Ken Hamilton is retired from Hewlett Packard where he led the HP Data Center Energy and Cloud Consulting groups. Ken also founded and chaired the IT Service Management Forum, was a board member of the US Council for Energy Efficient Manufacturing and was a US delegate to the International Standards Organization (ISO) group for Energy Management.

Ken is a member of the Dharmata Fellowship and has been meditating for 10 years. He resides in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife, Margot Keller.

Marylou Sullivan has dedicated her professional life to honoring lived experience and creating conditions for community. After a decade of working in the field of human services early in her career, she assumed a role as Regional Planner for Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and then as Assistant Commissioner for Mental Health Services. Recently retired, Marylou served the last 38 years as the Executive Director of Western Mass Training Consortium (www.wmtcinfo.org). In the 1980s, she led the Consortium in the creation of community service supports as people transitioned from institutions to community living. Over the last two decades, Marylou has been proud of the organization’s peer driven work, including supporting the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community’s work of bringing the Hearing Voices Network to the region as well as supporting the first ever peer led Alternatives to Suicide Groups. She also supported Western Mass Recovery Learning Community to start the first ever peer led respite in Massachusetts.

Marylou joined the Windhorse Board of Directors in 2016 and brings a unique perspective as a parent of someone supported through Windhorse. Her son found refuge at Windhorse during a particularly turbulent time of his life and Marylou has remained connected to the community ever since, specifically by participating in a family support group facilitated by a senior clinician and peer support specialist.

“I found that connection profoundly supportive in my own struggles to help my son’s and my appreciation for it continues. I am so happy to be able to serve on the Windhorse board and to give back in this way for the invaluable support offered to me and my family for over a decade.”

Marylou lives in Amherst MA with her two sons along with their dog Simba.

Sally Retecki is a Senior Manager in Primary Care Programs at CareOregon, a nonprofit 501(c)3 community benefits company involved in health plan services, reforms, and innovations since 1994. Sally earned a BS from UC Berkeley in ecology and an MBA in Finance. Following her years in corporate strategic planning and venture capital consulting, Sally joined Kaiser Permanente. As Reengineering Development Leader for The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, she co-led large scale change projects including the Northern California Region’s design and implementation of a transformative model of team-based primary care delivery—later known as a medical home. In 2008 Sally joined CareOregon as program manager for a CareOregon-funded collaborative of FQHC’s implementing medical home practices, and for the Oregon Region of the Commonwealth-funded Safety-Net Medical Home Initiative. Starting in 2012, while continuing in her role at CareOregon, Sally joined Kaiser Center for Health Research as research liaison for investigators leading research projects with community health centers serving the Medicaid and uninsured populations. Sally is a practicing artist with shows in regional galleries from time to time.

David Rasch, PhD has been an Associate Ombuds at UCSB since 2018 and was the University Ombuds at Stanford University from 2004-2018. He is a Past President of the Board of Certification for Certified Organizational Ombudsman Professionals (CO-OP). In addition, he directed Stanford’s counseling center of faculty and staff for twelve years. David is also a writing productivity coach for faculty at Stanford University and a certified Grof Breathwork facilitator with an interest in the transformative and healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. As a student in the first class of Naropa Institute’s MA Program in Contemplative Psychology, he studied with Windhorse founder Ed Podvoll and later completed his Ph.D in Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. David enjoys writing, swimming and playing the guitar, and currently resides with his wife, Ixchel, in Ojai, California.

Alethea Sabia is a strategic marketer dedicated to growing people and organizations. Alethea is Director of Marketing for Moda Partners, Inc. in Portland, Oregon. She has an MBA in International Marketing and Finance from DePaul University in Chicago.

Professionally, Alethea’s background is in B2B2C strategic marketing across health-related industries. Her 20+ years of experiences include international quality and change management marketing in collaboration with business leaders in Europe; creation of innovative community athletic partnerships for children in the Midwest; national brand marketing of food and grocery retail; and regional product marketing of health insurance to employers and consumers. Through these multi-faceted marketing experiences across health-related industries, Alethea has honed the skill of understanding what is needed to resonate deeply and authentically with people. Alethea’s purpose is to inspire reflection, curiosity and growth.

Personally, Alethea is focused on whole-person living. During and following caring for her father during his long illness and death, Alethea sought counseling to cope. This new journey from being stoic to learning how to feel involved shadow work, with a professional grief counselor, first becoming aware of uncomfortable feelings, and then learning how to value and integrate them. Alethea’s favorite activities for integration are swimming, meditating, yoga and hiking within mountain forests. Her deepest joys are time spent with her husband Anthony, especially cooking or playing in the woods with their dogs, Sage and Celeste. When not working or playing hard, Alethea reads voraciously on the topic of leadership.