Dr. M. Paloma Pavel works in the Bay Area and internationally consulting to individuals, communities, and organizations in areas such as strategic visioning, communication, diversity, and leadership development. Dr. Pavel’s organizational clients reflect a core values commitment in areas of health, justice, education, and sustainable development.

Her academic background includes graduate study at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. Her dissertation (Organizational Culture and Career Development: Gender and Leadership) was part of a five-year study of the workplace in America sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, which culminated in the publication Good Work. Dr. Pavel is a keynote presenter at national and international conferences, (e.g. ‘The Future of Education – Re-imagining Leadership’ – Japan; ‘Eco-Psychology: New Paradigms of Science’ – Mexico; and Building Sustainable Metropolitan Communities – Cairo, Egypt.) Her current research focuses on the shift from mechanistic models (pyramids) to biological models (webs) for organizational development and the restoring of sustainable communities. She is the founder and president of Earth House Center  in Oakland, California, which is dedicated to building multiracial leadership. She is the coauthor of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty and the editor of Breakthrough Communities—Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis.