2130 Partners . . . it’s more than a company name

Suzanne Mayo Frindt and Dwight Frindt are co-founders of 2130 Partners. The name 2130 Partners, and the company’s core philosophy are derived from a Native American insight (often attributed to the Iroquois Confederacy) that leaders are accountable for the impact of their decisions on each of the next seven generations. The year 2130 represents seven generations or 140 years from our founding in 1990. This shaped 2130 Partners’ commitment to working from a long term, vision-focused perspective. We believe it is what makes all the difference. It is what we are passionate about. It is at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that as we (R)Evolutionize ourselves and our organizations we transform our 24/7 into a 25/7 Commitment™ – creating a 25,000-mile reach and a 7-Generation impact, on purpose.

2130 Principals

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Suzanne is a co-founder and Principal of 2130 Partners. She is a recognized speaker on the topics of Accelerate Your Leadership™ and Productive Interactions™, addressing various organizations around the world. As a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association she is also known as a popular speaker on women-in-business issues. She has addressed women in such diverse environments as indigenous women leaders in Peru, college students in China, and women entrepreneurs in the Middle East. The U.S. State Department tapped Suzanne to address the 2006 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Businesswomen’s Summit in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. In March 2007, she was named one of “20 Top Women to Watch” by Churm Media, and was featured in the March 15 cover story in OC Metro Magazine. In 2009 she was asked to co-create and teach curriculum for “The World Academy for the Future of Women” at the SIAS International University in China.Suzanne serves as a Group Chair for Vistage International, a professional organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of chief executives. Vistage and its affiliates have more than 15,000+ members in 15 countries, making it the world’s leading CEO membership organization. Each month she facilitates groups that include company presidents, entrepreneurs and key executives.Suzanne and her husband, Dwight, have been investors and activists for The Hunger Project for over 20 years. They travel extensively throughout Africa, India, Bangladesh and Latin America to assist the organization in mobilizing local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition, family incomes and the empowerment of women. In the last few years, The Pachamama Alliance, Chirapaq, and the FeelGood organizations have become additional investment and support interests for Suzanne. She is certified to lead, “Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream” Symposium for The Pachamama Alliance and has been involved in leadership development programs in partnership with Chirapaq and FeelGood, training young leaders in a new paradigm of leadership. As a board member, Suzanne regularly contributes entrepreneurial creativity and management experience to both profit and not-for-profit companies and organizations, including Thoro Packaging and Managease.

Suzanne has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, and has a deep personal commitment to ongoing growth development in a broad range of disciplines including being ordained as an interfaith minister in 2005.

Dwight Frindt

“What unleashes individual motivation in an organization? What gets team members focused, collaborating, and acting effectively for a shared purpose? What keeps organizations productive and agile?”These are questions that have driven Dwight’s passion, his personal growth as a business leader, and the core philosophy of 2130 Partners. Dwight draws on his extensive facilitation and trusted advisor experience, along with decades of operational management and executive accountabilities, as he works with top leaders. In addition, for 35 years he has been an investor and activist with The Hunger Project, a global strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. With this diverse background, Dwight blends his learning from the worlds of business and global nonprofit into the unique paradigm shifting individual and team development work offered by 2130 Partners. He currently blogs weekly on both 2130 Partners and Vistage blog sites.Dwight has facilitated groups of CEOs and senior executives for nearly two decades as a Group Chair for Vistage International, Inc., the world’s leading CEO membership organization. He has been the recipient of the Vistage Annual Chair Excellence Award thirteen times, has received the Master Chair Award twice, and now serves as a Vistage Best Practice Chair for Orange County, The Pacific Northwest, and the Puget Sound areas.

Prior to founding 2130 Partners and working with Vistage, Dwight held executive positions in mining, heavy construction, nuclear plant construction management, real estate acquisition and investment management. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Geology from Northwestern University. As an expression of his continuing commitment to expand the dimensions of his work on behalf of his clients’ growth and development, Dwight became an ordained interfaith minister.

Kathleen O’Sullivan

Kathleen joined Dwight and Suzanne as a Principal in January 2012. Kathleen is a transformational thought leader, with a proven track record of designing, implementing, promoting and replicating revolutionary projects. Kathleen is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and a highly skilled facilitator and trainer. She is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation and serves in a leadership capacity for Mindshare, a Mastermind group for executive coaches.Kathleen’s mission and expertise is creating passionate engagement, powerful collaboration and purposeful innovation. She offers a unique blend of real-world experience, coaching expertise, and breakthrough strategies and tools to affect real and lasting change. She has extensive experience and success in the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors, and in the world of public education. The common thread is helping organizations and individuals be responsive to the accelerating pace of change in the world we live in . . . to figure out what they really want and attract the support they need – internal and external – to bring their vision, mission and purpose to life.Bringing her leadership to community efforts is important to Kathleen. She has volunteered her time and talent to the design and development of the World Academy for the Future of Women, which launched in September 2009. The Academy provides university women in China with a leadership program that is project-based and focuses on addressing United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Kathleen has also had the privilege of serving on a number of nonprofit boards. She has been awarded the Eureka-Communities Fellowship Award in recognition of her dedication, commitment and community service. The YWCA honored Kathleen as a Woman of Excellence in Education. As a result of her pioneering work in transforming education, Kathleen’s story was chosen as one of 13 nationwide to be featured in Adventures of Charter School Creators: Leading from the Ground Up (Scarecrow Education, 2004). Kathleen has been a presenter on creating 21st century learning environments at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, China and Taiwan.

Kathleen is leading the charge to take the best of what 2130 Partners has created and make it available in ways that fully leverage new technologies and provide creative opportunities to expand the reach and impact of our programs and course offerings. Kathleen is committed to busting the barriers of geography, time and budget to provide a wide array of solutions to reach everyone in an organization, accessible whenever, from wherever!

2130 Practitioners

	Mark Murphyleverages his deep understanding of the analytical side of business and his mastery of the human dimension to provide his clients with the possibility of substantial improvements in their own leadership and their company’s resulting performance and value. Mark has invested the last 25 years in the C-suite and boardroom, holding positions which include VP Sales, VP Operations, CFO, COO and CEO. He has also served as a Board Member of the companies he led. This extensive hands-on experience provides Mark with an intensely practical commitment to enhancing a firm’s value by leveraging the performance of its people resources. From senior executive coaching to culture building, Mark is passionate about calling forth his clients’ clarity and courage to act boldly in advancing their business.Mark holds a BA in Business Administration and a MBA in Finance from California State University at Fullerton. Joining Arthur Young & Company out of college, Mark earned his California CPA certificate, which he kept active for 18 years. Prior to establishing his executive coaching and corporate development practice, he served for over six years as the CEO and Board Member of a publicly traded medical device company.

	Alanna Levenson’sphilosophy is “leadership is not just about the ability to lead others, it’s about being a leader in your own life.” She helps people transform their lives by partnering with them in a personal discovery process where limiting beliefs, negative emotions, and old unwanted habits are set free. She has assisted Managers to exhibit true leadership capacities, and has ‘turned around’ employees who were too valuable to lose following a not so rosy review.Alanna has a Bachelors Degree in Communications from San Diego State University, is a Certified Professional Coach and an Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, and a certified Master Practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).

	Esther Weinberghas a 20-year track record of transforming executives and organizations through her executive coaching, team facilitation skills, and her leadership development speaking, writing and workshops.She has held executive positions with renowned companies in the digital media and cable industry. She was Vice President of Media Relations for Disney Media Networks, Toon Disney and SOAPnet; and teamed with executives at Disney’s partially owned networks – Lifetime Television, A & E Television Networks, The History Channel and E! As Director of Publicity and Senior Publicist with Fox Cable Networks, she pioneered the first New York-based media relations efforts for a general entertainment basic cable network and division of Fox Television network.Esther graduated from New York University and CoachU, a top training program for professional coaches, and is a Certified Professional Behaviors Analyst (CPBA).

	Diane Sharpeis a seasoned 2130 Partners Productive Interactions™ workshop leader and communications coach. She has been facilitating groups and individuals through their learning process in this program since its inception in 2006. Her management career in a school district in Orange County, CA, and her family and community commitments always give her current real life material that is both entertaining and instructive. Diane is especially talented in the area of helping participants translate the principles of Productive Interactions into new actions in their own lives.Diane is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, CPCC™ and has extensive facilitation skills from almost 5 years as a member of the Classified Management Negotiation Team for the district where she was trained in “win/win” collective bargaining. Diane holds a BS from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and is an active member of the California Nutrition Association.

	Jo Ann Fjellmanfocuses on helping teams and groups increase their creativity and productivity through collaboration and innovation. She encourages leadership qualities as a conscious choice for everyone in an organization. This is based on the belief that an individual’s innate creativity, compassion, courage and the collective wisdom of a group can lead towards new models that engage people, create ideas and produce results. Some of her strongest attributes are her keen listening and acute questioning skills that probe for deeper understanding and connection.Jo Ann graduated from the University of Oregon in Fine Arts. She earned a Training Specialist certificate from UW Extensions and two graduate certificates from Pacific Integral in Generating Transformational Change and KORE Leadership in Women’s Integral Leadership. Her past career positions in sales, marketing and training for both products and services in the wine, publishing and technology industries for 17 years has enhanced her corporate business knowledge.

	Montserrat Ausoor “Montse” as she is know, is an iridescent speaker, workshop leader and executive coach, who must be experienced live to be fully appreciated. A native of Venezuela and Spain, she energizes a room while creating an atmosphere of compassion to foster dramatic transformation in groups of every size and culture, at every level of an organization.Montse has a natural gift for connecting deeply with people and groups, and a passion for bringing out the personal best in everyone. She uses her intuition and a deep understanding of systems to tailor programs to the client needs and environment.Montse holds Master of Science degrees in Geology and Clinical Social Work, and has worked as a geologist, a family therapist, and director of mental health and community outreach centers.

	Ellen Hursthas a down-to-earth, no nonsense approach to business and life coaching, with a generous portion of humor added. She has been a coach and consultant for 20 plus years. As an artist she brings a fresh approach to viewing problems and concerns of the day-to-day workings of business. Her strong suit is working directly with people to break open the logjams of life and work and have people back in action.Ellen loves to talk about the “Art of Business” – where business is much like working on a sculpture or painting…where you begin with an idea and as it develops and gets a life of it own; being able to let it grow in unexpected and surprising ways to its full expression which is often far beyond the initial idea.

	Lee Trabandis insightful and according to colleagues and clients alike, masterful at calling forth vision and empowering its fulfillment. She encourages her clients to design their own “scope of work” and the actions they will take to actualize their intentions.In addition to her responsibilities with 2130 Partners, Lee also volunteers as a facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium designed by The Pachamama Alliance, whose goal is to create a human presence on the planet that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just. Before joining 2130 Partners in 2001, Lee was on staff at The Hunger Project as a fundraiser and spokesperson. The Hunger Project is a strategic organization committed to ending hunger worldwide on a sustainable basis.Lee has 30 post-master’s credits in special education from Pennsylvania State University, holds a Master of Psychology of Education degree from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts Psychology degree from Bryn Mawr College.