John Stayton, MBA Featured

John Stayton is the Co-founder and Director of the GreenMBA. John spent 15 years in the field of high technology industrial marketing and sales. As a person with many interests, he also concurrently managed projects ranging from international joint venture consulting to directing a performing arts troupe. John earned an M.B.A. in International Business, Pacific Basin in 1995. In 1997, John and his wife Ana purchased an organic fruit farm in Sonoma County as a step towards developing a more ecological lifestyle. He desired to leverage his business background in developing a new profession that would serve the environment and society, and found the right opportunity when he met Jane Lorand in 2000. John became Co-founder and core faculty later that year. John teaches Strategic Enterprise Planning.

What people are saying about the GreenMBA

"Learning how to "breakdown" a project has been a fabulous tool for me in business.  I am a Facilities/Project Manager by training and have to think "systemically" in my daily work day, however, getting fully engaged in a "project" for class and working on a "team" project takes you deeper into the process.  How to use systemics and critical thinking in determining whether a project is ready "for the street" or whether it needs to be drilled deeper to get the core of what will make it successful.  It's a study in chaos and systems planning.  I find myself thinking about who will be my next "test case" - or victim!!!"

Linda L. Schanfein
Cohort B
GYMBA