WeDialogue co-hosts your online events with a focus on interaction, conversation, and engagement. We are a World Cafe Services partner company and a % of all our professional fees go to support the World Cafe Community Foundation.I have been designing and hosting online World Cafes since 2010 under weDialogue, which I initially launched to manage the World Cafe's online services.

Online Communications Design and Consultationfor Non-Profits, Businesses, Writers, Artists, Visionaries and Social EntrepreneursWeb Design, Blog Design & Coaching, Online Events, Social Media Consultation & Integration, e-Letters, etc.

In my work as Development and Delivery Director for the World Cafe's suite of Signature Learning Programs, launched in June 2011, I have worked with the Learning Program Development team to collaboratively develop four programs: "Introduction to the World Cafe"​ and "Hosting World Cafe: The Fundamentals"​, each in both face-to-face and online formats. I managed the delivery of the above two face-to-face World Cafe Signature Learning Programs in St Paul, Minnesota. and Bogota Columbia. I was a co-presenter of the program in St Paul, Minnesota. I also produce and co-present both programs in an online format on an ongoing schedule. The eight-week course, "Hosting World Cafe: The Fundamentals", is offered in partnership with Fielding Graduate University, where I serve as Adjunct Faculty.

The World Café is a dialogic process used around the world in a wide variety of sectors; it is also a loosely affiliated, self-directed network of people and organizations using the World Café process. My work from 2006 - early 2012 was in the role of Director of Communications. In that capacity I created a virtual infrastructure to support the complex needs of this constantly emergent and evolving multi-lingual, multi-cultural network. I initiated and continue to maintain and consult on a constellation of online communication vehicles that include: a central informational website; an interactive online community of practice with a global directory, international event calendar, collective conversations, stories (StoryNet) and resources (Cybrary); blogs (covering regional, philosophical, climate change and overall network community issues); wikis, photographic gallery and a network-wide newsletter.

I have been working with FireHawk Hulin on a number of internet and media-related projects since 2006. We launched Vision Nest Studios after co-teaching a summer intensive workshop on Vision, Storytelling and Digital Media at Hartnell College in Salinas, California in 2010. More on this project can be found here: http://www.visionneststudio.org

I was part of a collaborative Group Pattern Language Project team that conceived, designed and articulated the group works pattern language, and set of cards.

I worked with Berrett-Koehler Publishers to support them in designing, building, and launching an online community platform for their readers, authors, BK staff and key people in the publishing industry in order to develop their sense of community and share information and inspiration.

I am responsible for building an extensive web presence for this international research, education and connection project supported by Berkana Institute and funded by Fetzer Institute.My work includes building an interactive website, as well as functioning project management site, community platform, blog, and story-place.

I have worked with Heartland since 1999, consulting on the development of their online presence and programming, from the first Art of Convening online courses to their most recent online Thought Leader Circle sessions.

I worked closely with owner Brian Duggan in this fast-paced promotional business. Each project was unique and required personalized customization, but much of our work was focused on creating alliances between corporate, media and non-profit partners. We also helped clients develop their conferences and other live events, including creating benefit packages and handling sales for corporate and media sponsorship.Clients included Fast Company Magazine, Harvard Business School Magazine, Wines and Vines Magazine, The Institute of Noetic Science, Heartland Institute, and Spirit in Business,

As co-founder of this small environmental education NGO, my work was by necessity wide-ranging; it included:Communications & Design – I co-developed our interactive, multi-lingual website and managed our regular public communications, including a 20 page monthly print newsletter and extensive annual report. Program Management – I coordinated our flagship program, LowTide, an annual festival in which hundreds of communities in more than 30 countries participated; administered an annual conference and several smaller programs designed for various community sectors.Volunteer Coordination - I managed volunteer development programs and supervised volunteer teams of up to 150 people.Art Direction - My particular interest was in integrating art and science and I initiated and managed several large-scale pubic environmental art installations.Funding - I wrote many successful grant proposals and managed funds for EU, National, Local, and Arts grants.

My catering company provided all food and food-related services for long-term residential trainings put on by luminaries such as Buckminster Fuller and Marshall Thurber for the Burklyn Business School trainings, Money & You seminars, SuperCamps, Arica Trainings, and many other residential events for over 20 years. We also provided private catering services for weddings and other large events during this period, including Tony Robbin's wedding! :-)I co-owned a restaurant/bar in Brighton, UK - The Blue Parrot - between 1986 & 1992, for which I designed and built the kitchen, created the menu, and then trained and supervised the kitchen and floor staff. I also managed the payroll, taxes, and other accounting.Before that I helped open the vegetarian restaurant Kung Food in San Diego, CA, where I collaboratively designed the menu, cooked, waitressed, managed the "front of house" staff and had a lot of fun for 2 years.