Dedicated to Sustainability

GSN Planet board members and staff are a unified group of like minded leaders + earth activists that believe in the power from generating a sustainable movement of self practice that will in turn generate a strong relationship to the planet.

We are a community of wellness leaders joined together by a common thread. Our work goes beyond the direct impact we can make as an industry – we are ambassadors for the planet.

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Thor Holm

Board President
General Manager, Farm to Coast Collective + the Livery on Main
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The Livery on Main is a 22,000 sq ft indoor and outdoor complex in downtown Sebastopol, CA that features a roof top event venue, co-working spaces Farriers Lounge with Roof top satellite  bar, and five chef forward micro kitchens in the food hall on the ground floor. In addition to managing, Thor is responsible for spearheading the sustainability and  regenerative efforts of this venture.

Thor is currently President of GSN Planet Board of Directors and has been a Board Member  since 2017, he was Secretary Treasurer of the International Spa Association during his six years  on the ISPA Board and served for two years on the Flagler County Tourism Development Council.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

Orr Hot Springs

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Center for Climate Protection newsletter

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Compost and exercise not necessarily in that order

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Wendy Bosalavage

Board Treasurer
CRO and President, LIVunLtd
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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

Being a Gemini, it’s two places: the beach and the forest

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Green Lodging

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

I try my best to always avoid using plastic water bottles

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Julie Andrews

Board Director
Chief Creative Officer, Kerstin Florian Intl
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As Chief Creative Officer for Kerstin Florian, Julie is responsible for the global identity and brand equity of Kerstin Florian International. She oversees the creative development department, guiding new areas of development and expansion, including new product and treatment development, wellness initiatives and corporate responsibility.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

The beach and the mountains

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

trashisfortossers.com by Lauren Singer

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Reduce plastic usage as much as possible

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Clifford Bast

Board Director, Sustainability Committee Co-Chair
Founder & CEO, Bast Sustainability/ESG & SDGs Consulting
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Clifford Bast has pioneered numerous Sustainability initiatives as a passionate leader and consultant for industry, NGOs and government. He spent 20 years leading Hewlett-Packard’s Global Environmental/Product Stewardship programs and played significant roles in establishing impactful industry collaboratives, notably the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and the Green Spa Network. Cliff continues to build upon his extensive international work and public speaking experience to advance Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and to show how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can contribute to corporate branding and business performance.  

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

When hiking or biking along the ocean or in a redwood forest near our home in Santa Cruz, California

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Sustainable Brands – https://sustainablebrands.com/

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Seek opportunities to use my career experience to advance sustainability and to mentor students interested in sustainability

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Suzy Bordeaux Johlfs

Board Director
Spa Director, Silverado Resort & Spa
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Suzy Bordeaux Johlfs,  has 30 years of  experience in her hospitality career.   Her current role is with the  Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa California,  as she proudly holds  the Spa Director  title at this iconic resort.   Earlier she successfully opened a Platinum LEED Certified Resort  in Colorado, where she was part of a team that  won two prestigious  Conde Nast  Reader ‘s Choice Awards back to back. 2010  # 1  Resort  in the United States and  in 2011  #2 Spa  in the United States as well as opened the spa as the first luxury green spa in the state of Colorado.  She loves to spend time with her family, as well as enjoy a great bottle of wine, as she is former wine bar owner and collector.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

By the ocean

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

GSN Planet of course!

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Recycle and pre-cycle…Sorting rubbish correctly as well as my buying practices…. thinking about what happens to this item that I have chosen to buy when I no longer need it…what is it’s new purposeful life?

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Rocco Bova

Board Director
Managing Director, Grupo Hotelero 1800
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Rocco Bova, an Italian-born hotelier and a world traveller, is a passionate, energetic and enthusiastic professional, with experience from classic hotels to cutting-edge design, from business city properties to resorts operations and from golf resorts to destination wellness with over 25 years of experience. His involvement in sustainability is nothing new. The past 10 years and particularly with companies like LUX* Resorts in Mauritius, Aman Resort in Dominican Republic, Chable’ Yucatan, and more recently with Grupo Hotelero 1800 where he currently is the Managing Director, he has contributed in developing and implementing sustainable policies helping the local community, the environment and educating its guests in all the activities the resort is involved.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

In the water. I think I was a fish in a previous life.

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

I follow various but two are particularly interesting when it comes to green activities and sustainability (even if both are competitors!). One is Six Senses Hotels & Resorts and the other is Cayuga Collection. Both are consistent in their activities and language and have a proven history.

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Again, I do various things but one thing is to ensure I waste no water. Every drop saved is my contribution to the planet.

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Lynn Curry

Board Director
Principal, Curry Spa Consulting Inc.
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Lynn founded CSC in 2011, a certified Women’s Owned Enterprise, which provides financial feasibility, design, concept, and preopening consulting services to upscale and luxury hotel, resort, and casino spas and wellness facilities. She is a Certified Management Consultant, a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, and Educator with Gerson Lehrman Councils. Lynn started her hospitality career in destination and hotel sales with the Anaheim CVB and Hyatt Resorts Hawaii, ultimately leading to spa operations when she opened Spa Grande at Grand Wailea Resort. She is an avid lover of the outdoors and spends her free time outrigger paddling competitively and hiking at home and on her travels.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

Paddling in the ocean and hiking in the trees!

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Global Stewards and Green Lodging and for detailed information on the complicated world of recycling EPA’s Recycle site.

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Separate out my compostables.

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Maggy Dunphy

Board Director
Creator, The SOS Spa Project
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My personal mission statement in life is to add value to the people, the planet and the businesses I serve.  My career has spanned from high school lacrosse coach to massage therapist to corporate spa director – and many things in between.  Everyday I strive to lead gracefully, teach wisely, learn & listen patiently,  grow beautifully – and create spaces for others to do the same.

Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

Walking through the woods at my house. It’s 10 acres of trees and bees and birds.  We created trails and a walking art gallery. I also set a small space that I call my “Church”–my place to pause and meditate, and just be.

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Kindtraveler.com

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

 I turn off the water when I brush my teeth.

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Teresa Flyger

Board Director
Director of Global Brand Wellness, Hilton
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With over 20 years in wellness hospitality development projects it has been a pleasure to become family with such an amazing industry. With a personal focus on wholistic wellness for communities and the planet, it is an honor to be part of the GSN Planet Board of Advisors.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

Near big mountains. I am perched in the midst of a wonderful Peruvian wellness retreat (Wilka Tika) in the Sacred Valley surrounded by the Andes as I write…

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Green Lodging

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

After saying a prayer for the planet every day, I do my part by reducing single use plastics as much as possible and religiously recycling when not possible.

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Sallie Fraenkel

Board Director
President, Mind Body Spirit Network
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Sallie Fraenkel is President of Mind Body Spirit Network, a company focused on wellness travel consulting and experiential events. Sallie is passionate about sustainable wellness tourism believing that wellness of the individual is inextricably linked with wellness of the planet. Making meaningful connections for people is a key part of Sallie’s purpose.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

I feel most connected to nature at our rustic cabin on the East Branch of the Delaware River in the Catskills.

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

https://sustainabletravel.org/ because I am passionate about wellness travel which must focus on the wellness of the planet!

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

I compost!

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Nicole Lampsa

Board Director
COO, Honua Hawaiian Skincare
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Nicole is an entrepreneur, startup advisor, avid yogi and amateur creative. In her current position as COO of Honua Hawaiian Skincare, she leads operations and marketing, which means she may be fine-tuning a new formula one day, ensuring the latest products make it to stores and e-commerce sites the next day, or planning one of the Honua’s annual sustainability events another day. Before making the career jump to consumer and beauty, Nicole was an investment banker and passionate renewable energy and sustainability devotee, holding senior positions at Citigroup, Inc. and SolarCity.  She lives in the thriving city of San Francisco, keeping very busy as a mom to two tiny humans and is usually found planning their next adventure.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

 In the forest – both in the mountains here in California- and also the tropical forests that cover the islands in Hawai’i. 

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

@OneTreePlanted or @Hoola.Honey (a bee relocation project on the Big Island of Hawai’i – they post facts about bees, our ecosystem and more.)

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Seek alternatives to plastic.  We recycle, compost and reuse as much as we can but getting my family out of using plastic has become a necessity.  And now that we are doing it, it really is not that hard. 

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Natasha Prybyla

Board Director, Sustainability Committee Co-Chair
Founder + CMT, Sloco Health + Wellness
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Natasha Prybyla founded Sloco as a Certified Massage Therapist, a decade before “wellness” and “sustainability” were most recently listed as a trend in industry reports. She aims to help make a shift within the spa and wellness world to make personal and planetary aspects of business that are here to stay. Sloco is the world’s first Certified B Corp of its kind and is located in San Luis Obispo, California.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

San Luis Obispo County is such a magical place! I’m so grateful that I live close to so many beautiful hiking trails through rolling hills or can easily head to the coast. I feel most connected when I’m able to soak up some sunshine and dig my toes into the sand while watching the wildlife and the waves roll onto the shore.

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

I love following our local land conservancy, @ecoslo! I learn so much about our impact on the environment at a local level and love seeing what other businesses are doing when it comes to sustainability.

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Again, I do various things but one thing is to ensure I waste no water. Every drop saved is my We try our best to eat with the seasons by sticking with local produce whenever possible. It’s great because we get to support a hyper-local food system and it is easy to do because it all tastes so fresh and delicious!

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Adar Venyige

Board Director
Director of Sales and Marketing, Dazzle Dry/VB Cosmetics
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Adar Venyige, VP of Sales and Marketing for Dazzle Dry Nail Lacquer, was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Phoenix AZ with his 2 children, Hannah 9 and Isaac 6.

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Where do you feel the most connected to nature?

I feel most connected to nature on my mountain bike or camping with my family.

What’s your favorite/must follow green blog or social media account?

Green Matters is my favorite sustainability Instagram Account

What’s one thing you make sure you do every day for the planet?

Every day I make sure I minimize my consumption of plastic, abstain from eating meat, support brands whose mission embodies my philosophy of Conscious Consumption, and articulate the importance of these decisions to my kids!

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Joanna Roche

Executive Director
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Jessica Gilden

Business Manager
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Chay Holford

Engagement Manager
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Megan Tymesko

Community Manager
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“Joining the GSN Board is a unique opportunity to combine your passion and expertise. We are committed to driving awareness and action within our industry to adopt regenerative practices, and to ultimately affect social change.”

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Joanna Roche, GSN Executive Director

 

Create Our Sustainable Future

Thank you for your interest in joining the GSN Board of Directors.
Since our launch in 2007, we have developed a community of inspired and engaged individuals to advance our mission of promoting the natural connections between personal wellbeing, economic sustainability, and the health of our planet.

We are a platform for action and a common voice for over 1300 businesses and individuals dedicated to the future of global social and economical prosperity.

Our network is built around the idea that sustainability and well-being are closely related. Our activities are focused on generating the inspiration and insight needed to shift to more sustainable business practices.

Join the Board of Directors

Applications for 2021 are now closed. Be sure to apply next year.

If you have any questions, please email us at info@greenspanetwork.org.

 

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