GP Dinner #198 | Business Rhizomes w/Michelle Lee

WHAT: GP Dinner #198 | Business Rhizomes w/Michelle Lee

WHERE: Tinker Tendo 1025 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on June 24th, 2026

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 198th dinner on June 24th in San Francisco.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest and a chef prepared feast.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:

Our friend is the founder of , a regenerative consulting firm that helps people to shift paradigms, not just modify their work at the margins. Studio Rhye operates at the intersection of business strategy, human development and the built environment. Michelle is also part of the , board member of Pattern Mind, and an advisor at the , providing coaching, connections and capital to Bay Area entrepreneurs to grow community wealth.

For about five years Michelle worked in architecture and design and prior to that about five years in technology startups doing product and design. When she set out to work in regeneration, she realized she was using the language but her work wasn’t genuinely regenerative. She wanted to live in fuller integrity and actually have the effect she intended.

She credits the and Carol Sanford for creating a conscious shock and grounding her work in rigor. The aim of aligning intention with regenerative systemic effects requires her to return over and over again to examine her patterns and quality of thinking and being, and revise these so that the value she enables leads to genuinely regenerating organizations, communities, and bioregions in the world.  This is still an ongoing, imperfect, developmental process. 

Tonight we'll lean into this pursuit of regeneration.  

How might each of us contribute at deeper root cause levels to a world that is genuinely thriving? 

How can we bring our livelihoods into alignment with this kind of intention?

What patterns must be disrupted and cultivated in ourselves and when and how do we know if we’re being and working from a new paradigm or just using new language?

OUR CHEF:

A Bay Area native, chef Eric Minnich has a simple ethos, combine a straight forward approach to food with a deep appreciation for the best seasonal produce.

With a degree in culinary arts and nutrition from Johnson & Wales University, Eric further honed his craft working alongside acclaimed chefs like Traci des Jardins and Michael Mina, and at prestigious establishments such as the Michelin starred Madera at The Rosewood Sandhill and RN74. He also played a key role in launching nationally recognized restaurants, including The Commissary in San Francisco.
Beyond the kitchen, Eric partners with local food companies to refine their products and connect better with customers. His collaborations include Air Protein, Melli, Mission Barns, Teaspoon and Hyphy Burger, amongst others. Ingredient integrity and quality, creativity, flavor and innovation are his guiding principles, whether he’s crafting dining experiences or consulting for food ventures.

OUR MENU:

To be announced soon.

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Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

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