RIHEL Executive Director
Arron Mansika is the Executive Director of RIHEL, overseeing the organization’s leadership trainings for professionals in the health, environment, public and private sectors throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
Previously, Arron led Naturally Boulder, a trade group of 1,000+ companies representing 69,000 employees pursuing a mission to nurture conscious growth, leadership and innovation in the Colorado natural products industry. He co-created the organization and developed the business community for 15 years. Leveraging that success, Arron co-created Naturally Network, a nationwide nonprofit of interdependent Naturally affiliates with a mission to harness, accelerate and elevate the impact of conscious business practices in the natural products ecosystem.
Arron founded and operated Boulder’s Best Organics, Inc., a pioneering internet-based gift-box company in 2006. The business was named “Colorado Success Story” by the Colorado Small Business Development Center and recognized as “Boulder Valley’s Second-Fastest Growing Company with Sales Under $2M” by BizWest Media. He was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and led the company through a successful acquisition.
Arron served as Managing Director of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, an activist-oriented organization rooted in the spirit of unconditional nonviolence and dedicated to radically progressive personal and social change. Arron is the founder of Mindful Your Business, a professional development company emphasizing awareness as the fundamental business tool.
Arron aligns his personal values with his professional endeavors. He is passionate about delivering honed leadership skills to people advancing sound and progressive environmental and human health strategies. He lives in Boulder, CO, with his entrepreneurial wife and energetic son.
