Bentley Lein
Phone: 608-498.0637
BentleyLein@cdsconsulting.coop
222 S. 19th Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
Bentley Lein has been actively engaged in the process and practice of community and organizational development for over 15 years. He has experience working with boards and organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He has a passion for cooperatives, but has also worked on immigration, criminal justice system reform, economic revitalization and primary education. Bentley has training in group process, mediation, community economic development and restorative justice. He was extremely fortunate to spend time in the African country of Ghana seeing how cooperatives are being used to improve the lives of people in that country last year.
“Bentley came onto the board of People’s Food Co-op during a particularly divisive time. His commitment to transparency and process helped to turn our board around. Bentley Lein has spent much of his professional life working as a consultant to boards. As an observer of board process and someone enlisted by many boards to help them in their process he has learned through their successes and their mistakes.”
How Visioning Becomes Real (Cooperative Grocer, May-June 2006)