Brad Golphenee

Brad is a Sandpoint local and the business owner of Sandpoint Vacation Rentals

Brad and his wife Maria run this business which specializes in furnished rental homes for short or long tenatcies. Their children, Cole and Reid are proud students of the Sandpoint Waldorf School.

Phil Hough

Chairman - Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness www.ScotchmanPeaks.org

Phil studied for four years at Colby College in Waterville Maine, majoring in English Literature. After 20+ years in Hotel/Hospitality management, organizing and directing staff, assisting with sales and marketing and coordinating events and conventions, Phil moved to Sagle, Idaho in 2002. He has served as the president of the American Long Distance Hikers West Assoc (ALDHA-WEST), and as the president of the Kinnikinnick Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society. His love of the wilderness has led him to thru hike the entire Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest trail (twice) as well as to paddle the length of the Yukon river, among many other shorter trips to most of the corners of our continent. On May 19, 2007 Phil was awarded the Idaho Conservation League’s highest award for environmental activism for his work on the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Area

Owen Marcus

As one of the co-founders of the Sandpoint Men's Group, being a part of the Men's Group and the Sandpoint community is an honor for me. The Men's Group forms the core of my enjoyment of the natural world, and my appreciation of the enchanting community of Sandpoint.

I was born and raised in Vermont, but I headed out West as a young man. In the mid-1970s, I began practicing bodywork and Rolfing in Boulder, CO. Then I moved to start a clinic in Scottsdale, AZ, where I stayed for close to 20 years. While in Scottsdale, I used to envision living in a rural community with others who appreciated nature's beauty. And I wanted a mellower lifestyle. So I came to Sandpoint in 1997, and formed the Men's Group in 2004.

I continue practicing Rolfing here in Sandpoint, as I pursue other avenues of promoting holistic wellness. I've studied Shamanism for over 25 years, and I've learned how to use it to enhance the body work I do. I'm a single guy--never been married, no kids yet--and I enjoy all that Sandpoint has to offer: art, music, skiing, swimming. I feel very fortunate to live in my paradise.

These sites and blogs explain more of what I do –

• Rolfing www.align.org
• Rolfing blog for Rolfers and their clients www.RolfBlog.com
• Blog on innovated ways to reduce stress www.StressedOut.org
• Coaching www.ShamanicCoach.com
• Keeping Sandpoint’s water clean www.CleanRivers.net

208.265.8440 E-mail: marcus [at] align.org (replace "[at]" with @ and remove the spaces).

Wayne Pignolet

I am a Ohio Buckeye. (Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio)

I like bikes, boats, and skiing.

I am passionate about my family and stretching myself physically, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.

Eldon Renner

Eldon Renner is a Computer Consultant (Renner Consulting, Inc) with local Clients. My wife and I also own and operate a local publishing company Hoen Publishing www.hoenpublishing.com, where we print the Holistic Guide to Wellness and the Good Times. I have been in the computer field for 20 years.

I grew up in Bruneau, ID and went to college in Moscow, ID and have resided in the Coeur d'Alene/ Sandpoint area for the past 11 years. I am a husband of 11 years and a father of two beautiful little girls. I enjoy woodworking, Kenjutsu (Japanese Sword Fighting), Karate and living in the most beautiful place in the world (Sandpoint).

My mission in life is to create a village of connected loving families by sharing my golden boy. I have been with the Sandpoint Men's Group for a year and it has been an incredible experience and family for me.

Mark Rockwell

My wife and I own Rockton Software, a small private software company based in Sandpoint that specializes in add-ons for Microsoft Dynamics. Rockton is an ISV, or Independent Solution Vendor. In 2007 we started ISV Central, an administrative company to assist other ISVs like Rockton. Rockton is a combination of our last names.

I am also an active board member and volunteer for both Idaho Panhandle Habitat for Humanity and the Bonner Community Housing Agency. I have interests in real estate and creating opportunities for affordable housing in our community and in our world.

Len Taylor

Len was born in West Virginia in August of 1946. He lived there until he was 19, at which time he joined the USAF. Following his military service he lived in the Bay Area of California where he worked with heart transplant surgeon Dr. Norman Shumway. For the next 32 years he resided in Tampa, FL working as a perfusionist for 30 years and as a math teacher during the final 2. He currently resides in Sandpoint and is working at the Monarch School teaching math to teens with emotional issues. Len enjoys all the recreational opportunities that are here, both in the summer and the winter.

Michael Welp

Michael Welp, Ph.D., is a founding partner of White Men as Full Diversity Partners®, (www.wmfdp.com), a national culture change consulting firm that builds effective partnerships and inspires courageous leaders.

In 1996, he joined with his colleague Bill Proudman to pioneer ‘white male only’ 3.5-day learning labs after his dissertation research found that white men look exclusively to white women and men and women of color to educate them about diversity. For ten years white men from across all industries, varying in level from CEO to supervisor, have attended these in-depth learning labs. In 2000, his firm expanded with the addition of colleague Jo Ann Morris (and later Tim McNichol) to offer in-depth learning labs for mixed race and gender groups to build partnership skills together. In 2004 the firm began offering women-only learning labs on building partnership skills.

Today the four partners of WMFDP and ten associates offer a full range of consulting services to create organizational cultures of full partnership while simultaneously growing critical leadership skills.

Michael is also a co-author of WMFDP’s Field Guide Series- Diversity Partnership Tips for White Men, Diversity Partnership Tips for White Women and People of Color to Engage White Men, and Eight Critical Leadership Skills Developed through Effective Diversity Partnerships.

In addition to working with a broad range of industries throughout the U.S., he has facilitated interracial teambuilding for a dozen South African corporations. Michael also founded EqualVoice, an organization development consulting firm known for building collaborative work cultures and for its transformative approaches to conflict. (www.equalvoice.com) Michael has led in-depth executive development sessions of three to seven days in length for over 2,000 leaders.

Michael has served as Adjunct Faculty for University of St. Thomas, Capella University, College of St. Catherine, and Prescott College. He previously was a fellow with the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and also a senior staff member with Outward Bound.

Michael resides in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he loves to hike, sail, canoe, and mountain bike. He is on the board of the Bonner Country Human Rights Task Force. Michael can be reached at 208.263.6775 or welp@wmfdp.com.