Nina Simons

Nina Simons, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur who translates her life experience into tools for serving the emerging leadership of others. Nina maintains a strong focus on writing and teaching about women’s leadership and restoring the ‘feminine’ in us all, and on leveraging Bioneers’ inspiring solutions and stories to make the biggest possible difference in the world. She has co-produced the annual Bioneers conference since 1990. Through the Bioneers Women’s Leadership Program, Nina offers 5-day Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings several times a year, with co-facilitator Toby Herzlich, intended to strengthen the inner resources and tools required to help women of all ages and backgrounds step more fully into progressive change-making. In 2002, Nina produced a retreat for diverse women leaders called UnReasonable Women for the Earth, organized to brainstorm about envisioning a broad, progressive women’s movement with environment at its heart. The gathering served as an incubator, resulting in the formation of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nina was previously president of Seeds of Change, the biodiversity organic seed company, and a marketing executive with the fresh juice company Odwalla. Nina co-edited (with Anneke Campbell), and wrote the introduction for, the newest Bioneers anthology book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press, Fall 2010).