John Gieryn
Associate Partner
Tākaka, Tasman, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Gieryn is an Associate Partner who helps lean professional services teams reclaim capacity by designing sustainable, capability-building operational systems that avoid creating dependency. With over a decade of experience across purpose-driven networks, cooperatives, and NGOs, he translates complex governance and collaboration challenges into practical processes that teams can run and evolve themselves. He’s led participatory transformations for organizations from Enspiral and Loomio to regional community agencies, mobilizing volunteers and staff through consent-based, non-hierarchical systems. Known for embedding feedback loops and peer coaching into revenue and program operations, he balances strategic design with hands-on teaching so clients leave empowered rather than reliant. Based in Tākaka, NZ, he pairs a Mechanical Engineering background and music-technology sensibility with a long-running commitment to community resilience—often prototyping solutions inspired by improvisation, cycling routes, or books.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering | Music Technology Minor | Focus = Comms and Workflows | Masarachia Scholar, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering | Music Technology Minor | Focus = Comms and Workflows | Masarachia Scholar at Purdue University
English, Spanish, french (beginner)
Github Skills (13)
decision-making10
java7
signal7
vocabulary7
kotlin7
android6
semantics6
messenger6
linked-data5
javascript5
dbpedia4
sustainability2
hackmd1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
enspiral/handbook
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
http://handbook.enspiral.com
Contributions:135 commits, 50 PRs, 116 pushes in 6 years 1 month
handbook
coopchange/handbook-1
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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