AR+ Foundation Board

Alain Gauthier

Alain Gauthier

As an international consultant, facilitator, coach, researcher-educator, and author, Alain Gauthier focuses his work on developing co-leadership and partnering capabilities in and across the private, public, and civil society sectors. He is passionate about integrating the inner and outer dimensions of change and leadership, both at the individual and collective levels. He believes that cities and regions offer the most promising opportunities for building an inclusive community of commitment, in service of the whole of life.

A graduate from HEC (Paris), Stanford University MBA, and former senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, Alain is currently Executive Director of Core Leadership Development in Portland, and a partner of In Principo (Collaborative Dynamics) in Paris. Over the last 50 years, he has served a wide range of clients, from start-ups, family, and large international corporations to UN Agencies, foundations, healthcare organizations, educational systems, and associations – as well as global and local NGOs – and collaborated with the Leadership Learning Community and the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership in Oakland.

Alain has designed and facilitated board and executive retreats on co-leadership capacity-building in the United States, Europe, Japan, and several African countries. He is a co-founder and active member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) in Boston, San Francisco and Paris, and a member of Bay Area Integral. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Budapest in Paris and a director of Pathways to Peace in the Bay Area.

Alain’s most recent book was published as an e-book on Amazon.com under the title Actualizing Evolutionary Co-leadership Evolving a Creative and Responsible Society. He has adapted and prefaced in French three of Peter Senge's acclaimed Fifth Discipline books and is a co-author of Leadership is Global as well as Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership. He has contributed to four other collective books on leadership development, coaching, and organizational learning. Alain has taught courses on leadership at JFK University and online for the Conscious Business Initiative, and is a visiting professor for the Coaching/Personal Development Master’s Program at Paris 2 University. He lives in Portland and devotes about a fifth of his time to work outside of the United States.

Alain is an officer on the AR+ Foundation board.

alaingauthier@coreleadership.com
www.coreleadership.com


Ben Teehankee

Ben Teehankee

Dr. Benito "Ben" L. Teehankee is the Jose E. Cuisia Professor of Business Ethics at the Department of Management and Organization (where he served as founding Department Chairman in 2011-14) of the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business of De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines.  He is Head of the Business for Human Development Network (BHDN) under the Center for Business Research and Development and president of the Association of Faculty and Educators of DLSU. He teaches strategic management, management theory, humanistic management, action research and sustainable business.

He serves as member of the Ethics Committee of the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP), co-chair for the Shared Prosperity Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and  board trustee of the Shareholders Association of the Philippines (SharePhil) where he advocates inclusive and humanistic corporate governance among Philippine companies.  He also serves on the governing board of the International Humanistic Management Association  (IHMA) and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management ASEAN group.

His research areas are in business ethics, humanistic management, action research and critical realism. He writes columns on business ethics and humanistic management  for The Manila Times and BusinessWorld.


Christopher Juniper

Christopher Juniper

Christopher Juniper is an global sustainability advocate/consultant/educator/author and economic development professional. He has worked with regional, state and local governments, and non-profits including Rocky Mountain Institute, Natural Capitalism Solutions, and UN-ESCAP.

Leading-edge work includes City of Portland OR adoption of sustainable development strategies (1994); development of natural capitalism consulting practice (1999); US Army - Ft. Carson sustainability program (2003); lifecycle sustainability performance assessment tool (2004); co-authorship of International Society of Sustainability Professionals’ Certification study guides (2016); and authorship of chapters on climate change economics (2018-9).

He is currently based in Oregon and Colorado and is developing Towards a Spiritual and Sustainable Capitalism - a collection of the “best ideas in the world for protecting the next generation from this one.” He serves on the board of the Advanced Transit Association and is a board officer at AR+ Foundation. 


Miren Larrea

Dr. Miren Larrea began her professional career as a research assistant at the University of Deusto, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on the local production systems of the Basque Country. After a decade dedicated to teaching and research, she worked for six years at a local development agency, where she combined her experience as a regional development professional with her work as a university researcher.  Miren now leads a team at the Orkestra Foundation dedicated to regional sustainability and engaged extensively with politians.  More on Miren and her stewarding work with AR+ here.


YVONNE BUYSMAN

A key interest of mine is how we may connect and create spaces of inclusion, belonging and feeling at home in organizational and everyday life. As a technology leader in practice and an academic researcher by curiosity, I explore how experiential knowing may foster a participatory worldview.  Spending time in nature, gathering groups to collectively enjoy outdoor activities, and engaging community dialogue on topics such as eco-crisis open spaces in which I believe drive transformational systems change in new ways.

I embrace my approach to change through relational and developmental theories. My passion projects involve mentoring young leaders in social entrepreneurship and engaging communities in dialogue on sustainability and social justice. When I am not working or studying, then you can find me with my camera chasing down photos of Florida sunsets and wild birds and dreaming about my next travels to eco-centric, majestic places such as Antarctica.