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About UsThe Eldering Institute® is about what we can do, and more importantly, who we can be as we grow older. We are committed to creating a new interpretation or paradigm for the second half of life—one that allows us to experience love, health, happiness, creative self-expression and being valued and to have as much possibility on the last day of our lives as we had when we were born. We offer courses, products and tools that guide people to create satisfying, fulfilling lives and to demonstrate their wisdom in action. Shae Hadden | Executive Director & Co-Founder Jim Selman | Founder Adib Saikali | Director & Co-Founder Sharon Knoll | Director Marc Cooper | Director Lauren Selman | Associate SHAE HADDEN Shae Hadden is committed to multigenerational collaboration towards peace, sustainability, and the health and wellbeing of people of all ages. Since 2007, she has been developing strategies and designing programs to encourage purpose, mastery and contribution in later life. In her view, everyone has the potential to be a leader—at any age—and the epitome of leadership is being ‘wisdom in action’ (sharing the best of who we are and what we know in a way that empowers others). Shae has successfully communicated as a performer on stage, an executive administrator behind the scenes in the theatre, film and television industries, and as a project manager for website and multimedia projects. As an associate of Paracomm Partners International, she specializes in coaching senior executives on accelerating the development of young leaders through commitment-based relationships. With New Leaf Communications, her marketing consultancy, she also coaches and works on special projects with young entrepreneurs and seasoned leaders who are transforming the prevailing paradigms of our times. Shae is currently a member of the Elders Council of the David Suzuki Foundation, the Purpose Project Guild, the Sage-ing® Guild and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. JIM SELMAN Jim is CEO of Paracomm Partners International, a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a Huffington Post blogger, and principal contributor to the Serene Ambition blog. He has been instrumental in building new theory and practical techniques in the field of management (including the concepts of “organizational transformation”, “coaching”, “the Merlin method for designing the future”, “breakthroughs” and “breakdowns”) and in introducing new approaches to producing broad “paradigm shifts”. Jim was privileged to work in education and research with some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of transformation and management, including Fernando Flores, Warren Bennis, Peter Senge, Richard Pascal, Werner Erhard and Ken Blanchard among others. He is a former member of the California Commission on Aging, a past director of the Breakthrough Foundation, a founder of Growing Older (a non-profit for seniors’ education) and a Founding Member of the Legacy XXI Institute. In 2006, he was involved in a groundbreaking coaching conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Forty-three key thought leaders from 14 nations gathered to discuss the current challenges facing the coaching industry and to invent new possibilities for moving the profession forward. In early 2008, Jim participated with 22 other transformational leaders and officials in the United Nations to begin a dialogue to distinguish the emerging paradigm and how transformational leadership principles might offer a breakthrough in empowering developing nations and assisting leaders in those countries to undertake full-spectrum responses to their most pressing issues and intractable problems. ADIB SAIKALI Adib has trained and mentored over 500 developers at organizations throughout Canada, USA and Europe through his company Programming Mastery. His substantial technical knowledge, extensive project experience and ability to look at technical problems from a variety of perspectives allow him to create innovative solutions to 'real world' problems. He has contributed his work as a technical author to many publications such as Oracle Magazine, and has also spoken at several industry conferences including JavaOne. Adib holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from University of Waterloo. DR. MARC COOPER
Dr. Marc Cooper's professional career includes experience as a private practice periodontist, academician, researcher, teacher, consultant, coach, trainer, seminar director, board director, author, entrepreneur and inventor. He has studied with masters in many disciplines, participated in formal business educational programs, worked as an independent contractor with top-flight consulting companies, and developed a suite of online business assessment tools. Dr. Cooper's client experience includes solo private practices, healthcare entities, large hospital systems, Silicon Valley start-ups and Fortune 500 Companies. He currently works with clients throughout North America and with a few select clients in Europe and Dubai through The Mastery Company. Marc is the author of five successful books:
SHARON KNOLL
Sharon has consulted with organizations in the U.S., Europe and Japan
for the past 25 years in the areas of change management and leadership
and organizational development, and has conducted multi-year
transformational programs inside such organizations as Intel,
Nordstrom, Fisher Companies, and the Weyerhaeuser Company. She has
supported effective change not only in the boardrooms of corporations
and institutions, but also in the assembly halls of rural villages in
the developing world. Over the past four years, she has consulted
within the United Nations system. She has worked in Africa, Papua New
Guinea, and the Caribbean countries with the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), with her most satisfying work being the design and
facilitation of a Coaching Capacity Development Program inside the
UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group. These programs in Ethiopia, South Africa,
Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and countries of the
Caribbea varied in length from 3 months to 3 years. They have provided
a platform for beginning to develop hundreds of South-based
facilitator/coaches and have been expanded to all development issues.
LAUREN SELMAN As an actress, speaker, and activist, Lauren Selman is committed to helping green the entertainment industry through her company, Reel Green Media. She has been involved in theater, film and television since she was a child, but it was living in the Ecuador Amazon rainforest and learning about the effects of oil development that solidified her commitment to environmental change. The following year, she exemplified a green lifestyle by riding her bicycle 4,000 miles across the United States, from Connecticut to San Francisco. As a result of her research, commitment and dedication to making films a little greener, she has spoken at various conferences, including the 2007 Association Film Commissioners International Conference, UCLA's The Business of Green, and Hollywood Goes Green. In addition to working with films, film schools and film offices to be more environmentally conscious, Lauren mentors the outstanding student team at EarthTeam's "The Green Screen”, a television show produced by San Francisco East Bay Area teens. She is a published author, frequent blogger at Serene Ambition and is working on her next book. |
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