World Cafe Community Foundation Stewardship Council

Tomohide Oshima
Tomohide “Poohsan” is a communication trainer, a lecturer, a speech coach, a visual facilitator and a facilitator based in Yokohama, Japan.  He is a partner consultants of JMAM ( Japan Management Association Management center) and a member of FAJ ( Facilitation Association of Japan) since 2004.

Amy Lenzo, Secretary
Co-founder of World Cafe Learning Partner Beehive Productions and founder of World Cafe’s Online Services Provider weDialogue, Amy’s work serves the central garden of participatory practice. She is the Executive Director of The World Cafe Community Foundation and Director of the World Cafe’s Signature Learning Programs.

Samantha Tan, Chair
Samantha is a dialogue host and executive coach at samanthajtan.com She is passionate about women’s leadership and enjoys working across generations and cultures. Samantha is a chapter contributor to The World Cafe book about creating a culture of learning and care in her birth country, Singapore.

Michelle Sampaio
Michelle has hosted online environments since 2017. As an Associate Professor at UNIRIO, she coordinates the Sustainable Actions Laboratory, focused on dialogue for sustainability, education, and social innovation. One of her passions is capturing the intangibles of conversation into images through visual facilitation.

Additional Stewardship Council Members
(bios pending)

Megu
Vanessa Westley
Michaela Sieh

STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL EMERITUS

Juanita Brown, Ph.D.
Co-founder of the World Café & co-author of the award-winning World Café book, Juanita is a thinking partner for senior leaders across sectors in creating innovative forums for strategic dialogue on critical business and societal issues. She was also a senior affiliate with the MIT Center for Organizational Learning. Juanita & her husband David Isaacs are currently collaborating in stewarding a living place of meeting & learning in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Anne W Dosher, Ph.D.
The late Anne Dosher has served as guide, mentor, board member, and Elder with the World Café since its origins. A social practitioner and academic, she served as one of the founders of the National Network of Youth Services, received leadership awards with the California School of Professional Psychology, and the California Woman in Government Award for her public service. Her indomitable spirit guides us still.

Bo Gyllenpalm
Bo Gyllenpalm is CEO of Swedish development and consulting company Sitserv. Former faculty atFielding Graduate University and member of their Board of Trustees, Bo was part of Juanita Brown’s Ph.D. dissertation committee and provided vital support for getting this seminal work completed and published. He is a member of theIFF and a former CEO of Philips and Siemens subsidiaries.

David Isaacs
Co-founder of the World Café, David works with clients and colleagues in consciously designing, convening, & hosting powerful conversations around their most important questions. He has been a collaborator and coach with innovative learning programs in the University of Texas Business School Executive MBA program, CIIS, and KaosPilots University.