Keynote speakers and other on-site services
Keynote Speakers and Workshop Presenters
On-Site Facilitation and Coaching
To inquire about scheduling on-site services, please call (505)-842-5252 or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org to request information.
Keynote Speakers and Workshop Presenters
Allan Savory, HMI Founder
Allan Savory is available as a conference keynote speaker and workshop
presenter.
Shannon Horst, HMI Senior Director of Strategic
Initiatives
Shannon Horst is available for presentations and workshops.
Jim Howell
Jim Howell is a Holistic Management® Certified Educator and writes
the Land & Livestock section of HMI’s publication, IN PRACTICE.
Jim is a sought-after speaker for a variety of venues.
Additional Speakers
A number of our Certified Educators are available as speakers and conference
workshop presenters, and we offer to identify and put you in touch with
those who are most likely to serve your needs best. HMI staff are also
available. Please call (505)-842-5252 or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org
to request information.
On-Site Facilitation and Coaching
To inquire about scheduling on-site services, please call (505)-842-5252
or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org
to request information.
or fill out and submit a Client Information
Form and one of our staff will contact you.
This service is geared to those who have some knowledge of Holistic Management®
and require the skills of a facilitator to assist them in practicing some
aspect – forming their first holistic goal, developing a Holistic
Management® financial plan or land plan, and so on. Contracts are
short term and can range from a few consecutive days of work to a series
of sessions over several months, but contracts are generally completed
within well under a year. HMI staff services relatively few of these contracts.
In most cases, we will refer you to a Certified Educator whose skills
and background best meet your requirements.
Process Consulting
To inquire about scheduling on-site services, please call (505)-842-5252
or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org
to request information. or fill out and submit a Client
Information Form and one of our staff will contact you.
Holistic Management® International offers, on a limited basis, process
consulting in Holistic Management®. This service is generally managed/facilitated
by founder Allan Savory or one of our senior staff. At times we also contract
or refer this work to one of our Certified Educators – if his/her
skills and background clearly match the client’s needs. Operating
on a minimum one-year contract, we work with the client to plan a strategy
for integrating Holistic Management® in the smoothest, quickest and least
costly manner.
Commonly, this involves planning to have appropriate staff trained as internal facilitators or Certified Educators so that the company can become fully independent and self-training for its entire staff. If corporate structure and operating procedures require modification to enhance the practice of Holistic Management®, we help identify and plan the necessary changes.
We then mentor and coach the educators-in-training on the job until they feel confident to continue on their own. The contract is renewable annually until the client feels no need for further intensive help of this nature. Thereafter, because of the relationships established and our knowledge of the players, we can be called upon if needed, but generally encourage self-sufficiency at an early stage.
Allan Savory as conference keynote speaker
and workshop presenter
Allan
Savory is available as a conference keynote speaker and workshop presenter.
In addition, the half- or full-day Holistic Management® overviews, or
mini-workshops, he provides continue to be a very effective way of introducing
the ideas to people whose support you may need. Allan is an insightful
and motivating speaker and is able to tailor his presentation to the unique
audience he is addressing.
He has addressed a wide variety of audiences in a number of countries, a sampling of which includes:
- Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (Millheim, PA 2005)
- Oklahoma Grazing Lands Intiative Conference (Oklahoma City, OK 2005)
- Being the Change You Expect--Canadian Conference (Lloydminster, AB, Canada 2005)
- Rethinking Development: Local Pathways to Global Well-Being Conference (Nova Scotia, Canada 2005)
- Vermont Grass Farmers Association (Randolph Center, VT 2005)
- International Holistic Management® & Landcare Gathering (Armidale, NSW, Australia 2005)
- Idaho State University--Geo-Spatial Range Science Conference (Pocatello, ID 2002-present)
- 2004 Inaugural Global Sustainable Development Conference (Melbourne, Australia, 2004)
- Terra Madre (Turin, Italy 2004)
- Austin College Texas Land Stewardship Series (Sherman, TX 2003)
- Institute for the Humanities (Salado, TX 2003)
- University of North Texas (Denton, TX 2003)
- American Farmland Trust National Conference (Pacific Grove, CA 2003)
- Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID in 2002 & 2003)
- Knox County Cooperative Extension (Center, NE 2002)
- University of Sydney (Orange, NSW, Australia 2002)
- University of Nevada/Reno, College of Extended Studies & School of Nursing (Reno, NV 2002)
- California Agricultural Leadership Program for the Agricultural Education Foundation keynotes (several venues in 2001 & 2002)
- Whole Land: Healthy People (Colorado Springs, CO 2001)
- Triple Bottom Line (Seattle, WA 2001)
- Land Conservation District Committees of the Kimberly (El Questro, WA, Australia 2001)
- International Holistic Management® Gathering (Christchurch, New Zealand 2001)
- Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association (Columbus, OH 2001)
- Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (Eugene, OR 2000)
- USDA (Washington, DC 2000)
- National Cattlemen’s Association of Mexico (Chihuahua, Chih., Mexico 2000)
- Ranching West of the 100th Meridian (Fort Collins, CO 5/00)
- Diversified Farming Conference for South Central NY RC&D (Norwich, NY 2000)
- SUNY Paradigm Conference for SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (Syracuse, NY 2000)
- Klamath Soil & Water Conference for Klamath Watershed Council (Klamath Falls, OR 2000)
- Biannual Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Conference (Eugene, OR 2000)
- Agriculture Vision 2000 (KS 2000)
- Wealth & Sustainability Workshop (Mancos, CO 1999)
- Commonwealth Club (San Francisco, CA 1999)
- Insights International Conference (Brisbane, Australia 1999)
- The Natural Step annual conference (Portland, OR 1999)
- GIS regional annual conference (Idaho Falls, ID 1999)
- Corporate Leaders Workshop (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1998)
- Sustainable Farming Association of Central Minnesota (Aldrich, MN 1996)
- International Permaculture annual conference (Perth, Australia 1996)
- Bioneers Conference, sponsored by the Collective Heritage Institute (San Francisco, CA 1996)
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) (Canterbury, New Zealand 1994)
- Goddard Business Institute, Adjunct Professor (Plainfield, VT 1992-1994)
- Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM 1994)
- FIRA-Banco de Mexico (Chihuahua, Mexico 1994)
- Duke University Environmental, Natural Resources and Social Issues workshop (Durham, NC 1994)
- South Dakota Dept. of Agriculture Leadership Conference (South Dakota 1994)
- USDA/SES Candidate Development Program (Washington DC 1993)
To inquire about scheduling keynote speakers or workshop presenters, please call (505)-842-5252 or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org to request information.
Shannon Horst as conference keynote
speaker
and workshop presenter
Shannon
Horst is available as a conference keynote speaker, workshop presenter,
and facilitator. As former Senior Director of Strategic Projects, Shannon
has a thorough background in Holistic Management® and has helped many
organizations integrate it into their operations.
Resume
Skills and Practical Expertise
- Training and consulting for small businesses in Holistic Management® - an alternative approach to decision-making that leads to improved environmental, financial and social sustainability;
- Providing nonprofit organizations and small for-profit businesses with guidance and support to move from traditional management methodologies to alternative approaches; Analysis of management, structural and logistical challenges in overseas projects undertaken by US nonprofits;
- Management of absentee-owned farms, ranches and wildlife preserves;
- Management and project oversight of grants, ranging from $50,000 to $1 million;
- Management of staff and extensive networks of freelance and volunteer personnel, including responsibility for all expenses and revenue;
- Development and negotiation of contracts for both public and private business endeavors;
- Design and implementation of reclamation for drastically disturbed lands using “naturally self-sustaining” technologies;
- Development of business plans, financing strategies, corporate structures, and use of philanthropic moneys and government programs to launch or enhance enterprises for natural-resource based businesses;
- Development of business plans and proposals for both investment and growth strategies, including expansion into overseas markets.
Recent Work History
12/07-present:Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Holistic Management
International. Responsible for overall growth and development of key contracts
and initiatives in U.S. and internationally.
12/91-4/03 and 12/04 - 11/07: Executive Director, Holistic Management® International. Responsible for overall growth and development of administrative governance and programmatic efforts. Negotiation and management of contracts, program development, staff supervision, and budget of a 15 person U.S.-based staff, and oversight of HMI’s operations in Zimbabwe (the Africa Centre for Holistic Management®), and numerous other foreign activities. Chief negotiator for contracts with nonprofit organizations seeking alternative approaches to management. Responsible for assisting Board and staff to work together on all programmatic, policy and financial issues. Establishment and management of a for-profit subsidiary, engaged in mine reclamation and additional business ventures related to new applications in Holistic Management®. In 10 years as Chief Executive Officer, has raised (through philanthropy) or produced (through contracts) more than $3.5 million.
6/98- 7/04 Managing Director, Land Renewal, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary
of the Center for Holistic Management®. Developed and launched the business,
which provides surface reclamation for drastically disturbed land. Responsible
for Overseas contract negotiations and implementation, staff, marketing
and business development.
Education: Georgetown University, Washington, DC. B.S.,
German, Cum Laude, 1983. Minor, Computer Science.
Foreign Languages: Basic conversation level in German
and Spanish.
Community and Volunteer Work: Active member of a growing
coalition of neighborhood associations working to bring truly sustainable
planning and development to the southern end of Bernalillo County, known
as the South Valley of Albuquerque; Member of the Smart Growth Working
Group of Albuquerque. Lead community efforts over three years in the denial
of a permit to place a municipal landfill in a rural area where there
is a high percentage of poverty and people of color.
To inquire about scheduling keynote speakers or workshop presenters, please call (505)-842-5252 or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org to request information.
Jim Howell as conference keynote speaker
and workshop presenter
Jim
Howell was raised in California and Colorado, where his family has ranched
in the high country since the late 1800s. He received a degree in Animal
Science from Cal Poly Pomona, completing his final year as a foreign exchange
student at Lincoln University in New Zealand in 1991.
Since then Jim has worked on a large diversified ranching operation in western Colorado, managed a large pasture-based dairy in east Texas, and co-managed (with wife Daniela) the 34,000- acre High Lonesome Ranch (a former HMI learning site in the Chihuahua Desert of southwestern New Mexico. After traveling extensively in Africa in 1996, Jim and Daniela settled on Jim’s family’s ranch in high altitude southwestern Colorado. Their primary enterprises include contract grazing of yearling cattle, year-long grazing of a variety of fleece-producing stock, big game guiding and outfitting, niche-marketing of high-end woolen goods, small- scale sustainable forestry, and educational seminars.
During the North American winter, Jim and Daniela (and daughter Savanna) focus on their Sun Country International Ranch Tours venture, leading small groups on trips to successful, creatively managed ranches in Argentina, Australia, Zimbabwe, and New Zealand. Jim is also a regular contributor to the Land and Livestock Section of IN PRACTICE, HMI’s bimonthly publication.
Jim helps ranchers with grazing management and planning and biological monitoring. He is a frequent speaker at grazing, land, water, and Holistic Management® conferences. A sample of recent engagements includes:
- Land and Water Conference - “Educate Globally...Mobilize Locally”, University of New Mexico Gallup Branch (Gallup, NM, April 2003)
- The New Ranch Toolbox: Innovative Ideas for Ranching in the 21st Century,
sponsored by Utah Grazing Lands Coalition (Moab, Utah, December 2002)
n Guest Lecturer in Mammalogy, Western State University (Gunnison, Colorado, April 2002) - Grazing and Ranch Management conference (Durango, Colorado, February 2002)
- Whole Land, Healthy People - A Celebration of Holistic Management® (Chico Basin Ranch, Colorado Springs, CO, July 2002)
- International Holistic Management® Gathering (Christchurch, New Zealand, April 2001)
- Colorado Branch of Holistic Management® Annual Gathering (Boulder, Colorado, January 2001)
- International Holistic Management® Gathering (Orange, Australia, February 1999)
To inquire about scheduling keynote speakers or workshop presenters, please call (505)-842-5252 or email hmi@holisticmanagement.org to request information.