Julia Mande is a catalyzing facilitator and practitioner of awareness-based systems change.
She works with leaders to align strategy with values.
Julia works in emerging sectors advancing soil health, plant medicine, conscious leadership, and decentralized management. She has worked with the founders of L.A. Compost, A Growing Culture, Collective Transitions, and North Star Project to design, develop, and launch programs that have meaningful socio-ecological impacts.
She is trained in Regenerative Organizational Design, Systemic Constellation Mapping, and u.lab: Leading from the Emerging Future through MITx. .
Adapt to Complexity provides generative solutions to complex socio-ecological issues.
professional development & education
MAD Academy, Environment & Sustainability, 2021
Mockingbird Non-Profit Incubator, 2019
Wageningen, Systems Thinking and Environmental Sustainability, 2016
Wageningen, Introduction to Nutrition: Food for Health, 2015
The George Washington University, Communications & Organizational Science, 2010
affiliations & awards
We Will Dance with Mountains
Kiss the Ground
Los Angeles Green New Deal
The LEAP Manifesto, Los Angeles Steering Committee
LA Food Policy Council Food Waste Prevention Working Group
Zagat 30 under 30
Organizations
North Star Project
Development Consultant, Collective Transitions
ESG Impact Consultant, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Business Development Manager, New York Hemp Oil
Co-creator and Production Director, Hunger for Justice Series, A Growing Culture
Director of Development, L.A.Compost
General Manager, Local Roots Farm
Management, animal / Jon & Vinny's / Son of a Gun
Maitre d’hotel, Blue Hill Restaurant & Blue Hill at Stone Barns
F.A.R.M.S. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture