As the former managing partner in the law firm she built with her partner in Concord, Massachusetts, Laura brings with her a background in real estate law, family mediation, and business operations. Laura is now a Senior Planner with the Land for Maine’s Future, the State of Maine's competitive grant program for conserving working farmland, working waterfront, and public access to lands of recreational or natural significance. Her particular interests are governance, strategic planning, and marrying operations to mission.

I am a retired educator. I worked for RSU3 for almost 30 years. During that time I taught 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades for 12 years. The remainder of my career was spent as Principal at Walker Elementary and Mount View Elementary Schools. Currently I live on beautiful Lake St George in Liberty. I am a member of the Liberty Planning board.

Beth was a founding board member of Ecology Learning Center. As a former homeschooling mom and current school parent, she remains stimulated by the quality educational alternatives that ELC offers for a broad diversity of students. Beth has worked as a bookkeeper for several non-profits, and as an income tax preparer. Her BS and graduate study are in Environmental Studies. She loves growing vegetables, fruit, and sheep at Still Roving Farm with her family.

Over the past decade, Chris has followed his childhood dream to become a serial entrepreneur, participating in the creation of businesses ranging from environmental to real estate development to all natural foods/beverages. Prior to this, he spent over two decades in corporate finance, specializing in operational efficiencies, forecasting, strategic planning, and business valuation. Chris recognized his passion for education early on, eventually becoming an adjunct professor. He and his family are looking forward to their move to Waldo county this summer and reestablishing the family maple syrup business.

Michael Shell has over 20 years of leadership coaching, organization culture consulting, team coaching and coaching supervision experience. As the Founder of Global Leadership Partners Asia and the Global Leadership Community he successfully created a leadership coaching eco-system across Asia. He has over 2,000 hours of experience coaching teams and team leaders. He is a faculty member of the Global Team Coaching Institute and has a Senior Practitioner EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) and Senior Practitioner Individual Team Coaching Accreditation (ITCA).

Michael supports small and medium sized companies to create learning cultures. His interest in developing human potential is rooted in a powerful life-long commitment to learning and human evolution. He guides individuals and teams to clarify vision, enhance self-awareness, think systemically and develop accountability structures that lead to measurably improved business results and organizational excellence.
His partnership-based approach to learning is driven by a belief that organizations are stronger when they make decisions that include the perspectives of a diverse group of stakeholders. An engaging consultant, he integrates potentiality trainings with sound management principles to support his clients in realizing new possibilities for themselves and their companies. He is recognized for his ability to combine and instill
the insight of a strategist, the sensitivity of a therapist, and the awareness of meditation.

Michael has coached clients across a variety of industries including Automotive, Chemicals, Consulting, Cosmetics, Finance, Logistics, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Technology, Sporting Goods and Trading across Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, the UK and the US. He obtained his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was a Board Member of the Asian Pacific Alliance of Coaches for 5 years and taught Critical Thinking at Globis University. His work finds its roots in Landmark Education, Nonviolent Communication, system thinking, Process Work, Organization Relationship Systems Coaching, meditation and the philosophy of yoga. He is a faculty member of the Global Team Coaching Institute, a certified EMCC individual coach and a certified EMCC team coach. He a graduate of the Maine Leadership Academy. He speaks conversational Spanish and some Italian. He has visited or worked in over 25 countries.