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Guided by our Holistic Context

We practice what we preach, embodying the principles of Holistic Management in all that we do to help us achieve the quality of life and future research base we so desire.

Statement of Purpose

To expand the Holistic Management framework into global consciousness with urgency as all life depends on it.

Quality of Life

How we want our lives to be

We are empowered and well equipped to create the future with an entrepreneurial bias for committed action in service to others. We are highly nurtured, challenged, balanced, energized, and supported by our diverse team and community. We have freedom and flexibility to operate within a clear set of givens. We are satisfied with and inspired by the global impact of our work, regenerating life and land and enhancing people’s lives. We are achieving our purpose through understanding, honesty, inclusion, creativity, an abundance mentality, and intelligent collaboration. We are present, grateful, inspiring, joyful, and prosperous, and we learn how to work and live better every day.
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Future Resource Base (Environment)

How the landscapes we influence must appear far into the future

“Healthy functioning ecosystem processes, rich biological diversity, abundant wildlife, well-covered living soils rich in organic matter, streams and rivers running clean and full of life, healthy forests and oceans, and clean air.”

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Future Resource Base (Behavior)

How we must behave to ensure support from those in our resource base

“We lead by example through authentic practice. We adhere to and nurture a culture of committed action, integrity, accountability, entrepreneurship, and intelligent collaboration. We are an open-minded learning community that benefits from disruption. We invite harmony and healing, and embrace empathy, transparency, and respect in our communications and actions, innovation and inclusion in our programs and strategies, competence and agility in executing our work, and support for each other and those we serve and interact with. We remain humble, courageous, disciplined, self-motivated, and results-oriented.”

Our Team

The Savory Ecosystem

What began as the Savory Institute has evolved over the years into an ecosystem of interconnected programs and initiatives, all sharing the DNA of Holistic Management and working to regenerate our global grasslands.

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Staff

Allan Savory

Co-Founder & President

Daniela Ibarra-Howell

Co-Founder & CEO

Jody Butterfield

Co-Founder & Chief Curator

Jim Snyder

CFO

Byron Shelton

Sr. Programs Director

Abbey Kingdon Smith

Network Coordinator

Bobby Gill

Director of Development & Communications

Kelsey Kerston

EOV Program Lead

Paige Yungstrom

Director of Events & Production, EA to CEO

Virginie Pointeau

Projects Team

Nick Sharpe

Projects Team

Simon Goodall

Projects Team

Sarah Gleason

EOV Project Director

Ross Hostetter

Global Counsel

Board Of Directors

Allan Savory

Savory

Jody Butterfield

Savory

Daniela Ibarra-Howell

Savory

John Fullerton

Capital institute

Jason Knoll

Being Imaginal

EOV Science Advisors

Pablo Borrelli

Ovis XXI

Dr. Pablo Gregorini

Lincoln University

Dr. Hannah Gosnell

Oregon State University

Dr. Isabella De Faria Maciel

Noble Research Institute

Dr. Kris Nichols

Food, Water, & Wellness Fdn.

Savory Advisory circle

Tre Cates

nRhythm

Taylor Collins

Roam Ranch

Durukan Dudu

Anatolian Grasslands

Will Harris

White Oak Pastures

David Haynes

rePlant Capital

Mimi Hillenbrand

777 Bison Ranch

Seth Itzkan

Soil4Climate

Victoria Keziah

Dentsu Good

Hunter Lovins

Natural Capitalism Solutions

Diana Rodgers

Sustainable Dish

Woody Tasch

Slow Money

savory Foundation Advisors

Carolina Jansink

Cascading Sustainability

Dr. Claudine Perlet

Business Reinvented

Debbie Reed

Ecosystem Services Markets Consortium

Dr. Helen Crowley

Pollination

Heidi Lender

CAMPO

Katy Grennier

DSIL Global

Marcela Navarro

Projectx Global

Marta Caballero

Cultivo

Megan Reilly Cayten

Catrinka

Søren Stig

Home.Earth

Victoria Keziah

Dentsu Good

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Allan Savory

Founder & President

Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe.

In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.

He served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwe’s civil war and became the leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued to work with land managers through his consulting business. The growth of that business, a desire to assist many more people and the need for furthering his work led him to continue its development in the nonprofit world.

In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa.

In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support. The Africa Centre became the first of the Savory Institute’s locally led and managed Hubs.

Savory’s book, Holistic Management, Third Edition: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment (Island Press, 2016), describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today.

In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia’s International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 9 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time.

Daniela Ibarra-Howell

Co-Founder & CEO

A native Argentinean, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Daniela is an agronomist by profession and holds a MS in Natural Resource Management and Economics. With over 25 years of international experience in ranching, Holistic Management, and collaborative ecosystem restoration programs, Daniela co founded with Allan Savory and other colleagues the Savory Institute in 2009, and became its CEO in 2011. Since then she has led her team in the design and implementation of a revolutionary entrepreneurial, self-sustaining global impact strategy for large-scale restoration of grasslands through Holistic Management to tackle global food and water security, and climate change issues.

She has served as an advisor to sustainability initiatives such as UN Global Compact, UN Rio+20 informal-informals, Solidaridad’s Farmers Support Program (FSP), Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), Sustainable Food Lab, Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), and others.

She holds executive degrees in Advanced Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from University Notre Dame.

Before her involvement with the Savory Institute, Daniela co-founded Del Cerro LLC, a land management and consulting firm and served as its Director for seventeen years. During that time she co managed the family’s 9,000-acre ranch in western Colorado, increasing its productivity by 300%. In the off-season she and her husband led educational ranch tours around the world.

All along she worked closely with Allan Savory, teaching and consulting in many continents, having completed training in Holistic Management with Savory himself in 1996, when she became a certified educator.

Earlier in her career she served as a Resource Policy Analyst for the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture, the Under-secretariat Environmental Policy, and the National Commission for Desertification in Patagonia (CONADEPA); and served as a consultant to the Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), and the UN on agricultural and land restoration policies.

An advocate of entrepreneurial approaches to tackle global problems, she is a co-founder and member of Holistic Holdings International Inc. and Grasslands LLC.

An avid traveler, Daniela enjoys exploring with her family the world’s cultures and countryside. Additionally she loves to follow her two daughters in their horse jumping, ballet, and gymnastics performances.

Jody Butterfield

Co-Founder & Chief Curator

Jody has worked over the last 30 years to communicate the story of Holistic Management, initially as a freelance writer and then as a collaborator with husband Allan Savory on books, articles and papers, including the basic text still in use today—Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore our Environment (Third Edition, 2017). As Chief Curator, she ensures that the content of Savory publications and curriculum stays true to Holistic Management principles, even as it expands to incorporate new countries, cultures, and contexts.

In 2009, Jody landed the opportunity to fulfill a decades’ long dream to bring Holistic Management to pastoral communities in Africa with a multi-year grant from the US Agency for International Development. Working with training professionals and the staff of the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM)—which Jody and Allan founded in 1992 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe—she developed methods and materials for introducing pastoral communities to Holistic Land & Livestock Management. ACHM has since trained over 100 community facilitators from Southern Africa who are proving increasingly successful at empowering communities to restore their land through Holistic Planned Grazing.

Jody was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received a BA in Journalism and an MA in American Studies from the University of Utah following a year of classwork, writing and lecturing at the Polytechnic of Central London (U.K.). From 1975–1983 she worked as a freelance writer, editor and photographer, based in The Netherlands, Washington, DC, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she met Allan in 1979.

Jim Snyder

CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

Jim is an entrepreneur and finance professional whose career has included senior management positions within start-ups, spin-offs and the national governing body for the fastest growing team sport in America. Consistent creativity and problem solving has allowed Jim to be a major contributor to the rapid growth of each of his prior organizations.

Before joining Savory, Jim was CFO and Interim CEO of USA Rugby. During his time at USA Rugby, Jim directed all finance and accounting aspects of the organization during a period of record growth. Prior to USA Rugby, Jim was Founder and President of a company working with commercial fleets to help them reduce their overall emissions impact by finding creative ways to switch their on-highway and off-highway vehicles to alternative fuels.

Jim began his career with Arthur Andersen in their New York City office prior to moving to Colorado. Jim holds a BA from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Colorado. He lives in Arvada with his wife Rosana, his son Kellan and Daughter Marlowe. Jim is an avid skier, mountain biker, runner, and motorcyclist.

Byron Shelton

Senior Program Director

Byron is the Senior Program Director for the Savory Institute. His role involves providing training in Holistic Management for the worldwide network of Savory Institute Hubs and Accredited Professionals. He also provides farm and ranch management consulting for Savory Institute. Byron is a Savory Institute Master Field Professional.

Byron is the founder and managing member of a private consulting firm providing facilitation and training in whole farm planning using Holistic Management™ decision-making, financial planning, ecosystem processes management, planned grazing, ecological monitoring, land planning, policy analysis and development processes, and low stress animal handling in agricultural, natural resource, business, family, and community settings. He has worked with large and small beef and dairy operations as well as with a wide range of other livestock and crop enterprises across North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Mideast.

Byron is the founder and managing member of a private land management company producing and marketing 100% grass-fed and grass-finished, land-improving, beyond-organic beef. He has managed organic and non-organic ranches and farms in Colorado, New Mexico, and Virginia. Grass-based enterprises managed include cattle, veal, bison, sheep, hog, broiler, layer, and turkey. Other enterprises managed include orchard, market garden, draft show horse, hay, guest ranch, horse, and adventure youth/family camp enterprises.

Byron served as a founding Board Member of the Central Colorado Food Shed Alliance, Faculty Innovator Coordinator in Instructional Technology for Colorado Mountain College, Adjunct Instructor of Agriculture/Natural Resource Economics at Colorado Mountain College, Career/job Skills Instructor for the Colorado Correctional Alternative Program, President and Board Member of the Colorado Branch of Holistic Management, Independent Construction Contractor, Camp/Guest Ranch Director, and as a High School Vocational Agriculture Instructor and FFA and Young Farmer Advisor in Colorado.

Byron has an A.A.S. Degree in Outdoor Education from Colorado Mountain College, a B.S. Degree in Vocational Agriculture Education from Colorado State University, and a M.E. Degree in Instructional Technology from Lesley University.

Abbey Kingdon

Network coordinator

Abbey serves as the Savory Global Network Coordinator. She is also an owner and operator of UVE — a Savory Network Hub serving the West Coast and the Intermountain West that is headquartered in Fort Bidwell, California.

She spent time in South Africa living with families on holistically managed cattle farms after graduating magna cum laude from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a degree in animal science and a focus in communications and ethnic studies. She attended graduate school at the University of Nevada, Reno where she received a master’s degree in interactive journalism.

She grew up on a commercial cattle ranch in Indian Valley, in Plumas County, California. Her loving, large, loud family has lived in the valley for seven generations. Family is a source of joy for her. Her goal in life is to create a beautiful world for her daughter, Maezy, and son Sam, which is why she is working to advance Holistic Management.

Living in the rural community of Surprise Valley, California and being involved in a global organization is a dream come true. Abbey serves on the Surprise Valley Education Foundation board, Modoc Harvest board, and is the Think Regeneration board president. She enjoys doing yoga, gardening, running trails and hiking with her children. She loves that her work with the Savory Institute and Savory Global Network allows her to travel the world with her children to beautiful (with rich health and biodiversity) places on Earth, and be part of a global community (that feels more like a family) working to regenerate land and communities through Holistic Management.

Bobby Gill

Director of Development & Communications

As Director of Development & Communications for the Savory Institute, Bobby manages marketing, strategic communications, online giving strategy, and donor relationships. A reformed biomedical engineer turned systems thinker, his work explores the intersectionality of personal and planetary health, the patterns and relationships that underpin their emergence, and the ways in which we can distill the complexities of these issues to new audiences.

His 2020 TEDx talk, “It’s Not the Cow, It’s the How”, has been widely received by audiences around the world for synthesizing the complexities of proper grassland management into a simple and accessible call-to-action.

Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, he worked for 7 years as a lead scientific reviewer for the US Food & Drug Administration. While designing clinical trials and evaluating the safety and effectiveness of cardiovascular devices, he honed his skills analyzing and critiquing scientific studies of biological systems. This evolved into studies on nutrition, movement, and regenerative agriculture, and ultimately an awareness that the mechanistic thinking of his biomedical background needed to evolve into a whole systems approach.

Never one to pass up an outdoor experience, Bobby was previously a skydiving instructor and an elite-level ultramarathon runner. He and his family now live in Denver, Colorado – perfectly situated between the Rocky Mountains and shortgrass prairie.

Kelsey Kerston

EOV Program & Operations Lead

Kelsey Kerston is the main point of contact for the Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) program, including ongoing verification services and protocol evolution, pilot projects, and EOV training and onboarding.

Raised in rural Northern California, Kelsey has had a lifetime love for rural communities and natural systems. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Business with a minor in Environmental Studies. In addition to first hand experience managing commercial poultry, livestock, orchard and row crop operations, Kelsey has travelled extensively to learn from holistic managers and Hubs around the world. She joins the team as a trained Accredited Professional with the Savory Institute.

Prior to her work at SI, she honed a background of certification management, including oversight of the organic livestock and grass-fed certification programs for North America’s largest organic certifier.

Paige Yungstrom

Director of Events & Production, E.A. to CEO

A Boulder native, Paige brings more than 25 years in virtual production, events management, executive administration, sustainability leadership, sales & marketing, and human resources. A passionate professional and “Jill of all trades,” she’s garnered awards for her dedication and experience.

Previously, Paige worked in corporate finance, where she founded and managed an award-winning team for sustainability, wellness and philanthropic efforts. Her team helped encourage sustainable practices at work and at home, promoting healthy activity through good eating and exercise and provided philanthropic opportunities. Paige is also the Founder and Owner of a handmade, artisan soap company called Boulder Native Soap Company and donates a portion of proceeds to the Savory Institute.

Paige earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University in Human Development and Family Studies. She has an extensive volunteer background working with such companies as The Boulder Chamber, Community Food Share, United Way, Crossroads Cares Food Bank and Meals on Wheels. Paige thrives when she knows she’s making a positive difference in others’ lives and for upcoming generations. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her loving husband and incredible son, cooking and hosting events, dancing, going to outdoor concerts, photography and enjoying the endless natural beauty and outdoor activities that incomparable Colorado has to offer.

Virginie Pointeau

Proposal Management, Large-Scale Projects Team

Virginie works as part of Savory’s large-scale project implementation team. Her primary focus areas are proposal development and project management for global projects.

Before joining Savory, she spent over two decades immersed in the world of small, gritty nonprofits, including, most recently, over 10 years in the US Southwest with a specific focus on land and soil health, natural resource conservation, and regenerative agriculture. Previously, she dedicated a decade to wilderness and experiential education through Outward Bound, primarily in the expansive canoe wilderness of northern Minnesota and in service to “whole human” growth through immersive wilderness travel.

Originally from Bretagne, France, Virginie immigrated to the US with her family as a young girl. She earned her MS in Forestry from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She now lives in Santa Fe with her partner and 2 cats, always on the lookout for the next adventure on a bike, in a canoe, or wherever her work may send her.

Nick Sharpe

Director of Global Projects, Large-Scale Projects Team

Nicholas (Nick) is Director of Global Projects for Savory’s large-scale projects team and oversees operations, implementation, and multinational capacity-building initiatives.

He brings to the role over 20 years experience having lived and worked on 5 continents in a wide range of professional contexts, including international development aid, the private sector and intergovernmental agencies.

Before joining the Savory Institute, he was an International Consultant for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation as a Rangeland Management and Project Design Expert, primarily focused on projects in Central and Sub-Saharan África, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Today, he is based in Extremadura, Spain where he runs a small olive and sheep farm in his spare time.

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Simon Goodall

EOV Platform Technical Lead & Large-Scale Projects Team

Simon works both as the EOV Platform Technical Lead and as a member of Savory’s large-scale projects implementation team.

With a degree in Farm Management, 27+ years of hands-on experience in managing large sheep, cattle and deer stations, in both Argentina and New Zealand, his 4+ years of experience in Holistic Management consulting in Italy and in Egypt and extensive lifelong travelling around the world both by land and by sea allow him a unique insight into the diverse ecoregions, different production systems and unique cultural landscapes. 

He is well-versed in technology, computer systems and GIS systems providing the capacity to lead and adapt the current data platform to the ever-changing requirements of a growing organization.

You can normally find Simon in Northern Italy together with his wife and three daughters unless he is away in the field on a Savory project doing EOV Monitoring or HM Training.

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Sarah Gleason

EOV Project Director

With a background spanning Whole Foods Market, Zuke’s Natural Pet Foods, and the United States Congress, Sarah initially joined the Savory Institute team in 2015 as the Director of Marketing and Communications, combining her professional expertise and dedication to regenerative agriculture.

During her tenure at the Savory Institute, Sarah gained invaluable experience traveling the world and collaborating with diverse producers, witnessing firsthand the transformative power of Holistic Management in various contexts. In 2016, she took her commitment to the land one step further by establishing Gleason Bison, a holistically managed, grass-fed bison operation dedicated to serving the community, regenerating the environment in southwest Colorado. Gleason Bison produces locally and nationally sold 100% grassfed bison meat as well as operates a cow-calf breeding program.

In 2023, Sarah returned to the Savory team as the EOV Project Director, bringing her extensive knowledge and experience to oversee the implementation and project management of the Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) methodology. Her unique perspective as both a producer and a former consumer marketer enables her to bring a fresh and insightful approach to her work. Sarah thrives in operationalizing programs that support producer livelihoods and promote ecosystem health with exceptional precision. Her deep appreciation for the environment, cultivated through her upbringing in the mountains of Colorado, continues to fuel her dedication to being a champion for regenerative agriculture. As a first-generation bison rancher, Sarah embodies the principles she advocates for, demonstrating the remarkable synergy between regenerative outcomes on the land and successful ranching. With her combined expertise in marketing, operations, and ranching, Sarah is a dynamic force in the field of regenerative agriculture, committed to driving positive change for the industry, the environment, and the community she serves.
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Ross Hostetter

Global Counsel

Ross is Savory’s Global Counsel, and has been advising Savory for over 15 years. Ross brings 40 years of legal and business experience to the group, where he is responsible for managing the increasingly complex web of interconnecting agreements that bind Savory together as a global force in the regeneration of the earth. A life-long constant for Ross has been his passion for the land, being in nature, and farming. He seeks win-win solutions for all of our partners around the globe.

John Fullerton

Founder & President, Capital Institute

John Fullerton is an unconventional economist, impact investor, writer, and some have said philosopher. Building on and integrating the work of many, he is the architect of Regenerative Economics, first conceived in his 2015 booklet, “Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Patterns and Principles Will Shape the New Economy.”

After a successful 20-year career on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director of what he calls “the old JPMorgan,” John listened to a persistent inner voice and walked away in 2001 with no plan but many questions. A few months later he experienced 9-11 first hand. The questions crystalized into his life’s work with the creation of the Capital Institute in 2010 where his work reflects the rising evolutionary shift in consciousness from Modern Age thinking to Integral Age thinking. Capital Institute is dedicated to the bold reimagination of economics and finance in service to life. Guided by the universal patterns and principles that describe how all healthy living systems that sustain themselves in the real world actually work, the promise of Regenerative Economics and Finance is to unlock the profound and presently unseen potential that is the source of our future prosperity and the reason for hope in our troubled times.

During his Wall Street career, John managed numerous capital markets and derivatives businesses around the globe and was JPMorgan’s Oversight Committee Representative that managed the rescue of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and finally was Chief Investment Officer for Lab Morgan before retiring from the firm. A committed impact investor, John is the co-founder and Chairman of New Day Enterprises, PBC, the co-founder of Grasslands, LLC, and a board member of First Crop, and the Savory Institute. He is an advisor to numerous sustainability initiatives, and is a member of the Club of Rome. John speaks internationally to public audiences and universities, and writes a monthly blog, The Future of Finance.
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Jason Knoll

Founder, Being Imaginal

Jason offers a unique combination of visionary insight and grounded skill. He is a versatile leader with a proven career focus on inspiring the conditions for peak performance. Jason brings 30+ years’ experience in organizational leadership, strategic planning, business development, and financial analysis. He possesses strong acumen in frameworks and methodologies that empower organizations to move consciously from conceptualization to implementation. Jason’s experience spans multiple industries and organizations ranging from pure startup to multinational corporations and nonprofits. His current endeavors focus on building more regenerative lives, organizations and communities.

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Ryan White

EOV Global Quality Assurance

Ryan has 20 years of professional work in grassland restoration and ecological accounting projects for ranches, farms, NGOs, and government agencies. While working on a profitable and ecologically prosperous 50,000-acre cattle operation, he founded Snaplands LLC in 2017 to focus on better serving land managers like himself at the time.

Snaplands is a team of land managers and ecological accountants helping land stewards create a profitable path to and proof of land restoration. This is done through using scientific tools to gather information at a landscape scale and transform this into the best actionable knowledge for the client.

His team uses the latest in holistic biogeochemical evaluation methods, supporting clients so they can make improvements that impact production, enable them to meet ecological objectives, and then further communicate their progress and success. Their work has influenced over a million acres of grasslands and savannas in the United States and New Zealand.

Ryan holds a MS in Greenhouse Gas Management and Accounting from Colorado State University, as well as a BA in Environmental Studies and Fine Art from Principia College. He enjoys learning the challenges and potential, of his clients to provide feedback mechanisms for them to have the knowledge to meet their goals. He has worked with some of the largest landowners and managers in the United States—from sea level to 13,000 feet in elevation, from desert to subtropical environments. As Master Hub Verifiers, enjoys the opportunity to train and assist land managers as well as consult in the development of rangeland monitoring programs such the Savory’s holistic monitoring program.

Ryan most enjoys raising four children with his wife Bethany and introducing them to the land managers and rangelands they serve. In his spare time as an artist, he also loves painting plein air artworks of the farms, ranches, and wildlife he works.
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Skyler Smith

EOV Global Quality Assurance

Skyler Smith is a native of Denver, Colorado and works in botany and horticulture specializing in native plants and ecosystem restoration. He currently works as a horticulturalist for the city and county of Denver while also performing botanical and ecological monitoring of rangelands across the western United States. He is a passionate advocate of native plants for their beauty, sustainability, and ecosystem function and is constantly working to reincorporate them into landscapes across the West and beyond.

An avid world traveler, Skyler has been to 37 countries and loves to experience different cultures and landscapes. He lived and performed research in Tanzania, studying local agricultural practices and forest regeneration on the island of Pemba, an experience which strengthened his dedication to sustainable food production and natural resource use at home in the US.

Growing up in Colorado, Skyler developed a love of the outdoors at an early age. He spent his formative years hiking, biking, backpacking and skiing in the Rocky Mountains while raising poultry and gardening at home. He has degrees in both conservation biology and music performance and continues to incorporate creativity and a scientific approach to his personal and professional life.
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Crista Derry

EOV Global Quality Assurance

Crista first heard the term regenerative agriculture while she was completing her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at Michigan State University. She worked for Dr. Jason Rowntree at the Lake City AgBioResearch Center where she was first exposed to Holistic Management. After receiving her master’s degree in Animal Physiology from WVU Crista returned to MSU and Dr. Rowntree’s lab. Since 2017, she has been heavily involved in producer outreach with Dr. Matt Raven that includes EOV monitoring and teaching the Holistic Management framework.

While college may have been the first time Crista heard the words regenerative agriculture it has been in her blood from the start. Growing up on a multispecies farm in Northern Michigan, the goal laid out by her grandfather has always been land improvement for future generations. Crista is now raising the fifth generation of land stewards with her husband Mike on that same family farm. She is also actively involved in her county 4-H where she hopes to instill a love of agriculture. In her spare time you can find Crista at a country concert or curled up on the couch eating oreos watching Food Network.

Andrea Malmberg

EOV Support Team, EOV Master Verifier, Master Field Professional

Andrea is a caretaker of livestock who help her restore land and its water in northeastern Oregon. This place, Bunchgrass Land and Livestock, which she and her husband steward serves as UVE’s learning site. Andrea has lived most of her life on the land with livestock and authentic food in the western United States. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Master of Science in Natural Resource Sciences from Washington State University. In 2004, after completing my studies in Zimbabwe and Argentina, she became an accredited professional in Holistic Management and is a Master Field Professional and Ecological Outcome Verifier with the Savory Institute. Seeing the need to bring the tools of human flourishing to rural communities, she received a Master in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As a result, she has created a platform, LifeEnergy.Guide that people throughout the world are using to manage and monitor their quality of life as defined within their Holistic Context.

In many different capacities, she has facilitated and witnessed people making profound holistic decisions as individuals, families, and groups for nearly thirty years. She has run several regenerative land-based enterprises, always with the purpose of honing her skills to enhance the well-being of people, animals, and our planet, now and into the future.

Andrea delights in ranching, homesteading, conviviality, vibrant philosophical discussions, studying human behavior, and finding purpose in being civically active, participating in the creation of healthy communities, and restoring land.

Jackie Eshelman

EOV Support Team, EOV Master Verifier

Exploring the outdoors barefoot in rural Pennsylvania’s Amish Country, Jackie was blessed to experience farming in some of its simplest forms. This perspective hangs in her memory and nudges her to envision a future where peoples’ connection to Land is felt deeply. Oregon has been Jackie’s home for the past 20 years and is where her personal journey in regenerative agriculture began in 2013 when she was teaching ecological monitoring (described as science and math in the field) for a local Expeditionary Learning middle school located in Bend.

A lifelong learner, Jackie has always focused on developing the skills and knowledge that would bring herself and others closer to the land. Graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Adventure Leadership Education from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University (OSU), Jackie has spent most of her life working with people in the natural world. In 2017, she earned her Permaculture Design Certificate through OSU, and in 2019, became an Accredited Professional Educator with the Savory Institute. Jackie is currently accredited as a Savory Field Professional.

Through a lifetime of outdoor experience, Jackie brings fresh eyes to landscapes as she leads the Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV™) program for UVE. As an accredited EOV Master Verifier, she finds herself in the privileged position of traveling the Pacific and Intermountain West of the US training aspiring EOV Monitors and Hub Verifiers, visiting with land stewards of every kind, and monitoring a vast range of landscapes and Ecoregions. Growing relationships, whole-hearted empathy, and deep care for Land and People are at the core of her work. Jackie meets all land stewards where they are, at any stage in their regenerative journey, and works to inspire holistic decisions at the soil surface.

Pablo Borrelli

Ovis 21

Pablo Borrelli was born and raised in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. He graduated as an agronomist from Mar del Plata National University.

During the 80s, he returned to Rio Gallegos where he worked as a research fellow and consultant, focusing on combating desertification in Patagonian grasslands. His work involved advising local producers on effective grassland management strategies.

In the 90s, Pablo served as the Research Station Director at INTA (National Institute for Agricultural Technology). In the early 2000s, he held a position at the National Agriculture Secretary, where he played a key role in mentoring the development of a national sheep policy.

In 2003, Pablo co-founded Ovis 21 alongside Ricardo Fenton. Ovis 21 is dedicated to promoting a culture of grassland regeneration, ensuring that the land can sustain people, businesses, and communities.

With Ovis 21, Pablo has been instrumental in introducing groundbreaking innovations to the sheep sector in Patagonia. These include the Multi-Purpose Merino breed, the Sustainable Wool chain, and the implementation of Holistic Management practices.

Pablo is recognized as a Holistic Management Educator and serves as the leader of the Argentinian SI Hub. As an educator, he has worked with over 50 farms and trained more than 1000 Holistic Management practitioners across Argentina, Spain, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Costa Rica.

In 2011, Pablo developed the Grassland Regeneration and Sustainable Standard (GRASS) in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. The GRASS standard has certified nearly 1.3 million hectares of land in Patagonia and has evolved into the EOV standard with contributions from Michigan State University and experienced professionals in the field associated with the Savory Institute.
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Pablo Gregorini, PhD

Lincoln University

Pablo Gregorini is Professor of Livestock Production at Lincoln University, Director of the Lincoln University Pastoral Livestock Production Lab, and Head of the Lincoln University Centre of Excellence for Designing Future Productive Landscapes. Internationally, he chairs the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the Symposium of Nutrition of Herbivores, and serve in the International Scientific Committee for farm systems design. His research focus is on nutrition, foraging ecology and grazing management of ruminants in different grasslands and rangelands of the world, as well as how phytochemistry and culture once linked the palates of humans and herbivores with soil, plants and landscapes.

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Hannah Gosnell, PhD

Oregon State University

Hannah Gosnell is a Professor of Geography at Oregon State University who studies agricultural landscape change, collaborative conservation, climate change, and environmental governance in the context of rural working landscapes. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of rangeland management from a social-ecological systems perspective. She is particularly interested in the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the transition to regenerative agriculture and the implications for landowners’ capacity to adapt to social, economic and environmental change. Hannah earned her MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BA from Brown University.

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Isabella Maciel, PhD

Noble Research Institute

Dr. Isabella Maciel serves as a Regenerative Systems Research Manager at Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Dr. Maciel serves as co-Director of the Noble hosted $19.2M funded research project entitled, “Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Pasture and Rangeland Soil Health and its Drivers”. Her research focus has been on building a sustainable meat production system. Her goal as a researcher is to continue looking for solutions to produce sustainable meat, improve livestock production and provide high-quality food for the growing population. Researching alternatives to increase production in a sustainable manner, in addition to preserving the environment may, in the future, contribute to reducing hunger in the world.

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Kris Nichols, PhD

MyLand

Dr. Kris Nichols is a leader in the movement to regenerate soils for healthy soil, crops, food, people and a planet. She is currently the founder and principal scientist of KRIS Systems Education & Consultation and Research Director with MyLand Company Inc. She is a Soil Microbiologist with over 25 years of research experience studying arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Kris builds upon a soil health foundation to identify biological methods for agricultural production and tools and practices to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Throughout her career, she has given over 250 invited presentations to a wide variety of audiences, authored or co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, been cited or interviewed for more than 50 magazine or newspaper articles, highlighted in five books, and has numerous videos on-line. Dr. Nichols was the Chief Scientist at Rodale Institute for over three years. Prior to joining Rodale Institute, Dr. Nichols was a Research (Soil) Microbiologist with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in North Dakota for 11 years and a Biological Laboratory Technician with ARS in Beltsville, MD for 3 years. Kris received Bachelor of Science degrees in Plant Biology and in Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Minnesota in 1995, a Master’s degree in Environmental Microbiology from West Virginia University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of Maryland in 2003. Kris grew up on a 640-acre grain farm in SW Minnesota which is still managed by her father, Jim Nichols who was a former State Senator and Commissioner of Agriculture.

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Tre' Cates

nRhythm

Tre’ Cates, Founding Partner of nRhythm, has over 25 years of senior-level experience as an executive and consultant in a variety of industries on six continents and 35+ countries. He has worked directly with senior executives at many Fortune 1000 organizations in addition to multi-stakeholder cross-sector projects that involve government, communities, industry and NGOs. His industry experience is very diverse from the development of non-profit community organizations, a publicly-traded technology company, to a multi-national organization working in 20+ countries. One of his companies was recognized twice as one of the fastest growing companies in the US on the INC 500 list. He has won several top individual awards in the state of Colorado including Entrepreneur of Distinction in Boulder, CO and two-time semi-finalist of Colorado’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

With the creation of nRhythm, Tre’ focused his attention on the development of a methodology and approach that brings more life to organizations and institutions. He was pivotal in the development of the underlying framework and process used to support an institution’s journey to a regenerative management and operational paradigm. Since its inception, nRhythm has provided educational and operational support to thousands of individuals and organizations who are interested in the exploration of regenerative approaches.

He is active in his community by serving on the board of several companies including multiple non-profits. Tré has a BA in Philosophy from Ouachita Baptist University and a MA in Theology from Southwestern seminary. He has been married for over 30 years and has two sons (28 & 26).

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Taylor Collins

Force of Nature, ROAM Ranch

Taylor Collins is Co-Founder at Force of Nature, a regeneratively sourced meat company based in Austin, TX and land steward at ROAM Ranch.

 

Taylor’s roots run deep in the natural food community. Previously, as Co-Founder of EPIC Provisions, Taylor spent much of the last decade studying regenerative agriculture at ranches all over the world. Through this education, Force of Nature was founded with the intention to accelerate the creation of a global regenerative supply network. Force of Nature works in partnership with land stewards, ranchers, and farmers committed to creating a positive return on the planet.

 

Currently Taylor spends the majority of his time on ROAM Ranch, a 900 acre multi-species regenerative ecosystem in which soil-building practices are integrated into every aspect of land management. In nature’s image, the promotion of biodiversity is a key feature of the ranch, and for this reason, Taylor and his family raise bison, ducks, chickens, turkeys, geese, and intentionally creates habitat for both native and migratory species to co-create on this landscape.

 

As a living demonstration to the potential of regenerative land management, ROAM Ranch hosts thousands of guests from all over the country annually. With a focus on connecting consumers to the land on which we depend, ROAM Ranch and Force of Nature hope to amplify regenerative practices within the next generation of land stewards as well as those currently managing land conventionally. When not wrangling bison, Taylor enjoys spending time outdoors with his family, trail running, cycling, and planting trees.

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Durukan Dudu

Anatolian Grasslands

Born in 1985, Istanbul. Hands-on working for “Age of Regeneration” since early 20’s. Co-founded Anatolian Grasslands in Turkey, one of the first global hubs of Savory Institute. Social entrepreneur (Ashoka Fellow since 2017), international consultant & trainer as Savory Master Field Professional for UN/FAO and other clients in over 10 countries so far in Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia. Co-founder of SafiMera, Turkey’s first regenerative & 100% grassfed brand. Also running various projects in Europe on my Swedish company.

Residing in Sweden & Turkey.

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Will Harris

White Oak Pastures

Will Harris is a fourth-generation cattleman, who tends the same land that his great-grandfather settled in 1866. Born and raised at White Oak Pastures, Will left home to attend the University of Georgia’s School of Agriculture, where he was trained in the industrial farming methods that had taken hold after World War II. Will graduated in 1976 and returned to Bluffton where he and his father continued to raise cattle using pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics. They also fed their herd a high-carbohydrate diet of corn and soy.

These tools did a fantastic job of taking the cost out of the system, but in the mid-1990s Will became disenchanted with the excesses of these industrialized methods. They had created a monoculture for their cattle, and, as Will says, “nature abhors a monoculture.” In 1995, Will made the audacious decision to return to the farming methods his great-grandfather had used 130 years before.

Since Will has successfully implemented these changes, he has been recognized all over the world as a leader in humane animal husbandry and environmental sustainability. Will is the immediate past President of the Board of Directors of Georgia Organics. He is the Beef Director of the American Grassfed Association and was selected 2011 Business Person of the year for Georgia by the Small Business Administration.

Will lives in his family home on the property with his wife Yvonne. He is the proud father of three daughters, Jessi, Jenni, and Jodi. His favorite place in the world to be is out in pastures, where he likes to have a big coffee at sunrise and a 750ml glass of wine at sunset.

Dave Haynes

rePlant Capital

Dave Haynes is co-founder of rePlant Capital, a new impact investment group focusing on soil health and regenerative transition at the farm level. He served as Managing Director for Greenmont Capital Partners II since its inception in 2008. He also serves on the board of Save The Waves, a non-profit organization in California, dedicated to protecting imperiled coastlines and surf locations around the world.

Prior to joining Greenmont Capital, Dave served as CEO of a number of early stage start-ups as well as Entrepreneur in Residence at Boulder Ventures. Early in his career, Dave worked in San Francisco for a variety of financial institutions including Volpe Welty & Co., Raymond James Financial and Prudential Securities. In 1996, Dave founded AudioBase, Inc., a streaming media company located in Sausalito, CA. He served as Chairman and CEO throughout his tenure during which he raised $30 million from strategic and financial investors. Dave sold AudioBase in 2002. Dave is a passionate musician and athlete and tries his best to weave those activities into a daily routine.
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Mimi Hillenbrand

777 Bison Ranch

Mimi Hillenbrand has been running the 777 Ranch for the family for 15 years and has worked on the ranch since she was a kid. It has always been her dream to run a ranch in the West. She has always had a passion for the land and all that lives there.

Mimi completed her undergraduate studies at The University of Montana and received a BS in Wildlife Biology and received her Master’s in Agricultural Sciences from Colorado State University.

She has studied Holistic Management and has been practicing it for over 30 years. Mimi has the best outdoor office, works with amazing people, and loves the bison and land, which teach her something new every day.
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Seth Itzkan

Soil4Climate

Seth Itzkan is Co-founder and Codirector of Soil4Climate. He is an environmental futurist investigating innovative means of land management that offer hope for reversing global warming. He is a TEDx speaker on restoring grasslands and with planned grazing. He has consulted for The Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the US Bureau of the Census. He is a graduate of Tufts University, College of Engineering and the Studies of the Future Program at University of Houston-Clear Lake. His private consultancy is Planet-TECH Associates.

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Victoria Keziah

Dentsu Good

Victoria Kindred Keziah has enjoyed a thirty year consulting career merging the disciplines of strategy and sustainability, serving in leadership roles at consulting firms, as well as developing and launching the Land to Market program at Savory Institute, a ground-breaking regenerative sourcing solution for food and fashion products.

Earlier in her career Victoria co-founded, built and later sold Kindred Keziah Inc., a strategy and innovation consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients. Over the course of her career Victoria has worked with numerous multinational corporations including Kering, Nestle, Hormel, Ford, Microsoft and General Mills. Victoria received her B.A. from Colgate University, and her M.Sc. in Biomimicry from ASU.

She serves on the Board of Visitors of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and on the Advisory Board for both the Savory Institute and the Savory Foundation.
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Hunter Lovins

Natural Capitalism Solutions

L. Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably.

A professor of sustainable business management at Bard MBA, and Fordham University, Hunter teaches entrepreneuring and coaches social enterprises around the world. A Managing Partner of NOW Partners, she is also Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing firm. A board member of Aquion and several non-profits, she has worked in energy, regenerative agriculture, climate policy, sustainable development and resilience for 55 years.

A consultant to industries including International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and Clif Bar, Hunter has briefed heads of state, the UN, and the US Congress, leaders of the numerous local governments, the Pentagon, and officials in 30 countries.

Author of 16 books, including the recently released A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life, which won a Nautilus Award, Hunter has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award, and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon.

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Diana Rodgers

Global Food Justice Alliance

Diana Rodgers, RD, is a “real food” nutritionist and sustainability advocate near Boston, Massachusetts. She runs a clinical nutrition practice, hosts the Sustainable Dish Podcast, and has served as an advisory board of numerous nutrition and agriculture organizations including Whole30, Animal Welfare Approved and Savory Institute. She speaks internationally about the intersection of optimal human nutrition, regenerative agriculture, and food justice.

More recently, her work has focused on shifting the anti-meat narrative. Diana is co-author of, Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat and the director, producer of the companion film, Sacred Cow. Her non-profit, the Global Food Justice Alliance, advocates for the inclusion of animal-sourced foods in dietary policies for a more nutritious, sustainable and equitable worldwide food system.

She can be found at sustainabledish.com and globalfoodjustice.org

Woody Tasch

Slow Money Institute

For decades, Woody has been innovating at the nexus of venture capital, philanthropy and impact investing. He originated and/or played a pivotal role in the development of a number of conceptual frameworks and organizations, including: mission-related investing, patient capital, B. Corporations, community development venture capital, slow money and nurture capital.

He is former chairman and CEO of Investors’ Circle, one of the oldest angel networks in the U.S., facilitating the flow of more than $275 million to hundreds of sustainability-minded early-stage companies. In the 1990s, he was treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, where he pioneered mission-related investing, and founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. In the 1980s, he was a principal at Prince Ventures, a healthcare venture capital fund. Utne Reader named him one of “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

He is the author of four books: Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green, 2008), SOIL: Notes Toward the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital (Slow Money Institute, 2017), AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute, 2021) and A Call To Farms: Some Thoughts on Food, Money and Nonviolence in Honor of Wendell Berry (Slow Money Institute, 2022). He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College in 1973.

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David Rizzo

Co-CEO, Land to Market

David Rizzo’s career has evolved from its genesis in IT consulting and small business development to include operations, brand-building, and transformative leadership for internationally-recognized organizations with sustainable, earth-conscious values.

Throughout his career in business and technology, one thing has remained at the core of his endeavors – a passion for respecting and protecting our environment. That commitment forms the foundation for his role as Co-CEO of Land to Market.

While owning an IT firm that offered unique approaches to client engagement and innovative ways of improving business processes through applied technology, David was invited by one of his clients – a startup focused on developing natural and nutritious dog treats – to join the team and help grow the brand beyond infancy. Under his expanded involvement in areas such as IT, marketing, finance, private equity, supply chain management, and operations logistics, Zuke’s went on to become one of the most recognizable names in the pet care industry.

Working successfully within various business environments, David led mindful initiatives and strategies after Zuke’s was acquired by Nestle Purina in 2013 and integrated into Merrick Pet Care Pet Care in 2018. David holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems and an MBA in marketing – both of which he continues to deploy in his lifelong commitment to earth-conscious production and net positive outcomes.

Though a native Texan, he has spent the past 25 years calling Colorado home. Outside of work, David enjoys spending time with his son Hudson, adventure traveling and spending as much time as possible in nature
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Chris Kerston

Co-CEO, Land to Market

Chris Kerston ranched full time for over 10 years before joining the Savory Institute. With a longstanding passion for regenerative agricultural and better food distribution systems, Chris has dedicated his life to helping connect ranchers with consumers in ways that create synergistic value for both sides.

With formal training and instinctive talent, Chris utilizes media in concert with traditional marketing techniques to help ranchers share their stories and build long-lasting relationships with partners based upon common goals.

For 6 years Chris co-managed a 2,000 acre diversified farm based on holistic grazing and permaculture in the Sacramento Valley comprised of old growth olive orchards, heirloom stone fruits and citrus groves, and also raises grass fed cattle, sheep, goats, and pasture-raised chickens for both meat and eggs. Through creative positioning, the farm quickly attracted national notoriety and the attention from public figures such as Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan.

Chris has become a sought after public speaker championing for stronger connections between grower and eater and providing training to help build those connections. He has been on the forefront of the collaborative process with state and federal regulators, advocating for the recognition of alternative agricultural models as well as the consumers’ right to access healthy local foods.

Chris is also very enthusiastic about developing opportunities for young ranchers. Fostering creative solutions to removing barriers of available land and capital will ultimately help cultivate the next generation of holistic land stewards.

Now as Co-CEO of Land to Market he is helping to shepherd a team of incredibly passionate and talented individuals all seeking to empower businesses to be leaders in the regenerative space.
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Megan Meiklejohn

SVP of Supply Chain Innovation, Land to Market

Megan Meiklejohn is a sustainability practitioner with experience working in the fashion, green building, and manufacturing sectors.

As SVP of Supply Chain Innovation for Land to Market, Megan is focused on creating and scaling positive impact through strategic supply chain development and connecting regenerative growers to brands. She holds a BS in Environmental Resource Management from Penn State and an MS in Impact-Focused Business and Investing from the Glasgow Caledonian New York College.

Since 2014, Megan has focused on supply chain transparency and the impacts from raw material sourcing within the fashion industry. At EILEEN FISHER, a NYC based women’s clothing brand, she worked with the Savory Institute’s Argentinian hub, Ovis 21, to source wool fiber from the network for the brand’s largest merino wool program. Seeing first-hand how a brand’s support of regenerative land management could help drive ecosystem restoration and financial stability for the growers, Megan’s focus turned to creating positive outcomes through the lens of business.

By designing supply chains from the farm forward, she has helped brands source natural fibers that support ecosystem functioning and local communities.

After a decade in NYC, Megan now lives in Pennsylvania where she enjoys gardening, focusing on native plants to increase the biodiversity of her small plot of land.
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Wyatt Ball

Business Development Manager, Land to Market

Wyatt’s journey into regenerative agriculture first emerged at the age of 18 after experiencing the beauty of farming with nature during an off-chance WWOOF-ing experience in southern Portugal. Ever since, each step in his journey has been aimed at gaining a more wholesome understanding of regeneration, agriculture, and community.

Having worked within both rural and quasi-urban production agriculture models – from ranching in Colorado to pastured poultry in Georgia to hydroponic vegetable production in rural Bahamas, Wyatt thrives in contexts where he can blend his international experience with his love for stewarding land, soil, and community. He is a trained Savory EOV monitor, an avid soil health enthusiast, and a lover of animals and land alike.

He holds a BSc in Business Administration from University of Bath (UK), an MSc in International Sustainability Management from ESCP Business School (DE/FR), and more recently, he is a graduate of Nicole Master’s 2022 CREATE program – an intensive deep dive into all things soil health and regeneration.

As a Business Development Manager for Land to Market, Wyatt gets to enjoy each day doing what he loves to do – building bridges between producers, brands, businesses in a way that regenerates nature so that human, animal, plant, and land can all thrive. Originally from South Carolina, Wyatt currently lives on a polyculture ranch in Boulder County where his partner manages the food processing side of the business. He enjoys climbing, playing soccer, cycling, and digging holes.
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Lisa Mabe

Marketing & Communications, Land to Market

Lisa leads marketing communications at Land to Market and is an award-winning expert in consumer insights and marketing communications within the agriculture and natural products industry.

She has over 16 years experience leading marketing communications programs for leading companies and organizations around the world such as Saffron Road, OBE Organic, Atkins Ranch, Meat & Livestock Australia and Global Animal Partnership. She is passionate about promoting companies who are producing better-for-the-planet products and connecting them to environmentally-conscious shoppers.

Drawing from her extensive experience in consumer insights, specifically how people make purchase decisions and how products fit into their lives, Lisa brings her constant curiosity of the consumer. As she works to build a foundation of awareness of the Land to Market verification seal on verified products in the marketplace, Lisa draws from her experience marketing other leading product labeling programs.

A native of North Carolina, Lisa grew up on a tobacco and horse farm near Winston-Salem. Lisa now resides in Maryland near Washington, DC. Outside of her work, Lisa enjoys playing with her two young children, collecting pretty views in nature, discovering new food experiences, riding horses and traveling to places like Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
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Felipe Urioste

Global Network & Latin America Regional Coordinator, Land to Market

Felipe Urioste is an Agronomist graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of the Republic in Uruguay.

Being a producer and always focused on livestock, wanting to learn outside the context of his country, Felipe spent time living and working in New Zealand where he worked on dairy farms learning from different practices throughout the country. Before returning to Uruguay he also spent time in Australia working on a sheep farm.

Returning to South America and obtaining his degree, he worked as a livestock salesman at a leading Uruguayan rural company as well as one of the country’s largest livestock exporters where he gained expertise in chain of production, agricultural production, supplementation of livestock, production, and logistics of moving them to the port.

In addition to these tasks, he was in charge of the foreign delegations and participated in the advice of cargo of livestock to ships with average capacity of 20,000 head of livestock.

In early 2020 he began working at the Savory Institute as a regional representative for Latin America, focused on Savory Institute’s network of Hubs and regional business development. Nowadays his role in Land to Market is focused in Savory Institute Global Network, business development and supporting the global supply chain.
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David Amar

European Business Development, Land to Market

A pioneer of the circular economy and positive impact strategies in France for over a decade, David Amar founded Nous Sommes Le Futur to accompany individuals and organizations in their desire to evolve with one objective:

The evolution of their soft skills and know-how to develop and optimize a regenerative economy. The strategy is simple, to use a global and systemic approach anchored in targeted and proven practices, for a perennial and harmonious evolution, allowing to reach ambitious objectives, step by step. This global and holistic approach is directly inspired by Ken Wilber’s integral vision. It focuses on four tools, Meditation, Collective Intelligence, Re-organization and Positive Impact Circular Economy or Regeneration Economy.
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Ella Ratliff

Client Success Manager, Land to Market

Ella Ratliff is a Client Success professional who joins the Land to Market team from the technology industry where she specialized in building strategic relationships within the data and cybersecurity sectors.

After shifting her career focus to closer align with her passions, Ella is dedicated to fostering lasting relationships between leading brands and the farmers, ranchers and supporting processors who are working to better the planet through regenerative land practices. Ella first became interested in regenerative agriculture while spending a year studying critical global issues and environmental justice through a student travel program in Ecuador, Thailand, India, and South Africa.

She spent time working alongside a local farmer’s co-op in Chiang Mai, Thailand that greatly influenced her belief that a shift towards a regenerative, holistic method of agriculture is paramount to the wellbeing of people, animals and our earth.

Ella continues to volunteer at local farms and markets whenever possible and as an avid gardener spends much of her free time in her backyard garden with her hands in the dirt. Ella holds a degree in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado, loves to trail run, climb, and mountain bike, and lives in the Boulder area with her partner and two cats.
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Karin Brothers

Supply Chain Integrity Coordinator, Land to Market

Karin’s journey in regenerative agriculture began when she combined her academic background in environmental science with her creative love for leather crafting.

While working for a large leather supplier, she became dissatisfied and sickened with the lack of traceability and transparency in the leather industry. Determined to find a better way of sourcing her leather, she connected with Land to Market in search for verified regenerative supply. This resulted in her sourcing regeneratively verified leather and becoming a Land to Market brand member with her small leather goods brand, Lagom Leather. Through this experience, Karin became energized by the work required to create a world where regeneratively sourced products are actualized in the marketplace.

She started working with Terragenesis on supply chain innovation in regards to cropping. However, while that work was very fulfilling, she wanted to focus more on livestock supply chains.

Karin now serves as Land to Market’s Supply Chain Integrity Coordinator where she tracks the flow of verified materials to ensure traceability and integrity of the Land to Market on-product seal and associated claims in the market. She has a Master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Exeter in Cornwall, UK. Karin grew up in Zambia, Sweden and the UK and has been based on the west coast of the US since 2020.

She’s a keen surfer, cyclist, tea drinker and ocean lover.
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Bryan Mayer

Red Meat Supply Chain Specialist, Land to Market

Bryan Mayer has been at the forefront of the craft butcher movement in the US receiving training from master butchers, raising livestock, working on kill floors and mobile slaughter units, behind butcher counters, and on kitchen prep lines.

Early in his career he co-developed Fleisher’s renowned butcher training program, training a new generation of butchers and chefs that span the globe, focusing on sourcing, humane slaughter, and whole carcass utilization.

Bryan co-founded Philadelphia’s first butcher shop, restaurant, and education space, dedicated to supporting local agriculture and fostering a connection between rural and urban communities. He has lectured and conducted workshops with the James Beard Foundation, Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, The American Grassfed Association, The American Lamb Board, the Culinary Institute of America, The Savory Institute, in addition to consulting with farmers, slaughterhouses, and processors, throughout the US and the world.

In addition to working with Land to Market, Bryan works with Maui Nui Venison, a wild-sourced conservation-driven venison company. Bryan is a judge for World Butchers Challenge and is a board member of the Hawaii restaurant association foundation.
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Nick Aubrey

NZ/AUS Regional Representative, Land to Market

Nick grew up in the mountains of New Zealand. He was fortunate to be raised on the family’s Merino sheep and Angus cattle station, and remains endeared and intimately connected to the land.

After university Nick committed his career to connecting growers with consumers; using produce as a platform to share in the experience of farming in New Zealand, and to foster equitable value transfer back to farmer producers. Nick spent time working for New Zealand’s leading marketers of wool, meat and leather before founding The New Zealand Luxury Group where he remains as Managing Director.

The New Zealand Luxury Group connects New Zealand farmers through global supply chains to offer bespoke leather and textile solutions for the world’s most exclusive fashion houses in more than 30 countries. Nick also consults with several of New Zealand’s primary sector marketing companies, is a market development advisor to Wool Source as they take new strong wool innovations to market, and is a director of Wool Impact – New Zealand’s industry-good body tasked with growing awareness, demand and value for the wool sector.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science, Graduate diploma in Finance, Postgraduate Diploma in Management, and Masters in International Business as a Goodman Family scholar. Nick is also a graduate of the Stanford GSB’s Executive Leadership Development program.
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Erik Bruun-Bindslev

Director, Savory Foundation

Drawing on his specialist experience to craft successful partnerships and deep collaboration, Erik supports the Savory Foundation as a non-executive board director.

A true regenerative leader, Erik has been part of creating some of the most visionary businesses driving impact and transformation though his advisory platform MERIKA. A master of creating and growing climate positive, regenerative businesses and brands, Erik has been instrumental in the success of his own companies as well as organisations such as Groupe Danone, Linda McCartney Foods, Daylesford Organic, Duchy Originals, Rebel Kitchen, Numi Tea, Grosvenor Group, The Danish Sovereign Investment Fund and many more.

In addition, Erik is a non-executive advisor to private equity and venture capital funds and accelerators focused on climate, regenerative agriculture, oceans and the food value chain.

He speaks seven languages, holds a BA and a MBA’s in international business and in his spare time alongside his passion for the healing power of nature he enjoys family, friends who are family, runs, hikes and hot yoga.
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Carolina Fernández-Jansink

Cascading Sustainability

Carolina Fernández-Jansink is an experienced living business strategist and biomimic who supports companies and their leaders as they transition their business models towards regeneration, greater resilience and an enhanced capacity to thrive. Founder of Cascading Nature and co-founder of DearWise.Earth and Emerging Ecorenaissance, and life-centered strategist at Biomimicry3.8, she offers nature-based strategies and models to organizations, including Fortune 100 companies and beautiful NGO´s in The Americas and Europe. She is Certified in Biomimicry Thinking, and Systems Thinking, and is an ESG, System Change Investing and Regenerative Finance expert. Originally from Monterrey, México, together with her family, she is now part of the Line Creek Watershed, located in the Appalachian Piedmont Forest, USA.

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Claudine Perlet, PhD

Business Reinvented

Claudine Perlet is a German lawyer by training and worked for 20 years in various leadership positions in financial services at Allianz, Allianz Global Investors, Goldman Sachs and Freshfields. She holds a PhD in law and has broad professional experience in the areas of legal, regulatory and compliance as well as operations, IT, digital strategy and digital transformation. Claudine has lived, worked and studied in Frankfurt, Sydney, London, Hong Kong and Munich, where she is now based.

In 2017, Claudine left her well-paid job to gain new perspectives on change, innovation and the state of the world. She embarked on a deep and self-directed learning journey which ultimately led to the founding of Business Reinvented, the trusted resource for progressive leaders.

The throughline of her interests is how to move from the current mainstream economic paradigm of extraction, profit maximization and over-consumption, to truly making business part of the solution to the difficult challenges of our time. She is convinced that the world of business is THE system uniquely positioned to facilitate rapid change and that companies and the private sector are key to getting us out of the current dilemma.

Claudine’s work focusses on the fundamental shift required from what most of up grew up with. She introduces topics that are currently not considered to really belong in the business world as essential building blocks for any modern transformation program and true paradigm change. This means, first and foremost putting ourselves fully into the equation. At the same time, acquiring new “hard-skills” in areas such as digital, sustainability and regeneration is equally high on her “upskilling-agenda”.
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Debbie Reed

Ecosystem Services Market Consortium

Debbie is the Executive Director of the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) and the Ecosystem Services Market Research Consortium (ESMRC), a non-profit member-based public private partnership. ESMC’s Eco-Harvest market program is the only national scale fully accredited scope 3 market program for agriculture. EMRC is the market innovation and R&D side of the program (ESMRC), investing to continuously improve the scope, scale and operations of ESMC’s non-profit market program. ESMC members include 70+ agricultural sector supply chain and value chain partners collaborating in science-based, standards-based scope 3 market program that generates verified impacts for soil carbon removals and reduced GHG; as well as quantified water quality and water use conservation and biodiversity outcomes. Debbie’s role in leading ESMC/ESMRC builds on decades of experience in carbon markets, agriculture climate change mitigation and sustainability efforts in the US and internationally.

Debbie previously led the Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG), a national multi-stakeholder coalition supporting the development of tools, technologies, knowledge and programs to improve quantification of GHG from agriculture and GHG mitigation opportunities for the sector. She was also the founding Executive Director of the International Biochar Initiative.

Debbie served in the Clinton Administration at the White House Council on Environmental Quality as the Director of Legislative Affairs and Agricultural Policy; and in the U.S. Senate as a Senior Staff on natural resource and agricultural issues for U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey of Nebraska. She held numerous leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has graduate and undergraduate degrees in human nutrition/dietetics, chemistry, and communications/journalism.
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Helen Crowley, PhD

Pollination Group

Helen is a recognised nature and biodiversity expert, delivering pioneering and impact led climate and nature focused solutions for our clients. Formerly the Head of Sustainable Sourcing Innovation at the French company Kering, Helen advised luxury brands on best practices in sustainability. Prior to this, Helen worked with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for over a decade on conservation strategy. ​Early in her career, she worked as a senior consultant to companies on building out environmental health and safety programs to encompass broader sustainability issues. In October 2019, Helen took a year-long sabbatical as a Fellow and Senior Advisor for Resilient Supply Chains at Conservation International, developing new approaches for business to address climate and biodiversity challenges. ​Helen has a PhD in Zoology from the Australian National University and is on the Boards of non-profit organizations including Textile Exchange, Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature US. She is also on the advisory boards of the GEF Planet Gold Program and Alante Capital. Helen contributes to the business and biodiversity work of the World Economic Forum as an advisor and member of the Global Futures Council.

Heidi Lender

Heidi Lender

CAMPO Garzon

Born in New Haven, CT, Heidi once reported on the fashion universe for national magazines, writing features and styling photo shoots. With a BA in apparel and textiles from Cornell University, she covered style and travel from New York to Paris, where she served as Fashion Director and Associate Bureau Chief of Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine. After Paris she went to India, where she lived part-time for eight years studying yoga. In 2007, she opened Ashtanga Yoga San Francisco, and two years later discovered her true self in photography.

Self-taught, Heidi makes work based on personal inquiry that stems from personal experiences, relationships, and/or investigate identity. Her work has been featured in PDN, Rangefinder and CNN and The New Yorker’s photo blog, among others. In 2014, Kehrer Verlag published Grassland under a pseudonym H. Lee.

In 2010, she serendipitously landed in Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay and bought an 80-acre ranch after a 3-day visit. Eight years later she founded the nonprofit creative institute CAMPO that invites international artists and creative thinkers to disconnect from their daily lives and reconnect with their authentic selves.
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Katy Grennier

DSIL Global

Katy is best known for her work as a seasoned practitioner of human-centered design/equity-based design with 12 years leading co-creation with dozens of cross-cultural teams- across all sectors. Her current energy is being poured into emergent facilitation and strategy which harnesses her grit to support individuals and teams to make shifts in their ways of working so they can move towards equity and justice on small and large scales. Her unique way ensures that agency and voice are given back to everyone in the room all while shepherding honesty to be at the center of whatever comes next. That has proven powerful strategic impacts that transform culture and leadership even the most mechanical moving levels. Katy is a playfully provocative educator and is constantly in practice to embody what she teaches. She co-designed the DSIL Course from it’s beginning and has led the DSIL Global company to form in new ways for the last 6 years. From foster youth, to waitress, to social worker, to Rotary Peace Fellow, to graduate from the Clinton Graduate School to Berkeley Certified Executive Coach, and trained in a myriad of other theories and practices, she is constantly curious about how things really work and who decides they are.

Marcela Navarro, Project X Global

Marcela Navarro

Project X

Marcela is an intentional catalyst with a diverse and multifaceted experience in systems funding, of over 25 years. With a deep vertical track record in the financial space, she has designed and implemented complex financial products, and managed multi million-dollar portfolios. This included SMEs, Corporates, Financial Institutions and Non-Bank Financial institutions (NBFIs). Marcela has an in-depth funding, sustainability and risk track record, strengthened by a broad international outlook – having worked and lived in Colombia, Brazil, USA and the UK, and held responsibility for local, regional, and global business lines.

With significant practitioner experience in the sustainability and impact world, Marcela has played executive and non executive roles in different organisations, including the United Nations, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and EIT Climate Kic (Europe’s leading climate and innovation initiative). Marcela is a recognised leader in demand led innovation, with a balanced entrepreneurialism and blue-chip corporate background. Trusted advisor to CEOs, Innovation Bodies and Government Organisations.

Prior to co-founding Project X, a certified bcorp, which mission is to shift $1.3 trillion from unsustainable to sustainable procurement, Marcela worked over 20+ years in the financial sector in diverse roles across the globe. Last roles include, member of the RBS Corporate Banking Board (top 10 global banks, 2010) and a member of the ABN AMRO Bank (top 4 international banks in 2008) Senior Leadership Team. IESE, INSEAD
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Marta Caballero

Cultivo Land PBC

Marta has 9 years’ experience working at the intersection of investment management, data science and sustainability. She started her career at Schroders in London and then NYC, where she became a founding member of a team working with fund managers on integrating alternative and geospatial datasets into fundamental investment decision-making. At Dow Jones she led the technical design of a data-powered Sustainable Investments product. Marta has written and spoken about the emergence of Natural Capital as an asset class for The Wall Street Journal. She is VP of Investment Partnerships & Growth at Cultivo, a public benefit corporation and fintech wtih a mission to accelerate investment into nature at scale.

Marta holds a MSci in Physics with Medical Physics from University College London, and has CFA Level 1, Investment Management Certificate and PRI´s Foundation in Responsible Investing.
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Megan Reilly Cayten

Climate Asset Management

Megan Reilly Cayten has lived and worked in infrastructure development on four continents. Throughout her career she has focused on developing, financing and operating sustainable core infrastructure and basic services, predominantly in developing countries. She developed two large-scale power and gas assets for the AES Corporation in Central America and the Caribbean, and as part of Citigroup’s project finance team based in Hong Kong, she originated, structured and executed financings with an aggregate total value of over $10 billion for infrastructure assets across the Asia-Pacific region. More recently, she developed fund-level reporting and managed assets for the infrastructure fund Alinda Capital Partners, and executed Alinda’s first divestiture. Currently she is founder and CEO of Catrinka, a sustainable fashion accessory brand dedicated to providing fair employment and financial literacy for women and girls in developing countries. Megan holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Yale, and speaks fluent Spanish and conversational French and Mandarin Chinese. She is a member of the board of the National Environmental Education Foundation, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and three children.

Søren Stig

Home.Earth

Søren Stig is a Danish entrepreneur and impact investor. Søren is the co-founder of Home.Earth, a social enterprise that is building a global community of practice for regeneration. Søren also has co-founded Katapult Foundation, Avokaado, Lifeline Robotics, Future Food Institute, Human Hotel, GRIM, Nordic Impact Investing Academy, and Nordic Legal Tech.


Søren has a background in law and has been working in the legal tech industry since 2019. Søren is also a founding member of The Correspondent, an international news platform.


Søren Stig has an Executive MBA from IMD Business School, as well as Investments and Securities from Angel Program by Danish Business Angels. Søren also has a Board Leadership – Business-Owning Foundations from CBS Executive. Additionally, they have a SU Incubator in Exponential Impact & Technologies from SingularityU HQ, and a Program for Executive Development (PED) from IMD Business School. Furthermore, they have an Executive Programme in Logistics from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Finally, they have a High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates from Castle High School, and Ellekær Skolen.

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