Vic Desotelle

Current

• Management Consultant; Business Technology Incubator at MarinaTechnologyCluster.org
• Founding Principal at DiscoveryFuel.com (previously inKNOWvate)

Education

• Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1985

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Industry

Management Consulting

Vic Desotelle’s Summary

Vic Desotelle is owner and senior facilitator with the firms DiscoveryFuel.com (previously inKNOWvate.com) and Colabs.us, which are onsite and online centers for collaborative innovation and group development. Vic's charter is to enable 'sustainable learning' within enterprise emphasizing the concept known as "WHOLE SYSTEM INNOVATION".

By combining principles for sustainable development with frameworks for collaborative learning, Vic is supporting the design of sustainable technologies, businesses, and communities that work for a 21st-century, globally-conscious society.

Vic's Silicon Valley background in Electrical Engineering Design and Business Technology Incubator Management provides a baseline for rational thinking and technical development, while his work with nonlinear, organic systems provides a deeper understanding of innovation within community and enterprise and its relationship to economic, ecological, and social needs - known as the 'triple bottom line'.

Vic emphasizes the need for evolved thinking and compassion within enterprise to understand how individuals and organizations can both serve and profit within an emerging global market. To this end, Vic has committed his future to shaping new frameworks that help to align organizations with greater planetary awareness and cultural values so that healthy, more whole communities can be created and sustained.

WEBSITES: http://DiscoverFuel.com and http://Colabs.us

Vic Desotelle’s Specialties:

Develop innovation within your enterprise using unique forms of collaborative facilitation.

1- Facilitated Collaborations: Transform Vision into Action
2- Business: Triple Bottom Line Strategic Planning
3- Ethics Workshops: Synergy between Principles Practices & Policies
4- Company values Assessments: Journey from Personal Meaning to Enterprise Strategy
5- Sustainability Workshops: From Green Thinking To Applied Innovation
6- Exec Coaching: Becoming a Sustainable Learning Organization

Vic Desotelle’s Experience

• Management Consultant; Business Technology Incubator

  MarinaTechnologyCluster.org

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  The center grows successful businesses from startup by delivering proven, rigorous business development services to talented, technology-driven entrapenuers in collaboration with world renowned partners including science, education, government, and regional research institutions. My position supports this mission by providing coaching and consultation services in the delivery of viable business plans.

• Founding Principal

  DiscoveryFuel.com (previously inKNOWvate)

  (Management Consulting industry)

  January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)

  inKNOWvate services are for enterprises seeking new forms of innovation.
  
  It consists of a network of organizational developers and collaborative design processes that help shift company innovation toward a 'triple bottom line', an internationally recognized model containing three interdependencies: social equity, ecological stewardship, and economic viability. Companies and communities world-wide are now embracing this concept as an essential ingredient for success in the 21st-Century.
  
  Key questions we address:
  
  - What is innovation and how do you create it in your organization?
  - What is a learning organization and how can it help you become successful?
  - How does sustainability play a role in company and product design?
  - Why is designing appropriate technologies becoming an international requirement?
  - How can a triple-bottom-line generate new business opportunities?
  - How do emerging global ethics and values play a role in building an innovative company?

Vic Desotelle’s Education

• Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 1985

  BSEE program at the Institute of Technology with emphasis on small signal digital design 1985

  · Triple bottom line (sustainable business development), Principles of facilitation and organizational learning, Strategic management concepts for the new ecological economy.
  · How corporate environmental health & safety (EHS) programs enhance company profit. Strategic Environmental Management UC Santa Cruz Sunnyvale, CA
  · Modeling for communication processes for whole-systems organization. Systems Thinking Elmwood Institute Berkeley, CA
  · How archetypes and mythologies impact individual and global development. Power of Myth Joseph Campbell Series Los Gatos, CA

  Activities and Societies:

  · Organizational learning & values training for companies to generate resiliency & stability. Corporate Communications Pegasus San Francisco, CA
  · Industrial Ecology Global Futures, The Natural Step San Francisco, CA

Additional Information

Vic Desotelle’s Interests:

Knowledge ecology, spiritual relationship development, advanced community design, 2-on-2 sand volleyball, tennis, basketball, golf, hiking, quantum physics, good food and wine.

Vic Desotelle’s Groups:

Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org/)

•    Executive Suite
•    CleanTech
•    Green & Sustainability Innovators & Innovation Network
•    Professional Facilitators Network
•    Energy & Utilities Network
•    Green
•    Meeting Magic Facilitators
•    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development
•    ♥ LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) 3000+ Members
•    Think Green
•    INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY PROFESSIONALS
•    Trendwatchers - 360° Product Design Trends
•    Bright Green Talent
•    Enviu - innovators in sustainability
•    GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals
•    EUROPE Sustainability: V-360.org member
•    Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp
•    Sustainable Innovation
•    Ideagora
•    Entrepreneurs For A Better World
•    National Facilitator Database (NFDB) Network
•    Centered Leadership Group
•    Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA)

Vic Desotelle’s Honors:

http://ChangingNormal.com Online Community
http://www.MarinaTechnlogyCluster.org Business Incubation
http://WholeSystemInnovation.com/Blog
http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/wholesysteminnovation
http://www.FACEBOOK.com/people/Vic-Desotelle/519503382
http://TWITTER.com/DiscoveryFuel
http://innovate-ideagora.ning.com/
http://incollaboration.ning.com/
http://globaleducation.ning.com/

Vic Desotelle’s Contact Settings

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