Board of Advisors

Jack Canfield

Publishing Advisor

Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and author of the best-selling book The Success Principles, jump-started his career with his mentor W. Clement Stone where he was taught fundamental success principles that he still operates from today.

Over the years his association with individuals such as Janet Switzer, John Gray, Bob Proctor… and others led Jack to form a Master Mind group where these and other leaders can share philosophies and brainstorm new ideas.

Jack has also been a featured guest on more than 1,000 radio and television programs some of which include: Oprah, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Larry King Live, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC and many others

Van Jones

Strategic Advisor

Van Jones is working to combine solutions to America’s two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction.

HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION: In 1996, Van and Diana Frappier co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which is now headquartered in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration.

In 2003, the Center’s “Books Not Bars” campaign helped block the construction of a costly and controversial “Super-Jail For Youth” near Oakland. Since that victory, Books Not Bars has helped reduce California’s overall youth prison population by more than 30 percent.

In the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Van helped to found ColorOfChange.org, an online advocacy organization. With more than 100,000 members, Color Of Change is now the nation’s biggest e-advocacy organization tackling Black issues.

AWARDS & HONORS: As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, Van has won many honors. These include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation “Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship.

EMERGING GREEN LEADER: Over the past five years, Van has also emerged as a national environmental leader. In recent years, he has served on the boards of the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers and Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization.

In 2005, Van produced the “Social Equity Track” for the United Nations’ World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of “Green Cities.”

“GREEN JOBS, NOT JAILS”: Van’s dual roles have given him a unique perspective on the country’s problems and its potential solutions. Under the slogan “green jobs, not jails,” Van Jones today is calling for green economic development in urban America.

Van’s visionary efforts are already meeting with practical success.

PRACTICAL SUCCESSES: In June 2007, the City of Oakland adopted a proposal from the Ella Baker Center and the Oakland Apollo Alliance to create a “Green Jobs Corps.” The Corps will train youth for eco-friendly “green-collar jobs.”

Now the Center is working with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) to create the country’s first-ever Green Enterprise Zone, to attract environmentally sound industry to Oakland.

NATIONAL LEADERSHIP: At the national level, Van and the Ella Baker Center worked in 2007 with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MASS) to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. That path-breaking, historic legislation will provide $120 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in “green-collar jobs.”

Van is also a founder of a new national coalition that is promoting the idea of a national “Clean Energy Jobs Corps.” This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States. Like the Peace Corps for John F. Kennedy or Americorps for Bill Clinton, the Clean Energy Jobs Corps is designed to be a signature initiative for the next U.S. president.

“GREEN FOR ALL”: And in the summer of 2007, Van helped launch two new initiatives. He is a founding board member of One Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. And he is also the founding president of Green For All, a national campaign for green-collar jobs and opportunities.

A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Van is also a husband and father. Van is proud to champion some of the most hopeful solutions to America's toughest challenges.

Lyn Bazzell

Truth and Authenticity Advisor

Lyn Bazzell is passionate about people, possibilities, and bringing the two together. She is a well-respected and experienced leader, as well as a consultant who specializes in working with leaders to bring their visions into reality and creating organizations that support and inspire people.

She is currently the host of the radio show Now We’re Talking – a program dedicated to bringing important conversations to life for the purpose of creating a better world for all.

Currently Lyn is founder of Visionary Leadership Consulting and Host of Now We’re Talking, a Radio Talk Show in the San Francisco Bay Area

From 1998-2006, Lyn was the Executive Director of The Gangaji Foundation, a Non-Profit Organization dedicated to world peace.

She was a principal of Pfaelzer Communications, where directed the consulting firm in its mission of being dedicated to supporting organizational leaders in bringing their visions into reality. The company also specialized in implementing effective interpersonal communications systems and strategies within organizations that led to creating and sustaining innovative, results-oriented environments.

Lyn was the Director of Sales and Marketing for The Michael Thomas Corporation in San Mateo, California. She was personally mentored by Michael Thomas, author of The E Myth.

Currently Lyn holds a position on the Board of Directors, Ahuma Institute and is on the board of Advisors for This Sacred Space.

Her past board of directors positions Include; The Gangaji Foundation; National Speakers Association, Northern California Chapter, National Society of Performance and Instruction, Wine Country Chapter.
In 1992 Lyn received the Vendor of the Year Award from Fetzer Vineyards.

Neal Rogin

Creative Direction Advisor

Neal Rogin is a multi-award winning writer and filmmaker whose work has reached millions of people around the world. Throughout his career he has demonstrated a unique ability to conceive and communicate ideas that move people to action and change the way they think.

He scripted a film for Rock legend Sting and his Rainforest Foundation. The film, entitled “Burning Down Tomorrow,” was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short Subject. He received a National Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing for “Spaceship Earth,” a half-hour television special that aired on the Disney Channel.

He is also the co-author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Trimtab Factor, with Harold Willens (Wm. Morrow & Company, New York), The Owner's Manual for Your Life, and You Don't Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself, both with Stewart Emery (Doubleday, New York).

Mr. Rogin also played a major role in the landmark “LIVE AID Concert for African Famine Relief,” as head writer and associate producer of the 16-hour global radio broadcast, and as creator of the program's key televised promotional theme, “Ending Hunger: Now that we can, we must.” LIVE AID, which reached more than 1.5 billion people in 160 countries around the world, was the largest broadcast event in history.

He is Communications Director for The Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit partnership between people from the modern world and indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador, and is part of the development team that has created a day long Symposium presented by Pachamama, the purpose of which is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet.

Neal wrote, directed and produced a documentary film for the Alliance entitled “The Eagle and the Condor” which highlights the importance of merging ancient indigenous wisdom with our modern technological worldview. His latest film, “The Awakening Universe”, based upon the book, The Universe Story by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, explores how the New Cosmology is changing the very definition of what it means to be a person.