces for meaningful dialogue and connection and she is committed to creating and holding space for everyone in the group.
Lee Mun Wah
Berkeley, California USA
Lee Mun Wah, M.A. (Counseling), M.S. (Special Education), is an internationally-acclaimed diversity lecturer/trainer, filmmaker, community therapist and educator. His films have won national awards for their social and emotional impact. The Color of Fear has become a classic diversity film and, in 1995, Oprah Winfrey televised a one-hour special on his life. In 1996, Lee Mun Wah opened his first Training Center to help others learn how to “mindfully” facilitate cultural and communication issues. Thousands of participants from corporations, educational institutions, and government and social agencies, have received training by Lee Mun Wah to facilitate diversity dialogues in their agencies, schools and communities.
Glenna Gerard
Ojo Caliente, New Mexico USA
Glenna Gerard is a multidimensional and skilled consultant and human being. She has a passion for supporting individuals and collectives in growing their capability and capacity for conscious leadership, enabling them to see systems and gain the clarity needed to make wise and strategic choices in service of all Life.
She is a master facilitator and teacher of personal and organizational leadership, a business manager, a program designer, a coach, a strategic and systems thinker. In the 1990s Glenna was one of the initial pioneers in developing Dialogue, She co-authored the book Dialogue: Rediscover the transforming power of conversation, John Wiley & Sons (1998) with Linda Ellinor. Glenna’s clients span Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, communities and various not-for-profit organizations.
More recently Glenna’s intention and attention are focused on making the Way of the Council, from the Origin Teachings of the Delicate Lodge, more accessible in our world today.
Walkabouts with Glenna, are a unique, guided process that enables you to ‘stop the action’ of your busy life, breathe and connect with the leader within you that knows what you most need NOW for balance, vitality and direction. The walkabouts are a synthesis of Glenna’s internationally recognized work with Dialogue, her deep connection with the natural world and the earth wisdom traditions, and a lifetime of guiding individuals and groups in support of creating the outcomes they want for themselves and the world.
Linda Ellinor
Dana Point, California USA
Linda is best known for her pioneering work in developing a form of Dialogue grounded in the work of David Bohm. She co-authored the book with Glenna: Dialogue: The Transforming Power of Conversation (1998, Wiley & Sons).
Her business experience includes having worked for AT&T, International Paper Company, Exxon Office Systems, and a start-up company, called Mnemos. In these companies she held marketing positions translating customer needs into new products and services. She has a decade of experience as an out-placement consultant for Drake, Beam, Morin and as an executive coach in the Center for Creative Leadership’s Leadership Develop Program. She developed a wellness center modeled on sustainable business practices outside Tucson, AZ from the mid 2000s to 2015 and served in a variety of pro-bono climate change organizations including Sustainable Tucson and the Tucson Climate Change Committee reporting to the City of Tucson.
Linda has sat on the US Board of the Academy of Professional Dialogue as Vice President (A0fPD) from 2017 – 2021. She holds video-recoded interviews with seasoned professionals within the Bohm-inspired Dialogue community and runs monthly global dialogues through A0fPD. She holds an MBA from Columbia University, a BS from New York University, and has completed a PhD program in Jungian psychology with Pacifica Graduate Institute. She lives close to the beach in Dana Point, CA with her partner, Rocky, and newly adopted Himalayan cat.
Elizabeth Doty
El Sobrante, California USA
Elizabeth specializes in designing and facilitating high-engagement conversations that integrate strategy, values, and execution. For over 30 years, she has helped C-Suite leaders improve strategy execution by building cultures of commitment, collaboration and action. Ms. Doty writes regularly for strategy + business magazine. Elizabeth served as a Network Fellow with the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Based on that work, she was named a Top Thought Leader in Trust by Trust Across America. Her book, The Compromise Trap, documents the challenges executives faced in trying to live their values and lead with integrity during the build-up to the financial crisis. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991.
Elizabeth’s clients are mission-driven leaders looking to:
- Align Teams for Execution
- Build a Culture of Commitment
- Deliver on Brand Promises to Customers & Other Stakeholders
Ken Homer
San Rafael, California USA
Founder, Collaborative Conversations
Ken founded Collaborative Conversations after a decade as a member of the core team that developed The World Café dialogue process. Certified as an Integral Coach through New Ventures West, Ken has been exploring how what we do in conversation commits us to action and produces results at work for the better part of the last 20 years.
Diane Miller
Austin, Texas USA
Principal, Civic Conversations
Diane Miller specializes in the design, facilitation and implementation of processes that help diverse groups of people find common ground for action. For the last fifteen years, she has worked with Central Texas governments, businesses and community groups on topics such as community visioning efforts, land use and transportation planning, education and sustainable development.
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