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“I have known Megan Haas for approximately four years and she has shown herself to be an exceptional business partner. She is reliable, very bright, trustworthy and when she tells me that she will do something, she delivers. She also possesses a truly remarkable and incredibly admirable asset, She has the ability to be professional and efficient and she does so with a sincere sense of human kindness and compassion for all whom she deals with. She is a breath of fresh air and definitely a role model for others in the world of commerce. I look forward to opportunities to work with Megan.”
 
Dr. Geoffrey Scott Carroll, New York, NY.
Chairman – Dressed to Kilt
President – The Friends of Scotland Charity

"In the depths of the darkness of today's often nonsensical business world Megan Haas's uniqueness prevails. Ms. Haas understands how to incorporate social values into that world. As a human resource, as a connectress, as a mover and shaker, an innovator, an award winner, a golden girl, she has much to offer. I have had the pleasure of knowing Megan in a work capacity as well as in friendship. Megan is a king maker. I have witnessed her incredible determination and fortitude which enabled Utilikilts's rise, alongside her development of socially responsible, community enhancing enterprises & schemes. Her ability to unravel the very core of a person and/or corporation and reconstruct it from the double helix into an energised being is her forte. She adds the the turbo diesel to any engine and hones the most well oiled of machinery. As a person who I admire, and whose life path I have been inspired by, it is an honour to recommend her."

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Artist and Sustainable Technologies Consultant

"Ms. Haas is a practical optimist, a pioneer of ideas, and a revolutionary of constructs.With a warm smile, she will challenge ingrained patterns, offering new perspectives in their place, and practical steps towards implementing them. As an expert networker and free thinker, Megan is a master of bringing seemingly random bits of ideas together into a cohesive whole. I do not recall a single thought process I’ve had to which she was not able to add some crucial missing piece, linking it with all the necessary elements for its progression. She allows for continued growth in any situation, steering always toward the highest possible goal. These often include the very happiness and salvation of the planet itself." - Cameron Forester - Boat Captain, Builder, Writer, International Citizen.

"There have been only a very few persons in my life that have made a deep and positive impression as Megan Haas did for me. Without any obligation and with extreme generosity, she helped me to go through a difficult and lonesome period of my life, when clear thoughts, honest care and neutral perspectives were a must and a need to see all the facts involved with balance. The most beautiful thing? I did not ask her for advise. She did it directly from her true and pure heart. I cannot wait to have a new business project in mind to ask her for consulting, because I am totally convi nced she will guide me through the concepts of profits allied with ethic values and social issues without compromising none of them... and this is the future of corporate surviving in the XXI century"
 
Max Mills - Writer, Visual Designer, Winemaker & Philanthropist.
www.maxmills.com - Viña del Mar, Chile.

"I met Megan Haas twenty years ago and since then have never stopped being inspired and amazed by her. Megan was the first person who if I came to her with an idea, didn't try to limit it but instead expanded upon it. This led to many shared adventures as friends over the years. We have watched and helped each other become both adults and entrepreneurs. Fifteen years ago we approached each other about creating a new model of education. We created the Front Porch School and worked with home-schooled girls for two years helping them grow into young women. The work Megan and I did together has continued to inform me and has led to the creation of my life's work in education, 'The New Classical Academy.'

Since the mid-nineties when Megan left Asheville, I have been continually excited by what she has accomplished out in the world. Always following her own path and consistently true to her ideals, Megan has never let herself be limited by "should" or "must" but has defined her own trajectory through the world. I watched her become involved in the visionary phase of a great business - Utilikilts - watched as her impulses helped turn it into a million dollar enterprise.

Having a friend and colleague who is always true to herself and her dreams has helped me in defining and acting upon my own. Knowing that she would understand the tough but rewarding road that leads to true fulfillment has helped keep me on t hat path in my own life. Megan has never been happy with the status quo or with average work. She continually questions why and how in an unrelenting quest to bring the world back to the culture of values and traditions that she herself inhabits, and she does this by moving forward, not backward. Megan pushes not only herself but the people around her, to be their best and create a real and purposeful vision of the future."
-Kate Hyde, founder The New Classical Academy, Asheville, NC.

"Megan is one of those rare people that have the guts and confidence to chart her own personal life path following her heart and passions. I feel quite priviledged to have made her acquaintance."
-Marco Vangelisti, Fund Manager, Painter. San Francisco, CA http://www.marcovangelisti.com

"Megan has self actualized and become the soul she is. There is something remarkably different about her from everything everybody seems to think a living person is. She is wild and strong and energetic in a way that God waits for. Her skin is an envelope and she is the letter written us." Laura Hope-Gill, Poet, English Lit Prof. Arden NC

"I met Megan Haas almost 6 years ago, and we became immediate friends. Right from moment one she was instantantly recognizable as a true original, and a vital force - very strong, soft, and buzzing with constant creativity and good ideas. Not only that, I found after really digging into the friendship, Megan had (and has) an amazing ability to cut through layers and layers of bullshit, be it corporate, press, or personal, and get right to what she wants or needs.

Megan handles everything and everyone with her own origimeganality, which is to say that everything is play to her. It doesn't matter who it is she's socializing with, she finds the essence of some sort of childlike play to make the scene special and unique. Maybe it's her Waldorf education or highly innovative parents that helped create this person; I'm not sure, but nobody can get a room full of people thinking outside the box like her.

About three years into our friendship Megan came up for air from Utilikilt's nonstop pace and declared to me that she was also a musician and needed to start playing again. Up 'til then it was always me doing the music. I said "OK, let's do it," and she proceeded to bring out a high calliber folk violin and a beautiful voice. Once again, she had a truly original vision, but this time for music and singing. We set out to make a CD and in a couple of sessions created her solo album, which I think is one of the simplest and purest art works I've had the pleasure of helping form.

I know that whatever Megan touches turns to gold, or she knows somehow what gold is and simply reveals it. It is a mystery every time. But I can say for sure, as an creative alchemist, Megan will succeed in whatever she undertakes as a worthy cause, and I plan to support her unique gift as it evolves."
-Mark Nichols, composer/director, Seattle WA

"I can confirm the invisible, when the importance of one person touches your life and has influence over the path you take and when everything in your life can change because of the collision of two souls. That is the beauty and the mystery of life’s purpose. 
 
Ten years ago things changed significantly when I met Megan. New events were shaped with positive actions in my life. She is a magnet of powerful ideas and energy and I am proud to know such a strong and remarkable woman who thinks out of the box and with such broad spectrums of colorful and creative thoughts."
 Cynthia Frazzini , singer/songwriter -The Believers, Indigo-Go

"I want to take a minute and acknowledge the amazing talent that Megan Haas so lovingly brings to each and every project she works on. If asked to explain concretely what Megan brings that makes her unique; it is that she is simultaneously brilliant, beautiful and, she delivers! Megan not only delivers on projects with clear parameters and boundaries- but she possesses the rare and valuable ability to manage and lead virtual teams to accomplish deliverables that are being innovated as a result of fresh ideas and combined resources. Megan innovates and inspires all at once. Naming her a “Creatrix” would be most appropriate." - Michelle Sherman -Seattle, WA. VAST institute for Human Endeavor. Inspiring greatness since 1988