Our Team

Glenn Head, Founder, CEO (Chief Energy Officer). Kapaa, HI 

Glenn served in the U.S. Air Force as a Captain from 1973 - 79. He was a leader of the team building the first computer-based training system for the USAF. Starting his first company in 1979 bringing computer-based training to fortune 100 companies, Glenn has co-founded or served on the board/executive team of nine different nonprofit and nineteen for-profit organizations. He has served twenty+ years on the board of directors of two homeowners associations.

Today his passion has turned to nonprofit capitalism, inspiring and guiding individuals, groups, and organizations to build their dreams while contributing to the good of the Whole.

In August, Glenn was invited to join the Board of Directors of Permanently Attainable Living - Kauai. Glenn served as an advisor to PAL over the past two years as the vision of Ohana Legacy foundation and PAL overlap in many areas. (www.PAL-Kauai.org). PAL has a vision of building 5,000 homes on Kauai. Current funding for PAL is over $10 million. Stay tuned!

David Funk, Building Technology & Materials Research Advisor. Santa Fe, NM

David worked thirty-three years in the aerospace industry as an R&D engineer and engineering manager from 1969 to 2002. He was part of the software development team that produced the first digital navigation and flight management system for a commercial airplane (DC-10 in 1972). Later projects included the first portable Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and digital cockpit designs for Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft. After retiring in 2002, David and his wife Gail lived on their 44-foot sailboat for 15 years, visiting more than 40 countries. They have lived in their 100% solar home in Santa Fe since April 2017.

David completed “Fundamentals of Construction 3D Printing” certification course by Apis Cor on September 11, 2021.

Deborah Cole, Community Decision-Making Advisor. Kapaa, HI

Debi is a local real-estate agent who specializes in Community Development. As a long-time Community Member, she worked with DomeGaia to create foundation templates for the establishment and self-governance of communities. These templates empower communities to direct their own growth and development using principles such as the Advice Process & Online Decision making. For a full exposition, please visit

DomeGaiaCommunities.com

Ricardo Peralta, Integrative Architecture, Biophilic Design and Healthy Environments. Vancouver, BC

Ricardo’s life path is an interwoven composition of architecture, health and healing practices, ancient wisdom traditions and self-transformation. An architect and urban planner by training, Ricardo's passion has been the pursuit of deeper meaning, greater awareness, and a higher understanding of those aspects that influence the human transformational experience.

Originally from Mexico, Ricardo has lived, worked, and travelled around the globe, from Berlin to Vancouver to Jakarta and places in between. In his late teenage years, personal breakthroughs led him to the practice of meditation and a more profound study of human emotions and the human energetic system. His studies led him to develop a second career as an integrated health practitioner in combination with his architectural practice.

Almost two decades of research, extensive travels, self-development work and professional collaborations across disciplines brought him to the understanding that a systemic approach of art and science, heart-mind, nature-humans, inner-outer space, and body-energetics must be included to achieve better environments for people.

Ricardo has been a partner of several companies and currently runs his own design and consulting firm, Integrative Architecture. He collaborates with governments, individuals and organizations using his analytical mind, sharp intuition and multi-angled view of situations to design and consult on projects of different ranges and typologies.  He merges architecture, urban planning, biophilic design, and what he calls “real feng shui” into projects that aim to influence cultural perspectives and reimagine collective change. His work spans from creative districts in Asia, to entire cities in Mexico, to tech companies and bio-industrial parks in Canada, and to housing communities in the USA.  Ricardo’s professional  experience also includes commercial developments, cultural and educational centers, and wellness retreats.

Ricardo holds a certification as a coach for conscious business by the Conscious Business Center and is also co-founder of New Gaia Green Tech, an enterprise for sustainable environments. He has a good sense of humor and loves nature. He cultivates authentic and caring relationships and firmly believes in the power of compassion and collaboration to achieve sustainable change in humanity.

Adriana Vega, Architecture and Community Design. London, UK

A driven and self-motivated person, Adriana is passionate about improving people’s quality of life through design and delivering socially, environmentally and economically sustainable projects.

Born in Mexico, Adriana moved to London in 2006 where she practices professionally as an architect. She is committed to driving positive change in the design and construction industries, undertaking self-funded training and research on new construction technologies, the circular economy and devising innovative design strategies that integrate people’s physical and mental well-being from the outset.

Adriana founded her Integrative Practice in 2019 to bring architecture together with what she has learned as a Reiki Master & Hatha yoga teacher.

Spending the best part of 20 years in design, working on prestigious international projects, from 5-star hotels to cruise ships, Adriana understands the profound effect that the spaces and environments we inhabit have on our mental, emotional and physical health. She is committed to creating designs that are conducive to health and give people the best chance at a happy, healthy, peaceful life.

Steve Long, Architecture. Kauai, HI

With over 30 years of architectural experience, our referral based firm has demonstrated a blend of creative professionalism and technical skill on commissions ranging from distinctive single family homes to large commercial developments.

Planning

Planning for the overall site and the design/construction process is critical. Comprehensive knowledge of codes and zoning, with a clear understanding of Hawaii’s construction means and methods is essential to successfully  create architecture in Hawaii. We provide full architectural services from initial site selection through the design, construction documents, permitting, bidding, construction, interior design, and final occupancy.

Rob Ladendecker, Business Advisor, Kapaa, HI

Rob teaches entrepreneurial business management, marketing, accounting, and finance at the University of Hawaii’s Kauai Community College. As a Principal at High Yield Consulting, his specialties include scaling small businesses, improving profitability and cash flow, and team building.

Larry Graff, Affordable Living Advisor. Kilauea, HI

Larry is currently Executive Director of the nonprofit Permanently Affordable Living Kauai. He is an accomplished professional with over 25 years’ experience in government and non-profit services. Larry’s background includes affordable housing development, asset management, human resources, grant administration, fund raising, proposal writing, non-profit agency finance, public speaking, mediation, and grant compliance. Larry has worked in local government in California helping finance affordable housing projects and reducing homeless populations through a balanced approach to services and enforcement. As an administrator of non-profit agencies, Larry has been an Executive Director providing housing as well as an Assets and Operations Director managing 749 units of low-income housing at 52 locations.

Pamela Aole’a Varma, Insurance Advisor. Kapaa, HI

Pam has been in the commercial insurance business for over twenty years. She assists companies in designing and building to minimize long term insurance risks, keeping annual insurance premium costs as low as possible.

Pam is the author of the award-winning Kauai Stories books available at stores around Kauai and on Amazon (print, ebook and audible).

Bruce Cosbey, General Contractor. Kilauea, Kauai, HI

Bruce is a passionate surfer and longtime Kauai resident building homes here for over 40 years. He loves helping people with disabilities learn to surf. Bruce is a volunteer with KORE, Kauai Ocean Recreation Experience.

Chris St. Claire, Draftsman and Revit Software Master. Kapaa, Kauai, HI

Pete Simon, User Experience Designer and Researcher. Poipu, Kauai, HI

I enjoy solving formidable, compelling UX puzzles. Point me at a complex, sensitive, many-eyes-on-it problem and I’m in my element. Bonus points for short timelines, sketchy requirements, and unfamiliar technology.

Rebecca Carnate, LPN. Community Outreach, Kaumakani, Kauai, HI

Rebecca has been a licensed practical nurse for over 20 years. She specializes in dialysis treatment and has hospital, clinical, and care home experience. Her career has spanned Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and now back to her home, the beautiful garden island of Kauai. Rebecca grew up on the sugar plantation where her father and grandfather worked as lead sugar processors beginning in the 1940’s.

 Rebecca is licensed to run a senior care home and will be opening an adult residential care home in early 2021 in west Kauai. She’s also pursuing her passion in real estate having become a licensed realtor in 2020.

 She is active in many local clubs including Zonta Kauai and the East Kauai Lions Club. Rebecca has helped with many community outreach programs including local scholarship awards, Kauai Independent Food Bank, and YWCA of Kauai Women’s Center. She is active in fundraising efforts for both clubs, holding the committee fundraising Chair and co-chair volunteer positions. She’s also a member of the board of directors of the Kauai Filipino Chamber of Commerce. In this role she promotes island-wide community outreach.

 Her family background led to her current interest in hemp farming. Over 25,000 products can be made from hemp. Developing hemp-based building materials is an excellent opportunity for sustainable farming on Kauai.

John Logan Brockett, Green Building and Community Dynamics Advisor. Boulder, CO

John has extensive experience as a psychotherapist, group facilitator, business consultant, and business owner. John’s experience includes facilitating PTSD groups for returning Viet Nam Veterans, facilitating men’s retreats around the country, and maintaining a private individual, couples, and family therapy practice for 25 years.  Since 2006 he has been a General Contractor specializing in green built residential remodels in the Boulder, Colorado area.  John became a Mentoring Steward for Good of the Whole in late 2018.  He brings an extensive study of spiritual wisdom coupled with scientific evolutionary research to his service on the Executive Leadership Council for Good of the Whole.

Julia Hernandez, Digital Marketing Advisor. Ft Lauderdale, FL 

Originally from Columbia, Julia works as Vice President of Digital Marketing for Azelis Americas.

Ross Hostetter, Real Estate Advisor. Austin, TX

Donna Sarita DiPeso, Real Estate Advisor, Ft Lauderdale, FL

Commercial real estate and shopping mall redevelopment.

L. Hunter Lovins, Regenerative Practices Advisor. Longmont, CO

Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably.

Hunter serves as professor of sustainable business management at Bard MBA and Fordham University. She was named a Master at the De Tao Academy in Shanghai. She sits on the boards of Directors of Carbon Fund, Change Finance and Simpliphi Power.  A founding mentor of the Unreasonable Institute, she teaches entrepreneuring and coaches social enterprises around the world. She is the Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing firm.

A consultant to scores of industries and governments worldwide, including International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia, and Clif Bar, she has briefed heads of state, leaders of numerous local governments, the Pentagon, and officials in about 30 countries, as well as the UN, and the US Congress.

Consultant to community groups, local economic development agencies and municipal governments from Maori villages in New Zealand to eco-tourist offerings in Jamaica, to cities like Los Angeles and Denver, she has advised the Afghanistan Energy Minister and many other agency heads around the world. She has worked with local business groups and small NGO’s in developing and over-developed countries. She created the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development, including LASER: Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal (www.global-laser.org).

Hunter has written sixteen books, including the recently released A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life which won a Nautilus Award. She has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon.

Melody Heidel, Hemp Consultant, Kailua, O’ahu, HI

Melody is an industrial hemp consultant with a background in legislative advocacy, community outreach, sustainability, and archaeology. She also works with local non-profits that focus on community building, social justice, affordable housing and houselessness.

Melody first learned about industrial hemp while working at the Hawai'i State Legislature in 2001 for Rep. Cynthia Thielen, assisting in efforts to renew Hawaii's first industrial hemp research project (Act 305, SLH 1999).  From 2015-2017 she was the lead grower and cultivator for the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's second industrial hemp research project, and from 2017-19 was Project Manager for UH's seed development contract with the Hawai'i State Dept. of Agriculture to provide hemp seed for Hawaii's nascent pilot program for licensed hemp farmers (Act 228, SLH 2016). She continues to advocate for industrial hemp's environmental and economic benefits and its great potential for Hawai'i through her consultancy, Hawai'i Hemp Solutions. 

Her personal, educational and professional lives are motivated and guided by a love for environment and culture, their interconnectedness, and the positive impact made by approaching all life with respect and integrity.