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HOME >> Board of Directors
ARINA's International Board of Directors
Sara Ross, USA, President
Bennett Bruce, USA, Treasurer
Russ Volckmann, USA, Secretary
Jan Inglis, Canada
Thomas Jordan, Sweden
Mike McDermott, Australia and Swaziland
Tom Radulovich, USA
Jonathan Reams, Canada and USA
Brief Windows Into Who ARINA's Board Members Are
M.S. The scope of his work includes the general fields of organizational learning, adult development, and process improvement. He facilitates, consults, and develops learning opportunities for individuals, groups, and events. Ben has developed and delivered workshops for client specific purposes, including strategic planning, team building, visioning, leadership development, and lean manufacturing.
Ben was with Harley-Davidson for 15 years and was their liaison officer for the Society of Organizational Learning (SoL) from 1995 through 2003. He has been a Design Team member for SoL conferences since 1994. He is currently a consultant member of SoL and serves on the Online Stewards Committee, Research Committee, and Design Committee for the Annual SoL Research Greenhouse Conference. Ben has contributed to the Reflections Journal and has presented at the Annual Systems Thinking Conference, Milwaukee First in Quality Symposium, OLC Semi-Annual Conference, SOL Annual Conference, and the SAE International Automotive Manufacturing Conference and Exposition.
Ed.D. My work history includes: breaking and training Connemara ponies, teaching documentary filmmaking and photography, and conducting oral histories and designing community education programs under a four year, NEH grant. I have also taught courses on leadership, effective communication and consulting skills at the Carroll School of Management, Columbia Teacher’s College and several American and European consulting firms.
I have a Masters, with a concentration in Organizational Development and a Doctorate, focused on Adult Development and Transformative Learning, both from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. My doctoral dissertation “Developmental Support for Transformative Learning” explored how adults’ developmental stages influence what aspects of their meaning systems they are able to transform.
My research grew out of and now contributes to my 20+ years experience as an executive coach and organizational consultant to non-profit organizations and companies in the pharmaceutical, electronic, manufacturing, publishing, and utility industries. While I remain interested in research, I am mostly interested in its intersection with practice. My current coaching and consulting focus on developing leadership, team and organizational capacities through enlarging individual’s awareness in action.
My involvement with ARINA and the Integral Review reflects my commitment to fostering inquiry across and within disciplines, and to evolving individual, organizational, national and global awareness.
Hello, I am Jan Inglis.
I live in Nelson, British Columbia and due to technology, I am able to live in
this lovely small community in the Kootenay Mountains in Western Canada and yet
work anywhere.
I, like many ARINA’s board members, have accumulated a variety of skills
and life experiences. My search for understanding how change occurs and what
makes people evolve into healthier ways of being, has taken me through the
medical field as an occupational therapist, into body work, into the creative
therapies and into being a practitioner of body focused psychotherapy and for 12
years as a teacher of a 3 year certification program for post graduate
therapists. Intertwined through that period, was a search for understanding of
how we as cultures can evolve and of how we could be so caught into our own
destructiveness. So I did my time in peace movements and environmental activism,
community development and popular theatre. And it always frustrated me that the
work with individuals in inner healing and the work in cultural healing were
such worlds apart. The people in the inner spiritual work field didn’t seem to
see that local or global sustainability issues were affecting them and the
people at the community development meetings didn’t seem to see that their inner
emotional spiritual beliefs were affecting them. So year by year I kept looking
for ways to have these fields inform one another and find ways of creating an
integrative approach to social change. This culminated in the creation of the
Integrative Learning Institute and its curriculum for social change agents, the
Cultural Coaches Training Program. (
www.integrativelearninginstitute.com )
A keyword that attracted me to ARINA was social change. Another keyword is presence and authenticity….I feel that the ARINA board and those who are attracted to work with us, need to do this work, not just “out there” but “in here” and have the commitment to transparency and integrity, as best as we know how to do that.
Ph.D.and associate professor. I am a trainer, consultant, researcher and in the fields of conflict resolution, communication, adult development and organizational development. I divide my time between the Department of Work Science at the Göteborg university, Sweden, and consulting and process facilitation in such areas as conflict management, coaching, research design and organizational development. I have carried out a number of research projects based on adult development theory on meaning-making in defense and security policies and workplace conflicts/collaboration cultures. I offer workshops and seminars on conflict management, adult development psychology and visionlogic for organizational consultants, leaders and various types of professionals. I share my writing and research at www.perspectus.se/tjordan.
I am involved with ARINA because it is platform that makes valuable knowledge and skills available to people who need to develop their competence for working effectively with social change. ARINA strives to introduce wisdom into political and social processes at various scales, by skill development in the fields of systemic complexity, self-awareness, meta-paradigmatical awareness and holocentric values.
Mike McDermott
M.A. I grew up on the seashore of Adelaide, South Australia, and have traveled extensively since, with extended work in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. My commitment to land-related issues came into sharp focus since 1993 when sent by Australian Aid to Swaziland to assist in land-related matters, particularly in terms of fringe urban settlements. The Minister of Housing had me prepare an issues paper for the National Development Strategy, then I subsequently did further work on that Strategy, the National Physical Development Plan, the National Environment Action Plan, and many other land-related initiatives. I have worked as the facilitator/adviser for Swaziland's National Land Policy, and on addressing land reform and property rights issues both locally and regionally, and in Vanuatu to help the introduction of land-related legislation and policy there. My work focus remains on the role of property rights, especially landed property rights, in facilitating human development.
I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, and moved to Berkeley in 1985 to study environmental design and geography at UC Berkeley. Since moving to San Francisco about 13 years ago, I have been active in its Bay Area environmental, transportation, and urban design issues. I am a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District Board of Directors, where I serve as the elected representative of 350,000 San Franciscans. Since 2004, I have been the Executive Director of Transportation for a Livable City (TLC). I was a founding member of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, and serve on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters, the Citizens Advisory Group for the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association Board of Directors, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s Transportation Committee, and the Bay Area Council’s Transportation Committee. I enjoy using my experience authoring and co-authoring public policies and reports, and teaching at San Francisco State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, where I coordinate the institute’s urban studies curriculum.
Ph.D. One form of my history goes something like this. Grew up on a pig farm. Went to university to study physics and philosophy. Got married at 18. Dropped out in my second year disenchanted by the logical positivist worldview encountered, and spurred on by the realization that what I was looking for was spiritual not intellectual. Searched around and took up a spiritual practice. Went back to pig farming for a while, then took up trucking, changed relationships, and built a log home. Went back to school and kept at it until I had my PhD in Leadership Studies. Meanwhile, my community involvement has included the areas of education, economic development and civic leadership.
Meanwhile, I co-founded the Institute for Transformative Leadership www.transform.bc.ca Through this, my work has focused on developing leadership capacities for a wide range of clients. This has included developing and delivering curriculum, consulting, facilitation, research, writing, and teaching. Most recently this has focused in the area of facilitating organizational development in the context of meeting accreditation standards. My interest in ARINA stems from a desire to engage with other like-minded individuals in supporting the development and dissemination of integrative and reflective processes.
Ph.D. My history includes over 20 years of program design and implementation in a range of venues. Those included youth and adults, with aims at personal, spiritual, and civic development. In parallel, I spent 27 years in accountancy, as a CPA and in public, private, and governmental fields. Areas of particular interest and expertise were systems and management advisory services, and forecasting. For a dozen years I had association with Kettering Foundation. Several of those were as its primary researcher in its community politics program area, where I developed action research approaches that made substantive contributions to the foundation's research. This included its first longitudinal, comparative study of communities. I have been an independent scholar and action researcher for the last 15 years, with an emphasis on complex public issues, democratization, and developmental psychology. Founding ARINA was a natural outgrowth of this history because it gave me eyes to see what we need for fostering social change that did not yet exist.
My history can be imaged as three rivers of passion that flowed, widened, and deepened over the decades until they met and intermixed in a rich delta, then merged with the ocean. I can name the rivers as my personal journey of development, psychology, and politics. (By politics, I refer to our public ways of relating, not the narrow partisan concept.) In the delta, I integrated them, seeing the relations of micro personal processes writ large in macro socio-political process, and the psychologies operating within them. I can characterize the flow into the ocean as the recognition of processes, patterns, and new ways of employing accumulated insights. And so, my current orientation and a chief purpose for founding ARINA is to help my own and others’ further insights and capacities to grow, in service of this planet's pressing needs. My vision for ARINA is that together we more effectively research, learn, and integrate how to be the most effective possible agents of individual and social change and development.
I serve on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Public Participation and Integral Review, and on the Management Review Board of the Integral Leadership Review. My professional affiliations include the Society for Terrorism Research (co-founder and governing board), Society for Research in Adult Development (governing board and program committee), Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences (membership chair), and International Society of Political Psychology. I am one of the associate authors in Bill Torbert & Associates Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (2004, Berrett-Koehler), and co-editor of an upcoming special double issue in World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
Ph.D. After receiving my PhD at Berkeley in political science, doing my dissertation as a Fulbright Scholar in India, I studied humanistic psychology at Sonoma State University. I practiced as an organization development consultant for 22 years with government agencies, non-profit organizations and various industries, including health care, computer technology, utilities, manufacturing and services. Since 1997 I have focused on executive coaching and have trained executives as well aspiring business coaches in coaching skills. I coach CEOs and CxOs in a variety of industries, as well as business owners and independent professionals.
My major interest these days is in integral leadership development. The work I do with executives and teams, as well as my writing and publishing, is focused on this area where theory and practice merge. I believe that we need to shift our paradigm of leadership and that an integral lens offers a powerful approach for doing this. We can develop individual leaders—and that is important—and we must develop leadership as a dynamic process in all of our institutions if we are to meet the challenges in the world of today and tomorrow.
My involvement with ARINA is an opportunity to work with others in bringing transdisciplinary perspectives to the study and development of integral leadership theory and leadership development in various types of organizations, communities and cultures. i, qui nunc nobis videntur iant sollemnes in futurum.