Amanda Kathryn Hydro is a lifelong convener and builder of infrastructure. She is known as a forward-thinking executive who sees how things can be improved and effectively aligns human, social, natural, and financial capital to move towards that better vision.

A provocative change agent who has been scaling disruptive models for three decades, Amanda challenges status quo thinking with intentional approaches to systemic evolution and cultural translation. She has led four successful organizational turnarounds while undergoing three significant shifts on her own leadership journey: religion to role modeling in her teens, politics to policy in her 20s, and endgame to ecosystem in her 30s.

Her coachsultancy, AKR Collaborations, advises on cultivating innovative cultures rooted in care and focused on growth. Amanda specializes in building systems, growing people, and curating organizational cultures guided by her life’s mission to be a disruptor for dignity. Amanda collaborates with business leaders, academics, thought leaders, philanthropists, elected officials, and social changemakers to design and operationalize sustainable workflows and learning exchanges that increase individual capacities, performance, and social impact across stakeholder ecosystems. She currently serves as producer and co-host of the Oxford Economics of Mutuality Global Forum with Paul Polman, Managing Director on social impact innovation and strategy for Calliope Advisors, creative partner in Ubuntu Living, executive tutor for Saïd Business School Executive Education program, and facilitator of the Changemakers Growth Formula course. 

In service to creating spaces for changemakers to have courageous conversations and take bold action, Amanda co-founded 3 regenerative organizations to catalyze and drive systemic shifts in civil society through Living Room Conversations, a nonprofit sharing an open-source conversation framework proven to build bridges across divides of politics, age, gender, race, and nationality; the public sector through Bridge Alliance, a coalition of 100+ organizations dedicated to advancing the healthy self-governance movement in America through open-minded collaborations that embrace differences, honor the citizen voice, and focus on solutions; and the private sector through Institute for Corporate Transformation, a firm that equips intrapreneurs to transform their company by expanding the CEO’s definition of success, creating alignment with senior leaders and the board, engaging employees and other key stakeholders, and rewiring operational systems. Additionally, she co-created and co-facilitated the Conscious Capitalism consultant certification program as well as designed the curriculum, catalyzing a growing global network of elite consultants working together to accelerate the transition to stakeholder-centric business models.

An adventure-seeking wanderlust woman, Amanda has enjoyed living on both coasts of the United States and working in every state across America. A fierce momma bear, she also cherishes dance parties and road-trips with her three children. Amanda loves spending time in the great outdoors, laughing big belly laughs with lifelong friends, running marathons, dancing whenever the mood strikes her, and listening to classic rock while on the go.

Amanda is passionate about making shift happen – together!

Michael is an event producer and project consultant with years of successful experience in event production, systems development, financial oversight, and strategic planning for both the for profit and nonprofit sectors.

He has orchestrated numerous events ranging from executive leadership meetings for Fortune 50 companies, to community events with over 100,000 attendees. Michael strives to deliver positive, memorable experiences to clients and guests. His expertise moves freely from strategy to content to execution.

Michael has worked with a wide range of clients, including SunPower, Dell, Verizon Wireless, Belcampo Meat Co., and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. He’s consulted with numerous early-stage consumer focused companies at the intersection of music and technology.

He describes himself as a team player, proactive problem solver, efficiency enthusiast, and consummate learner.

Michael received his BS in Communication with a Liberal Arts emphasis in Math and Science from Boston University. He seeks to create a balance between technology, an urban lifestyle, and time in nature. Michael enjoys a range of physical activities. Those include yoga, kickboxing, surfing, and backcountry wilderness excursions. Michael has lived in Boston, San Diego, Boulder, and currently splits his time between San Francisco, California and Missoula, Montana.

Nathan graduated from the University of Northern Colorado from what he calls the Ronald Reagan School of Success with dual degrees in Theatre and Political Science.  After a brief stint not acting but waiting tables and tending bar at an Olive Garden in suburban Denver, he moved to Washington DC to earn a Master of Public Policy from the George Washington University and work for a member of Congress.  

Realizing that he did not have the patience for national policy change, Nathan followed the woman who would become his spouse to LA, Boston, Anchorage, Alaska and Traverse City, Michigan, Denver as she completed law school and clerkships and found a great position in an impact firm, before starting a family (2 kids) and settling in Boulder, CO.

Along the way, Nathan got (and lost) a few jobs, eventually throwing in the towel on traditional employment and trying his luck as an independent consultant.  In 2010, he read Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, by Ray Anderson and embraced the idea that for-profit companies are the greatest organizer of effort on the planet and that the cases and the solutions to the world’s problems can be found in their business models.  Nathan promptly began working to help companies expand their definition of success and establish a purpose beyond profit.  

In 2013, he listened to Firms of Endearment by Raj Sisodia while driving along from Anchorage to Denver and realized that there is no tradeoff between purpose and profit, in fact, to the contrary, expanding the game of business has propelled companies to outperform the S&P by 1400%. It was there, in the middle of the Canadian Rockies that he found his purpose in life: To expand the game of business to create a world that works for everyone.

Fueled by this clarity, Nathan began to build what he saw was needed to affect the transformation of companies.  He created a national traveling storytelling series and coached 130+ business leaders in 14 cities to tell the story of how they aligned what they did for good with what they did for work.  He facilitated the transformation of a large coffee franchise into a stakeholder capitalism company.  He co-created and co-facilitated the consultant certification program for Conscious Capitalism Inc. cultivating a network of 65 and counting rock-star consultants from all around the world.  A believer in the transformative power of stories, Nathan also wrote and directed an award-willing film telling an updated version of the story that set him on this path back in 2010. Its called Beyond Zero and companies like KKR and UPS and universities like Yale, ESCP, and the University of Michigan are using it to teach the expanded game of business.

Nathan is a co-founder of the Institute for Corporate Transformation where he produced the acclaimed podcast miniseries 10 Things You Should Know About Stakeholder Capitalism.  He wrote and leads the Change Leadership in Stakeholder Management Certification program, and he speaks to, trains, and collaborates with people around the globe who are working to expand the game of business to create a world that works for everyone.

Amanda believes in human exceptionalism – the idea that ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things. She enjoys the challenge of finding new and interesting ways to inspire ordinary people to identify, experience, and share their unique value with the communities in which they live, work, and play.

Amanda is a graduate of the very first Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the science of well-being with Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. Emphasizing an evidence-based approach to impact, her work to date focuses on the effect of individual strengths and experiences, emotional skills, engagement, meaning and purpose, and authentic leadership on individual, organizational, and community excellence.

An editor of the Oxford University Press’s The Oxford Handbook of Happiness, Amanda possesses a comprehensive understanding of the psychology of well-being and its many applications. She has worked with organizations across the country to help empower individuals with the practical and emotional skills necessary to engage their unique strengths and life experiences, build high-quality relationships with their colleagues, identify a workplace purpose that matters to them, accomplish their big and small goals, and to enjoy the moments of happiness that come and go along the way.

Meghan French Dunbar is the Co-founder and former CEO of Conscious Company Media, the nation’s leading media company dedicated to purpose-driven businesses and social enterprises. The company’s flagship product — Conscious Company Magazine — was the first nationally distributed print publication in the U.S. to focus exclusively on sustainable and conscious business practices.

Meghan was also the Founder of World-Changing Women, a national event series for purpose-driven business leaders, as well as being the creator and host of the World-changing Women’s podcast, which tells the stories of female business leaders and founders making a positive impact on the world.

Currently, she is a partner at the Institute for Corporate Transformation, she connects female leaders as co-founder of Womxn Led, she teaches about conscious business at meghanfrenchdunbar.com, as well as being the co-founder of the Firefly Alliance, a leadership training program to help bridge the divide between womxn of color and white womxn.

She lives in Boulder with her wonderful husband, Scott, their new son, Jack, and their beloved rescue mutt, Chloe.