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With John Whalen, host of Evolutionary Collective Conversations, Patricia Albere and special guest host, Tom Curren
Tune in on November 8th, 6pm PST/9pm EST

Join Evolutionary Collective Conversation host Patricia Albere and business expert Tom Curren for an interview with John Whalen, a principal at Blu Skye Consulting. Blu Skye is making big ripples in the corporate world by helping companies like Nike and Microsoft as well as entire industries move towards sustainable practices.

Tom and Patricia will talk with John about the work he is involved with, some of the keys to his and Blu Skye’s success and what it takes to shift companies and industries towards a more sustainable and positive future.

John Whalen

John Whalen is a principal with Blu Skye (www.bluskye.com) and specializes in engagements involving system change – specifically, sustainability-driven innovation across supply chains and industries. John led Blu Skye’s team supporting the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, played a key role in the U.S. dairy industry’s work on greenhouse gas reduction coordinated by Dairy Management, Inc., supported Walmart’s sustainability strategy. John has over 25 years of experience in business strategy, operations and organizational development working with senior leaders on large-scale change in a variety of industries.

He has extensive training in facilitation and multi-stakeholder and large group strategy processes including the Appreciative Inquiry Summit and Future Search. He lives with his wife and two teenage children near Washington, D.C. An occasional professional songwriter, John gets to spend far too little time with his guitar. John also has been training in ancient Sufi practices, which helps him work more efficiently with large groups and whole systems

Tom Curren

Tom Curren, MBA, has 30 years’ experience working globally with some of the largest companies in the world at the CEO and Divisional President levels. Since founding Hawthorne Consultants (www.hawthorneconsultants.com) (formerly The Hawthorne Group) in 1990, Tom has been consulting with organizations of all sizes to advise CEOs, align top teams, develop breakthrough strategies and shift organizational cultures.

Tom is highly trained in Spiral Dynamics, Holocracy and many courses at Integral Theory and Application.