Amy Conway is a Director, Community Health at Kaiser Permanente. Colleagues describe her as "I helped to recruit Amy to the position of Executive Director of the Northern California Shambhala community in 2004, and from 2005 to 2007 she reported to me in my capacity as chair of the community's board of directors. We created the position of Executive Director in response to several significant challenges the organization was facing at the time, many of which had gone unresolved for several years, but in the intervening time had become critical roadblocks to its success. We sought a candidate who could effectively enlist community leaders in a consensus-driven process to build a centralized, regional governance structure in which everyone would have to give up something in order to realize benefits for all; who had the financial, management, and fundraising skills needed to guide the community through a financial reorganization and meet ambitious development goals; and who could offer leadership to other regional communities within the larger international organization that were going through the same process. Amy exceeded our expectations on all these dimensions, and as a result accomplished several key objectives that had eluded the organization for many years previously. She would be a great fit for any enterprise that needs the combination of strong interpersonal skills, business acumen, and personal charisma that she exhibited in her role as Executive Director of Northern California Shambhala." and "Amy is a powerhouse of energy, heart, and endurance. She can handle the chaos of a large, geographically distributed non-profit organization and in that chaos inspire everyone around her. She gets amazing amounts of things done."