Moving from Me to We ~ Summit 2025 Speaker Details

Sue Muncaster on October 22, 2025

Leadership, like nature, thrives in connection. On November 6–7, Womentum and Central Wyoming College’s Teton Leadership Center (TLC) will co-host the 2025 Teton Leadership Summit, a two-day gathering designed to spark collective action across business, policy, and community life. The event invites emerging and established leaders— business owners, students, public servants, and community builders — to explore how shared purpose, rather than individual heroics, can drive lasting impact. 

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This year’s theme — “Uniting for Impact” — challenges the myth of exceptionalism and highlights how collaboration fuels transformation. The Summit blends powerful storytelling with actionable tools, following the throughline: Action = Vision + Agency + Path (held together by Story).

“The Summit is a call to step off the pedestal and into the circle,” says TLC Executive Director Sue Muncaster. “If we want to make real progress, we have to build leadership that’s shared, relational, and rooted in community.”

“Whether you’re a student, entrepreneur, or civic leader, this is a space to learn, connect, and take one tangible next step,” adds Womentum Executive Director Kristen Fox. “The future of leadership isn’t about standing out — it’s about standing together.”

Keynotes that Connect

Thursday evening opens with Colorado State Senator Julie Gonzales, whose keynote “Doing What We Can with What We’ve Got” will be delivered in Spanish, with live interpretation available through headphones. Gonzales invites audiences to transform personal stories into structural change — showing how systems thinking, civic engagement, dignified communication, and community organizing can bridge divides and inspire local leadership.

She is followed by Montana’s 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year, Sarah Calhoun, founder of Red Ants Pants and the Red Ants Pants Foundation, with “Neighbor as a Verb: Building Community the Rural Way.” Calhoun shares how a single idea — women’s workwear — revitalized an entire Montana town through entrepreneurship, music, and philanthropy, proving that thriving communities grow from the ground up.

Friday’s program, “Game Time: Tools for Transformation,” offers practical insight and inspiration:

  • Katie Gatti Tassin, founder of the podcast Money with Katie and author of Rich Girl Nation, reframes finance in “Your Money, Our System: Collective Tools to Move the Needle.” She moves beyond budgeting to explore how economic redesign and collective ownership can reshape our shared future.
  • Mr. Stacy Bare, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, challenges the “lone hero” myth in “Beyond the Pedestal: Rewriting the Hero(ine)’s Journey.” His talk — equal parts funny, raw, and restorative — explores how awe, nature, and belonging are the real engines of leadership.
  • Olympic medalist Shannon Bahrke Happe brings energy and focus to “Micro-Beliefs, Macro Wins: The Practice of Momentum.” Her high-impact session turns the Olympic mindset into a framework for building confidence and momentum through everyday action.
  • Leadership coach Rose Hendricks closes the summit with “Relational Intelligence: Story as Infrastructure.” Through neuroscience and narrative practice, Hendricks shows how expanding our stories — about ourselves and each other — is key to unlocking collaboration, creativity, and collective impact.

The day concludes with a speaker panel that invites reflection on the central question: How do we move from isolated excellence to shared flourishing?

Conference Details

  • Dates: November 6–7, 2025
  • Location: Center for the Arts, 240 S. Glenwood, Jackson, WY
  • Tickets: $175 (Full Summit), $150 (Friday only), $50 (Thursday only)
  • Scholarships: Available through donor-funded accessibility grants
  • Registration: tetonleadershipcenter.org
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A Gathering for the Common Good

Sponsors and Partners

Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) and the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board make the 2025 Teton Leadership Summit possible, with support from Silver Star Communications, Bank of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Airport, The Wort Hotel, Jedediah’s Catering, First Western Trust, Teton Orthopedics, Holland & Hart, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Teton Science Schools, and Mountain Modern Motel. 

The Art of Reframing Capitalism

Sue Muncaster on September 5, 2024

We were recently honored to be the moderator of a “Teton Talk” at the Teton County Library. The event was billed as a community conversation with innovative thinkers Rob Kellogg, the new ED of Silicon Couloir, and Fred Keller, founder of Cascade Engineering, about the unparalleled potential for the private sector, driven by the innovative spirit of capitalism, to address the complex challenges of our era. We came together united in a belief that, in the words of Fred Keller,: “To ignore the capability business has to solve difficult, complex problems is to waste the single greatest opportunity the world has to solve its toughest problems.”

Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham ~ Total Value Generated: You as a Source of Good Growth

Sue Muncaster on December 19, 2023

It is possible to serve all the stakeholders in your sphere and to fully engage the creative energies available to you. It is time to say Yes! to the creation of net-positive systems.

DR. JIM RITCHIE-DUNHAM 

President, Institute for Strategic Clarity & The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University 

Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham stewards a global initiative to create net-positive systems. He is the founder and president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, researcher in Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and in Harvard’s Center for Work, Health and Well-being in the School of Public Health, as well as teaching strategy and responsible leadership in the Boston College Carroll School of Management. His scholarly research on abundance-based systems of agreements is informed by field tests in 59 countries and survey data from >164,000 responses in 126 countries. Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham describes this work in the books Agreements (2023), Ecosynomics (2014), and Managing from Clarity (2001), as well as articles, videos, and online courses. Heis the lead co-editor of the book Leadership for Flourishing to be published by Oxford University Press. 

Nick Craig on The Power of Purpose & How it Can Change Everything

Sue Muncaster on December 15, 2023

Purpose is a buzzword these days, yet how do we really articulate what that is, how to find it, and how it helps us shift our leadership mindset? Leading from Purpose transforms our impact.

NICK CRAIG, President & Founder of the Core Leadership Institute (CLI)

CLI is a global development firm committed to “waking up those who will wake up the many” For over 15 years, CLI has helped over 30,000 leaders discover their Purpose, the unique gift that they alone can bring to the world. In 2007, Nick began collaborating with Professor Bill George at Harvard Business School; this partnership ultimately led them to co-authoring, Finding your True North: A Personal Guide, which became the course book for the Harvard Business School MBA class Authentic Leadership Development (ALD). Nick is also the co-author of the Harvard Business Review article From Purpose to Impact. Nick’s expertise in Purposeful leadership has been sought out by both corporate and academic organizations ranging from The LEGO® Group and Ben & Jerry’s, to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Harvard Business School case study, “Unilever’s Paul Polman: Developing Global Leaders” features Nick’s work with Unilever. Nick’s insights from working with these organizations are captured in his book Leading From Purpose:Clarity and the Confidence to Act When It Matters Most and “Leading From Purpose” podcast series.

Click here to read more about Nick Craig’s impact on 20 community leaders.

Matthew McCarthy on Courage and Clarity

Sue Muncaster on December 14, 2023

Matthew McCarthy, recently retired CEO of Ben & Jerry’s, discusses what living from and navigating through next-level leadership has taught him about what is possible.

With over 30 years in the corporate world, Matthew McCarthy has built a career transforming business. From starting in a family business to leading $1 billion-plus global companies, Matthew has been at the forefront of re-inventing business to drive results through purpose. He was the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s for the past 5 years, leading the company to its greatest period of financial growth and social mission impact. He recently wrapped up a 26-year run at Unilever where he led some of the most iconic and pioneering brands in the consumer packaged industry.

Matthew’s impact and leadership has received broad recognition including Cannes Gold Lion, Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business, Adweek’s Brand Genius award, and Columbia Business School’s Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. Matthew’s body of work speaks to his human-centered leadership approach and he is inspired to participate in the TLC Summit. He is a mentor and coach, and also considers himself a life-long student, especially in matters of gender and racial equity, reparative justice and environmental regeneration. Matthew’s wife Lisa is the Director of the Zoological Health Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo. They make their home in New York’s Hudson Valley.