About Us:

James E. Spencer, Jr. is the Founder, President, and CEO of AGILE | ECOSYSTEMS, LLC., and is an entrepreneurial ecosystems strategist, designer, builder, and consultant. James is leveraging thirty+ years of accomplished Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics (STEAM) achievements to show urban stakeholders how to holistically integrate Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship to reimagine, revitalize, and sustain vital urban communities as vibrant ecosystems.

James is applying his invention of the AGILE Ecosystems Methodology to help innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs harness the power of biological ecosystems to solve complex problems holistically. By adopting AGILE Ecosystems Methodology, organizations can systematically model, create, repair, and transform human-centered ecosystems to achieve business objectives and drive personal, organizational, community, and global change for the greater good.  James' systematic approach leverages three decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur funded by personal and venture capital, incubator site and program manager, technologist, patented inventor, mentor, coach, certified business consultant, strategic planner, intellectual property professional, organizational change agent, non-profit leader, real estate investor, published author, and higher education leader and executive. James received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with minors in Computer Engineering and Robotics from Brown University.

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Deborah Nazon, Ph.D., is an Urban Equity Strategist and the Founder & President of EcoDiverCities, LLC, a heart-centered, research-centric consulting business committed to being a co-creator of sustainable and intergenerational wealth in urban communities. Using a systems approach, we focus on the New Urban Innovation Economy by employing the AGILE | ECOSYSTEMS Methodology. 

Our core equity agenda is to foster intentional and inclusive partnerships and collaborations to promote and cultivate sustainable urban communities, unearth the inequities of urban land use and homeownership and create a pipeline of urban STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs. As an Urban Equity Strategist, Dr. Nazon weaves her training in biology, geology and ecological economics to address complex social, economic and environmental issues. With over twenty years of combined executive level experience in academia and government, Dr. Nazon has extensive knowledge of non-traditional economic models, inter-group relations, cross-cultural and multi-stakeholder engagement.  Dr. Nazon received her Ph.D. in Ecological Economics and MS in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BS in Biology Education from Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.