BIG Emerging Leaders 2.0 (For Alumni of EL 1.0)

Pozzebon is the principal consultant and founder of Prospera Partners, a small but mighty consulting firm that works with localists, small business owners, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofits on thoughtful business planning, systems change, transformational leadership, and more. She is people-centered and passionate about teaching, guiding, and facilitating clients through strategies to do better by doing good – for themselves, their business, and their communities.

At Prospera Partners Vicki designs and facilitates retreats, workshops, and communities of practice that will inspire community leaders and social entrepreneurs for transformational action.  She also works with small business owners and social entrepreneurs to grow programs and business with thoughtful, step-by-step localism strategies for success that include marketing, press, and business planning. Her Master of Arts in Theatre Directing, training in the Art of Hosting and World Café methods of facilitation, and early days as a theatrical director, playwright, and an activist performer (no, really!) help Vicki bring humor, heart, and actionable tasks to anything she designs or leads.

When she’s not consulting or facilitating on all things local (and transforming leaders and businesses to do social good) she’s speaking or blogging about it. Her articles have appeared in publications like The Nonprofit Quarterly, Green Fire Times, Philanthropy Journal and others, and she has given keynotes and presentations across the country on everything from local economies to healthy food systems and more.

Before founding Prospera Partners Vicki served as the executive director of the Santa Fe Independent Business Alliance, where it grew to become one of the largest local economy business networks in the US, with a successful and award-winning Farm to Restaurant Project that impacted the local community for lasting economic change, and as a fellow for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). Other honors include being named Young Careerist, a 40 under Forty Business Executive designation by New Mexico Business Weekly, and serving on Santa Fe’s City Business and Quality of Life Committee, the City of Albuquerque’s Living Cities Leadership Team, and Santa Fe’s Catalyzing Jobs Committee. Vicki is a current Advisory Board Member of Design Corps Santa Fe and the Hispanic-American Institute

Hill is a Principal & Managing Director of the Social Innovation Strategies Group, LLC or SISGroup. He is an expert in asset-based community, youth and organizational development. After more than 20 years of working in the educational, non-profit and community development sectors, Hill currently provides executive consultative services to leaders, organizational design and development services to institutions, and project management services to NGO’s, foundations and government. As a resident of the rural South Valley of Albuquerque for 23 years, Hill has worked to support the development of community, program, policy, organization and educational initiatives statewide. Over his career, Hill has been a teacher, case manager and program manager, Vice President of the largest social service non-profit in New Mexico and Executive Director of a statewide community-based networked intermediary organization. He has worked in the nonprofit, government and private sectors developing and managing programs, grass-roots community-based public policy, and provided strategic planning and technical assistance support to individuals and organizations throughout the social sectors.

Mr. Hill is a native of Madison, Virginia, who moved to New Mexico from California in 1994. He is a graduate of Occidental College (Los Angeles) where he double-majored, earning bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and History, while also studying Sports Medicine and Religious Studies. In 2001, Hill earned a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Phoenix, where the concentration of his work was in Marriage, Family & Child Therapy. Hill is a Senior Associate with Everyday Democracy- a national deliberative dialogue organization dedicated to social change and racial equity. Hill is also a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a member of the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP).