2012

As the president of Vita-Mix Corporation since 2009, fourth-generation family member Jodi L. Berg is tasked with taking the world leader in high-performance blending equipment, for home and commercial use, to a whole new level. 

Waylon Lewis is a “Dharma Brat,” or second generation Buddhist. Founder of elephantjournal.com and host of the Top 10 US Green Video Series “Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis,” he’s interviewed Seane Corn, Bill McKibben, Alice Walker, Michael Franti, Deepak Chopra, Michael Pollan, Amy Goodman, Chris Sharma, Terry Tempest Williams, Dr. Andrew Weil and hundreds of others.

Executive Director Ian Fisk was a founding board member of the William James Foundation, and joined the staff in his current role in 2005. Mr. Fisk is also the CEO of ITF Consulting, Inc. and has served as the Director of Projects for Wall Street Without Walls.

Craig Shiesley is the Senior VP Plant Based Beverages and Canada for, Silk®, the brand known for its bestselling soymilk, almondmilk and coconutmilk. He has nearly 20 years experience in consumer packaged goods, leading brand marketing organizations, and developing new products that drive growth opportunities.

Terri Trespicio is a writer, healthy living expert, content strategist, and former senior editor at Martha Stewart’s Whole Living magazine and former host of “Whole Living” on Sirius XM radio. A regular contributor to local and national media, Terri appears regularly on Dr.

Rha Goddess is the founder and CEO of Move The Crowd an entrepreneurial training company dedicated to helping the next generation stay true, get paid, and do good.  With an interdisciplinary curriculum that acknowledges, honors and elevates the whole person, Move The Crowd works with clients to leverage their unique creativity, strengths and passion into viable projects, ventures and initiatives into tangible, profitable results. Entrepreneurs emerge with the vision to move forward, the knowledge to up their game and the power to achieve their own flavor of success.

Ted is widely regarded as the epicenter of all things LOHAS leading many to affectionately refer to him as ‘Mr. LOHAS’. He is a change agent, trend spotter and executive director of  the LOHAS.  Ted is renowned for leading the annual LOHAS Forum, LOHAS.com and LOHAS Journal the past 8 years. He has worked closely with executive teams pursuing environmental, social and wellness innovations at corporations including Coca-Cola, MINI, Mohawk Flooring, Rancho La Puerta, Jurlique, Macy’s, Ecobonus and Natureworks.

Fred Haberman is president and co-owner with his wife Sarah Bell Haberman of Haberman & Associates Inc. (HAI), a Minneapolis-based public relations firm whose mission is to support pioneers who are positively changing the way business is done.

Welch runs Ogden Publications, Inc., a diversified media, consulting and affinity marketing company. His company has grown rapidly over the past few years and now publishes 10 magazines for people interested in self-sufficiency, sustainability, rural lifestyle and farm-collectible categories, including Mother Earth News, Utne Reader, Natural Home, and the Herb Companion.