Deans Elders
Charles Vogl, M.Div.
Community Deans Project Founder
Charles Vogl is an adviser, speaker, and the author of three books. He a trusted thought leader for the Google School for Leaders, a program to develop 20,000 Google managers. He is also a founding member of the Google Vitality Lab which works to innovate healing strategies in our era.
He wrote the international bestseller The Art of Community, which won a Nautilus Book Award for business and leadership writing. His latest book, Building Brand Communities won an Axiom Business Book gold medal.
His work is used to advise and develop leadership and programs worldwide within organizations including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, ServiceNow, Meetup.com, Wayfair and the US Army.
Charles holds an M.Div. from Yale, where he studied spiritual traditions, ethics, and business as a Jesse Ball duPont Foundation scholar.
charlesvogl.com
Yom Fox
Education Leader
Yom Odamtten Fox is a High School principal at a DC independent school, with a profound appreciation for its membership, mission, and vision. Yom loves playing a part in a student’s journey that spans academic and social-emotional growth. She honed her craft in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and New York, teaching English, History, and Civics while managing national and international service-learning programs. She also serves on the Global Education Benchmarks Group board.
Ezra Bookman
Ritual Designer & Consultant
Ezra Bookman is a nationally recognized ritual designer, artist, and facilitator helping leaders cultivate more conscious companies and connected communities. He is the founder of Ritualist, the first-ever creative studio specializing in the design of rituals; the youngest member on the Board of Directors of The Secret City, an Obie Award-winning arts community; and the former Artistic Director for Lab/Shul, an experimental, artist-driven, God-optional Jewish community in NYC.
www.ritualist.life
Vice: Goodbye to Garbage
NY Times
Marjorie Anderson
Professional Association Community Leader
Marjorie Anderson is an expert community management professional for building global communities for associations.
She works to build leadership that recognizes that community is less about the technology and is more about the people gathering around shared purpose.
Zvi Band
Online Connection Entrepreneur & Author
Zvi is building Talk Social a new venture around his core life mission of bringing humanity back together. Previously, he co-founded Contactually, and led it as CEO from an idea in 2011 to an enterprise SaaS company when it was acquired by Compass in 2019. He is the author of Success Is in Your Sphere: Leverage the Power of Relationships to Achieve Your Business Goals (McGraw Hill, 2019). He also co-created the DC Tech Meetup which, since it’s founding in 2010, has been one of the largest of it’s kind in the country. He speaks, writes, and is interviewed on business relationships and relationship marketing, real estate technology, and entrepreneurship.
Eric Winters
Community Deans Cofounder
Community Leadership Entrepreneur
Eric has a rich history of exploring ways to use new technology to connect people. He is the co-founder of Heylo, a platform to help people organize the groups they like to see most. The dream is to help people get off the couch, put down their phone, and go connect with the people around them.
Earlier at Google he worked on growth strategy projects with Waze, VR, and Google Photos. He also worked on the investments and acquisitions including SpaceX and Motorola. He helped create Alphabet and its companies including Waymo, Verily, and The Production Board.