Nina Simons
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Nina Simons

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NINA SIMONS is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that lifts up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges, using a whole-system approach. Nina is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership, racial and gender equity, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and just world for all. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences and festivals, and co-facilitates transformative workshops and retreats that share practices for regenerative leadership through relational mindfulness. Throughout her remarkable career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and sector to create conditions for mutual learning and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events and also works intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and climate justice. In 2017, Nina was a recipient of the Goi Peace Award, presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra. She currently serves on several advisory councils, including Daughters for Earth. Her prior work includes being President at Seeds of Change, which she cultivated into an emerging national brand in less than five years with innovative approaches to public relations and community-based marketing. At Odwalla, as Director of Strategic Marketing, she grew consumer loyalty while guiding regional teams nationwide just after their IPO. Nina studied Theater Arts and Psychology at Cornell University. In addition to writing the first and second editions of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred, Nina co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press), which expresses the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women and some men on behalf of the earth through the prism of more than 30 essays from dynamic and diverse leaders.
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