About Me

Wendy Geise’s professional experience comes from the recruiting and professional service industries. In the early days she worked for a company that focused on building relationships and connecting people in their personal lives. Transitioning these skills to the staffing industry, she connected people with managers hiring for jobs in the biotechnology and computer technology industries. Over the past 10 years she has developed national best practices and training programs, lead operational and technical projects, and managed the online product channels for multiple consulting divisions of a multinational staffing and professional services company.

Working with cross-cultural teams to align on global strategies, she understands the importance of soliciting input and feedback from all, building consensus and allowing flexibility for localized implementation of common objectives. She uses a combination of research, analysis, and personal intuition to solve problems and achieve objectives.

Wendy believes strongly in need to think holistically about the factors impacting the Earth’s overall health and well being. This requires having a broad understanding of all the interconnected factors related to our environment and ecosystem. She consumes organic products, has been vegetarian/vegan for over 10 years and attempts to buy local or fair trade products whenever possible. She is a diligent online activist and believes strongly in the responsibility to speak up and voice individual opinions, personal experiences and concerns to local and national policy decision makers.

In 2006, Wendy completed a Masters in Environmental Peace and Security the United Nations Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. This education provided Wendy with a strong scientific, political and social understanding of how local and global conflict can occur around environmental issues. She was motivated to continue her studies with the completion in 2010 of a second Masters degree in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness, focusing on Integral Ecology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. This program allowed Wendy to explore how a change in human consciousness is needed to solve many of the world’s global environmental challenges. Wendy looks forward to maximizing the knowledge gained from these two highly unique programs in the years ahead.

Currently, Wendy has 2 blog sites:

The Naturally Connected site includes ideas, experiences and information to ignite a greater connection with nature by taking steps to live more sustainably for the greater good of our planet earth. It combines Wendy's ecological interests with her professional experience connecting people around the world.

The idea for the My Pura Vida site came from the web applications team that Wendy has worked closely with over the past few years. It was their gift to encourage sharing the experience of taking a leave of absence from work to go live in Costa Rica for a year while working on Wendy’s first masters. This site has evolved to include information the expansion of human consciousness and the responsibility of global citizenship. It encourages readers to explore how we are all One.