Advisors
PETER CASEBOW
Peter, Scottish, is a
highly experienced and accomplished leader who built one of the United
Kingdom’s largest global online learning businesses, MindTools which
serves 2.5 million learners a month and many of the world’s major brands
such as Disney, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Bupa, Google and Standard Life
Aberdeen. His experience ranges from bootstrapping a start-up through
to sale, leading two acquisitions as part of an acquisition strategy and
merging three businesses into one cohesive unit. His track record of
top and bottom-line growth created by strong clear values, a
collaborative team approach to strategy development and focussed
go-to-market execution across a range of products, services and
geographies. Peter’s passions include his family, rugby, mountaineering,
cycling, padel tennis and single cask malt whisky. Currently he’s
trying to learn about wildlife photography and studying for a
qualification in wildlife identification.
DAVID CHRISTENSON
David, American, is the CEO of Christenson & Associates, LLC, a consultancy group primarily serving safety-critical, high-risk industries since 2014 serving clients with education, training, coaching and mentoring. David completed the Master of Science in Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund University, Sweden in 2012. He was a researcher in the Leonardo da Vinci Laboratory for Complexity and Systems Thinking. David previously completed the Master of Applied Geography at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, in 2000. He helped to design, build and manage the U.S. Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center from 2001 through 2014, focused on organizational learning, high reliability organizing, and creating a widely used knowledge management system as he helped create a new Learning Center for his nation’s interagency 300,000-member wildland fire community. Finally, Dave was a Master Sergeant in the US Air Force training teams of a Quick Reaction Alert - Interceptor Force in The Netherlands. He graduated as the Production Superintendent over a squadron of F-15 Eagles at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, USA in 1983. David and Tanya Christenson reside in Oro Valley, Arizona where he enjoys creating mixed media artwork with acrylic and oil paints.
CLAudia manzur
Claudia, Argentinian, graduated in tourism with a specialization in Protected Area Public Use Planning from the National University of Comahue, Neuquén, Patagonia. She completed a Masters in Public Administration at University of Buenos Aires. In 1996 she began working at the National Parks Administration in Public Use in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche and, currently, works at the National Parks Central Headquarters in Buenos Aires.
JAY MCGAFFIGAN
Jay, American, is a software architect working in the medical device and information space. He enjoys technology, cooking and hiking.
CECILIE SMITH-CHRISTENSEN
Cecilie, Norwegian, is an economist turned heritage and tourism professional with more than 20 years international working experience. Since 2008 her work has been contextualised by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972), and she currently serves as an expert advisor to the UNESCO World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Programme. In 2015 Cecilie founded World Heritage Catalysis (https://www.whcatalysis.org) emerging as a commons' oriented community of practice applying new and innovative tools in tourism and visitor management with the aim to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities living in and around UNESCO World Heritage. Among these tools are VMAST, the Visitor Management Assessment & Strategy Tool for World Heritage, which she developed for UNESCO and now made available through the UNESCO World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Toolkit. Cecilie is also an active member of ICOMOS, Catalyst 2030, IUCN WCPA TAPAS among other relevant networks and efforts.
Sherwood Shankland, 2024
DR. STEPHEN MCCOOL, 2021
with Keith Bosak (2015) as well as the 
with Jon Kohl (2016).