Leadership Team
As the Wheel continues to grow and expand, so does the School!
Here are the folks who currently keep everything up and running:
Robyn Dalzen
CEO and Co-Founder
Salt Lake City, UT ~ Robyn is CEO and co-founder of the School of Consent — founded in 2018 alongside Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent®. She has since stepped into full stewardship of the School and its framework, leading its next chapter. She brings an embodied, somatic lens from her coaching practice, and a background in leadership development, environmental conservation and business strategy.
Alongside her work at the School, Robyn is a somatic intimacy coach. She guides people to feel at home in their bodies, create boundaries in all aspects of their lives, and deepen their joy. She holds a steady, embodied presence that invites others to slow down, feel met, and show up fully as themselves — and brings a spirit of playfulness to the work, believing joy and lightness are just as essential to growth as depth and vulnerability.
Robyn is trained as a Transformational Leadership Coach, Embodied Sex Coach, Sexological Bodyworker, Wheel of Consent Facilitator, and Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercise (TRE®) provider.
Marcia Baczynski
Training DirectorÂ
Oakland, CA ~Â Marcia Baczynski is Director of Training at the School of Consent, where she focuses on developing practical, embodied approaches to consent, desire, communication, and self-trust.
Marcia has been teaching since 2003 and has worked with thousands of people through workshops, professional trainings, coaching, and long-term educational programs. She is co-author of Creating Consent Culture: A Handbook for Educators, faculty at Shakti Shiva Academy and Esalen Institute, and co-creator of Cuddle Party.
Beyond the School of Consent, Marcia works with individuals and groups on desire, boundaries, relationships, and self-trust. Her work draws on the Wheel of Consent, feminist analysis, kink and power dynamics, queer and nonmonogamous relationship culture, and more than 20 years of experience navigating the messy, nuanced realities of relationships and touch.
Her superpower is making complex material practical, embodied, and fun. Her teaching is rigorous without being rigid, experiential without being precious, and frequently funny.
Marcia believes consent is not simply a set of skills for avoiding harm. It is a practice of self-trust, mutuality, pleasure, and greater freedom—and one of the most useful ways we have to create more honest and satisfying relationships.
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Karryn Olson
Systems and Membership DirectorÂ
Nomad ~ I get excited about the structures and systems that nurture deeply transformative work. I originally started working with the School of Consent (SoC) to support the ownership transition - focusing on sound operations and finances. Now my focus is the systems the new organization runs on, and the Mighty Network that will be the virtual home for the growing Wheel community. I work part-time.
In my other hours, I am a solopreneur coaching "entrepreneurs who are rightfully allergic to usual." Discovering the Wheel and participating in Like A Pro in 2022 illuminated in new ways the many dynamics in biz that can feel gross - and embodied ways to shift them. I started consulting with the SoC a few years later when I began nomading, because I wanted to be part of a team doing good work in the world, and business development is my jam, so it was the perfect fit.
If things are running smoothly, you probably won't connect with me; unless you are an Alumni in our online Network.
Carmen Leilani de Jesus
Communications DirectorÂ
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Communications | Marketing | Strategic Development
Sebastopol, CA ~ Carmen (she/her) contributes to the stewardship of the School's strategic development, marketing and communications, in addition to her teaching role as Faculty for the School of Consent. She brings 20+ years of experience in corporate advertising, marketing, public relations, brand strategy and operations.Â
As a consent educator, organizational development consultant and executive leadership coach - Carmen brings the language and architecture of consent to leaders and their organizations, communities and ecosystems. In her work, she coaches and partners with leaders to examine the impact of privilege, power imbalances, diverse lived experiences, and intersectional identities and their impact on capacity, communication, clear agreements, accountability and consent.Â
She is also a playwright, screenwriter and member of the Landwell Housing Co-op in Sebastopol, CA, where they co-steward land and participate in Sociocracy for collective governance. She is guest faculty/facilitator for the Surrogate Partner Collective, the North Bay Organizing Project, the Innovative Living and Learning Institute, LEAP (Life Embodied Art Practice), Seven Directions® Breathwork and the Navella Bioregional Project.Â
www.consentisapractice.comÂ
Instagram: @consentisapractice
Mara Heppen
Operations ManagerÂ
Denver, CO ~ Mara ensures the School has efficient daily operations managing a multitude of tasks to keep our courses running, answering questions, and providing support wherever it is needed. She holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has previously worked as a User Research and Strategy consultant, in various administrative roles, a certified Cuddle Party facilitator and currently as a professional organizer. Her core philosophy is that if you do little things well, you’ll do big ones better. Mara offers energetically attuned, empathetic, judgment-free professional organizing, coaching, and executive functioning support. She specializes in supporting people to move through transitions, change, growth, and feeling stuck. The common theme throughout her professional life is helping people and organizations find strategies and systems to make their lives easier and achieve their goals.
Jax Wren
FacCert Community Manager
Baltimore, MD ~ Jax (Jackie) Wren is a Consent, Intimacy, and Sexual Health Educator, Coach, and Community Wellness Advocate rooted in the belief that emodied choice and communication are life skills and valuable forms of self and relational care. A Black queer veteran and longtime sexual assault prevention educator and advocate, Jax teaches inclusive community based sexual health education by day, in addition to independent 1:1 coaching, workshop facilitation and event hosting. As the FacCert Community Manager, she supports the certified-faciliator community for the Wheel of Consent.Â
Jax brings honest, inclusive, trauma-informed, destigmatizing, and empowered education to individuals, campuses, organizations and communities across the country. Her work invites students of all ages to explore consent, boundaries, and relationships through a lens of autonomy and emobodied practice - especially for those left out of traditional sexuality conversations: Black, Brown, Queer, disabled, and gender-expansive folks.
Betty Martin
SOC Ambassador and Co-Founder
Seattle WA ~ Dr. Betty Martin is developer of the Wheel of Consent. She has her hands on people professionally for over 30 years and conceived of the Wheel through these touch interactions. She is a former Chiropractor, and is currently a sex and touch coach in Seattle. She’s also a certified Cuddle Party facilitator and trainer. Through her professional course, Like a Pro, she mentors and coaches other hands-on professionals in assessment tools, boundary and communication skills and how to make their sessions safe, effective and satisfying. www.bettymartin.org.Â
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