The Leadership School Teaching Staff

Thomas Hupp founder Leadership School

Educated at The University of Colorado with a B.S. in business,
Mr. Hupp also studied for 5 years with Creative Insight Arts and Landmark Education in Florida. His compelling interest has been in studying the great thinkers of our time.
Thomas Hupp is a founding member of The Farm intentional community formed in 1971. He spent most of 2 decades practicing the art of organic farming and helping build sustainable community. He spent 19 years in Florida involved in international satellite communication.
During that time he studied a number of personal growth disciplines and realized that developing personal character and integrity at the psychic and soul levels was the primary and most important training a person could strive for. He also came to believe that the path of sustainable community that he had chosen 3 and 1/2 decades ago held much promise for our uncertain future.

Mr. Hupp is the facilitator of The Vision Workshops, The Eco Entrepreneur course and the Organic Farming projects.

Frank Michael Advisor

B.S. Physics 1963 Texas Technological College, Lubbock TX
M.A. Physics 1967 University of California at Davis CA

1960's Scientist for Aerospace Industry
31 year member The Farm intentional Community
1978-present Designer and maker of solar space and water-heaters, cookers, sun-trackers, heat exchangers, greenhouses bioburners
1984-present Board of Directors Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology
1995-present Technical Advisor to Plenty International nonprofit NGO
Staff Architect at Farm Ecovillage Training Center -- math teacher
Manager and Technician Mushroom People mail order supply house

Mr. Frank Michaels is preparing a Science and Technology curriculum for 2006 including: solutions to global energy problems, optimal solar design, physics, alternative medicine and the partnership of science and religion. Mr. Michaels will be a facilitator of the Center for Free Inquiry.

Douglas A Cobb Advisor

1968-70 Electronic repairman U.S. Air Force
1970's Co-founder The Farm Machine Works
1980 Co-founded Global Village Institute of Technology
1980 Developed solar golf cart for World's Fair
1989 Founded Solar Car Corporation prototyping and producing electric vehicles including a turn key electric conversion package for the Chevy S-10 truck
1994 Worked with Kia Motors of Korea helping develop an electric conversion kit for the Kia "Pride"
1996 Coordinated a design team for Corbin Pacific and developed a single passenger electric vehicle working model in 3 months.
1999-present Research and Development expert with "Living Laboratory", developing Solar Electric boats, tractors and water pumps.

Mr Cobb's future plans are to create an Appropriate Science and Technology Center for The Leadership School