Our Team

Abigail is the first generation of her Filipino family born in the USA. Based in Portland, Oregon, she has lived and worked over the past twenty-five years in the Philippines, India, Senegal, Kenya, Italy, Peru and Ecuador, with organizations like the United Nations, the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Lemelson Foundation, the Government of Uruguay. She loves working in partnership with diverse groups of people to learn, co-create and re-imagine together the systems we live and work in. This is often through supporting the conditions that allow for power-sharing in philanthropy, community-led philanthropy, mentoring and coaching nonprofit and for-profit social venture leaders, and facilitation of global community impact networks organizing for racial and climate justice, healing, and thriving people and planet. Abigail has studied International Politics, Environmental Science and International Law at Georgetown, Yale and the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Senegal. Abby has launched, facilitated, evaluated and supported impact networks throughout her life including: the United National Forum on Forests Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Network, the Global Environment Facility NGO network, the Oregon Immigrant & Refugee Funder Collaborative, the United Philanthropy Forum, the Northern California Grantmakers network, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, PEAK Grantmakers, among others.

David is the author of Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change (impactnetworks.xyz) and a producer of the Impact Networks documentary. He is trustee for Weaving Futures, a Perpetual Purpose Trust, and cofounder of Hats Protocol (hatsprotocol.xyz), which is working to create a backbone for decentralized work. From 2013-2023 David was co-founder and coordinator of Converge (converge.net), a network of practitioners who build and support impact networks. David has helped form dozens of multistakeholder collaborations in a variety of fields, and was a founding coordinator for networks in the fields of environmental stewardship, economic mobility, access to science, civic revitalization, and web3. He speaks and writes frequently on the future of coordination, finds serenity in music, and is completely smitten by his 3-year old daughter. Find his podcasts, writings, and other projects at davidehrlichman.com.

Devon is a strategy thought partner to founders, CEOs, network leaders, and leadership teams. Devon creates conditions for deeper impact through optimizing organizational and network capacity around people and processes. She is an organization development, change management consultant, and leadership coach working with impact organizations mostly in climate and healing justice, gender and educational equity, philanthropy, and systems change/collective impact/power building. Devon has a background in experiential learning, peer mentorship, facilitation, convening design, fundraising, and network growth. She was the first staff member of a global network called Tendrel, funded by Skoll Foundation, Ashoka, and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. As a Bay Area native, Spanish speaker and cross-cultural communicator, Devon brings a deep focus on relationships in her work where equity and participatory engagement are at the heart of her facilitation and community-centered practices. Devon holds a BA in politics and culture from the University of San Francisco and an MA in Sustainable Community Development from Brandeis University.

Gabriel helps catalysts working toward systems transformation, including impact network leaders, organizational leaders, and families. He is an international bestselling author, social entrepreneur, facilitator, and coach, whose pedagogy for change agents is taught at Cambridge, Cornell, MIT and other universities throughout our world.

Through his work with Weaving Futures, formerly Converge, he supports people building impact networks, groups of organizations and/or families working together to take on challenges greater than they could navigate alone. Gabriel has provided coaching, facilitation, development and strategy advising for several impact networks including Evolutionary Leaders, The ImPact, Owning Impact at MIT, Climate Safe Lending Network, Clean Electronics Production Network, and the Soil and Climate Alliance. He has supported networks across a diversity of areas, such as impact investing, philanthropy, human rights, health and safety, environmental and social justice, financial systems transformation, corporate sustainability, corporate governance, and human consciousness development. Together they navigate the personal, organizational, and institutional transformations inherent in shifting systems.

Over the past fifteen years, Gabriel has also provided coaching and training for more than one thousand purpose-led leaders and world-class change agents, including founders and board members, and c-suite executives and directors from more than 150 major brands such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Whole Foods. He has also worked with students and educational leaders at various universities, including Stanford, Columbia, and Cambridge and high schools such as Dalton and Georgetown Day School. He is a co-founder of Jagra Foundation and Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation and serves on the board of Green America.

Gabriel’s PhD research at Yale illuminates when and how purposeful work contributes to the flourishing of people and organizations. His master’s thesis at Purdue explores how people use knowledge networks to build living systems. And, his work and research while obtaining his B.S. in Physics at Purdue focused on renewable energy systems. Gabriel lives in Seattle with his wife, Sarah, and daughters, Ariana and Madeleine—with whom he shares a mission of creating unconditional love and powerfully contributing to others.

Jeanine is an impact coach, strategist and facilitator. She partners with purpose-led leaders in networks, foundations, corporations, nonprofits and government who are moved by these times, sense the complex systems at play, and see possibility. Jeanine supports her clients to lead authentically, inclusively and creatively – even while guiding great change and she supports these leaders and multi-sector collaborations to weave their impact through generative relationships, thriving organizational cultures and emergent strategies.

Jeanine’s Impact Network and multi-sector collaboration clients have included World Pulse, the Collective Impact Partnership, the Center for Dialogue and Resolution, Conveners.org. the Impact, and the Collaborative for Frontier Finance. As founder of On Purpose Together, Jeanine’s individual and organizational clients have included leaders at World Education Services, the Amgen Foundation, the World Bank, Slack, ParadigmIQ, MedZed, BART, the Central Park Conservancy, SiteLab Urban Studios, Planned Parenthood and Uncommon Cacao.

Jeanine’s work is influenced by over a decade of teaching Negotiation and Collaboration at Stanford, closing thousands of deals on four continents, as well as ancient wisdom and current research in psychological development and systems theory. As fuel for blazing your own trail, Jeanine co-authored Trailblazing Secrets. She also has edited a supplement in the Stanford Social Innovation Review focused on cross-sector leadership and authored multiple pieces including “The Need for Cross Sector Collaboration” and the “The Essential Skills of Cross Sector Leadership.”

Jeanine holds a BA in Sociology and a Certificate in Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University and a JD from Stanford Law School. She loves to learn - whether from a great read, a deep conversation, or her next adventure. When at home she is rooting into her new community in Portland and delighting in her curious and wise daughter. She believes that being a mama in these times calls many of us to not only care deeply about our own children, but also to create sustainable systems for their future. Through her work with Purpose-Led Mamas, she explores the synergy between our most present parenting lessons and our next leadership leap.

Katrina (Kate) is a consultant, researcher and educator on all things networks, integrating human behavior, data and the environment. Since 2011 Kate has taught at Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy’s M.S. Program (IKNS) on networks and collaboration, including social network analysis (SNA) and systems thinking. She has designed and/or strengthened networks with Columbia University, Fidelity Investments, Intel Corporation, Medtronic, Social Protection for Employment (DFAT), The Task Force for Global Health, The World Bank, Women’s World Banking, and WWF, among others. She also has expertise in purposeful, productive conversation capacity-building, and has used Generative AI and data science to quantify the impact of conversation on sustainability outcomes. Her research, “Designing Effective Knowledge Networks” (MIT Sloan Mgt Review) and book Sharing Hidden Know How (Wiley) are widely used by the network and KM communities. Kate held leadership roles at JPMorgan, Intel, and Fidelity, and worked as a consultant with EY, PwC, Deloitte, and AlignConsulting. She was on the Board of Directors for LYRASIS, an international nonprofit focused on open source and cooperative buying for libraries, archives and museums. Kate earned a PhD from UMaine (Ecology and Environmental Science), SM/MBA from MIT, and a BA in Economics from Williams College.

Paula supports leaders, networks, organizations and communities in collaborating to achieve their public good missions. She is a consultant, educator and group facilitator who specializes in partnering with her clients to form and sustain impact networks that advance a shared purpose. Paula has expertise in designing convenings for learning and collaborative action, supporting network leaders, recruiting network coordinators/facilitators, strategy development, evaluating network effectiveness, cultivating productive teams, and guiding cohorts in which many leaders come together for peer support and joint learning. She is a former partner with Converge for Impact. Her work is grounded in commitments to equity, inclusion, and systems thinking, and fueled by the power of story—drawing on her background in journalism and documentary filmmaking. Among Paula’s clients are: Media Justice Network, Engineering for One Planet Network, Linn-Benton-Lincoln Health Equity Alliance, Science Communicators Training Network, Alliance for Media Arts + Culture,  Policy Consensus Center, Health and Outdoors Initiative, and The Intertwine Alliance.

Toni has more than 25 years of experience in the non profit, public, and private sectors with leadership development, program management, communications, community engagement, and organizational development. Toni has a passion for supporting impact networks and social change organizations, particularly those involving climate and environmental justice, immigrant and global majority communities, youth/families/elders, housing and houseless communities, arts and media, and other social justice issues. Clients include Coalition of Communities of Color, Oregon Just Transition Alliance, Sandy River Watershed Council, Media Justice Network, and Arts Northwest. She has developed curriculum and facilitated workshops focused on leadership development, governance, strategic planning, visioning, and team building. Her approach is grounded in interpersonal connections, experiential engagement, collaboration, care, a strong equity analysis, and inclusive facilitation practices. Toni serves on the board of Regional Arts and Culture Council, is a Senior Fellow with American Leadership Forum-Oregon Class 40, and was a member of the City of Portland’s Our Creative Futures cultural planning steering committee. She is the founder of the EsperHouse consultancy.