Team

Aimie created REEL WITNESS in 2009 to produce documentaries to build conversations around tolerance, peace, and respect for our diverse human voices. Since then, RW has developed films about sustainability, food security, and our refugee community. RW created powerful visual stories for Thriving Communities for six years, celebrating grassroots leaders and groups that are creating lasting change in the Pacific Northwest. Present Moment, RW’s first documentary, was nominated for an Emmy award in 2015. After the first Travel Ban issued by the US government in 2017, RW also made Little Rebel about an asylum seeker from The Gambia, and in 2019, This Being Human, the story of an unaccompanied minor who fled Iraq to seek an education in America.

Anne has always been a visual thinker. In the math and computer science fields, she honed her skills in systems thinking, analysis, process mapping, deep-listening, and synthesizing skills. She has always appreciated the arts, and now blends her business skills and artistic flair to create Live Graphical Recordings (visual representations) for change initiatives. Anne also facilitates using large Visual Templates (guides) and creates Synthesis Charts (timelines and story maps). Anne's experience includes software development, systems analysis, database design, organizational consultation, coaching, and facilitation. She received her MA in Organizational Development at Seattle University. She believes in the power of visuals. See examples of Anne's work at TheDoodleBiz.com.

Rooted in love, Carolyn cultivates deep relationships so she and others can courageously face their reality and be energized by the possibility of what wants to emerge. Founder of CataQuest Consulting, Carolyn’s leadership development work is grounded by her first-hand experience leading large-scale corporate initiatives as well as her personal journey to overcome roadblocks of her own making. Her work is a catalyst for challenging the status quo by talking about what really matters to inspire reflection and conscious action.

As founder of Quantum Edge, and through roles such as Founding Consultant of Interaction Associates, an internationally known facilitation and training firm, Chris has advised senior executives of major corporations and non-profit organizations for over 40 years. He has helped CXOs exponentially grow companies, revitalize moribund cultures, establish global presences, and develop entirely new technologies. He taught conflict resolution to representatives of opposing factions during a war in Cyprus. A master and teacher of Aikido, Chris pioneered the application of principles of Aikido [The Art of Peace] and Bohmian Dialogue [from the work of David Bohm] to leadership, team synergy, and organizational strategy. He is also a master of Haiku, the Zen poetry of deep presence in Nature.

Dale Nienow is the Former ED Center for Ethical Leadership, Seattle, WA. Dale creates Gracious Space where people can work across boundaries to form collective leadership. He is known for helping people open up to deeper dialogue and new relationships that will move groups and communities forward on their compelling issues.

Danita Rountree Green, M.A., TLSC is a wordsmith, trauma healer, and co-CEO of Coming To The Table-RVA, a nonprofit committed to racial healing in the city known as the former Capital of the Confederacy. As the only African American in leadership of an inclusivity group in RVA, she facilitates the "courageous yet clumsy" conversation on race, social equity, and the legacy of the American Slave Trade for a mixed-race audience with over 1200 online members and 300 active participants seeking to heal the wounds of the past.

Jim Anderson is the founder and President of Key-Connections, a leadership development coaching and consulting company located in Evergreen, Colorado. For the past twenty plus years Key-Connections has allowed Jim to focus his attention on creating and applying tools to support individuals and organizations in developing self-awareness, strengthening leadership skills, and consistently achieving desired results.

Lisa Holden lives in Milwaukee, Wi with her husband Dan. Lisa was the Vice President Accountable Care for Independent Health Care Plan (iCare) from 2014-2022. Thriving Communities featured iCare’s unique Care Management model in 2020. Holden has extensive and varied experience in nonprofit leadership and board service, government affairs, public policy, coalition building, and leadership. She recently co-founded an Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) business with her husband Dan, called Espiritu Horse. In addition, Lisa and Dan are offering free services for veterans through their newly formed nonprofit, Veterans Equine Alliance. 

Michael B. Maine is a socially engaged artist who focuses his work primarily around issues of identity, systems, and social equity. The goal of his work is to encourage people to think beyond their assumptions help reach their own conclusions on how to change themselves and their environment. Michael finds inspiration within the various communities in which he is engaged. He organized We Out Here, a six-day festival celebrating Black excellence in the Seattle area in 2019 and has served as board president for both Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking and Reel Grrls.

Rhea Miller is a social artist and community organizer, speaker, and author of Cloudhand, Clenched Fist: Chaos, Crisis, and the Emergence of Community. She served over 10 years as County Commissioner of San Juan County. While there, she focused on environmental protection and sustainability. Currently, she’s the Community Liaison for the Lopez Community Land Trust. Her TEDx talk “When We Change the Way We look at Things (the Things We Look At Change)” includes stories of unlikely alliances that spurred community action.

Jeff Vander Clute is a veteran technology entrepreneur, consciousness coach, and organizational transformation consultant committed to harmonizing human systems with Earth’s ecosystems. Jeff has grown companies in the online, medical imaging, social enterprise, and consciousness domains, and he has advised numerous other businesses and charitable organizations. Along the way, he has developed unique methods for leadership transformation and inspired decision-making that enable teams to operate with greater wisdom and achieve world-changing results. Jeff delights in helping complex living systems – especially organizations that are contributing strongly to social and environmental well-being – to evolve and thrive during these times of disruption and new possibilities. He is able to see the gifts that are seeking to be born and facilitate the emergence of people's awakened selves in alignment with the trends of shifting consciousness on the planet. He creates and leads retreats, workshops, and other transformational experiences for people who are ready to dive into their radical potential as change agents. Jeff is a longtime member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, past chair of the Source of Synergy Foundation, and a co-founder of The Consciousness of Money, Enlightening Journeys and Expeditions, and Sourcing The Way -- jeffvanderclute.com.