Scott McKeown is the initiator and current chairperson of Transition Sebastopol, which is the 8th official Transition initiative in the US. Scott is a trainer, instructional designer, and event producer who has worked over seven years delivering training courses in corporate environments including for Advanced Fibre Communications and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Scott has been a community organizer for over 30 years, a Marketing Director of three high tech companies, and from 2003 to 2007 was the Executive Director of the thirty-thousand person attended Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, California.