The TBL 21 Core Team
That time is now for TBL 21, and everyone on our team can feel it! Once in a great while people are drawn together whose visions, skills, world view, knowledge base and abilities are so attuned and balanced that wonderful things are created with focused attention, joy and ease. Such an experience has taken place with the TBL 21 team, and the key people who are drawn to be involved.
David Wick, Managing Director
David Wick is the Managing Director of TBL 21. David also serves as the award-winning publisher at Silver Light Publications, Vice President of Global Relations and Consulting Services in Silver Light International, Senior Associate with The Real Life Training Group and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business, Southern Oregon University. He has over 30 years of management, consulting, and organizational development experience, and has held important positions for over 20 years with Sun Microsystems, Stanford University, Levi Strauss and the European Foundation for Management Development. At Sun Microsystems David received a company-wide academy award, for his first-of-its-kind in the Silicon Valley, Mini-MBA Program. He has designed extensive international training programs; and has received accolades in both the business and peace building arenas. He has been responsible for corporate programs in Spain, Hong Kong, France, India, Belgium and Canada. Known as an innovative business leader, David has assisted leading edge initiatives such as the Thought Leader Gatherings (Silicon Valley, CA), The Presidio Dialogues (San Francisco, CA).
In 1983 David helped launch the United Nations NGO, Pathways To Peace, where he co-founded the visionary project: Peace Within Organizations. In 1995, he began facilitating the five-year "Inquiry into Peace Building through Business" which has reached Phase III maturity in the form of the Triple Bottom Line for the 21st Century Initiative. David has co-created The Rogue Valley Wisdom Councils, "...bringing new life to democracy" in Southern Oregon. He resides in Ashland, Oregon with his life partner Irene and their cat Storm.
Melisa Noel, Director of Strategic Planning & Media
Melisa owns several small businesses, including Essential Foundations, a consulting firm in leadership development, large project facilitation and strategic planning. She has almost 20 years experience with organizational architecture, start-ups, non-profit/civic works, and small business. She held her 1st public office as a senior in high school and has facilitated several peace building events, including facilitation during the 3d Continental Congress called by Pope John Paul II. Melisa is on the Board of Directors of Mediation Works and is a guide and mentor for student interns from Southern Oregon University. A BA in Sociology from E.W.U., Melisa was recognized by the National Science Foundation as an undergrad for her research on media & youth when she also traveled the U.S. presenting her work.
John Lamy, Director of Research and Education
John Lamy is Director of Research and Education for TBL 21. John worked for 35 years as an R&D engineering manager, and as a consultant for technology companies. While with Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, he managed an R&D group that developed microwave instrumentation, and served as the Quality Manager for a division of 1000 people. He is married, has one grown son and two strapping young grandsons. John has a BSEE from MIT and an MBA from Cornell. He went back to school for an MBA late in life, then worked as a management consultant for five years.
Lynn Blanche, Director of Creative Development, Brand Stewardship
Lynn provides creative direction and brand stewardship for TBL 21. Her work with larger corporations as well as smaller businesses and non-profits has brought extensive experience in creative direction, the management of projects and people, and collaborative development and implementation of marketing strategy. Lynn provided project management and creative direction, concept through completion, for the Imagineering Division of Walt Disney Productions and the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. She coordinated company divisions and outside sources to produce award-winning mag-alogs (magazine-catalogs), product packaging and marketing materials for Patagonia, Inc., a business pioneer in environmental and workplace sustainability.
Lynn’s freelance endeavors have included work with businesses, universities, authors, photographers, non-profits, service organizations and museums including exhibition design and development for Scienceworks Hands-On Museum. She believes that creativity is fundamental for personal, social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability. She followed an interest in education to develop curriculum and teach art classes and seminars for regional art centers. Her educational work for Palo Alto public schools led to her being selected to join Stanford University art education faculty and graduate students in producing “Cognition and Creation,” a project sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts. She volunteers for service and non-profit organizations regularly and has recently served on the board of directors for Ashland Schools Foundation, SOU Schneider Museum of Art, Omega House Spiritual Life and Creative Learning Center, and Mediation Works.
