Denise is a leading-edge thinker, educator, and practitioner in biomimicry, biomimetics, and sustainable innovation. She combines her grounding in engineering with her passionate vision to bring pragmatism to progressives and rational thinking to radicals. She is equally passionate about bringing radical innovation, co-creativity, and leadership inspired by nature to conventional organizations, catalyzing their journey of radical transformation.

Denise is currently running Wild Hazel where she offers programs and other resources for you to re-align with Nature at a personal level.  [You can use the coupon code RWN-50 to get any course for 50% off!]

Before writing Re-Aliging with Nature, Denise was Director and co-founder of BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, a vibrant network of unique innovators, professional change agents, and design professionals with a shared passion for radically transforming businesses and organizations to be in harmony with nature. This network is where all the inspiration for the book came from — thank you all!

She was also Director of the MCAD's fully online Master of Arts in Sustainable Design program, where she developed two online courses, Creative Leadership and Biomimetic Design.  Denise currently teaches in the MASD program as well as MCAD's MA in Creative Leadership program.

Previously, Denise was Education Director at the International Living Future Institute, has run her own sustainable resource consulting business Emergent Solutions, was Outreach Director for The Biomimicry Institute, and was Project Lead for Swedish Biomimetics 3000.

Denise finds tremendous joy in working with individuals and organizations to re-discover their natural paradigms and to begin the process of realigning themselves and others with Nature and their own human nature, thus releasing their full natural potential. Inspired by Nature, she embraces paradoxes such as creativity & productivity, radical & rational, profound & practical to help create and share emergent abundance. 
And she has a particular fondness for pinecones.

Denise is currently living in Corvallis, Oregon (USA).