| The Young Leaders Program provides comprehensive support to Greenhouse Scholar Alumni in the early stages of their careers and post-college life. Advisor in-Residence Sessions provide innovative, comprehensive, and personalized support resources to grow Alumni in the Young Leaders Program, maximize individual potential, and foster community change. Advisors participate in three teams and work with alumni over four virtual sessions: |
- Leaders “in Residence”: Helping Alumni become exceptional leaders of people, profits, and purpose. (January 2025)
- Professionals “in Residence”: Preparing Alumni to take on the finance, operations, marketing/customer experience, and culture challenges and opportunities that present themselves regardless of vocation. (February 2025)
- Whole People “in Residence”: Providing the knowledge and tools to help Alumni live their best lives. (March 2025)
- All-Advisor Session: Workshops with all Advisors from all three teams. (April 2025)
See below for bios of our current Advisors in Residence and session themes.
2025 Advisors in Residence
Leadership Team
January Leadership Session: Ongoing Assessment for Leadership Growth
Terrence Cummings
(New Advisor)
Chief Opportunity Officer, Guild
Terrence is the chief opportunity officer at Guild, where he is accountable for driving economic mobility for Guild’s learners, members and employees. He previously served as the company’s senior vice president of member services and strategy, and before that led the company’s employer partnerships teams. Prior to Guild, Cummings led product, marketing, partnerships, engineering and analytics teams across a range of startup companies and was previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado.
M. Ryan Gorman
(New Advisor)
Co-Founder, btcRE: be the change Real Estate
Ryan is driven by service, guided by integrity, and passionate about the intersection of people and place. He believes in the beautiful efficiency and impenetrable logic of classic bicycles, well-conceived roundabouts, and housing-first public policy. It brings him joy to help people create the communities they deserve, from physical neighborhoods to high-performing organizations to digital collaboratives. His career travels include technology investment banking in Silicon Valley, fixed-income investing on Wall Street, and private equity due diligence across the country.
Gregg Vanourek
(Returning Advisor)
Founder, Gregg Vanourek LLC
Gregg is co-author of three influential books, including LIFE Entrepreneurs (a manifesto for integrating our life and work with purpose and passion) and Triple Crown Leadership (a winner of the International Book Awards). He runs a personal development and leadership company and teaches at the Stockholm Business School. He’s also a former senior executive at a tech startup, now a market leader with $1 billion in sales. He served as board chair for a global social entrepreneurship accelerator based in Stockholm. Gregg has given a TEDx talk and talks or workshops in eight countries.
David Zimmerman
(Returning Advisor)
Founder, AMAXXA
From Financial Advisor to CEO to entrepreneur, David is a forward-acting business pioneer who always wants to know what’s around the next corner. David built his business by doing financial planning for his clients and using advisory services for investment solutions. On Wall Street magazine recognized him as one of the financial services industry’s top managers twice during his career and Registered Rep magazine wrote an article about his work to pioneer practice management and team development.
Professional Team
February Professional Session: How Attitude Impacts Individual and Organizational Success
Dr. Shawana Moore
(New Advisor)
Associate Professor and MSN and DNP Programs Director, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Shawana is a health equity policy leader in women’s/gender-related populations, her advocacy work has shaped women’s health curriculum, national continuing education to recognize health inequities for women/of color, and those who identify as female. She is the first African American President of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) and the inaugural co-chair of the organization’s first Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity (IDE) committee.
Rachel Myung
(Returning Advisor)
Of Counsel, DLA Piper LLP
Rachel advises clients on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and general corporate counseling and compliance. Rachel’s clients also include private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and other private companies across an array of industries, including technology, manufacturing, healthcare, aviation, food and beverage, and professional services and marketing.
Tom Thompson
(Returning Advisor)
VP Creative/Advertising, St. Martin’s Press
Tom leads the Creative Studio group that comprises an in-house advertising agency–from media planning to creative to ad ops –social media and promotion specialists, as well as a traditional creative services team. In addition to his work at SMPG, Tom is a poet, with three books and many poems, reviews and essays published in literary journals and websites. He lives in New York City.
Whole Person Team
March Whole Person Session: Adaptive Goal Setting for Personal Growth
Pete Burridge
(Returning Advisor)
Founder & CEO, Greenhouse Scholars, Greenhouse Partners, The 18.com
Pete previously served as a Senior Vice President and an officer at The Integer Group. Integer is a global powerhouse in promotional, retail, and shopper marketing. He was also a director of Wunderman Cato Johnson, a division of Young and Rubicam, and has an investment background, having spent four years as a Treasury Bond Trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. An entrepreneur his entire career, he has been a part of starting seven companies. Pete founded Greenhouse Scholars to create a Whole Person program that makes a broad and lasting impact by helping students become community leaders who create change that will last through the generations. He believes that each of us is accountable for giving back to the community.
Erik Estrada
(Returning Advisor)
Corporate Attorney, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Erik practices corporate and securities law with a focus on corporate governance, public company representation, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive
experience advising clients, including public companies and their boards and executive leadership teams, on federal securities law compliance and corporate governance matters, with a particular emphasis on technology, biotech, and telecommunications companies. Before joining the firm, Erik was a senior director
and senior corporate counsel for Liberty Latin America Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed company, and as a director and senior corporate counsel for Level 3, a Fortune 500 company.
Lynne Hambleton-Magee
(New Advisor)
Minister, Spiritual Healer and Change Consultant
Lynne’s business experience includes consulting services, product marketing, strategic planning, sales operations, customer support and training in companies spanning many industries and sizes. She guided organizational transformations, redirected troubled projects to successful completion, conducted workshops, and coached clients on business process improvement projects. Recent engagements included leader development and coaching, client relationship management, sales force effectiveness, team dynamics, strategic marketing re-alignment, product/services development, commercialization process, talent development, organization/ cultural transformation to project-centric operations, and PMO creation and execution.
Elsa Holguin
(Returning Advisor)
President and CEO, Denver Preschool Program
Elsa is an established and well-respected leader in Colorado with a known history representing philanthropic institutions in areas of early childhood, family economic success, economic development, leadership development, advocacy/public policy, and public/private initiatives. Elsa has proven experience interacting with complex systems including organizational development, fiscal planning, donor cultivation, and program management. Before joining the Denver Preschool Program, Elsa was with the Rose Community Foundation for 22 years. She has a bachelor’s in finance from the Metropolitan State University of Denver and a masters in public administration from the University of Colorado Denver.