One Heart Many Rhythms Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Leslie Bethel Carbondale, Colorado Leslie is an independent consultant in the planning and design profession. She works with communities across the United States to envision and strategize their futures, often building the places she has planned. Leslie received her education at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has developed a process that focuses on public workshops designed to educate and promote community involvement and support for community goals. She has traveled extensively, experiencing the wisdom of indigenous peoples and their cultures all over the world and integrating that knowledge into her work and her life. Leslie lives with her two children on the Western Slope of Colorado.

Caryl Dalton Vice President Austin, Texas Caryl is a psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas and has been working with children and families for over 30 years. She holds a Doctorate of Educational Psychology from the University of Texas. As the founder of White Hummingbird Consulting, she created the Post Divorce Coaching program as a preventative intervention to help families make a successful transition to this change in their lives. Caryl is a student of shamanism and enjoys traveling and visiting indigenous cultures to learn about their healing traditions.

Kathleen Donohue New York, New York Kathleen is a consultant, coach, and facilitator with expertise in the use of feedback technology as a leadership development tool. She has worked in partnership with senior global leaders to manage organizational change for financial institutions and professional services firms. She seeks to make a difference by aligning values, leadership behaviors, infrastructure, and performance metrics around business strategy. She has strong cross-group collaboration skills and works closely with teams to build a world-class culture to express their mission and values, implement effective solutions, and measure results. She is committed to sharing knowledge with indigenous leaders and working to support programs that preserve cultural traditions and practices.

Meave Foley Northfield, Illinois Through her travels, Meave has experienced first-hand the wisdom of indigenous people and has found working with them transformational. This experience has inspired her to help find creative ways to help them preserve their traditions and cultures and bring appropriate educational opportunities to those who hunger for it. After 20 years as a Vice President of Sales in the graphic arts industry, Meave is planning to return to school for her Masters in Education. Meave currently lives in the Chicago area with her husband and four children.

Carol Gorelick New York, New York Carol is a teacher, consultant and researcher. She is founder of SOLUTIONS, a consulting firm dedicated to bringing together the best in people, processes, and technology to help teams and groups improve their performance. Her clients span the globe with offices on multiple continents. In addition to working with organizations, Carol is an adjunct professor at Pace University teaching in an innovative, team-taught, problem-based, executive MBA program at The Lubin School of Business. She has also been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she taught knowledge management in the MBA and Executive Management programs. With Al Witten, a former principal in a disadvantaged primary school in Cape Town, she is pursuing cross-sectoral work involving government, social profit organizations, corporations, education, and youth in the developing world. She has a doctorate in Human and Organization Studies from George Washington University and an MBA in Management from Pace University. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Siri Jacobson Evanston, Illinois Born in Norway and educated in Cambridge and Paris, Siri has always been curious about other cultures and traditions. As a former flight attendant with Pan American Airways, she has traveled to many different countries in her life and finds it easy to see each culture's uniqueness. More recently, Siri has traveled as part of delegations representing C.A.R.E. International to Guatemala, Kenya, Tunisia, and India. She has seen how the earth's people have much to teach us. Siri is currently a holistic heath counselor working with women to help them finds ways to age gracefully while staying healthy and living a vibrant lifestyle. She is a widow and the mother of three grown children. Siri currently lives in Rye, New York.

Linda Logan-Condon Tijeras, New Mexico Linda is President and CEO of Logan Training and Development, Unlimited, an international consulting and training firm specializing in executive coaching, exceptional leadership, team excellence, collaborative change, survey and assessment design and administration, conflict management and mediation, and meeting design and facilitation. Her experience with her clients in South Africa, India, Europe, and Russia continues to be a source of great learning. She is committed to the belief that, "People Support What They Create". It is through high levels of involvement and participation that people bring forward the best of who they are to create the life they want, both professionally and personally.

Charlotte Pollard Founder & President Santa Fe, New Mexico Charlotte is a lifelong student of the cultures of first peoples around the world. As founder of One Heart Many Rhythms she seeks to honor the legacy of her best teachers in life. She has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and the Pacific, and she has lived with indigenous families in Mexico, Peru, and Australia. For 30 years Charlotte has worked as an organization development consultant. Her clients include major, multinational corporations. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from New York University. She has always been a social activist and a leader in professional and civic organizations. Charlotte currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Diana Post Belmont Hills, Pennsylvania Diana is founder and managing partner of TAP Consulting, specializing in program development, evaluation, and assessment in the public and non-profit sectors. Her clients represent both national and international interests. She brings her listening and analytical skills to her first love—assisting dedicated and diverse groups of people to tell their stories more effectively. Diana holds a Master’s degree in Genetics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a longtime student in Native American traditions honoring kinship and relationship. Diana lives on a hilltop just outside Philadelphia.

M. Susan Rossi Haddonfield, New Jersey Susan is a student and practitioner of alternative healing techniques. She is a reflexologist, Reiki Master, yoga teacher and shamanic practitioner. As a result of her studies with indigenous practitioners, she has learned to love and respect the energetic connections among all beings. She works with individuals and groups to foster awareness of this connection and the power of the individual to make meaningful change. Susan received a degree in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University and is employed as a paralegal.

Patricia Rowell New York, New York Patricia is Vice President of Human Resources for American Express Global Finance and Global Technologies. She works closely with the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer to develop innovative people strategies to meet their business objectives. She is an active member of her community in New York City, working with her local Community Board, serving on the Board of the New York Theater Company, and is Chairperson for the Human Resources Division II Council of the Conference Board. Patricia is also on the Board of the Troutbeck Housing Association and volunteers for the Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association in Amenia, New York. Patricia has traveled extensively in her career and on her own, and has seen the challenges indigenous cultures face. She holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She is a widow, but is fortunate to have two step children, three grandchildren, two sisters and wonderful nieces and nephews.

Joan Schutz Secretary & Treasurer Santa Fe, New Mexico Joan is an active volunteer with the Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center. She has served as a Hot Line Advocate, Court Monitor, Treasurer, Board President, and a continuous member of the Finance Committee. She was a member of the Building Committee, which culminated in the Rape Crisis Center opening a new building in 2004 that is a worldwide model for providing services to women, children, and men who are survivors of sexual assault. Prior to her relocation out West, Joan was an independent management consultant and a business marketing manager for AT&T. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Pace University in New York City.

Barbara Simonetti Brookline, Massachusetts Barbara is an independent consultant specializing in developing the capacity of managers and professionals to create, share, and use knowledge to meet emerging business challenges. Her clients include major Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Master of Science degree in Education from Columbia University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. She is a leader in civic organizations including the Kids Clothes Club and Brookline’s First parish where she uses her facilitation skills to create meaningful community wide dialogue during critical transitions. Barbara currently lives with her husband and son in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Miriam Volat Glen Ellen, California Miriam teaches Ecological Agriculture and Leadership at New College of California working to educate youths and adults to grow food in harmony with nature. She has a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Agriculture Systems from the University of California at Davis. She also conducts leadership and communication training with an aim to building healthy, sustainable communities. She has worked with organizations such as Roots and Wings which focuses on life skills and gardening for at risk girls, Community Alliance with Family Farmers which provides biological farming education and community support for small family farmers, FARMS Leadership Programs which offers environmental and sustainable agriculture education for high school students, and ECO-SEA which works to conserve important jungle crops. She has participated in projects both locally and internationally to promote indigenous wisdom regarding the use of native plants. Miriam believes a more just, sacred, and sustainable world is possible and that working to support indigenous peoples and plants in their native habitat is part of creating that world. Miriam currently lives with her husband and daughter in Sonoma County, California.

Gisela Wendling Sebastopol, California Gisela emigrated from Germany at the age of 20. Since then her life’s path has taken her from minimum wage worker to corporate executive and from student to professor of humanistic psychology and organization development. Several years ago, she traveled to Peru and committed her doctoral research to understanding the implication of practicing the Andean shamanic/mystical path in western settings. Through her travels and her research she now feels called to be part of the dialogue between Western and indigenous traditions of knowing and using the emerging insights to create contexts that re-inspire and support transformational learning and development processes on the individual and collective levels. One of the questions that is primary to her at this time in her life is, what does it mean to be in right relation with her family, herself, her community, and the natural environment. Gisela now lives in Sebastopol, California, with her husband and young daughter.
One Heart, Many Rhythms is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with first peoples of the world to conserve and express the traditions of their culture. We believe all peoples of the world and their way of life are precious and worthy of preserving, and that all ways of knowing add value to our well-being. ©2004-2007 One Heart Many Rhythms