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.”

Reframing Capitalism and Impact Investing – Aug 27, Teton Co Library 6 pm

Sue Muncaster on August 1, 2024

Jackson, WY – Aug 9, 2024 – The Teton Leadership Center is set to host an enlightening community conversation about the unparalleled potential for the private sector, driven by the innovative spirit of capitalism, to address the complex challenges of our era. The event will explore how conscious leadership and stakeholder-centric principles are a powerful force for positive change that often surpasses traditional governmental or non-profit approaches.

Teton Leadership Center, Kick Off Summit 2023 ~ Sept 23 Evening Presentations

Sue Muncaster on December 19, 2023

Introduction to TLC with Sandy Schultz Hessler & Lynne McAuliffe;

Keynote speakers Jonathan Schechter & Jim Richie Dunham

Laying The Foundation: Presentation of the results of the public opinion survey of area residents about what we care about and how we feel about where we are going as a baseline for how we can build our leadership abilities to create a thriving community.

With Jonathan Schechter; Jackson Town Council Member & President & Founder of the Charture Institute.

Total Value Generated: You as a Source of Good Growth: 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.

Presented by Dr. Jim Ritchie-Dunham; President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity and The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

SPEAKER BIOS:

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.

JONATHAN SCHECHTER: Founder & Executive Director of the Charture Institute, and Jackson Town Councilmember Jonathan has been a member of the Jackson WY town council since 2019, and is also the founder and Executive Director of the Charture Institute, a Jackson-based think tank. Charture’s focus is on Co-Thriving, the state in which human communities and the natural environments around them simultaneously flourish. A graduate of Stanford and Yale universities Jonathan’s professional and political careers have been built around two fundamental premises: As a species, humans can be no healthier than the ecosystems in which we live; and as a society, we can be no healthier than our institutions. In addition to relishing the embarrassment of riches that is life in the Tetons region, Jonathan is the proud parent of his Tetons born-and-raised son Alex, a professor of sculpture at Clemson University.