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GREAT DESIGN IS A CONVERGENCE OF WHAT WORKS WITH WHAT MATTERS - NAN SUMMERS
Nan Summers weaves threads of beauty, grace and harmony throughout her personal and professional expressions. Raised in a family who founded its “all things music” company in 1870, she grew up also pursuing artistic and athletic/dance activities combining those qualities. Following an interdisciplinary major in Creativity as a Holt House Fellow at Rollins College, she completed a custom MBA integrating leadership with systems design. That unique self-designed blend turned into 23 years with the Walt Disney Company in leadership roles including: professional development for Walt Disney World’s Imagineering design team, Arvida/Disney’s 55 master planned communities,
Co-founding Disney’s seminar business, and Magic Kingdom Theme Park’s executive operating team.
Through community service volunteering at Central Florida’s Give Kids the World Village, she learned that Make-a-Wish families with children facing life threatening illnesses often experienced a measurable boost in health for all family members, just by spending time in the uplifting environments of the Village and area theme parks. While some children increased their life span, the quality of sharing those special memories together as a family brought grace and resilience to their challenging circumstances.
Nan joined the Rippe Lifestyle Institute as director of performance and vitality to coach executives on achieving their highest levels of personal health, and positive influence leading the cultures within their organizations. This work has extended to roles in county governments, economic development, hospitality, botanical gardens and historical parks, and successful communities at all scales. She has taught design, sustainability and high performance at five institutions of higher learning. Her framework is inspired by nature’s exquisite interconnectedness for all life to thrive.
Nan’s mission is to help people of all ages and types of organizations create healthy personal and community lives where conscious design converges “what works with what matters.”
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By Society Bytes RadioNan Summers weaves threads of beauty, grace and harmony throughout her personal and professional expressions. Raised in a family who founded its “all things music” company in 1870, she grew up also pursuing artistic and athletic/dance activities combining those qualities. Following an interdisciplinary major in Creativity as a Holt House Fellow at Rollins College, she completed a custom MBA integrating leadership with systems design. That unique self-designed blend turned into 23 years with the Walt Disney Company in leadership roles including: professional development for Walt Disney World’s Imagineering design team, Arvida/Disney’s 55 master planned communities,
Co-founding Disney’s seminar business, and Magic Kingdom Theme Park’s executive operating team.
Through community service volunteering at Central Florida’s Give Kids the World Village, she learned that Make-a-Wish families with children facing life threatening illnesses often experienced a measurable boost in health for all family members, just by spending time in the uplifting environments of the Village and area theme parks. While some children increased their life span, the quality of sharing those special memories together as a family brought grace and resilience to their challenging circumstances.
Nan joined the Rippe Lifestyle Institute as director of performance and vitality to coach executives on achieving their highest levels of personal health, and positive influence leading the cultures within their organizations. This work has extended to roles in county governments, economic development, hospitality, botanical gardens and historical parks, and successful communities at all scales. She has taught design, sustainability and high performance at five institutions of higher learning. Her framework is inspired by nature’s exquisite interconnectedness for all life to thrive.
Nan’s mission is to help people of all ages and types of organizations create healthy personal and community lives where conscious design converges “what works with what matters.”