About the Foundation

Our Mission is to help you see, understand, and influence the world around you to generate positive change.
Our Goal is to create and foster equitable social, health, and economic patterns of opportunity and participation for every individual and community.

The Simple Rules Foundation is a private 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 2011.  We are committed to creating a sustainable, productive world and believe one way to achieve such a world is to engage people in generating sustainable, productive patterns in their lives. We also believe in the power of One Simple Thing: that small actions can make a huge difference. We see the public goods as a way of ensuring these patterns around the globe.  Toward that end, we use our non-profit status to generate resources to support local and global efforts in a number of ways.  These may include:

• Offering coaching, training, planning, workshops, presentations and generative board, and staff development programs and support.
• Promotion of organizations and programs that are sustainable and productive, and align with our own goals and objectives.
• Facilitating outreach locally and globally through conferences, seminars and other public venues to talk about simple rules and their potential to create change.
• Research and dissemination of complex, systems-based theory and practice to level the playing field, promote equity and opportunity, and build capacity around initiating simple rules and their potential to create change.

Our Board

Mallary

Mallary Tytel

PhD, MBA, Volunteer Chair and CEO

In 2012, Dr Tytel and Royce Holladay, Director of services at the Human Systems Dynamics Institute co-founded the Simple Rules Foundation. The Foundation emerged from their collaboration in writing the acclaimed book, Simple Rules: A Radical Inquiry into Self. Since its founding, Dr Tytel has served as volunteer chair and CEO of the Foundation, providing ongoing support and management.
As a 501(c)(3) the Foundation is dedicated to supporting individuals and communities to generate sustainable, productive patterns around them. This is achieved through methods and models grounded in the theory and practice of Human Systems Dynamics and Complexity Science. Mallary is also president and founder of Healthy Workplaces, a national consulting practice since 2003, that centers on coaching, inclusion, corporate culture, social equity, and gender parity. She is the former CEO of an international training corporation; has served as a key advisor to senior-level personnel within the U.S. Department of Defense; and created and delivered innovative leadership training programs worldwide.
She is also a graduate faculty member at Grand Canyon University School of Nursing and Health Care Professionals. Mallary has a Ph.D. in Public Health Promotion and Organizational Systems from the Union Institute and University, an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and is a certified executive coach and mediator. Mallary is the author of seven acclaimed books and in her spare time Mallary mentors women veterans; and coaches first time authors.

Jessica

Jessica Tytel

MPH, Board Secretary

Jessica Tytel has over fifteen years of experience in federal health policy development and implementation, including work in women’s health, emergency preparedness and response, health care delivery, food and drug safety, and HIV/AIDS.  Since 2021, Jessica has been the Deputy Director of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Office of Women’s Health, where she provides
leadership oversight to programs while managing the office’s day-to-day administrative operations. Prior to joining HRSA, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Jessica held leadership roles in the HHS Office on Women’s Health and HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.  Jessica has a BA from Pomona College and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Alana

Alana Roberts

Board Member-At-Large

Having a compassionate and caring heart, Alana has been drawn to vulnerable groups within her community since she was a child. Working with groups of child immigrants in her late teens, operating an in-home childcare center for 20 years and now volunteering and advocating for children and families going through the foster care program and the court system, Alana has found her passion and her place of service.
In 2013 Alana created a project titled “Packs for Prosperity.” This project provides necessary and essential supplies and aids to those in needs, collecting and distributing a variety of personal hygiene items to the homeless population in her community.  Packs for Prosperity is available to support other nonprofit groups with their community outreach programs as well and many times working together to feed hundreds of individuals and families while supplying them with essential items for the season and classroom.
 Alana enjoys inspiring others to become all they are capable of becoming, looking for the light within, the good in others and a way to help make the world a better place.  Her “simple rule” is to find someone who needs her today.  How can I be of service?leadership oversight to programs while managing the office’s day-to-day administrative operations. Prior to joining HRSA, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Jessica held leadership roles in the HHS Office on Women’s Health and HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.  Jessica has a BA from Pomona College and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

We seek to touch one million people with the idea of Simple Rules and the
power of #1SimpleThing; and engage them – YOU! - to join us in this work.