About Us
About Us
Teton Leadership Center (TLC) is dedicated to empowering organizational leaders, entrepreneurs, and community members with the knowledge, skills, and mindset necessary to create a sustainable and prosperous future. Through education, dialogue, and research, we strive to ignite 21st-century leadership practices that foster economic growth, holistic health, and balance between growth and sustainability in personal, community, and environmental domains.
Our center serves as a dynamic learning hub where individuals can explore deeper connections, wider engagement with the environment, and stronger bonds with the community as critical measures of organizational success. By cultivating core values of Courage, Innovation, Connection, Civility, Collaboration, Reciprocity, we aim to inspire transformative change that benefits not only individuals and organizations but also the greater ecosystem.
We believe that when we learn to listen deeply, see broadly, and navigate complex conversations with civility, we elevate humanity and generate prosperity. At Teton Leadership Center, we are committed to doing good, so that everyone can do well.
How it Works
3 Pillars: Education, Dialogue, Research
Dialogue
Dialogues
- TLC Kickoff Summit: Igniting Next-Level Leadership
- Quarterly roundtable talks with leading-edge thinkers
Education
Course Offerings
- Deepening into Purpose / Laying the Foundation for Next-Level Leadership (understanding personal motivators, patterns, and mindsets)
- Building Synergy, Effectiveness, and Decision-Making (expanding awareness, shifting out of dualistic mindsets, next-level communication, listening, alignment)
- Creating Wholeness (understanding and shifting systems and structures for overall wellness, reconnection, and holistic success)
- Growing New Roots: Building a New Kind of Organization
Research
Research Initiative
- Developing baseline metrics to build and measure healthy holistic organizations and communities
Founding Team
Sue Muncaster
TLC Executive Director &
Director of Entrepreneurship, Central Wyoming College
A forward thinking lifestyle entrepreneur, Sue is the founder of Slow Food in the Tetons, Teton Family Magazine, and the Treetop Adventure at Snow King Mountain where she served as Chief Adventure Officer and Director of Sales. Through her communications consulting firm, Teton Strong, she explores the intentional mental, physical, social, and spiritual practices characteristic of a values-driven outdoor lifestyle.
Lynne McAuliffe
Former Dean, Central Wyoming College
Lynne has served in senior level executive positions in management and marketing. She holds a Master’s degree in Leadership Studies. Lynne has worked for Central Wyoming College for over 20 years and is currently the Dean of Business, Technical, Health & Safety, including Entrepreneurship programs.
Gary Trauner
Former Executive Director, Silicon Couloir
Accomplished senior-level leader with extensive financial, operational, and managerial experience across a wide array of industries. He has over 25 years’ of experience in startup, growth, and mature organizations, both public and private.
Dr. Brad Tyndall
President, Central Wyoming College
Dr. Brad Tyndall has worked for community colleges for more than 19 years. Tyndall has a Ph.D. in Economics with specializations in Environmental Economics and International Finance. His master’s degree is in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; both from Colorado State University.
Jennifer Marshall Weydeveld
TLC Team Member
Weydeveld started her career at the Smithsonian Institution and went on to hold several senior positions in marketing and communications. She has a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.
Rebecca Reimers
TLC Team Member
A Teton regional resident since the early 90’s, Rebecca Reimers has worked in Jackson’s thriving nonprofit sector for over a decade. Rebecca is dedicated to helping keep the region’s cultural and ecological fabric strong by supporting value-based entrepreneurs through dynamic and creative programs and events at Silicon Couloir.
Sandy Schultz Hessler
TLC Co-founder
Sandy’s passion is to help people and teams catalyze the power within for maximum health, growth and success. She has over 30 years experience in business from blue chips to start ups along with a lifetime of study on human potential and consciousness. For the last six years she has co-created and taught the Start Up Intensive – 10 week, 200 hour boot camps in Jackson while also doing private leadership coaching and consulting. She has her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and advanced degrees from Harvard, Miami of Ohio and the University of Santa Monica. She is a mother of five and an avid adventurer.
Anna Cole
TLC Team Member
Anna Cole is a marketing leader with 15+ years of brand, communications and business development expertise in finance, wealth management, outdoor recreation, and hospitality. Her career started at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR), where she held a variety of positions of leadership within the marketing and sales team, most notably as their Director of Communications. Anna currently runs an independent marketing consulting business, working with both non-profit organizations and local businesses. Prior to going out on her own, she was at the helm of Bank of Jackson Hole (BOJH) as the Senior Vice President of Marketing.
Rob Kellog
Bio Coming Soon
Central Wyoming College, a rural comprehensive four-year institution, is committed to a purpose-driven future that both addresses the challenges facing rural America, particularly in the uniqueness of Wyoming, and the critical role that these rural areas play in the health of this Nation through economic diversification and resilience.
www.cwc.edu | @cwc_rustlers | (307) 855 –2000
Silicon Couloir is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to empower entrepreneurship in the Tetons for a healthy, vibrant community.
www.siliconcouloir.com | @siliconcouloir | Hello@SiliconCouloir.com
The Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board (JHTTB) is dedicated to developing a healthy economy that preserves Jackson Hole’s natural capital, provides a quality visitor experience, and enhances the well-being of the community.
visitjacksonhole.com | @visitjacksonhole | 307.201.1774
WIP was created at the request of Governor Gordon in 2021 to modernize and focus Wyoming’s efforts to develop a resilient workforce and economy. The partnership involves the University of Wyoming, the state’s community colleges, Wyoming Business Council, and Department of Workforce Services with an emphasis on developing innovative solutions that support and enhance Wyoming’s economy, workforce, and sources of revenue.
