Scott McKeown

Biographical Information
"Scott McKeown is the founder and a continual core team member of Transition Sebastopol which in 2008 became the 9th official Transition initiative in the US and which continues to grow with now twelve active working groups. Scott has been a professional trainer and instructional designer for over fourteen years in both corporate high-tech environments such as Advance Fibre Communications (now Tellabs, Inc.) and also with non-profit organizations such as The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Scott has been a certified Training for Transition instructor since 2008 and has co-taught the "T4T" course in the California communities of San Rafael, Oakland, Los Angeles, Monterey, Willits, Lake County, and Sonoma, all which helped toward the formation of other Transition initiatives in California. For thirty-five years Scott has been deeply involved in movement building and social action issues. Scott founded several social action-focused organizations as diverse as the Mystic Beat Lounge art collective and the Los Angeles Guardian Angels volunteer safety patrol. Scott was Marketing Director for three high-tech companies including Surround Sound Inc. which produced the first Dolby-licensed home Surround Sound decoder, and mother.com, an Internet Service Provider (now Websoft Developers, Inc.). Scott has been an event producer for over three decades and has produced hundreds of events including conferences, speaking tours, eco fairs and music festivals. Scott has been a production consultant and technical director for many other events and organizations such as for the last five bi-annual conferences of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. From 2003 through 2007 Scott was the Executive Director and chief executive of the thirty-thousand person attended Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, California, which during Scott's tenure more than doubled its attendance and revenue and has become one of the largest music and camping festivals on the West Coast."

Affiliations

 * Team, Transition US