Cecile Green is a visionary, entrepreneur, experiential philosopher, and farmer with a passion for assisting mission driven organizations achieve their visions. As an integral scholar-practitioner and life long learner, she holds a B.S. in Community Supported Agricultural Systems and has two and a half decades of experience in entrepreneurial environments. She has participated in over a dozen organizational launches and built from the ground up four successful businesses. Being a lifetime intentional community enthusiast and activist, Cecile has synthesized her experiences in intentional communities with the research she’s done into power, organizational development and personal development into a simple set of learnable communication tools called Collab. Collab is built upon the seminal work of over a dozen different methodologies from Sociocracy and Holacracy to Appreciative Inquiry and NVC and is a constantly evolving set of tools, iterated by its users. She provides training and facilitation in Collab to mission driven organizations from coops to colleges, and small business to nonprofits. Cecile is the author of the book “Collaboration that Works: A Ruthlessly Practical Handbook for a Generative World,” a training manual which summarizes her research and introduces these tools for practical application in organizations. Cecile was raised in Istanbul Turkey for 10 years as a child where she learned French in an embassy school and spent hours exploring ancient ruins and the waters of the Aegean. In her spare time, she enjoys the wilds of Vermont, dancing, and building community through growing food together.