Doug Paxton is a learner, educator, writer and artist who is passionate about how we learn from our own experience and connect to the people and places around us. He has a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning. Doug helped to found and create Presidio World College’s MBA in Sustainable Management and currently teaches in the St. Mary’s Master’s of Arts in Leadership Program.

He has worked in the public, nonprofit and private sectors, starting as an operations research manager for a New York stock brokerage firm before attending Yale University's School of Management for an MBA. Since that time, Doug has worked in the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Business and Economic Development and as the executive director of Indochinese Housing Development Corporation. He was also Director of People and Organizational Development at Business for Social Responsibility.