To the many people who have helped me become the woman I am today and have influenced my work and its impact
Mom and Papa' - for everything/per tutto
My Mentors, Guides, Role Models and Teachers along the way
Childhood real life heroines - Mart, Tatiana De Bartolomeo, Berta Tatta, Signora Molotzu, Signorina Gioa, my cousins Maria and Anna Rita
The Ecole Europeenne de Bruxelles professors and classmates - for all the math, physics, biology and philosophy classes, the student strike experience, the school trips to Prague and to Paris, the cross-cultural appreciation of the European Union's potential
The College of William & Mary - for giving me my first experience of the US, teaching me to persevere, strive and play, and for Lai Lee, my always best friend
Columbia University - for allowing me to discover that the business of business was going to be my lifelong PhD
My colleagues at Morgan Stanley, The Gallery of Functional Art, ARCO and BP - you shaped the contexts in which to explore my love of work as a creative process and of challenging the status quo as my calling - a special shout out to Warner Broaddus, Nicole Niederer, Andrew Gengos, Katherine White, the Maintenance Supervisors and the Union leaders of the ARCO LA Refinery, David Osborne, Kenny Lang, Marcelo Cardoso, Nicola Shearer, Salima Shariff, Isabelle Pujol and many many others
The Leadership for Collective Intelligence 2001 program participants and faculty - Robert Hanig, Kelvy Bird, Martha Morris Graham, Ann Canham Lamont, Stuart Turnbull, Petra Kuenkel, Peter Garrett
The Coming Into Your Own guides' founding circle - Glennifer Gillespie, Beth Jandernoa, Barbara Cecil
Dialogos - Bill Isaacs, Skip Griffin, Peri Chickering, David Marsing, and Glennifer Gillespie
ALIA Institute, its visiting faculty and its participants - Arawana Hayashi, Susan Szpakowski, Jerry Granelli, Barbara Bash, Wendy Palmer, Maaianne Knuth, Gabrielle Donnelly, Bob Stilger, Jane Allen, Yolanda Noguri
Presencing Institute - Otto Scharmer
Reos Partners - Adam Kahane
Strategy & Business - Art Kleiner
Tara Mohr
The Coming Into Your Own guides and participants of the global expansion decade - dozens of colleagues and thousands of alumnae around the world that inspire me daily to deepen my practice of what I teach
Morris Graham - Martha Morris Graham, Morag Dwyer, Nicola Potts, Andrea Ingrisch, Jock Encombe, Ben Graham, Alexandra Neumann
Pluribus - Isabelle Pujol
Harthill - David Rooke
Mindkind Institute - Home Nguyen, Leng Lim, Vibha Chokani
The Sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit
Columbia Coaching Certification faculty and participants - Terence Maltbia, Tania Fauste-Kovido, Lilia Abreu Mawson, Sherrie Douglas
Hub Associates - Stuart Turnbull, John Beedham
Women Agents of Change Founding Contributors
The first 50 women of the Founding Circle WAC2017 - thank you for you trust, your co-creative input and your continuous hunger for learning and putting the learning into action
Dan Karlson - for your contribution to my understanding of the neuroscience of personal leadership and the gifts and challenges of the mind
Nelisha Wickremasinghe - for your generosity when co-leading and your insights into the tri-motive brain and self-compassion
Isabelle Pujol - for being one of the first visiting faculty
Barbara Cecil and Peri Chickering - for sharing your wisdom during the first season of the program and welcoming me into your new offering
Jennifer Zeitler - for all the support these past several years making sure my website, my checklists, my mailchimp, my whatevers are working and not crashing and getting organized
Aimee Aubin - for your design acuity and deep creativity
Tara Agacayak - for supporting me from afar in my social venture explorations
Nousha Salimi - for your photographic artistry, essential oils knowledge and creative spirit
Stephen Knight - for being my CFO, my accountant, my expense receipts chaser, my biggest supporter, my hangout buddy and my Cape Cod sailing partner through the ups and downs and all arounds of our 25+ years of life together