Team Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation –LEINN Mondragon Team Academy and Evergreen Change Maker Lab – Winter and/or Spring 2020*

“The world has not been given to us to contemplate but to transform and we do it as team-entrepreneurs, learning by creating in teams”

Hone your skills as a team-entrepreneur and experience the Evergreen Inter Disciplinary way of study and the LEINN and Mondragon Team Academy’s (MTA World) “team learning by creating” over the course of an optional one to two consecutive quarters.

This program is designed around a set of unique ingredients that seeks to promote and empower the entrepreneurial spirit of its participants. It offers a time and space for people from all around the world to work on real projects together at Evergreen. The program will be a combined group of Evergreen Teampreneurs with a exchange group of team-entrepreneurs from MTA’s LEINN International. The program features a faculty team that combines Evergreen’s pedagogy and local environment with Mondragon’s pedagogy and team-entrepreneurs experience. It further introduces tools and resources to support the development of entrepreneurial foundations.

See our very unique classroom A MTA Evergreen Change Maker Lab

Students will use skills learned in prior programs such as Marketing, Accounting, Business Law, Finance, Statistics, Strategic Planning and Business Management to develop and implement real projects by continuing to develop collaborative skills as team-entrepreneurs to implement these ventures.

Team-entrepreneurs will attend seminars, lunch time speaking events, field trips, guest lectures and team activities. As a participant, one may supplement knowledge by attending certain supplemental workshops and lectures. There will also be some opportunities for optional international and local travel. Some travel to Seattle may be required.

The program has been designed by a shared team of faculty members from MTA Traveling University & The Evergreen State College. Thanks to this strategic collaboration, it is the first time that students from the United States will learn and experiment with Mondragon Team Academy’s methods.

There are 21 competencies in three categories that students will get exposure to namely;

Learning as a team

1. Information technologies and computer skills
2. Team-learning techniques
3. Personal learning methods and attitudes (mental models)
4. Creativity
5. International vision
6. Communication skills
7. Self-guidance

Leading a team

8. Self-management skills
9. Project management
10. Team leadership capacity
11. Planning techniques
12. Coaching skills
13. Strategic skills
14. Decision making and determination

Team entrepreneurship

15. Consumer services and negotiation and sales techniques
16. Comprehension of financial elements
17. Marketing
18. Innovation
19. Theoretical and modeling skills of an entrepreneur
20. Networking
21. Bravery and will to overcome obstacles

Mondragon Team Academy (MTA World) is a global community of social innovation ecosystem labs using the Mondragon’s Worker Cooperative Experience roots & TiimiAkatemia’s Finnish Educational methods. MTA was created in 2008 to rebirth and transfer the team-entrepreneurial spirit and creating capacity of Mondragon by developing an open and international community of team-entrepreneurs co-operating on a multi-generational, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary level worldwide. As of January 2019, MTA is an international community of 1,547 team-entrepreneurs “team learning by creating” in 11 MTA Labs where MTA programs run: Irun-San Sebastian, Onati (Mondragon Valley), Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia, Maastrich (Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Pune (India), Queretaro & Puebla (Mexico), Seoul (South Korea).

*This program that begins in Spring has an optional continuing component in summer quarter. See the catalog listing for registration information. This program offers advanced study for students continuing from spring quarter (enter catalog URL when available), but is also open to new students who meet the prerequisites.

FACULTY MEMBERS, FACILITATORS & ROLES:

FACULTY MEMBERS, FACILITATORS & ROLES:
MTA Evergreen – LEINN Spring and or Summer 2019
Faculty	Institution	Faculty Role
Dion Gouws	Evergreen Faculty	MTA Evergreen Team Coach
TBA	MTA China Visiting Faculty at Evergreen	LEINN International Team Coach
Jose Marie Luzarraga	MTA World visiting faculty at Evergreen	Program Coordinator
TBA	LEINN International	MTA  Team Coach
TBA	LEINN International	MTA Team Coach

Dr. Dion Gouws, CPA, MTA Evergreen Team Coach

Dion is a member of the business management and entrepreneurship faculty at Evergreen. Highlights of his life from activities over the world include “chaperone” of the President of  the National Health and Allied Workers Union during apartheid South Africa; starting and operating a management consulting firm for many years; wildlife restoration and conservation and being appointed by the South African government for several years to address the representation of all members of society in the aviation sector by developing an employment equity training plan for the defense and civil sector.

In Angola he was appointed to coordinate and manage a project involving the capture of family groups of elephant and other wildlife families in South Africa and relocated these, for the first time ever by airlift, to Angola. As Director of a 1.2-million-hectare park in Angola he established its wildlife management and tourism infrastructure and drafted enabling national parks legislation.

In 2001 he immigrated to the United States, obtained a CPA license and started and operates a public accounting firm in California. He worked in the US Virgin Islands for seven years as an Associate Professor of Accounting and held the positions of Chair of the Department Accounting and Finance and Assistant Dean of the School of Business. In 2016 he received the SBA- SBDC Small Business Champion of the year Award.  He was awarded a Certificate of Special US Congressional Recognition for his contribution to society.

On his academic path he prepared himself as a professional accountant, obtained an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, a Doctoral Degree in Strategic Management from the University of Johannesburg and a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Finance from Keller Graduate School. In his other profession he is an avid Scuba Diving Instructor.

He is keen to share his experiences through mentoring with learning communities that are discovering how to deliver their value in the GIG economy through community building and creating enterprises that have a larger sense of purpose.  Combining Team Entrepreneurship as developed by MTA and Tiimiakatamia, with Evergreen’s learning model, Six Expectations of the Evergreen Graduate and the 5 Foci of Learning and model shaped network structure may provide us with an excellent model to develop our future entrepreneurs that will create enterprises with the necessary sustainable social perspective, equally both, for profit and not for profit entities.

Yujiao Xia, MTA Team Coach

Master of Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation, Mondragon University; Bachelor of Business in Marketing, University of Tasmania; Bachelor of Management in International Business, Shanghai Ocean University.

MTA Team Coach since September 2017 providing team coaching for LEINN (European bachelor’s degree on Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation) program of Mondragon University after graduating from TEAMINN Mastery program.

Translator since October 2016 with books translated (from English to Chinese): Organization Development by Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge, The Team Coach’s Best Tools by Johannes Partanen, Covert Processes at Work by Robert J. Marshak.

Initiator of Impact Hub Shanghai, member of the co-founding team supporting on-boarding process of Impact Hub Shanghai, focusing on the educational area.

Co-founder of Innovative OD Center (China) from 2011 to 2016, responsible for the introduction and localization of the leadership and organizational development related training programs from United Kingdom (Nowhere Group) and United States (Power Lab, NTL, Gestalt OSD Center, etc.), to China; involvement in the OD’s consulting work for domestic and multinational corporations focusing on catalyzing innovation and organization transformation, clients include Alibaba Group, Bertelsmann China Corporate Center.

Dr. Jose Maria Luzarraga – Program Coordinator – MTA visiting faculty in Evergreen

Co-founder of Mondragon Team Academy (MTA World) & LEINN, ASHOKA Fellow, TiimiAkatemia Master Team Coach

Professor & International researcher at Mondragon University since 2004 lecturing in MBA and masters specialized in Global Business, Working Co-operatives, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development & CSR Strategies.

Author of his PhD thesis “Mondragon Multilocalisation Strategy: Innovating a Human Centered Globalisation” back in 2008.

Speaker at several international conferences in India, Norway, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, USA, Saudi Arabia, China & Brazil, collaborating with different universities as CEIBS (Shanghai), Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) or Harvard Business School (Boston, MA).

Serial social entrepreneur having cofounded several social business start-ups such as: “Viaje Solidario” a responsible tourism platform (2004), Empathya Consulting: CSR & leadership consulting (2005), “EusKalAsia” Basque Country & Asia platform (2006), MTA World (2008), TZBZ Innovation (2012), MTA China (2014), MTA Korea (2016) & MTA Africa (2018).

Awarded as ASHOKA Fellow in 2015 and advisory Board member of TZBZ S.Coop & DOT S.Coop..

Petra Arbayo, MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach

Petra initially signed on as a copywriter and graphic designer for the budding entrepreneurial endeavors on campus, Fall 2018. Her position quickly evolved into a widescale intrapreneurial effort to streamline efficiency and create effective channels of communication among the various projects affiliated with her team. Over the last two quarters, she has developed internal systems, coordinated events, and managed staff for The Evergreen State College.

As both a maker and a coordinator, Petra designs experiences. Petra has hybridized her art theory background with her involvement in diy counterculture to develop a guerilla approach to systems intervention. Through our interactions, we internalize everything we engage with. Posters, parties, and systems can all be crafted with intention to push forward ideas, values, and social change.

Over the last eight years, she has worked with a variety of businesses and individuals to promote their unique initiatives. This has resulted in a wide range of skills within graphic design, fine art, event coordinating, promotion, and branding.

Martin Fernández de Labastida García, MTA Assistant Team Coach

Co-Founder & CEO of ABORA World, and Team-entrepreneur at Mondragon Team Academy

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of ABORA World, and part of LEINN International’s first generation, pioneers of a nomad and multicultural revolution. Passionate leader and entrepreneur focused on the fields of education, innovation, social impact and 4.0 technologies.

Experience working on the organization of several events such as the United Nations Global Goals Jam Seattle 2018, a one-day hackathon to solve local challenges through innovative and creative methodologies in teams; and Team Talks, a conference showcasing individuals’ team entrepreneurial experiences through short, powerful talks.

Co-founded World ID, an identity card to recognize world citizenship, and part of the development of BeMonkeys, an international brand of technological phone gadgets.

Lived in China, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and United States, working and completing academic stays.

Christopher Kai, MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach

Chris was born into a military family here in Olympia and after spending most of his childhood in North Carolina, returned to Olympia where he graduated from North Thurston High School in 2001.

Following his graduation, Chris volunteered for service in the US Army.  Upon completion of training, Chris was assigned to 2-3 INF at Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA. SSG Kai’s career saw multiple combat deployments and was honorably discharged nearly a decade after entering.

Chris is currently working for the Veterans Resource Center and at the Catalyst on Evergreen campus and is a senior attending Evergreen.  Chris’ studies include an emphasis in Finance and Accounting, as well as an internship with the Entrepreneurship Initiative.  Chris choose this path of study through his passion of Baseball’s advanced statistics, many of which were written by finance majors.  Chris’ objective is to become an Investment Analyst and he chose Evergreen because the open curriculum provided him the opportunity to focus his studies toward that end.

Rhian Peterman, MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach

Following a professional interlude in the food, beverage and hospitality business (restaurant business), Rhian recently returned to The Evergreen State College to finish his Bachelor of Arts with concentrations in philosophy and history. He is now hired by the College through the Entrepreneurship Initiative with the title of Culinary Entrepreneurship Developer. Within this role, he will be assessing the feasibility of implementing a curriculum in food, beverage, and hospitality at Evergreen. Additionally, his job description includes the exploration of co-curricular opportunities for students to translate creativity into innovation within the culinary and agriculture industries.

Prior to and during the completion of his undergraduate degree, Rhian worked as an Executive Chef, Restaurant Director, General Manager, and turn-around business consultant. During his time working in restaurants in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Baltimore, Rhian specialized in contemporary fine dining as well as traditional cuisine informed by molecular gastronomy. Rhian has worked in establishments ranging from small-seating casual fine dining to Michelin two-star rated restaurants. He has been hired to open, or consulted on the opening of, many restaurants and food production facilities.

Ane Beitia Salaberria, MTA Assistant Team Coach

Co-Founder & CCO of ABORA World, and Team-entrepreneur at Mondragon Team Academy

Co-founder and Chief Communications Officer of ABORA World, and part of LEINN International’s first generation, pioneers of a nomad and multicultural revolution. Passionate team-entrepreneur focused on the fields of education innovation, intergenerationality, and applied technologies.

Organizer of several events and initiatives, such as AKTION, a platform to generate opportunities and interaction spaces for entrepreneurial people from different generations, and United Nations Global Goals Jam Seattle, first ever West Coast location to host the event to give answers to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Leading and organization of exchanges and training courses for the European Union’s Erasmus+ program on topics such as global ethical values, democratization, entrepreneurship, immigration and sustainability.

Completed various academic stays in the United States; 2011-2012 in Chico, CA, 2015-2016 in Berkeley, CA, and 2018 in Olympia, WA.

Nataly Salguero, MTA Evergreen Assistant Team Coach

As Evergreens Arts Entrepreneurship Project Developer, Nataly uses the consultative process to develop co-curricular support systems and services for art students. These resources will enable art students to overcome the common challenges of developing a sustainable livelihood through an artistic practice.

She also works individually with students as a life designer, strategist, and mentor.

Nataly came to Evergreen with more than 10 years of graphic design and marketing experience in advertising and retail sales. She started in entry-level sales and design positions to eventually working up to being a brand representative for two of the top ten electronics manufactures in the world.

She credits her drive and success to her military service where she held numerous leadership and supervisory positions while serving as a photographer, videographer, and graphic designer in the United States Marine Corps

Her educational background includes attending the Defense Information School in Fort Meade, MD and Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI