Sally Breyley Parker President Sally Breyley Parker is the founder and president of Currere, Inc. As a Cultural Anthropologist with over twenty years experience in management, organizational development and physical space design, Ms. Parker has helped numerous for profit, not-for-profit, and community organizations improve strength and effectiveness. She specializes in the development and growth of emerging and changing organizations, facilitating diverse groups to establish shared purpose and define common ground for action. Most recently, her work with Currere has involved sustainable community development and capacity building, strategic planning, organizational and board development, feasibility and market studies, and organizational culture assessments. Clients have included Cleveland State University, The Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga County, The Western Reserve Resource Conservation and Development Council, Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation Board, The Metro Parks Serving Summit County, Lake Metroparks, The Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association, the Cleveland Green Building Coalition, and the Toldeo YMCA. Prior to forming Currere, Ms. Parker was a founding partner and President of The Arris Group, a Cleveland based commercial architectural and design firm. She worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies to strategically assess changing organizational and physical space needs and develop plans to maximize facility utilization. Clients included BP America, FTD, Pioneer Standard Electronics, Fabri-centers of America, Kaiser Permanente, Figgie International, Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga County, The State of Ohio, The U.S. Department of Justice, The Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center, and University Hospitals. Education BA Interior Design (summa cum laude), Kent State University. BS Cultural Anthropology (summa cum laude), Kent State University. MA Cultural Anthropology (in progress), Kent State University. Organization and Systems Development Program, The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Small Systems Program, The International Gestalt Institute, Cape Cod, MA. Ms. Parker completed language and cultural studies at University of Florida and University of Veracruz, Mexico. Continuing education includes programs in Appreciative Inquiry, leadership development, team building, strategic planning, organizational design, and change management. Programs have been completed through National Arts Stabilization, Yale College, Harvard University, The Cape Cod Institute and Case Western Reserve University. Community & Non-Profit Ms. Parker is Vice President for the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland Board of Trustee. She is a past trustee for Ohio Ballet where she worked closely with the Cleveland Foundation and National Arts Stabilization as part of the BASICS capacity building program. She is a Steering Committee member for Sustainable Cleveland - a community action team established to help Cleveland enterprises transform environmental and social costs into drivers for innovation, profits and stakeholder value by connecting, convening and facilitating key stakeholders towards collaborative solutions. She created and co-chaired the 2000 NAIOP event, “Back to the Future – Back to the City”, which brought together voices from a wide range of community, economic, educational, institutional, and industry organizations to discuss the forces shaping the future of greater Cleveland. Ms. Parker’s involvement with professional organizations includes the National OD Network, Cleveland OD Connection, the National Green Building Coalition, Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, NAIOP, IIDA, IFMA, and COSE Strategic Dialogue Roundtable. Professional speaking engagements have included events for IIDA, IFMA and Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program (CAMP). Awards & Recognition Ms. Parker’s work has received numerous awards including NAIOP Architecture and Interior of the Year Award for Advanced Elastomer Systems, 1998; Akron Economic Development Award, Advanced Elastomer Systems, 1998; CID Award for Advanced Elastomer System, 1998; NAIOP Design Award for Kichler Lighting, 1992; ASID Interior of the Year Award University Suburban Health Center, 1990.

Adele DiMarco Kious Principal Adele DiMarco Kious is a principal with Currere where her focus is on organizational research, project support and process facilitation. With a background in Biology, Anthropology and Business, she has spent the past 10 years working with start-up organizations and projects whose focus is in increasing social and/or environmental capital. She specializes in the development and growth of emerging and changing organizations working to create high performing and sustainable businesses, institutions and communities. Most recently, Adele’s work with Currere has focused on the mainstreaming of sustainability in Northeast Ohio and has included process facilitation, social network development, organizational design and development and leadership development. She is supporting Currere’s efforts within the Cuyahoga Valley Initiative to design an organization that will ensure the CVI vision and to build regional capacity for healthy “place-making”. She is leading market research for Kent State and Cleveland State Universities’ Schools of Business who are exploring the demand for a joint masters degree in International Business. She is also assisting the partnering of Currere with Cleveland State University to facilitate the development of a regional infrastructure for high performance buildings and related technologies in Northeast Ohio as an economic development driver. Selected clients include Cleveland State University, EcoCity Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization, The Nature Conservancy and Kent State University. Prior to joining Currere, Ms. DiMarco Kious worked with sustainable real estate developer John L. Knott Jr. on two large-scale sustainable real estate development projects in Charleston, South Carolina where her focus was marketing, public relations and sales. Prior to that she provided consulting services for The Cleveland Green Building Coalition, The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District, Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau, Case Western Reserve University and Jung Lee Psychological Services. She also worked for Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital where she developed and lead an international pediatric clinic and consulting service. Education BS Biology, (Honors Research Degree) Purdue University. BA Cultural Anthropology, Indiana University. MA Medical Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University. MBA, Case Western University Community & Non-Profit Ms. DiMarco Kious is currently on the advisory committee and strategic implementation team for the Community Gardening Program at Ohio State University Extension Office. She is also part of the founding committee for the Northeast Ohio Professional Chapter of Net Impact; an organization focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility in management education programs. She has been a catalyst and facilitator with Huron Hospital of East Cleveland exploring and adopting high performance building and sustainable business practices. She has been active in her local community by participating on the Cleveland Heights Strategic Vision process and the Cleveland-Heights~University Heights Board of Education strategic planning process. She is involved in Northeast Indiana with the development of the Northeast Indiana Green Building Coalition. Other organizations with which she has volunteered include The Sustainability Institute of Charleston, Adoption Network Cleveland, InterVol Cleveland, and the Cleveland Green Building Coalition. Ms. DiMarco Kious’ involvement with professional organizations includes the Society for Organizational Learning, Cleveland OD Connection, and Entrepreneurs for Sustainability. Awards & Recognition Ms. DiMarco Kious has received an award for Teaching Excellence from Purdue University and her senior thesis was recognized as Outstanding Research from Purdue University. Her work with the international pediatrics received national media attention including ABC News Nightline.