ABOUT MORNING TEACH INS

The 5 Keys to Daring Leadership – The Pinnacle Model

At Pinnacle we believe strong leaders make stronger communities. Great leaders have the greatest impact when they have high performing teams focused on delivering results and building high performing teams is our specialty!

In this session, we’ll review the 5 Keys to Daring Leadership that create high performing teams, based on our 30 years of experience. You’ll learn the importance of focusing on your top people and creating a culture of coaching and accountability through effective goal setting. See how prioritizing key values such as emotional maturity, risk taking, and open & honest communication, over skills, can transform your team.

Pinnacle is the top resource in New England for nonprofit leadership and team development. Since 1993, we’ve built up a record of proven results with leaders from 70 countries and over 100 teams.

Presenter: Danielle Giannone
Senior Vice President of Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development

An expert in leadership, team development and coaching, Danielle has spent the last 14 years transforming the performance of many organizations and helping leaders, teams and individuals reach their full potential. She has advised leaders at all levels of an organization and worked with teams on six continents. A skilled facilitator and trainer, Danielle pushes leaders to see the biggest obstacles that stand in their way, dig into the hot issues that hold them back and find the courage to lead effectively.

Presenter: Danny Tyrrell
Vice President 0f Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development

Danny has spent the last 15 years leading various teams across a variety of industries including international travel and health & wellness tech. At Pinnacle, Danny leverages his prior executive experience to develop courageous leaders and effective teams. He focuses on goal clarity, identification of the top barriers that are in a team’s way and alignment on key priorities.

“Calling in the Call Out Culture” by Loretta J. Ross

Dr. Ross’s presentation will challenge the Call Out Culture of social justice movements and academic spaces in order to build a united human rights movement. The teach in will cover 5 topics: 1) Understanding what Calling In/Calling Out is; 2) Exploring why people should care about building a human rights movement through Calling In; 3) Discussing what it feels like to call people in; 4) Examining what Calling In looks like; 5) Learning where, when and how to use Calling In techniques in the future.

Presenter: Loretta J. Ross
Activist, Public Intellectual, Professor

Loretta’s activism began at 16 when she was tear-gassed at a demonstration as a first-year student at Howard University in 1970. She was one of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center in the 1970’s, where she used her own story of sexual assault to facilitate a conversation with incarcerated rapists, teaching them Black feminist theory.

As part of a 50-year history in social justice activism, she was the national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005–2012, and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice in 1994.

Ross’s mentor, the legendary C.T. Vivian, told her when she started her job, “When you ask people to give up hate, you have to be there for them when they do.” And so she was. She monitored hate crimes, accompanied Floyd Cochran, national spokesman for Aryan Nation, on his atonement tour and taught anti racism to some whose families were members of the KKK.

Ross was national co-director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time with 1.15 million participants. She founded the National Center for Human Rights

She is a 2022 recipient of the Alnoba Moment of Truth Award for Leadership for Gender Equity and the McArthur Prize, as well as a 2023 Inductee to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

From Tipping Point to Turning Point – Advancing Indigenous Land Demarcation and Rights in the Amazon

As the Amazon rainforest reaches an ecological “tipping point,” Indigenous women are on the frontlines of its defense against increasing threats, including deforestation, industrial extraction, and fires. Recent events in Brazil may be the turning point for Indigenous land demarcation. Women warriors are rising up as leaders in a pan-Amazon and global movement to protect the Amazon and our climate and call upon all of us to show our solidarity. Join this workshop to hear directly from Amazon women defenders and allies Célia Xakriabá (Indigenous Representative in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies/Congress), Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa from Sarayaku, Ecuador), Josefina Tunki, (Shuar People of Ecuador) and Leila Salazar-López (Chicana-Latina, Executive Director of Amazon Watch).

Presenter: Célia Xakriabá
Indigenous representative in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies/Cgonress

Célia Xakriabá is a teacher, poet, and activist from the Xakriabá people in the
Cerrado biome of Brazil. She is one of the founders of the National Association of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors ( ANMIGA ) and a leading member of the Indigenous women’s movement in Brazil. She also helped to create the “Reforesting Minds” movement based on Indigenous ancestry and wisdom which advocates for a change in consciousness among the global public about planetary preservation.

Presenter: Patricia Gualinga
President, Fundacion Tiam

Patricia has worked for decades as a vital, internationally-recognized voice against oil extraction and destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. Patricia is an Indigenous rights defender of the Pueblo Kichwa de Sarayaku (Kichwa People of Sarayaku), an Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2012, Patricia was one of the representatives in a case presented to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in which the government was found guilty of rights violations and of authorizing oil exploration and militarization of Sarayaku lands without consulting the community. It was an all too rare victory for Indigenous tribes. Patricia describes recent times as “apocalyptic” for her village of 1350 people. The confluence of a massive oil spill, the pandemic and historical flooding have devastated her community. Yet despite everything, she persists and still holds hope because as she says, “there is so much to protect.”

Presenter: Josefina Tunki
Past President – Shuar People of Ecuador

Josefina Tunki lives and travels in the heart of the Cordillera del Condor from where thousands of tons of gold and copper are extracted. She is the first female president of the Shuar People in Ecuador. In recent years, she has become the Indigenous leader who is the face of the anti-mining struggle in her homeland.

She is unafraid and has confronted both the state and the mining companies. As is often the case for Indigenous leaders, she has been threatened and her community militarized in 2020

Presenter: Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director, Amazon Watch

Leila Salazar-López is a mother, proud Chicana-Latina woman, and passionate defender of Mother Earth, the Amazon, Indigenous rights and climate justice. Since 2015 she has served as the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, leading the organization in its work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest by advancing Indigenous peoples’ rights, territories, and solutions. For 20+ years Leila has worked to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange. She serves on the Governing Council of the Amazon Emergency Fund, is a Greenpeace Voting Member and a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America. In April 2019, she was acknowledged in Make it Better Media’s “17 Bay Area Environmentalists Making a Difference.”

Clean Energy – A Tale of Two States

Nearly a continent divides the Granite State from the Beehive State, yet little separates the vision and passions of Sam Evans Brown, Executive Director, Clean Energy New Hampshire and Sarah Wright, Executive Director of Utah Clean Energy. Each is dedicated to bringing cleaner energy to their respective states by increasing renewable energy and eliminating fossil fuels. Learn how they navigate their respective political landscapes, build coalitions among its citizens and educate and advocate for a cleaner future.

Presenter: Sam Evans-Brown
Executive Director, Clean Energy NH

Sam leads Clean Energy New Hampshire in its effort to create a cleaner, more affordable, and more resilient energy system in the Granite State. Sam grew up in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Prior to joining Clean Energy New Hampshire in 2021 he was a nationally known podcast host and radio journalist for nearly ten years, during which he wrote stories about New England energy issues extensively and won several regional and national awards.

Presenter: Sarah Wright
Founder, Utah Clean Energy

As founder of Utah Clean Energy, Sarah has a proven record of accomplishment in the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency within the state of Utah. As Executive Director, she has effectively fostered diverse partnerships with state agencies, municipal governments, industry, agricultural groups and community groups to advance clean energy solutions. She is an intervener in regulatory proceedings and a witness in legislative hearings testifying in support of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Sarah brings over fifteen years’ experience with the Utah industry where she served as an environmental consultant providing occupational health and ambient air quality permitting services. Sarah holds a B.S. in Geology from Bradley University, and an M.S. in Public Health from the University of Utah.

When a Bath with Candles Won’t Cut It!

How to Reset Your Nervous System and Soothe Your Soul

Leaders and activists working on the frontlines of climate, racial, gender, and reproductive justice are often given advice that doesn’t always feel so easy to follow: “Make time for you,” “Self-care is key to well-being” and the ever popular, “Put your oxygen mask on first.” What happens, though, when the state of your work feels like it cascades over you, demanding more of you, your time, and your talents? What can you do when you feel compelled to keep going but feel that your brain and body have been hijacked by stress, anger, or despair? The key to resetting your nervous system and soothing your soul: understanding how the events of the world and your work are impacting your brain’s response mechanisms. In this workshop, you will learn how your brain may perceive all events as life-threatening and the resultant impact on your autonomic nervous system. You’ll learn to quiet down the primal part of your brain and activate your prefrontal cortex to soothe your soul.

Presenter: Kathy LeMay

Kathy LeMay is currently completing her master’s degree in trauma-informed clinical mental health counseling. In 2024-2025, she will open a practice to provide trauma-informed therapeutic care to survivors of war, genocide, and political torture, as well as to leaders and activists on the front lines of social justice. Kathy recently sunsetted a 30-year global social change fundraising and philanthropic advising career. Her last position was Director of Philanthropy at Amazon Watch, an organization working in radical solidarity with Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin to defend the rainforest from destruction. She is now a member of the Board of Directors of Amazon Watch and, in her spare time, co-owns an animal rescue & sanctuary in western Massachusetts.

ABOUT AFTERNOON TEACH INS

The 5 Keys to Daring Leadership – The Pinnacle Model

At Pinnacle we believe strong leaders make stronger communities. Great leaders have the greatest impact when they have high performing teams focused on delivering results and building high performing teams is our specialty!

In this session, we’ll review the 5 Keys to Daring Leadership that create high performing teams, based on our 30 years of experience. You’ll learn the importance of focusing on your top people and creating a culture of coaching and accountability through effective goal setting. See how prioritizing key values such as emotional maturity, risk taking, and open & honest communication, over skills, can transform your team.

Pinnacle is the top resource in New England for nonprofit leadership and team development. Since 1993, we’ve built up a record of proven results with leaders from 70 countries and over 100 teams.

Presenter: Danielle Giannone
Senior Vice President of Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development

An expert in leadership, team development and coaching, Danielle has spent the last 14 years transforming the performance of many organizations and helping leaders, teams and individuals reach their full potential. She has advised leaders at all levels of an organization and worked with teams on six continents. A skilled facilitator and trainer, Danielle pushes leaders to see the biggest obstacles that stand in their way, dig into the hot issues that hold them back and find the courage to lead effectively.

Presenter: Danny Tyrrell
Vice President 0f Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development

Danny has spent the last 15 years leading various teams across a variety of industries including international travel and health & wellness tech. At Pinnacle, Danny leverages his prior executive experience to develop courageous leaders and effective teams. He focuses on goal clarity, identification of the top barriers that are in a team’s way and alignment on key priorities.

Using the Law for Social and Environmental Justice

Working to advance environmental and social justice means stepping up to the big fights against overwhelming odds. At this special event, hear from three daring leaders who did just that—and are winning. They’ll share their stories of how Conservation Law Foundation helped to kill Exxon Mobil’s Everett oil tank farm; how the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests helped stop Eversource’s Northern Pass plan to run 192 miles of giant power lines through the heart of the Granite State and how Canada’s National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Women and Girls and Aboriginal Legal Services exposed ugly truths and pushed through reforms. Learn valuable leadership lessons that you can apply to the battles you and your organization face, whether big or small.

Presenter: Jane Difley
President (retired), Society for the Protection of NH Forests

For 22 years, Jane served as the president/forester of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, one of the country’s most effective land conservation organizations. Under her leadership, 85 new Forest Society reservations and 404 easements were in put in place to protect over 100,000 acres of land. The Forest Society also led the charge to defeat the highly controversial Northern Pass project during Jane’s tenure. Additionally she broke ground by serving as the first woman elected president of the Society of American Foresters.

Presenter: Brad Campbell
President, Conservation Law Foundation

Bradley M. Campbell is president of Conservation Law Foundation, which uses the law, science, and markets to achieve a healthy and thriving New England for all. Before leading CLF, his career holding polluters accountable included service as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, as a Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a senior advisor in the Clinton White House, and as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Presenter: Christa Big-Canoe
Director, Legal Service, Aboriginal Legal Services

Christa is the Legal Advocacy Director for Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS), a nonprofit organization that works with the families of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) navigate the legal system to find justice for their loved ones. In 2017, Christa was appointed Senior and then Lead Commission Council for Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Christa took a two and a half year leave from her work at ALS to lead thirteen Indigenous lawyers, twenty-six statement gatherers and a support team responsible for collecting truth from survivors and families. The testimonies from “truth finding gatherings” have created one of the largest evidentiary records in Canada.

PEOPLE PLANET PROFIT

Dr. Fiona Wilson, Phil Coupe, and Briana Warner lead a panel of creative, thoughtful and compassionate business leaders who are determined to harness the power of enterprise to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, while continuing to generate profit. These leaders will share their stories of how they use innovative approaches to achieve their vision of business as a force for good.

Presenter: Dr. Fiona Wilson
Director of the Sustainability Institute and UNH’s Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer

She is also the Executive Director of the Changemaker Collaborative, which offers innovative, pedagogy, applied research, and meaningful engagement opportunities for students and faculty from across the University of New Hampshire in ‘social innovation’ – the application of market based and cross-sector strategies to develop sustainable, scalable solutions to societal problems. As a join venture of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and the Carsey School of Public Policy, this interdisciplinary center contributes to the growing field of social innovation by working at the nexus of individual entrepreneurs and business models with public policy and system change in their research, teaching, and practice.

Presenter: Phil Coupe
Co-Founder of ReVision Energy

As co-founder and aspirational visionary, Phil focuses on leadership, business strategy, communications and the national security implications of over-reliance on finite fossil fuels. Prior to the launch of ReVision Energy, he worked as a journalist in Washington, DC before helping start up a business that twice made the Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America. To match growth with purpose, Phil immersed himself in the early movement toward corporate social responsibility and socially responsible business practices, leading the startup to win awards for its “Community Focus” program that invested in solutions to homelessness, at-risk youth and environmental degradation.

Presenter: Briana Warner
CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms

Briana has dedicated her life to doing well by doing good. She is passionate about our incredible home state of Maine and working with our partner farmers to help create a more resilient and thriving coast. As the CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, she and her team have forged a new path for seaweed aquaculture in the US by working with fishermen to grow kelp as a climate change adaptation strategy – and building national demand for that kelp. The ASF team and partner farmers now account for the majority of line-grown kelp grown in the US and are proving that a model that puts farmers, planet, and people first can drive an entirely new way of producing food. Bri has followed a mission-driven path that brought her to kelp – including serving several tours as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, starting and selling a wholesale bakery focused on employing newly resettled refugees, and creating the first Economic Development programming suite at the Maine-based Island Institute.

Helping Dorchester Students Learn with A Healing Forest

Codman Academy, a public charter school in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, has a long history of striving to be part of the solution to climate change. With two LEED certified buildings, rain and rooftop gardens and a strong emphasis on environmental justice it serves as a model. Adjacent to Codman’s upper school sat a 4,855 square foot triangular space, that because of its size and odd shape was not ripe for development. Codman’s co-founder Meg Campbell wanted the City of Boston to donate the land and asked pre-K teacher, Tasha Harris for ideas. Without hesitation – she responded, ‘let’s create a healing micro-forest because it is a natural way to get our bodies ready to learn’. To initiate the Japanese concept of “Shirin-yoku” or forest bathing, landscape designer Liz Luc Clowes created a soothing greenspace in inner city Boston. Characterized by thoughtful selection of materials, trees, and plants; a stone wall, which have long been fixtures of the New England landscape and a carefully chosen granite seating and a stone suitable for standing on, called the “Poet’s Pedestal.” Codman’s healing micro-forest has been described as a ‘spit of land carrying a big dream’.

Presenter: Liz Luc Clowes

Elizabeth is an innovative and analytical landscape designer with experience in creating sustainable and harmonized landscapes. Elizabeth utilizes blue green infrastructure techniques, and native plant knowledge for projects in both urban and suburban settings. She has broad experience in project management, urban design, and the application of nature-based solutions. An engaging speaker with experience holding public meetings, advocating for open space policy, and managing public lands, Liz enjoys conferring with homeowners, civil engineers, local officials, developers, and the public.

Presenter: Meg Campbell
Founder, Codman Academy

Meg is a poet, activist and founder of Codman Academy, an innovative Charter School in Dorchester, which is the only high school in the U.S. located within a community health center. Codman provides a transformative education and has one of the highest graduation rates in Boston. Meg also helped found the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound) A former elected member of the Boston School Committee, Meg continues to push for social and environmental justice in her beloved community and beyond.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Build a Business out of Saving the Planet – The TimberHP Story

On July 21, 2023 TimberHP opened the first wood-fiber manufacturing facility in the United States. It grew out of a partnership between two entrepreneurs—Matthew O’Malia, an award-winning architect with a reputation for developing high-performance, cost-competitive designs; and Dr. Joshua Henry, a materials chemist with years of experience elevating solutions to conserve energy and produce renewable energy.

In 2016, Henry and O’Malia saw an opportunity to combine their talents to address a major contradiction that faces the construction industry: we insulate to reduce the energy required to heat and cool our buildings, but we do it with materials highly dependent on or directly derived from fossil fuels. Neither Henry nor O’Malia could understand why wood fiber insulation— a performance-competitive, renewable, carbon-negative insulation that has been produced in Europe for two decades—was not being made in North America.

Through grant-funded research and collaborations with European wood fiber insulation producers, the duo found that their home state of Maine, where multiple paper mills have closed in recent years, could benefit from a new, high-value composite like wood fiber insulation that could make use of the same fiber stream that went into papermaking in the past. O’Malia and Henry formed GO Lab, Inc. and purchased the former UPM paper mill in Madison. In later 2021, the GO Lab team successfully raised the financing to renovate the mill and begin making the transition to becoming TimberHP, the first wood fiber insulation manufacturer in North America.

Presenter: Matthew O’Maila
Founder, GO Logic & TimberHP

Matt is Alnoba’s Architect and 2019 Alnoba CEO Environmental Leadership Award Recipient. He is GO Lab founder and partner, as well as principal architect and co-founder of GO Logic and OPAL, an award-winning architecture firm with a nationwide reputation for innovation and expertise in the design of high performance residential and institutional buildings. A leader in Passive House design in the U.S., and named to Architect magazine’s Architect 50 list in 2018, Matthew is a frequent speaker at sustainable design conferences in the U.S. and abroad.

Presenter: Joshua A. Henry
Co-Founder and President, Go Lab Inc.

Dr. Joshua Henry is a materials chemist. He received his BA in chemistry from Carleton College in 2000 and his PhD in physical chemistry from Cornell University in 2005. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s International Research Fellowship and, prior to cofounding GO Lab, was a faculty member in the chemistry departments of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, and the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine.

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