About Us

The Leadership School is collaborating

with a wide range of teachers, educators and activists who are creating and documenting a new field of study: Sustainable Living....Green Living.....Permaculture Activism......Becoming World Changers.

Among the businesses and organizations The Leadership School works with for teaching a wide range of life affirming skills are:

Gaia University and its international range of campuses and student/teachers.
Ecovillage Training Center and its yearly workshops and training opportunities.
Solari Inc. our local teachers and fiscal activists, concentrating on money and finance, the next green frontier.
The Farm Community and its 38 years of dedication to the principles of collective community agreement, peaceful coexistence and respect for the land.
The Center for Holistic Ecology is involved in the Gaia University GaiaSEUS regional administration and course development and is a design partner in the Financial Permaculture project.

The larger southern middle Tennessee community.
From Nashville to the north, with its active Peace and Justice Center, Civil Rights Pioneers, and new state wide environmental movement, to the local neighbors, the many woodland permaculturists and small town residents, we share a common destiny. We see the world has changed drastically and we must respond by recreating our economy from a debt based system to a sustainable equity based system.

The Leadership School founder and course coordinator is Thomas Hupp. Educated in business at The University of Colorado, Mr Hupp has experience in organic farming, renewable energy, marketing and running a satellite communication export company.
A founding member of The Farm Community in 1971, he is a long time supporter of nonviolence and community living and has years of training in Personal Growth skills. He has apprenticed under the Emotional Body expert, Art Sellers of Creative Insight Arts in Melbourne Florida and taken the Curriculum for Living from Landmark Education.

Known for his compassion and positive energy, he has turned his focus toward teaching entrepreneurial skills and the study of money and how the economy really works. A founding member of the Financial Permaculture Institute, his passion is studying and passing on the knowledge of the great thinkers of the time.