Leadership & Project Councils

The Wisdom Leadership Initiative is organized through circles of committed volunteers who meet through conference calls and small project production teams.

We carry a feeling of urgency to get done what is truly vital and important for a sustainable future for the children and grandchildren.

"It is the time for women to bring forward the wisdom from their vital and powerful relationship with their feminine wisdom. This will enrich their leadership and produce business endeavors that, for generations to come, will benefit the world in sustainable and meaningful ways."

Wisdom Leadership Initiative Founder Karen Wilhelm Buckley is also Founder and Co-Director of the Wisdom Connection, working with women to increase their access to and full expression of their feminine wisdom. Visit www.wisdomconnection.biz to become a part of the Wisdom Connection community!

As an organizational consultant and leadership coach, Karen works with Communicore to bring out the best in leaders and organizations in order to address the foremost challenges of our times. Since 1980 we have partnered with non-profit and for-profit endeavors to expand their rich potential, build thriving communities, create sustainable enterprises, and establish cooperative partnerships that promote the common good.

Extraordinary action results from the natural meeting of minds and hearts in the focused and authentic dialogue we moderate. Innovative thinking is encouraged and because underlying restrictions are addressed issues are objectively resolved. Past clients include Dupont, Santa Clara County Executive Group, and Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Karen was on the founding Board of the Spirit in Business Global Institute and the Trusteeship Institute, and is a Fellow of the World Business Academy.

Her work on organizational change and spirit-filled leadership has been widely published, and she is a frequent speaker at leading-edge forums on Cultivating Spirit, Feminine Wisdom and Wisdom at Work. In 1990 she co-organized and facilitated an International Conference on Intuition in Business with WBA and the IMI in Geneva, Switzerland, and she moderated the 2002 and 2003 Spirit in Business Global Conferences and produced the 2003, 2004 and 2005 forums: The Wisdom and Power of Women Leaders.

 

Joanne Brem
Principal, Joanne Brem & Company

Joanne Brem is a leadership development consultant and executive coach who helps her corporate and entrepreneurial clients connect to their authentic and unique leadership style and execute their vision passionately, leading to extraordinary results for themselves and their organizations. Her coaching combines strong business acumen and insightful intuition, and an engaging and energizing personal style with a direct and results-oriented approach. She also facilitates strategic planning and other team processes and custom designs and delivers workshops/programs on topics relating to organizational and entrepreneurial leadership, both in-house within organizations and independent business groups.

Joanne’s work draws upon many disciplines, including 16+ years study with Angeles Arrien, plus 30+ years of her own leadership/life growth. Her background includes 17 successful years in IT sales, her last ten in the IBM plug-compatible mainframe business, where she achieved #2 nationally with $30M+ in her last year.

Fay Freed
Co-founder and Co-Director of
the Wisdom Connectio

Fay has been coaching executives and entrepreneurs in Life Design for Success and Fulfillment for the past 18 years. Her clients have included women and men from various sectors, including health care, entertainment and non-governmental environmental groups.

For more than twelve years, Fay was an executive for The Hunger Project, a global not-for-profit dedicated to ending hunger on the planet. During those years, she personally raised over $3 million, and managed a volunteer network that grew to a thousand people in 40 cities around the United States.

In 1994, Fay co-founded and was President of The Center for Women’s Leadership, whose purpose was to empower women to realize their personal power and to manifest their most heartfelt visions. Over the course of seven years, hundreds of women from all walks of life across the U.S. participated in the programs offered by the Center.

She has lived in Novato, CA with her husband and extended family for more than 12 years and is the mother of two college age sons.

Amy Lenzo
Clear Light Communications

“There could be nothing that would make a bigger difference in our world than each of us truly listening to the voice of our inner wisdom, and stepping up to the challenge and responsibility of acting upon it.”

Amy heads Clear Light Communications, a design company that helps individuals, businesses and non-profits navigate the brave new world of Web2.0 and create a customized communications strategy that works for them. As part of this work, Amy designs online environments and helps people build community online. She blogs at the Beauty Dialogues.com.

An enthusiastic proponent of both nature and technology, Amy is the designer/editor for ‘Gatherings’, an EcoPsychology e-zine, and the international coordinator for LowTide, an annual environmental festival. Amy has an MA in English Literature, and has had an active spiritual practice with the Arica Institute over the last 30 years.

Her passion is in the field of creativity and imagination, finding ways to illuminate our sense of connection with each other, the elements of the natural world, and the mystery that sources all life.

" I have come to understand that all of life is sacred. All
gatherings are sacred. One of our responsibilities is to remember the sacredness in each moment, in each individual, in each setting and to call others to also remember."

Pele Rouge is a carrier and teacher of an ancient body of Earth Wisdom Teachings which were passed to her in a formal, 8-year apprenticeship by WindEagle and RainbowHawk of Ehama Institute.
She and her husband FireHawk guide individuals and groups in personal retreats, vision quests and seasonal and teaching ceremonies designed to foster clarity, vision, strength and balance for the journey ahead.

She is a contributing author to Community Building and author of the DVD, Never Shout At A Bear. Pele, the mother of three daughters and stepmother of three sons, teaches and lives at Coyote Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Her professional background includes service in the Peace Corps, wide acclaim for her work as a Continuing Education Specialist at University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, and 2 years as Senior Context Designer for the International Center for Organization Design.