Nina Simons

Nina Simons is a social entrepreneur and Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Bioneers. Bioneers is a national nonprofit that helps highlight, gather and disseminate breakthrough solutions to the our most pressing environmental and social challenges. Nina's life and work are informed by her passion for the natural world, women’s leadership, systems thinking, and the arts’ capacity to shape culture and consciousness. Nina has an enduring interest in the leadership of women and restoring the "feminine" to a balanced place in our culture. In 2006, she began offering Cultivating Women’s Leadership, a five-day intensive for diverse women with the passion and capacity to effect change in their communities. The intensive offers tools and practices to strengthen women’s effectiveness. Working from the inside out, it focuses on bringing to awareness the stories women tell ourselves, and developing practices for strengthening vision and self-esteem and shedding self-limiting patterns. The intensive emphasizes skillful collaboration across differences, and the creation of relationships and networks to cultivate leadership, build alliances and encourage mutual support. The experiential training recognizes the unique capacities women may bring to leadership at this pivotal time.