peter yaholkovsky

Peter Yaholkovsky, MD is a teacher and coach of communication and trust-building. He works primarily with Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) families and executive teams in situations where trusting relationships are in jeopardy.

Peter has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a medical degree from UC Davis, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

He has also been certified as a Master Somatic Coach by The Strozzi Institute, with a special interest in developing the emotional skills for building trust in relationships characterized by power differentials.

He has studied with and worked for Dr. Fernando Flores, a pioneer in the linguistic foundations of action and relationships.

He spent decades swimming, rafting, and kayaking white water…a most experiential connection with energy flow, to complement his prior cognitive, study of energy in Engineering.

Peter lives with his wife in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California.

Ed Huling

Ed is an organic farmer, soil scientist, environmentalist, and nutritionist.  He is currently leading two climate-related demonstration projects: one is a 60-acre demonstration of his organic farming system that sequesters more carbon in soil, produces more food per acre, and earns more income for farmers than other regenerative farming models.  The project is in Hopewell, New Jersey, near Princeton. 

Funding has just been obtained for two demonstration projects with commercial farmers, scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021 to further demonstrate the commercial viability of his farming system.

The second project is a reforestation program in Lambertville, New Jersey that is expected to demonstrate a higher survival rate for new tree seedlings, a higher tree growth rate, and a higher rate of carbon sequestration in soil than other reforestation methodologies.  More effective reforestation is critical for reversing climate change, protecting against wildfires, preserving species diversity, and restoring fresh water reserves.

Both projects leverage Ed’s twenty years of innovation in restoring soil fertility to produce higher quantities of nutrient dense food than other organic vegetable production systems.  His organic greenhouse production system yielded the highest crop production per acre of any agricultural growing system in the world that he is aware of- organic or conventional.

Scientists from Princeton, Rutgers and the University of Vermont are assisting with the research design, and with the measurement of results on the two demonstration projects mentioned above.  Both projects are expected to demonstrate the feasibility of Ed’s contention that we can and must produce much more food per acre.  We must do this to feed an increasing global population without any further deforestation.   And higher crop productivity also enables the return of sensitive croplands to forests, the most powerful way to cool the earth.

The mission of Ed’s company, Soil Carbon Partners, LLC, is to commercialize his organic, high-yield farming system, and to support and train farmers around the world to adopt this system to contribute to slowing the heating of the planet. Ed lives with his wife Ruth in Hopewell, New Jersey.

Bruce Feldstein

Chaplain Bruce Feldstein, MD, BCC is a chaplain, physician, and educator. He is the founder and director of Jewish Chaplaincy Services serving Stanford Medicine, and Adjunct Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Bruce was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. After 19 years specializing in emergency medicine, an injury led him to discover his life’s work: as a chaplain. Bruce was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, then completed his chaplaincy training in 2000 in Stanford’s Clinical Pastoral Education program. In providing spiritual care, he has accompanied thousands of people of all backgrounds in the midst of illness, trauma, birth, dying, grief and healing.

At Stanford School of Medicine, Bruce developed and teaches an innovative curriculum on spirituality and well-being for medical students and faculty. He is a recipient of the John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Curricular Award, and the first recipient of the Isaac Stein Award for Compassionate Care presented by the Stanford Health Care Board of Directors. He is recognized as a Board Certified Chaplain by Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains, where he is a past president. He has taught and published widely on spiritual care, healing, and designing our well-being.

Linked below is an article by Bruce published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Carolina Nieto Cater

Executive Director for Ashoka México, Centroamérica y el Caribe

• Ashoka Fellow since 2004

• Co-Founder and President of the Board for Saber para la Vida ac, a civic association committed to empower vulnerable women through development of their own micro-businesses

• Co-Founder and President of the Board for Somos Vía, a B-Corporation who connects vulnerable artisans with designers and enterprises with the purpose of creating a fair and equitable marketplace

• Ontological Design with Dr. Fernando Flores, specializing in consulting and executive training

• Co-Founder of Mujeres y Punto, a political organization to enhance participation of women as citizens and politicians

• Co-Founder of Todamujer.com, the first website for women in México, connecting a community of 50,000 Spanish-speaking women

• Speaker and group moderator on leadership, communication for action, entrepreneurship and gender equality