Hollyhock Presenters

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Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.

People smiling at Activate 2023 Hollyhock Leadership Institute

Cheryl Rose

Cheryl Rose is a mother and grandmother, as well as an experienced leadership educator, a systems coach and an accredited death doula and end of life educator. She was one of the principal directors for the national Social Innovation Generation (SiG) partnership. She was the Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR), the founding Director of the Rockefeller Global Fellowship in Social Innovation, a Senior Fellow at McConnell Foundation and a core member of the design and delivery team for the Getting To Maybe Social Innovation Residency program. Most recently, she co-founded the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning. Cheryl mentors systems leaders and social innovators across the country and is revered for her kindness, her practical wisdom and her capacity to connect and uplift those at the frontlines of change.

Events with Cheryl Rose

Eldering in Times of Transformation
October 6 - 10, 2024

“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.”  – Carl Jung There comes a time when you find yourself, perhaps to your surprise, in a new land which is unlike any part of the long…