HMI Welcomes New Board Members
- 22 hours ago
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HMI is excited to announce two new members to HMI's Board of Directors, Bluesette Campbell and Mat Moten. These new directors will add to the depth of leadership on HMI's Board as we move forward with our new strategic planning in 2027.
Bluesette Campbell (Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Bluesette Campbell and her husband, Mark, run a 4000-acre ranch as a 700-cow/calf and long yearling operation along with Mark’s brother, Scott. They are third- generation Campbells with the intergenerational transition to the fourth just around the corner. Mark and Bluesette have 2 boys, Andrew and Birch.
Their family ranch has been managed holistically for 35 years with Bluesette being a manager/owner for the past 20+. It is stated in their 3-part holistic goal that ideas and experiences are shared with others in the community, therefore, as Don Campbell did before her, Bluesette became a Certified Educator so she can teach what has brought her family much success in agriculture. Bluesette’s interests lie strongly in human resource and team development bolstered by a foundation of lived experience in ranch management, regenerative grazing principles and financial planning. She currently sits as President on the HM Canada Board and is actively teaching course, speaking and consulting.
Bluesette noted that she is honored to help steward Holistic Management International as a Director on HMI's board. She enjoys the challenges of utilizing the framework in an organizational setting and looks forward to creatively broadening the reach of Holistic Management to a larger demographic.
Mat Moten (Texas)
Colonel (Ret.) Matthew Moten grew up near his grandparents’ ranch in Burnet County, Texas. But working cattle in the hot sun for low profits held little romance for him. He went to West Point and spent the next thirty-six years in the uniform of the United States Army. He lived and served on three continents and traveled to three more. He first saw the Alps from the turret of his tank. He served at the highest levels of the Pentagon and was there on 9/11. A few years later he saw combat in Iraq.
Along the way he received a doctorate in history from Rice University specializing in American political-military relations. In addition to numerous articles, he wrote two books, Presidents and Their Generals and The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession and edited a third, Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars. He spent the last several years of his military career teaching at the United States Military Academy, culminating as professor and head of the Department of History.
In 2014 the family ranch lured him back home. But he found that the traditional ranchers who had been leasing it in his absence had left it overstocked and overgrazed. Taking over the operation, he searched for answers. After several false starts and some major mistakes (adding two hundred head of goats did not help), he and his wife of four decades, Margaret, attended a weekend seminar sponsored by HMI. That led to more training, the epiphany of planned grazing, and the broader understanding of Holistic Management. The drought of 2021 forced them to sell all of the goats and 75% of their cattle, many of whom were the great-granddaughters of his own grandparents’ herd of Charolais. The folks at HMI mentored them through those painful decisions.
The cattle operation is smaller now, but more profitable. The ranch is no longer a burden, but a pleasure. Mat has time to teach and write historical fiction. Margaret has served as chairman of the board of two non-profits, Goodwill Central Texas and the Austin Community College Foundation. And they both enjoy spending time with their two children and two grandsons.
When asked to join the HMI Board of Directors, Mat looked at it as an opportunity to advance two of his passions, education and agriculture. He hopes to help HMI grow, evolve, and thrive so that the next generation of farmers and ranchers can, through the principles of Holistic Management, find agriculture a fulfilling, productive, and profitable way of life.
Welcome, Bluesette and Mat!
