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Leadership
Hub and Spoke Organization
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The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) is guided by a network of Executive, Advisory and Regional Directors.
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Directors
Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder, Executive & Regional Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Social Intelligence Lead.
Betsey designs social intelligence information systems for economic development and is passionate about music, historical architecture, and mental health. She works extensively in the design and launch of technology-based initiatives. Read more...
Betsey designs social intelligence information systems for economic development and is passionate about music, historical architecture, and mental health. She works extensively in the design and launch of technology-based initiatives. Read more...
Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L., Advisory Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Founder and President, Tutor/Mentor Institute LLC & Tutor/Mentor Connection, an Award-winning Advocate for Youth.
Daniel is sought by organizations striving to do what he has done for over 36 years: lead comprehensive, volunteer-based, non-school tutoring and mentoring programs serving inner-city children and youth. Read More...
Daniel is sought by organizations striving to do what he has done for over 36 years: lead comprehensive, volunteer-based, non-school tutoring and mentoring programs serving inner-city children and youth. Read More...
Dennis Coughlin, Co-Founder, Executive & Regional Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and an Innovative Solutions Designer for Public Service.
Dennis is a non-profit administrator who began organizing Coventry Neighbors and the Coventry Street Fair in , nursing services at St. Vincent Charity Hospital, several large individual churches, the Institute for Open Economic Networks and The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. Read more...
Dennis is a non-profit administrator who began organizing Coventry Neighbors and the Coventry Street Fair in , nursing services at St. Vincent Charity Hospital, several large individual churches, the Institute for Open Economic Networks and The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. Read more...
Gloria Ferris, Regional Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Community Organization Consultant and Contractor.
Gloria is community change consultant is a former Cleveland Metropolitan School teacher and retired BP oil credit analyst who seeks to change how civic and social organizations work together. Right now, we have a hierarchical (top-down) model in place. Read More...
Gloria is community change consultant is a former Cleveland Metropolitan School teacher and retired BP oil credit analyst who seeks to change how civic and social organizations work together. Right now, we have a hierarchical (top-down) model in place. Read More...
Ken Homer, Advisory Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Founder, Collaborative Conversations.
Ken is a large group facilitator and Founder, Collaborative Conversations – Include More Voices, Make Better Choices, and co-developed the World Café dialogue process, designed the Institute of Noetic Sciences Worldview Explorations learning architecture, was head of R&D for Sustainable Strategies Inc., first Director of the New Ventures West School of Professional Coaching’s Graduate Department, and is certified in Integral Coaching®. Read more...
Ken is a large group facilitator and Founder, Collaborative Conversations – Include More Voices, Make Better Choices, and co-developed the World Café dialogue process, designed the Institute of Noetic Sciences Worldview Explorations learning architecture, was head of R&D for Sustainable Strategies Inc., first Director of the New Ventures West School of Professional Coaching’s Graduate Department, and is certified in Integral Coaching®. Read more...
Susan Altshuler, Co-Founder, Executive & Regional Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Finance & Grants Administration.
Susan, Co-Founder and Executive Director has 25 years of office and financial management in both corporate and nonprofit environments. An experienced broadcast moderator, she is passionate about helping women entrepreneurs. Read more...
Susan, Co-Founder and Executive Director has 25 years of office and financial management in both corporate and nonprofit environments. An experienced broadcast moderator, she is passionate about helping women entrepreneurs. Read more...
Tom Romito, Regional Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) and Team Building, Action Planning and Strategic Planning Lead.
Tom Romito, is a facilitator helps organizations build capacity through team building, action planning and strategic planning. He focuses on solutions to climate change effects on reforestation, wetlands and wildlife. Read more...
Tom Romito, is a facilitator helps organizations build capacity through team building, action planning and strategic planning. He focuses on solutions to climate change effects on reforestation, wetlands and wildlife. Read more...
How Our Leadership Works
Working together, the I-Open leadership network brings vision, skill and energy to serve the community and economic development industry and advance prosperity building in Open Source Economic Development.
- Executive Directors have a fiduciary and legal responsibility in the organization and can sign documents where authorized.
- Advisory Directors provide information, counsel and guidance to Directors, and may be notable leaders in their field of expertise relevant to OSED.
- Regional Directors promote I-Open, seek collaborations of benefit to I-Open and it's community, act as staff to projects, endeavor to ensure financial support of I-Open operations, and may coach, mentor and train civic leaders and professionals in topics and skills relevant to Open Source Economic Development.
Past Directors of I-Open
Bruce Waltuck, is an Award-winning change leader, author, and consultant, President of Freethinc...For a Change, LLC. He co-designed and led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Involvement and Quality Improvement system, creating a public-private partnership model that won a Silver Medal from the Government Innovation awards program. Read More...
Ed Morrison, is the regional economic development advisor at the Purdue Center for Regional Development, joining the staff in 2006. For over 20 years, he has conducted strategy projects with economic and workforce developers in the U.S. His work emphasizes the strategic value of focused regional collaborations and open innovation, network-based models in today's global economy. Ed developed a new discipline called Strategic Doing to accelerate these collaborations that is now widely used across the U.S. and is now gaining attention internationally. Read More...
is an independent health and wellness professional implemented large scale change across diverse areas of skilled nursing and hospital administration. She introduced patient-centered care and helped facilitate settlement of the nation’s longest nursing strike lasting 18 months.
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