Tyler is a social entrepreneur and trusted advisor to philanthropies, health systems, governments, NGO's and collaborative partnerships working to improve the health of people and places. He brings three decades of experience in service to the public, private, non-profit and civic sectors - including work with over 350 communities and organizations in the United States and internationally. Currently, Tyler serves as Senior Advisor on Total Health for Kaiser Permanente, the leading US integrated care delivery system. He is also Chair of IP3; Convener of Advancing the Movement and the Community Commons; a Fellow of the Public Health Institute; Head Coach of the YMCA's award-winning Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative; and a board member of the Food Commons. He has long served as strategic counsel to leading initiatives and organizations focused on improving population health and community vitality. Tyler is co-founder of the High Desert Center for Sustainable Studies in Paonia, Colorado and the Kuhiston Foundation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (Central Asia.) He earned his Master in Divinity degree from Naropa University (2011) and BA in World Political Economy from The Colorado College (1982.) Tyler is active in projects in the Middle East, having once led an international NGO there, the Abraham Path Initiative, under the auspices of Harvard University.