Bio

I am a people-centered and passionate consultant, writer and public speaker. I am also the principal consultant and founder of Prospera Partners, a consulting firm that works with localists, small business owners, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofits on thoughtful business planning, systems change, transformational leadership, and more. I thrive when teaching, guiding, and facilitating clients and audiences through strategies to do better by doing good – for themselves, their business, and their communities.

At Prospera Partners I design and facilitate retreats, workshops, and communities of practice to inspire community leaders and social entrepreneurs for transformational action. I also work with small business owners and social entrepreneurs to grow programs and businesses with thoughtful, step-by-step localism strategies for success that include marketing, press, and business planning. My Master of Arts in Theatre Directing, training in the Art of Hosting and World Café methods of facilitation, and early days as a theatrical director, theater owner, playwright, and an activist performer (with Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont!) help me to bring humor, heart, and actionable tasks to all I do.

When I am not consulting or facilitating on all things local, and transforming leaders and businesses to do social good, I’m speaking or writing about it. My articles have appeared in publications like The Nonprofit Quarterly, Philanthropy Journal, and others, and I have given keynotes and presentations across the country on everything from local economies to healthy food systems and more.

Before founding Prospera Partners I served as the executive director of the Santa Fe Independent Business Alliance, where it grew to become one of the largest local economy business networks in the US, with a successful and award-winning Farm to Restaurant Project that impacted the local community for lasting economic change. I was also a fellow for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), an experience that connected me to an amazing network of localists who I now get the honor of doing incredible work with. Other honors include being named Young Careerist, a 40 under Forty Business Executive designation by New Mexico Business Weekly, and serving on Santa Fe’s City Business and Quality of Life Committee, the City of Albuquerque’s Living Cities Leadership Team, and Santa Fe’s Catalyzing Jobs Committee. Currently I am an Advisory Board Member of Design Corps Santa Fe and the Hispanic-American Institute.

I come from an Italian-Canadian immigrant family of business owners, entrepreneurs, farmers, cooks, and storytellers and I suspect that my solutions-oriented spirit, love for all things local, and interest in working toward the greater good is rooted in this wonderfully vibrant and very grounded upbringing.