Sustayne Certified Consultants are individuals with a broad background in and passion for innovative business strategies. In addition to years of professional experience, each of these consultants has completed an intensive three day training with Sustayne founder Kirsten Gagnaire and are now qualified to use this accelerated method for social enterprise business development.
Some certified consultants offer Sustayne Business Development Workshops in their region, while others utilize the enterprise planning tools in their client work or academically. Please fell free to contact them with questions about Sustayne or to schedule a workshop in their region. If you would like more information on becoming a Sustayne Certified Consultant, please contact us.
Kalyn Culler Cohen, PhD, has provided start-up and growth planning services for social-purpose businesses for the past 16 years. She is a Portland, OR based consultant to foundations and non-profits on the design of replication programs. Kalyn holds a doctorate in the Diffusion of Innovations from MIT and is a co-coordinator for the Tri-national Women and Social Enterprise Network. kalyn at cullercohen.com
Paige Coleman specializes in understanding market opportunities and how small businesses can best capitalize on them. Paige has been an account manager, movie theater owner, and documentary film maker. She was the founding manager of Mercy Corps business training program and is completing her MBA at Bainbridge Graduate Institute (WA). p.colemen at earthlink.net
Kirsten Gagnaire, founder Social Enterprise Group (SEG) and Sustayne, provides business planning services to entrepreneurs and organizations seeking to make a positive social impact. kirsten at socialenterprisegroup.com
Sheri Hendricks has an extensive background in developing organizational change strategy and large-scale change implementation for corporate, non-profit and government clients. She is particularly skilled and passionate about working with companies and organizations to re-engage their people in-order to create environments in which individuals, organizations, and communities can thrive. sheri.hendricks at orionwellspring.com
Linda Ketchum, M.Ed. is the Coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Training Center at the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development, and also teaches Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Alaska Anchorage College of Business and Public Policy. Linda has more than 15 years experience working and volunteering in leadership roles in Alaska's nonprofit sector. afldk at uaa.alaska.edu
Barbara Levin, MSW is the Coordinator for the Alliance for Building Capacity for the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Levin and the School of Social Work and are implementing Sustayne with nonprofit organizations in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. blevin at wstl.edu
