Joseph McIntyre

Joseph McIntyre is President and Principal Facilitator of Ag Innovations. Over the past 15 years, he has leveraged his deep experience in organizational development, facilitation, and social change to grow Ag Innovations into a nationally-recognized organization that works to cultivate the ideas and actions needed for healthy farms, communities, and ecosystems. He developed Ag Innovation's signature process and social forum design that brings oftentimes divergent groups to consensus and collaborative thinking.

Originally trained as an economist, Joseph has taught Environmental Economics at New College of California and History of Economic Thought at University of Rhode Island. This training lent itself well to Joseph’s early business career focused on marketing, management, and conference development which he continues to apply today. In addition, he is an experienced nonprofit organization manager, having spent seven years as executive director of Resources for Creativity, an organization that trained group facilitators. He also holds a MA in Psychology with an Organization Development focus from Sonoma State University; he uses this knowledge extensively in his facilitation and social change work.

Joseph came early to sustainability through his interest in systems thinking and steady-state economics cultivated as an interdisciplinary studies student at the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California (BA in Liberal Arts with Honors). Living in Stockton placed him in the heart of California Delta agriculture and left an indelible impression of the bounties and the risks of the current food system.

Joseph currently serves as the chair of the board of directors for the Academy of Systemic Change a 10-year initiative to enable leaders, communities and networks in critical systems to catalyze and facilitate societal, environmental and economic well-being on a scale that matters. The Academy convenes leaders to help lay a foundation of shared learnings to accelerate the growth of healthy social, economic and human systems.