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The Institute of Transactional Philosophy Board
January 2023 in Los Angeles, California

OUR BOARD

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE


Trisha Tyler, Board Chair
Trisha Tyler is CEO/Founder of Sosalient and a recent 2022 Executive MBA graduate at UCLA Anderson, where she focused on corporate governance initiatives to address sustainability and climate change. She was previously a Partner and the U.S. West Health Business Leader for Mercer, an operating company of MMC, a Fortune 200 business. Trisha was named Female Leader of the Year by Seattle Chamber of Commerce in 2018. She now lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, Jeff Miller and their dog Riley.


Sue Rhomberg, Vice Chair
Sue Rhomberg’s career as a legacy consultant, building on a foundation as an occupational therapist, developed out of capturing stories that celebrate life. Her own story includes two 4th generation family businesses that are 100+ years old. For over a decade, Sue has been studying transactional competence and the philosophy of transactionalism, which she is integrating into fundamental perspectives on legacy. Sue resides in Oak Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago.


Ana Athanasiu, Treasurer
Ana Athanasiu works from the Silicon Valley in strategic consulting. The author of several early technical books confronting the interconnectivity between technology and humanity, Ana’s articulations for complex systems was honed through years of user interface, engineering & telecommunications systems development. In her last role as an R&D engineering manager at Sun Microsystems, Ana found herself in the privileged role of seeing Java, distributed networking and XML released into the world. She lives in Redwood City, California.


Sarah Shepherd, Secretary & Programs Co-Chair
Sarah Shepherd is President of Circuit Rider of Colorado, LLC, providing executive management to Colorado Special Districts, non-profits and associations, since 2006. She also founded IMPACT Personal Safety of Colorado, a 501(c)3, in 2009. Sarah proudly serves on the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, the "most forward-thinking, future-proof" and third-oldest college in America. She splits time between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah.

BOARD MEMBERS


Nicole Briones
Nicole Briones is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She currently holds a position with Consortium Health Plans as a Director with the Actuarial and Analytics group. Nicole was previously a lead consultant with top consulting firm Mercer specializing in delivering complex financial results with simplicity to C-Suite and HR/benefits teams. Nicole currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband Daniel and their much-loved Beagle Luke, and Siberian cat Jackson.


Jasmine Platt
Jasmine Platt is the CEO/founder of Matters Most - an executive coaching and human performance engineering consultancy. Jasmine has been an executive coach and performance consultant for 20+ years across multiple industries, including insurance, public sector, construction, infrastructure and real estate. Jasmine lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband, Nick and two daughters, and their (ridiculous-looking) miniature poodle/griffin terrier cross, Max.


Jenn Oliver - Internal Affairs Chair
Jenn is a Senior Director of Human Resources at the University of Virginia and has been a noteworthy business and human resources leader in higher education for more than twenty years. She specializes in driving process improvement and has been credited with successfully leading initiatives that drive business and human resource transformation. She has been studying transactional philosophy since 2014. Jenn resides in Charlottesville, VA with her husband, Carey, and cockapoo Roxie.


Christopher Pries
Christopher Pries is a Certified Public Accountant and Compliance Officer and brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise risk management, internal and external audit in the public accounting, investment management, manufacturing, corporate real estate services and consulting services sectors. He is a thought leader on data privacy localization and data analytics in fraud investigations in the internal audit sphere. Christopher resides in Chicago with his husband Matthew and beloved chihuahua Saffron.


Daphne Thompson
Daphne Thompson is the Founder of Connecting Medicine Clinic, Ballarat, Australia where as a Physician of Chinese Medicine she combines her eastern medical degree with her PhD in Microbial Metabolism of the Gut to forge new paradigms for chronic health conditions. Previously she spent ten years as National Policy and Program Adviser for the UK Government in Biotechnology, Science and Business Innovation and was Deputy Head of the Microbiology Systematics Department at the University of Reading, UK.


Dr. Gary Ward
Dr. Gary Ward is a general medical practitioner in Perth Western Australia with a focus on preventive medicine and health promotion. He is the personal physician to many of the leading business and community leaders in Perth. He is a program leader on the faculty of Influence Ecology, the leading business education in transactional competence.


Andrew Crellin - External Affairs Chair
Andrew is a professional numismatist – a dealer in rare coins and currency, and is based in Fremantle (West Australia). Andrew has been the Managing Director of Sterling & Currency since 2006 and has served three times as the President of the Australasian Numismatic Dealer’s Association, the peak body representing professional numismatists across Australasia. Andrew also served as the President of the Fremantle Rugby League Club across a nine-year period, and remains involved with both organizations.

OUR ADVISORY BOARD


Kirkland Tibbels
Kirkland Tibbels is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Influence Ecology, a global business education company specializing in the study and practice of Transactional Competence™. Kirkland has enjoyed a long and successful business career, which includes a nearly 25-year career as a producer in the motion picture and television industry. Kirkland has been recognized by civic and social organizations for diversity and culture change in business and media. He is currently pursuing his PhD in process-relational, transactional philosophy and lives in Oxnard, California.

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