Mellie Pullman is a professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Since 1997, she has held previous appointments at Cardiff University, Cornell University, London Business School, Colorado State University, Southern Methodist University, University of Utah and is currently a visiting professor at University of Groningen in the Netherlands.Professor Pullman’s major research interests include social impact supply chains, sustainability and supply chain management, food and beverage supply chains, impacts of regulatory turbulence on supply chains, and experiential service design. Currently, she is researching supply chains and UN sustainable development biodiversity goals, social enterprise supply chains in food and beverage businesses, sustainability competitive dynamics, and supply chain management in the emergent US cannabis market.Mellie was the first woman brewer in the US craft brewery movement and started Wasatch Brewery in Park City Utah. She has also started a drought tolerant landscape company to put herself through graduate school as well as an online education company for creating specialty industry programs such as Business Skills for the Welsh Craft Brewers. She has served on numerous non-profit boards related to food policy, public health, the environment, wildlife and literary skills in rural Oregon.She works with many regional sustainability-focused food and beverage producers, distributors, and retailers. She is the author of multiple books and cases including Craft Beverage Business Management, Food Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Restaurant Design, and Service Operations, And she has published in top journals such as Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Service Management, and many others.Resources:Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE)Mescladis social enterprise (Barcelona)Food Supply Management, 2nd Edition (Madeleine Pullman and Zhaohul Wu)Faculty research: Why some cannabis businesses succeed and others fail (Madeleine Pullman)Mellie Pullman's Google Scholar pageDuolingoMellie’s podcast recommendations:  The Stubborn Light of ThingsIn the DarkHidden BrainYou’re Wrong AboutMellie’s book recommendations:Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake)Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm (Isabella Tree)Surfacing (Kathleen Jamie)

Crist began his career in restaurant and hotel operations, followed by graduate studies at Cornell University. His doctoral dissertation provided a foundation for the entrepreneurial conservation work he has been involved in ever since. In 1995 he was invited to lead the Tourism Competitiveness & Sustainable Development project, facilitating innovation in Latin America’s emerging “green” destinations. Starting in Costa Rica he worked with public and private sector leaders to ensure a coherent national strategy with conservation commitments as a key selling point. He continued this work over the next several years in the other Central American countries, followed by the Andean region, the Galapagos Islands, and Chile’s Patagonia region. In 1999 he founded a management company to serve conservation-focused investors in this niche: La Paz Group has focused on developing and managing brands in the private sector dedicated to the entrepreneurial conservation of natural and cultural patrimony. This practice has included the planning, start-up and ongoing operations management of conservation-focused resorts such as Lapa Rios in Costa Rica, and Chan Chich Lodge in Belize, and expanding Xandari from a single resort in Costa Rica to a multi-property brand in Kerala, India. From 2000-2010 Crist also taught courses in social enterprise for ESSEC in France, Instituto de Empresa in Spain, as well as Columbia University and Cornell University in the USA. For Cornell his course offered graduate students the opportunity to participate in semester-long field work on sustainable development projects in Senegal; Costa Rica; Croatia; Kerala, India; the Siberia region of the Russian Federation; and the Patagonia region of Chile. In 2019 Crist co-founded Organikos, a company that works with entrepreneurs in the artisanal food sector to commercialize “taste of place” products, and Authentica, a retail business focused on locally produced design-forward handicrafts.Resources:La Paz GroupOrganikosOrganikos blog“Beans, Birds, and Business Savvy” (Carol Latter)- Seasons MagazineProfessor Crist Inman on Sustainability, CBS Master Class, and beavers!-  3 minutes from/about the last course Crist taughtPatagonia Expedition RaceCrist’s book recommendations: April Morning  (Howard Fast)Zorba The Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)Travels In Hyperreality (Umberto Eco)

Brigid Schulte is a journalist, public speaker, and program director of the Better Life Lab, the work-family justice and gender equity program at the nonpartisan think tank New America. She’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, which was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.Resources:Brigid’s website, and  Facebook page.  Follow her on Twitter.Better Life LabBetter Life Lab Experiments (BLLx)“Caring for Dying Loved Ones is a Luxury Few Can Afford. I was Lucky.” (Brigid Schulte) The Washington Post“A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself” (Brigid Schulte) The Guardian“It's Time to Reset Your Relationship's Power Dynamics” (Brigid Schulte) ForgeThe Third Path InstituteBrigid’s recommended books:Finding Time (Heather Boushey)What Works (Iris Bohnet)The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored) (Maxine Eichner)Waiting for The Weekend (WItold Rybczynski)Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Stuart Brown)Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)Rest: Why Your Get More Done When You Work Less (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang)

Andrew Shakman is CEO and co-founder of Leanpath, a mission-driven foodservice technology company based in Portland, Oregon. Leanpath invented the world’s first automated food waste tracking technology in 2004, which now operates in thousands of foodservice kitchens in 40 countries, cutting their food waste in half. From the beginning, Andrew has worked to catalyze the global movement to address the food waste crisis. He has been featured in BusinessWeek, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company and many other publications. He has presented at the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Culinary Institute of America, Harvard, and before hundreds of other audiences. Resources:Leanpath  B Corp Waste Free Kitchen Handbook (Dana Gunders)Every Women TreatyPortland Trail BlazersReFEDFAOAndrew’s podcast recommendations:Hidden Brain How I Built ThisThe DailyAndrew’s book recommendations:American Wasteland (Jonathan Bloom)Waste: The Global Food Scandal (Tristram Stuart)No Rules Rule Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer)The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki)

Beverly is a mentor and motivator for women who want to change the world through passionate commitment to their ideas, families, organizations, and communities.After 20 years of a successful business and academic career that included a Ph.D. in Business Strategy, a post-doc at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management,  positions as VP, Strategy and Organization for Manco-Henkel, Inc. and Director of Strategic Initiatives for Stratton Corporation, she had a profound awakening.   After investing two decades in change management with a large systems focus, she came to the conclusion that change happens one person at a time.Acting on her discovery, she began training in ecopsychology and nature-based guiding with the Animas Valley Institute.  In 2008, she joined Marlboro College’s Sustainability MBA, launching a 2-year nature-based leadership development course, where she stayed for the next seven years.Also in 2008, she founded the Center for Nature and Leadership (CNL) to blend traditional leadership development with scientific and experiential findings on the beneficial effects of Nature on humans.  The Generative Council is CNL’s keystone program, designed to provide diverse women leaders the time & space to develop their personal impact, meeting  in places of wild magnificence two times/year, and supported by an ongoing community of previous participants.  CNL now offers virtual and regional programming, as well, based on these same principles.Creating and achieving bottom-lines of all sorts, and helping others see the wisdom of Nature at work in their own lives is what she loves to do.  Cultivating fearless leaders, those who stand firmly on authenticity and truth, who strive to bring new visions into reality in concert with others is her passion and expertise.And, when she’s not working with members of the Center for Nature and Leadership community, you’ll find her in the backcountry of her home in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.Resources:Center for Nature & LeadershipGenerative CouncilGrowing Your Best Self (virtual & physical journey of personal & leadership development - Registration deadline: 5/9)Leadership the Way Nature Intended (Beverly Winterscheid)Beverly’s book recommendations:The Spell of the Sensuous (David Abram)Widening Circles: A Memoir (Joanna Macy)The Hoop and the Tree  (Chris Hoffman)

As the Vice President of Global Programs for Real Estate & Workplace Services, Bakker leads Google’s renowned workplace programs and services such as food, transportation, events, guest services, sustainability, placemaking as well as fitness, massage and well-being. Bakker is focused on providing integrated offerings and experiences that enable Google to thrive. He is also focused on supporting the growth and future of Google through the scaling of these programs, ongoing innovation and partnerships. Bakker has spent over 25 years in global hotel and food and beverage operations, creating and building out partnerships, hotel F&B developments, openings, and food experience design. Before joining Google, Bakker worked for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide  in various roles for 17 years. From 2012 to 2017, Bakker led Google’s Food program, supporting all food service related activities and initiatives for Google’s global community as well as developing internal and external partnerships to explore and tackle the challenges and opportunities of the broader food systems. Bakker continues to be very involved in the ever-evolving and growing intersection of food, health, and sustainability through various roles and organizations around the world such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Food and Nature Board, the EAT Forum Advisory Board,, the Yale School of Management Center for Customer Insights' Advisory Board and the Culinary Institute of America’s Menus of Change Business Leadership Council.Bakker holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Hotel Management School Maastricht (The Netherlands), an MBA from the University of Bradford (United Kingdom), a Master’s of Hospitality Administration degree from the University of Nevada (USA) and a Master’s degree in Real Estate and Construction Management from the University of Denver (USA).Michiel’s podcast and book recommendations:The Land of the Giants podcastEssentialism. The disciplined pursuit of less (Greg McKeown)Team of Teams. New rules of engagement for a complex world (General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris FussellLeading WIthout Authority (Keith Ferrazzi)Locked In: The true causes of mass incarceration and how to achieve real reform (John F. Pfaff)The Death of Expertise The Campaign against knowledge and why it matters (Tom Nichols)

Since 2005 Katie Holloran has run her own business supporting families as a teacher, special education teacher, behavior analyst and sleep coach. Prior to starting her business, Katie graduated from Georgetown University and then earned her Masters in Special Education from George Washington University, both in Washington, DC.  While teaching and working with children with Autism and Developmental Delays in Public, Private, Charter schools as well as in-home therapy programs in the DC area, Katie completed the coursework and obtained her Board Certification in Behavior Analysis in 2010.While she had worked with many children and helped many families since starting as a classroom teacher in 2000, having her first child in 2008 helped her to see first-hand how confusing and overwhelming information and advice from other mothers, friends, family, and the internet could be. The single most effective parenting step Katie took was to learn about the science of sleep, and how to utilize that knowledge to create a healthier and more supportive schedule for children. Since becoming a Certified Gentle Sleep Coach in 2012, Katie has combined her knowledge of sleep with her coaching practice.  Katie co-authored a book, The Good Night Sleep Tight Workbook for Children with Special Needs, with renowned sleep expert Kim West in 2019. Every child and family is different, but Katie’s passion is helping other families to understand the foundations of a supportive sleep environment, and then learning how to apply that to their own specific family dynamic. As a sleep coach with expertise in education and special education, Katie works with families with children with unique strengths and needs across the globe, many who have specific medical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral and developmental diagnoses. Katie’s sleep work centers on supporting children and their needs, working together with tired parents everywhere to create a more positive - and more restful - home life. Katie and her two kids, husband and rescue mutt Zoey live in the Capitol Hill area of Washington DC where they love exploring local attractions, nearby bike trails, participating in and watching all things baseball, swimming, and weekend backyard fire pit s’mores with neighbors.Resources:www.behavioristnextdoor.com The Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook for children with special needs (by Katie Holloran and Kim West)Katie’s book recommendations:Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Terry Katz, Ph.D. & Beth Malow, M.D., M.S.The Hate U Give,  Angie ThomasThe Book of Two Ways, and everything else written by Jodi Picoult 

Christopher Gardner is a nutrition scientist and Professor of Medicine. For 28 years at Stanford he has studied what to consume and to avoid for optimal health, and how best to motivate individuals to achieve healthy dietary behaviors. Some of the dozens of human nutrition intervention trials he has conducted include studies of garlic, omega-3 fats, soy phytoestrogens and antioxidants. Among his most cited studies are the A TO Z (2007) and the DIETFITS (2018) weight loss diet trials. His ongoing trials involve examining the impact of dietary changes (e.g., alternative meat, ketogenic diet) on the gut microbiome and inflammation/immune function. Current research interests include collaborating with chefs and dining operators as research partners in an effort to identify strategies to optimize the intersection of taste, health, environmental sustainability and social justice in institutional food settings (e.g., universities, hospitals, worksites). Professor Gardner teaches several food and nutrition classes at Stanford, including an on-line Nutrition Science course recently launched through the Stanford Center for Health Education. Christopher is on Twitter @GardnerPhD.Resources:Protein study SWAP-MEAT studyVegan Before 6 (Mark Bittman)FlexitarianEAT-Lancet Commission report (summary)Christopher’s book recommendations:Animal, Vegetable, Junk (Bittman)Devoured (Egan)The Good Gut (Sonnenburg)

Julie Kunen’s passion for sustainability studies began with her PhD studies in archaeology, where she focused on agricultural practices of the ancient Maya.  Following completion of her degree she went on to hold roles in academia, government, non-profit, freelance journalism, and business consulting before joining Oatly at the end of 2020.Dr. Kunen served as the forestry and natural resources advisor for Latin America at the US Agency for International Development, and then stepped into dual roles as chief of staff of the policy bureau and senior environmental policy advisor, leading development of USAID’s first climate change and development strategy. She later moved into executive management of conservation portfolios as Vice President of the Americas for the Wildlife Conservation Society, a major international non-profit, where she led efforts to promote conservation through cuisine, including partnerships with renowned Latin American chefs. After leaving WCS, she founded Passiflora Consulting, a business consultancy working with chefs, restaurants, travel companies, and government agencies to promote sustainable gastronomy.Before joining Oatly, Dr. Kunen spent 4 months during the COVID-19 pandemic working as a farmhand on an organic vegetable farm in northern Montana. She is also a writer on topics at the nexus of food, culture, and the environment for independent food and travel-focused media outlets. Her most recent articles were about innovations in food studies programs and the indigenous roots of regenerative agriculture.Resources:Two Bear Farm (Whitefish, MT)“Getting Dirt Under My Fingernails” by Julie Kunen, Montana Women magazineWorld Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)Fork and Spoon- pay-as-you-can restaurant in Bozeman, MTPassion’s fruit - Julie’s websiteTimeless SeedsJulie’s recommended books:Lentil Underground (Liz Carlisle)Love, Life, and Elephants (Dame Daphne Sheldrick)The Wolf Hall Trilogy (Hilary Mantel)

Christopher Lindholst is CEO and co-founder of MetroNaps. A pioneer in corporate fatigue management solutions, he oversaw the development of MetroNaps’ i20 system, which has since become the leading technology for optimizing workplace napping. Christopher has been instrumental in putting sleep on the corporate wellness agenda and has established partnerships on four continents. He is a frequent speaker at corporations and conferences, where he talks about implementing sleep into corporate wellbeing programs. He has been cited in the media hundreds of times, including by the BBC, Monocle and the Financial Times. MetroNaps was founded in 2003 with a simple goal: to fight workplace fatigue. Our mission is based on a simple scientifically proven fact: that a brief nap improves alertness, learning, memory, mood and long term health. Today, MetroNaps remains a pioneer and the world’s leader in developing short rest solutions for our corporate, health care, university and aviation clients in over 50 countries on five continents.Resources:Metronaps: Home of the EnergyPodHome | Restworks - Workplace nap facilities to boost employee productivityShort Rest Solutions in Healthcare Settings Short Rest Solutions in University Settings Christopher’s book recommendations:Rest (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang) (guest from episode 12 of the podcast)Churchill: Walking with Destiny (Andrew Roberts)9 Stories (JD Salinger)