Ellen Concepcion – Executive Director
Ellen is the co-founder and Executive Director of New Leaf Collaborative. She is a highly qualified science teacher and has over 8 years middle school classroom teaching experience in Vallejo and Crockett. Through New Leaf Collaborative’s programs, Ellen hopes to inspire youth to learn, act and think creatively, confidently and responsibly. (ellen@newleafcollaborative.org)
Tom Murray
Tom Murray is a retired Chicago Fire Department paramedic and a second career retired Alhambra High School English teacher. Having participated in the introduction of technology into the classroom during his tenure and observing its impact on student learning, Tom sees the New Leaf Collaborative as the cutting edge of innovative and transformative strategies designed to meet the needs and challenges students are facing in the 21st century. Tom participated in the Empowering Educators Program, and he is excited to be part of a team with a global vision. Tom believes that humanity is about to make an evolutionary jump and that the New Leaf Collaborative can impact the paths our students will take, ensuring humanity’s survival. (ambo3540@gmail.com)
Harriette Heibel
Harriette Heibel is a management consultant with H2 Solutions, a company that “helps organizations run better from the inside out” by providing training in communication and team building, meeting and group dynamics facilitation, and life coaching. She has over 30 years of experience working in and with public agencies, school districts, churches, and not-for-profit organizations. Harriette holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco, and a Bachelors of Arts Degree in both English and German from the University of Illinois. She is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach, a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator trainer/coach and a certified Enneagram coach/trainer. Before starting her own consulting business, Harriette worked as a communication manager for the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District, where her duties included providing educational programs for elementary schools through high schools, developing an employee training program for frontline through management employees, and overseeing the agency’s continuous improvement program. In her spare time, Harriette facilitates DivorceCare and Boundary programs for adults who are navigating difficult relational challenges.
Jeanne Jones
Kelli Coffman
Debi Tidd
Mary Peeff – Secretary (mary@newleafcollaborative.org)