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Meet Jeb Sloan in this edition of #IBIE2022 POV! As part of the product development team for Clif Bar & Co., Sloan is venturing to Baking Expo to…
Meet Jeb Sloan in this edition of #IBIE2022 POV! As part of the product development team for Clif Bar & Co., Sloan is venturing to Baking Expo to…
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Many people are promoted or recruited into leadership positions without understanding the fundamental philosophy of leadership; It’s all about…
Many people are promoted or recruited into leadership positions without understanding the fundamental philosophy of leadership; It’s all about…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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EIT Professional Engineering Certificate
State of Missouri
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Resident - Certified Baker Program
Kansas State University - American Institute of Baking
Issued
Volunteer Experience
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Trail maintenance
Slide Ranch
- Present 10 years 2 months
Environment
Slide Ranch connects children to nature. They cultivate healthy bodies and minds, and foster future generations of environmental stewards through hands-on programs at their coastal farm and nature preserve in California (along the breathtaking coast of Marin County...check it out!)
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DASH Camp coordinator
Diabetes Sports Project
- Present 10 years 1 month
Children
DASH runs diabetes education activities throughout the year to ensure consistent and robust growth of positive diabetes identities. Each activity includes some type of sports and physical component that is connected to the culturally competent DASH curriculum.
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Landscape maintenance, irrigation repair, invasive species removal
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
- Present 8 years 6 months
Environment
The extraordinary gardens of Alcatraz reflect a rich history of horticulture and gardening ideas spanning many different eras, including floriferous Victorian cottage gardens, terraced cutting beds, and environmentally sensitive attempts at erosion control. Since 2003, garden volunteer crews have been working each week to re-establish the historic gardens.
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Bird house construction
John Muir Land Trust
- Present 8 years 3 months
Animal Welfare
A permanently preserved habitat for a wide variety of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
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Building renovations
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
- Present 14 years 7 months
Children
The clubs enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. Go get involved in your local club. It helps these kids, and it will mean something special in your life too!
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Sorted food for those in need
San Diego Food Bank
- Present 10 years 6 months
Poverty Alleviation
The San Diego Food Bank distributes food directly to families and individuals in need at 183 distribution sites throughout the county every month, often in parking lots.
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Sorted food for those in need
Alameda County Community Food Bank
- Present 9 years 10 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Open six days a week, the Alameda Food Bank’s 150+ volunteers serve over 5,600 individual recipients from the Food Bank’s 2,200-square-foot main distribution center (land donated by the City of Alameda) and its 10,000-square-foot warehouse.
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Meal Preparation
Twin Falls Senior Center
- Present 9 years 5 months
Social Services
The Twin Falls Senior Center provides daily social and nutritional opportunities & activities for older individuals in our community
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Baked & sold pies
African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF)
- Present 9 years 9 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
APEDF strives to develop and institutionalize programs to defend the human and civil rights of the African community and to address the grave disparities in education, health, health care and economic development of the African community.
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Packed Meals
Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now)
- Present 7 years 4 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
The meals were received by Children of Vietnam (COV), an organization dedicated to building bright futures for vulnerable children through life changing initiatives. COV envisions a future where Vietnam’s children have within their reach the life necessities to achieve their full potential. The organization works toward this future by education, healing, sheltering and nurturing. COV’s nutrition initiatives serves regular meals to more than 8,000 children through schools, orphanages, pagodas…
The meals were received by Children of Vietnam (COV), an organization dedicated to building bright futures for vulnerable children through life changing initiatives. COV envisions a future where Vietnam’s children have within their reach the life necessities to achieve their full potential. The organization works toward this future by education, healing, sheltering and nurturing. COV’s nutrition initiatives serves regular meals to more than 8,000 children through schools, orphanages, pagodas, or community programs aimed at street children. In 2016, Children of Vietnam supported 16,406 beneficiaries with more than 1,140,480 RAH meals.
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Playhouse Builder
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
- Present 7 years 2 months
Children
Helped to build (36) playhouses for children in need.
Publications
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Nature Inside: A biophilic design guide
The Royal Institute of British Architects
This is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice, across a range of international case studies – at different scales, and different typologies.
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The Wall Street Journal: Green Buildings
Wall Street Journal
'Biophilic' designs incorporate elements of nature both outside and inside. It's aesthetically pleasing - and makes people feel, and perform, better.
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The New York Times: An Idaho Town Bucks the Perception of Rural Struggle
The New York Times
New manufacturing jobs and population growth have bolstered southern Idaho, bucking the pattern, and the perception, of rural struggle. But the surge only underscores the deeply uneven world of what economists call non-metro America, where the recession never ended in some places and is barely remembered in others.
Patents
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The Method And Apparatus For Making Sliced Bread Loaves Crustless
Issued US 7,223,429
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for making bread, and in particular to methods and apparatus for making loaves of crustless, sliced bread.
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Method of and system for determining a position of ball relative to a playing field
Issued US 515089
A ball is provided with a radar signal reflecting element, so that during a game a radar sends a signal to the ball and receives a reflected signal which is compared by a computer with a stores position of a playing field to determine a position of the ball relative to the playing field.
Honors & Awards
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2020's "Best Of" List of Environmental & Energy Professionals - The E+E 100
Environment and Energy Leader (Business Sector Media)
Humbled to be acknowledged by the industry as a sustainability leader, innovator, shaker-upper & doer. The award recognizes those environment and energy “doers” who break trail in creating new solutions, programs, platforms, best practices and products to help their companies – or other companies – achieve greater success in commercial and industrial environment and energy management.
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Baking & Snack Magazine's "Rising Star" Award
Sosland Publishing
Thrilled to have been honored by the industry with the "Rising Star" award, given to an individual on the fast track of leadership with a drive to make a difference in the baking industry. Recipients are leaders, innovators, and inspirations to both their company and their industry.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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German
Elementary proficiency
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
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