Author, Lead Researcher at Humane Leadership Institute and Founder, Local Innovation Works
Stephen brings extensive operational, technical, and leadership development experience to The Globally Conscious Leader®. He writes, teaches, and leads projects to support experienced and developing community leaders in adapting to climate change and recovering from climate disasters.
Stephen has built businesses in B2B distribution, marketing, and software development. He’s turned his success into supporting others as a consultant and leadership coach for the last 20 years. He’s worked with a wide variety of leaders on everything from pro formas with social entrepreneurs, exit processes with entrepreneurs, to go to market strategy with some of the world’s largest technology firms.
He is the author of Humane Leadership and has been published in The Economist. He graduated from UCLA with honors in Economic and Architectural History and studied business at UCI’s Merage School. He is an adjunct professor teaching a course on Humane Leadership as part of the values-based leadership micro credential at Southern Oregon University.
Stephen lives most of the year on a sailboat in the Mediterranean and hangs out with his children who have scattered across Europe and the US. Most of his adult life has been spent between southern California and the Puget Sound with a glorious decade or so in Southern Oregon.
