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Our Story
While our endeavors may be considered a moonshot, they are firmly grounded in a regenerative development practice that has yielded tremendous success across industries and some of the world’s largest corporations. Our mentors have worked with hundreds of companies to enable their transformation to have developmental and creative cultures, growth and profitability, and evolve systems. We work and learn from our mentors Carol Sanford, The Regenesis Group and Regenesis Institute to channel this work into an industry that critically needs it—the food industry.
OUR TEAM
Meet the reNourish Team
Lauren Tucker
Founder and CEO
Lauren is an entrepreneur and leader focused on evolving our food system. Through her consultancy, she works on crop-specific regenerative agricultural projects in collaboration with White Buffalo Land Trust. These projects include www.thealmondproject.com, www.c4cotton.com, and The Elderberry Project. She is a Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground.
Joel Glanzberg
reNourish Studio Faculty
With over twenty five years of experience as an applied naturalist, leading and designing community development projects, Joel helps clients identify principles and guidelines for appropriate and healthy development. An active author and educator in the fields of permaculture and ecological design, Joel is skilled in cross-cultural communication and teaching. He is a faculty member for the Regenerative Practitioner Series hosted by Regenesis. He has taught throughout the United States as well as in Africa and South America, and worked with a variety of Native American tribes and communities.
Trevanna Frost Grenfell
Trevanna spends her career working at the intersections of how people relate with the living world and how we develop our thinking and actions within it. Weaving her twenty years of training and experience in both backcountry wilderness guiding and organizational strategic consulting, Trevanna Frost Grenfell challenges and supports leaders to practice this kind of “living systems thinking” so that our work—and our world— can truly thrive.
Emma Sacks
Event Design and Production
Emma is an experiential designer most often focused in the realms of food, wellness, and music. She has worked on production teams for some of the largest music festivals in the United States and continues her work with Summit Series. At reNourish she is able to weave her background in conservation and agriculture with the design of developmental gatherings where people join together for celebration, growth, connection, and deep work in service to creating a food system that nourishes all life.
Jade Lee
Event Producer & Community Builder
For more than a decade Jade has been honing her craft in event production, collaborating with high caliber teams to run fast-paced & large scale experiences for diverse audiences. From ESPN to Summit Series, to reNourish Studio, the art of bringing people together to inspire, connect and empower lies at the root of her professional passions. In the more intimate settings of reNourish studio gatherings Jade weaves her educational background in psychology and neuroscience, with her deeply instilled Diné traditional belief that we are all related. This unique combination of life experiences supports Jade’s gift of creating warm, inclusive spaces where good work can be done.
Connor McMorrow
Connor started his career in San Francisco scaling hyper-growth stage tech companies, one pre-revenue to over $5M in ARR and the other to acquisition by Discord. From there, he made a pivot to follow his passion for influencing positive change in the food system by joining the Board of Directors for White Buffalo Land Trust and launching their food brand, Figure Ate. He recognized an opportunity to develop growth strategies to support other mission-driven CPG brands and has spent the past years working with brands from launch up to $5M+ in revenue. Connor is comfortable challenging the status quo to find new and creative ways to be successful without cutting corners or compromising on the mission of the brands he works with.
Leigh Buckley & Page Mitchum, Blue Quest
Leigh and Page have a combined 22+ years experience in Lifestyle, Retail, and Consumer Packaged Goods ranging from food, supplements, cannabis, regenerative agriculture and ESG Finance. They have worked in startups, mid-size, and Fortune 500 companies. Their passion lies in helping brands & businesses make a difference on this planet by building a strategy, positioning, voice, and offering that is deeply resonant with their consumer base and by bringing the best in class education, resources and support.
Ines
Community Builder
Inès Frazier is a passionate advocate for regenerative systems, dedicated to inspiring collective action and restoring human and planetary health. As the Director of Community at Farmer’s Footprint, she channels her commitment into fostering a healthier world through building community within the regenerative agriculture movement. Inès’s journey began after a personal loss of her best friend, Kennedy, spurring her to explore the connections between agriculture, sustainability, and health. Her diverse experiences include farming in Texas and Minnesota, beekeeping, and research on soil microbiology and racism in agriculture. As a TEDx speaker, Inès shares her insights on the profound implications of racism in agriculture. When she’s not immersed in her work, you’ll often find her swimming laps, hiking mountains with her dog, Bandit, or engaging in lively conversations with community members, sharing tales of the various rabbit holes she’s explored.
Eric
Podcast host + Producer
Eric is a strategic executive and business advisor with over two decades of experience in insights and innovation and a decade within the food system. Eric has experience building strong, motivated, resilient, purpose-driven teams and businesses. His approach is grounded in a deep understanding of marketplace insights, which enables him to help organizations identify growth potential, build effective strategies, and execute plans effectively. Eric’s work is guided by a sincere passion for empowering individuals and businesses to achieve sustainable success and enact meaningful change in the marketplace.
Guido Lois
Photography & Videography
Guido Lois is a filmmaker and communications specialist with deep roots in Argentina, where his family has been involved in the food production industry for generations. He has dedicated his career to marketing and education within the restaurant and farming sectors. Outside of his professional life, Guido enjoys practicing martial arts and hosting barbecue gatherings with his community.
Sherry
Immersed in the regenerative food space, Sherry has donned many hats within the industry. Her local and organic culinary arts expertise and healing food journey has carried her through the roles of spice blend manufacturing, restaurant management, Executive Chef and product development for Oncobitez nutrition bites. Her on stage talks (including Tedx) and presentations evoke personal curiosity and self empowerment by revealing nature’s connections between flavor and nutrients. Her business, The Flavor Remedy, strives to improve our food system by inspiring consumers to recognize their innate tasting experience as our pleasurable responsibility to ensure vital food for generations to come.
Dana
Dana is a weaver of conversations and collective movements, tying together traditional wisdom and applied technologies. With formal education, training, and experience in genetics & genomics, education, and ecology, she has taken her scientific inquiries and communications roles into the field of ecological governance and planetary health advocacy. Her current areas of exploration with her communities include systems of evolution of the self and the world through advising businesses and non-profit organizations.
OUR TEAM
Meet the reNourish Team
Lauren Tucker
Founder & CEO
Lauren is an entrepreneur and leader focused on evolving our food system. Through her consultancy, she works on crop-specific regenerative agricultural projects in collaboration with White Buffalo Land Trust. These projects include www.thealmond-project.com www.c4cotton.com, and The Elderberry Project. She is a Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground.
Joel Glanzberg
reNourish Studio Faculty
With over twenty five years of experience as an applied naturalist, leading and designing community development projects, Joel helps clients identify principles and guidelines for appropriate and healthy development. An active author and educator in the fields of permaculture and ecological design, Joel is skilled in cross-cultural communication and teaching. He is a faculty member for the Regenerative Practitioner Series hosted by Regenesis. He has taught throughout the United States as well as in Africa and South America, and worked with a variety of Native American tribes and communities.
Trevanna Frost Grenfell
reNourish Studio Faculty
Trevanna spends her career working at the intersections of how people relate with the living world and how we develop our thinking and actions within it. Weaving her twenty years of training and experience in both backcountry wilderness guiding and organizational strategic consulting, Trevanna Frost Grenfell challenges and supports leaders to practice this kind of “living systems thinking” so that our work—and our world— can truly thrive.
Emma Sacks
Event Design and Production
Emma is an experiential designer most often focused in the realms of food, wellness, and music. She has worked on production teams for some of the largest music festivals in the United States and continues her work with Summit Series. At reNourish she is able to weave her background in conservation and agriculture with the design of developmental gatherings where people join together for celebration, growth, connection, and deep work in service to creating a food system that nourishes all life.
Jade Lee
Event Producer and Community Builder
Jade has honed her craft in event production for a decade, running fast-paced & large scale experiences for large audiences for clients such as ESPN X Games and Summit Series, all while layering in deep connection and community support.
Connor McMorrow
Business Development
Connor started his career in San Francisco scaling hyper-growth stage tech companies, one pre-revenue to over $5M in ARR and the other to acquisition by Discord. From there, he made a pivot to follow his passion for influencing positive change in the food system by joining the Board of Directors for White Buffalo Land Trust and launching their food brand, Figure Ate. He recognized an opportunity to develop growth strategies to support other mission-driven CPG brands and has spent the past years working with brands from launch up to $5M+ in revenue. Connor is comfortable challenging the status quo to find new and creative ways to be successful without cutting corners or compromising on the mission of the brands he works with.
Leigh Buckley & Page Mitchum, Blue Quest
Brand & Marketing
Leigh and Page have a combined 22+ years experience in Lifestyle, Retail, and Consumer Packaged Goods ranging from food, supplements, cannabis, regenerative agriculture and ESG Finance. They have worked in startups, mid-size, and Fortune 500 companies. Their passion lies in helping brands & businesses make a difference on this planet by building a strategy, positioning, voice, and offering that is deeply resonant with their consumer base and by bringing the best in class education, resources and support.
Ines
Community Builder
Inès Frazier is a passionate advocate for regenerative systems, dedicated to inspiring collective action and restoring human and planetary health. She channels her commitment into fostering a healthier world through building community within the regenerative agriculture movement. Ines’s journey began after a personal loss of her best friend, Kennedy, spurring her to explore the connections between agriculture, sustainability, and health. Her diverse experiences include farming in Texas and Minnesota, beekeeping, and research on soil microbiology and racism in agriculture. As a TEDx speaker, Inès shares her insights on the profound implications of racism in agriculture. When she’s not immersed in her work, you’ll often find her swimming laps, hiking mountains with her dog, Bandit, or engaging in lively conversations with community members, sharing tales of the various rabbit holes she’s explored.
Eric
Podcast host + Producer
Eric is a strategic executive and business advisor with over two decades of experience in insights and innovation and a decade within the food system. Eric has experience building strong, motivated, resilient, purpose-driven teams and businesses. His approach is grounded in a deep understanding of marketplace insights, which enables him to help organizations identify growth potential, build effective strategies, and execute plans effectively. Eric’s work is guided by a sincere passion for empowering individuals and businesses to achieve sustainable success and enact meaningful change in the marketplace.
Guido Lois
Photography & Videography
Guido Lois is a filmmaker and communications specialist with deep roots in Argentina, where his family has been involved in the food production industry for generations. He has dedicated his career to marketing and education within the restaurant and farming sectors. Outside of his professional life, Guido enjoys practicing martial arts and hosting barbecue gatherings with his community.
Sherry
Content Contributor, Cohort Member
Immersed in the regenerative food space, Sherry has donned many hats within the industry. Her local and organic culinary arts expertise and healing food journey has carried her through the roles of spice blend manufacturing, restaurant management, Executive Chef and product development for Oncobitez nutrition bites. Her on stage talks (including Tedx) and presentations evoke personal curiosity and self empowerment by revealing nature’s connections between flavor and nutrients. Her business, The Flavor Remedy, strives to improve our food system by inspiring consumers to recognize their innate tasting experience as our pleasurable responsibility to ensure vital food for generations to come.
Dana
Content Contributor, Cohort Member
Dana is a weaver of conversations and collective movements, tying together traditional wisdom and applied technologies. With formal education, training, and experience in genetics & genomics, education, and ecology, she has taken her scientific inquiries and communications roles into the field of ecological governance and planetary health advocacy. Her current areas of exploration with her communities include systems of evolution of the self and the world through advising businesses and non-profit organizations.
OUR BOARD
Meet the reNourish Board
Pamela Mang
reNourish Board Member
Pamela Mang is a founding member of Regenesis Group and Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice where she is the Education Program Director. She has
worked with project development teams, community groups and regenerative
practitioners to build critical systems thinking skills and holistic planning processes and designs that can address complex systems problems and opportunities. She helped develop and has taught The Regenerative Practitioner series since its inception in 2013 and is the co-author of the book Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability, published in 2016.
Cameron Miller
Cameron dreams of a world that’s thriving. A world that is in harmony with nature. A world that’s better off when left to his daughter and their generation than it is now. He is excited to be holding this aim in his role as Chief Executive of Business Strategy and Innovation for the Non-GMO Project. Cameron grew up working on a farm and has over twenty years of varied and interesting professional pursuits, as well as a graduate degree in sustainable business which has set the ground for his work today. Currently, Cameron is investing further in his learning and development through reNourish Studio and the Carol Sanford Institute.
Stacey Marcellus
reNourish Board Member
Stacey is a Co-Founder of Cappello’s and lives in beautiful Southern Colorado. After years of feeling disenchanted with the packaged food industry, a few key moments in time shifted her perspective on how change can be stewarded. She has found a well of energy to work differently in her business to support the evolution of the food system. reNourish Studio has been a huge part of the process in actualizing change within her and within her business to enhance all life.
Pamela Mang
reNourish Board Member
Pamela Mang is a founding member of Regenesis Group and Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice where she is the Education Program Director. She has
worked with project development teams, community groups and regenerative
practitioners to build critical systems thinking skills and holistic planning processes and designs that can address complex systems problems and opportunities. She helped develop and has taught The Regenerative Practitioner series since its inception in 2013 and is the co-author of the book Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability, published in 2016.
Cameron Miller
reNourish Board Member
Cameron dreams of a world that’s thriving. A world that is in harmony with nature. A world that’s better off when left to his daughter and their generation than it is now. He is excited to be holding this aim in his role as Chief Executive of Business Strategy and Innovation for the Non-GMO Project. Cameron grew up working on a farm and has over twenty years of varied and interesting professional pursuits, as well as a graduate degree in sustainable business which has set the ground for his work today. Currently, Cameron is investing further in his learning and development through reNourish Studio and the Carol Sanford Institute.
Stacey Marcellus
reNourish Board Member
Stacey is a Co-Founder of Cappello’s and lives in beautiful Southern Colorado. After years of feeling disenchanted with the packaged food industry, a few key moments in time shifted her perspective on how change can be stewarded. She has found a well of energy to work differently in her business to support the evolution of the food system. reNourish Studio has been a huge part of the process in actualizing change within her and within her business to enhance all life.
Our Foundation of Thinking
We see the ways in which mechanistic systems inherently degrade over time. In response, our approach includes working developmentally to build new capabilities through the application of living systems thinking. By innovating in partnership with living systems, our food systems can increasingly reach new states of health.
With living systems thinking we engage with our work and world as alive, capable of transformation, and as nested processes. These practices and technologies help us to understand whole systems and bring forth their unique potentials for contribution and regeneration– emergent potentials that cannot even be imagined until we develop our thinking.
We are challenging a dominant, mechanically based theory of change that emphasizes repetition, scale, and bite sized changes. Instead, our theory of change focuses on the transformations in thinking, and capacity development at a systems level. Our work is to find the core value that the entity can deliver to the greater system and the role it can play in that system’s evolution. Usually as a result of this process, businesses become more successful and non-displaceable.
Because living systems thinking is a practice, we find that the work transforms businesses completely over engagements that last at least three years. This is a living tradition, where we aren’t teaching you new techniques, we are working on your approach and way of seeing and thinking.
Our Thanks
We offer our gratitude and thanks to first peoples all over the planet who don’t see themselves as separate from nature but playing roles inside of the great web of interconnected life. For the world we image to become a reality we must build it in the foundation of this worldview and work toward re-indigenization of our own ways of being and relating.
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