Fellows

World Business Academy Fellows represent some of the best and brightest people who are shaping today’s global landscape. Together, their work analyzes and predicts the transforming paradigm shifts in business and society. Fellows provide the Academy with current multidisciplinary information relevant to the evolving global landscape.

Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

Professor Goswami earned his Ph.D. from Calcutta University in theoretical nuclear physics in 1964 and has been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon since 1968. Dr. Goswami is a senior scholar in residence at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and teaches regularly at the Holmes Institute in L.A.; UNIPAZ in Brazil; and The Theosophical Society in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, and, The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist’s Guide to Enlightenment. To read more about Dr. Goswami, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Amit Goswami:

Amory B. Lovins, Ph.D.

Amory B. Lovins, Chief Executive Officer (Research) of Rocky Mountain Institute, is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), seven honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood (“Alternative Nobel”), World Technology, and Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Happold Medal, and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. His work focuses on transforming the car, real-estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other manufacturing sectors toward advanced resource productivity. He has briefed 15 heads of state, held several visiting academic chairs, authored or co-authored 27 books (including 1999’s Natural Capitalism) and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of 39 people worldwide “most likely to change the course of business in the ’90s”; Newsweek has praised him as “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers”; and Car magazine ranked him the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry. To read more about Dr. Lovins, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Amory Lovins

Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ph.D. (1929-2019)

Barbara Marx Hubbard passed away on April 10th, 2019.

You can read the letter released announcing her passing here: https://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/barbara-s-health-updates

On April 30th, 2019, her family and friends celebrated her life with a Memorial, which was broadcasted live through Zoom conferencing, sharing her memory through stories and insights. You can watch a recording of the Memorial by following this link: https://www.agnt.today/inspirations

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Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard has been a pioneer in positive options for the future for the past 35 years. A public speaker, author, social innovator and evolutionary teacher, she is President and Executive Director of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a B.A, cum laude in Political Science, Dr. Hubbard studied at La Sorbonne and L’Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris during her Junior Year. In the 1960’s she published one of the first newsletters on evolutionary transformation called The Center Letter in collaboration with Abraham H. Maslow, founder of Humanistic Psychology. She worked closely with Dr. Jonas Salk and was one of the original contributors to the Salk Institute. In the 70’s she co-founded The Committee for the Future in Washington D.C., which developed the New Worlds Educational and Training Center based on her work. She co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences to bring together people from every field and function to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of the growing edge potentials of humanity. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, proposing a Peace Room in the White House and throughout the world to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working. She was one of the original directors of the Center for Soviet American Dialogue and served as a citizen diplomat during the late 80’s. She has been instrumental in the founding of many important organizations and initiatives including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision in Action, the Foundation for the Future, the Association for Global New Thought and The Alliance for the Advancement of Conscious Evolution. She was awarded the first Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Institute.

Dr. Hubbard has authored five books: The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth; Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential; Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence: 10 Steps to the Universal Human.

Her EVOLVE website (a Global Community Center for Conscious Evolution, at www.evolve.org) serves as an education, resource and communication hub to foster synergy and cooperation among organizations and communities worldwide. She has launched a first on-line evolutionary educational program (available within EVOLVE) called Gateway to Conscious Evolution, It offers a new developmental path to the next stage of human evolution, linking global participants with key ideas and innovators now building a positive future. Through this work, communities dedicated to conscious evolution are being fostered. The Conscious Evolution Community in Santa Barbara is serving as a global model of future-creating community. Through interviews and tele-lectures with guest colleagues she is initiating a communication outreach for the emerging world, and through live presentations she powerfully communicates the New World view of Conscious Evolution as a guiding perspective during this period of radical change.

Dr. Hubbard is the mother of five and the grandmother of 6, and resides in Santa Barbara, CA. To read more about Dr. Marx Hubbard, visit her personal site.

Bernard A. Lietaer (1942-2019)

In Memoriam: Bernard Lietaer is the lead author of the paradigm-shifting new report by the EU Chapter of the Club of Rome, “Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link.”

He is also the author of The Future of Money, which was translated into 18 languages, and is an international expert in the design and implementation of currency systems. He has studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years in an unusually broad range of capacities, including as a Central Banker, a fund manager, a university professor, and a consultant to governments in numerous countries, multinational corporations, and community organizations.

He co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism to the single European currency system (the Euro) and served as president of the Electronic Payment System at the National Bank of Belgium (the Belgian Central Bank). He co-founded and managed GaiaCorp, a top performing currency fund whose profits funded investments in environmental projects.

A former professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, he also taught at Sonoma State University and Naropa University. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California Berkeley, a member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Bernard has written numerous other books and articles about money systems. To read more about Bernard, visit his personal site.

Beth S. Jarman, Ph.D.

Beth Jarman is a founding partner of Leadership 2000, Inc. Her strong academic and organizational interests have provided her with in-depth knowledge and understanding of what leads to the acceptance of organizational and cultural change. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in history and a Ph.D. in The Cultural Foundations of Education.

Dr. Jarman’s diverse background includes eight years as an educator at both the high school and university level. She was also elected to the Utah legislature and had the unprecedented honor of serving two Governors as the Executive Director of the Department of Commerce in both Utah and Arizona. She has broad and extensive background in business as the President of a community planning and development corporation, the first Chairwoman of the very successful Utah Housing Finance Agency, and a board member of a number of corporations.

Beth Jarman’s broad-based experience in education, government and business along with her excellent academic background have provided her with unique insights about how organizations and individuals both embrace and resist change. She has written a number of articles and books. Her first book, “You Can Change your Life by Changing Your Mind” was followed by” Breakpoint and Beyond, Mastering the Future Today” co-authored with Dr. George Land and published by Harper Collins. Breakpoint provides new rules for success in an era of turbulent and unpredictable change.

Dr. Jarman has received numerous honors and awards, among them recognition for her Outstanding Contribution as a Legislator, commendation for her excellence as a Social Studies teacher, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Women in Radio and Television, an Outstanding Women’s award from the Y.W.C.A. and a listing in Who’s Who of American Women. Her listings also include Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

Brother David Steindl-Rast, Ph.D.

David Steindl-Rast was born in 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he received a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958-59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.

After 12 years of monastic training and studies in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval in 1967. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions.

Together with Thomas Merton, Brother David helped launch a renewal of religious life. From 1970 on, he became a leading figure in the House of Prayer movement, which affected some 200,000 members of religious orders in the United States and Canada.

For decades, Brother David divided his time between periods of a hermit’s life and extensive lecture tours on five continents. His books have been translated into many languages. Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart have been reprinted and anthologized for more than two decades. Brother David co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra. His dialogue with Buddhists produced The Ground We Share: Buddhist and Christian Practice, co-authored with Robert Aitken Roshi. His most recent books are Deeper than Words: Living the Apostles’ Creed, and David Steindl-Rast: Essential Writings.

At present, Brother David serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 240 countries. To read more about Brother David, visit his personal site.

Corinne McLaughlin (1947-2018)

Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change,Spiritual Politics, and Builders of the Dream. She is the executive director of the Center for Visionary Leadership, based in California and North Carolina, and a co-founder of Sirius, a spiritual and ecological community in Massachusetts. Corinne coordinated a national Task Force on Sustainable Communities for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and served on the adjunct faculty of the American University and the University of Massachusetts. A Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, she has taught courses on spiritual development and social change with her husband, Gordon Davidson, for more than 30 years in the United States and Europe. They have been interviewed for more than 130 newspapers, magazines, and radio and television shows, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Boston Globe, NBC TV, andFox News. Corinne is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and lives in the San Francisco area. To read more about Corinne, visit her personal site.

Cynthia Cherrey, Ph.D.

Cynthia Cherrey, the vice president for student affairs at Tulane University who helped lead the New Orleans school through one of the most challenging periods in its history, has been named the vice president for campus life at Princeton University. Her appointment is effective Aug. 1.  Cherrey, who also is the dean of students and a clinical professor in the A.B. Freeman School of Business, has been at Tulane since 2003.

From 1989 to 2003, Cherrey worked at the University of Southern California, serving ultimately as an associate vice president for student affairs and as a clinical associate professor in the Rossier School of Education. She received several honors there, including the Mahogany Leadership Award from the Black Student Assembly and Faculty of the Year by the Order of Omega. She led undergraduate courses in communication studies and graduate courses in educational administration and policy. At Tulane, she has taught primarily a freshman class on leadership and politics.

An authority on organizational leadership, Cherrey has been president since 2000 of the International Leadership Association, a global network of leadership scholars and practitioners. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in areas of leadership, organizational development and higher education. She also has served as co-editor of a publication series and co-written a book about leadership. She has been a speaker at conferences and events in the United States and abroad.

Cherrey was an invited participant in the W.K. Kellogg Leadership project to advance leadership knowledge, education and practice for the 21st century. She is a senior fellow at the James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. To read more about Dr. Cherrey, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Cynthia Cherrey:

Seeing and Leading Organic Systems

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Daniel Goleman consults internationally and lectures frequently to business audiences, professional groups, and college students. He is CEO of Emotional Intelligence Services, an affiliate of the Hay Group. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.

Dr. Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, with close to 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide. It has been a best seller throughout the world and was translated into nearly 30 languages in over 50 countries.

His 1998 book, Working with Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books), argues that workplace competencies based on emotional intelligence play a far greater role in star performance than do intellect or technical skills, and that both individuals and companies will benefit from cultivating these capabilities. It became an immediate New York Times bestseller.

Dr. Goleman’s 1998 article in the Harvard Business Review, “What Makes a Leader?” received the highest reader ratings ever, becoming the Review’s best-selling reprint for 1999.

Dr. Goleman is co-chairman of the Consortium for Social and Emotional Learning in the Workplace, based in the School of Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, which seeks to identify best practices for developing emotional intelligence.

Dr. Goleman has received many journalistic awards for his writing, including two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for his articles in the Times, and a Career Achievement Award for Journalism from the American Psychological Association. In recognition of his efforts to communicate the behavioral sciences to the public, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Born in Stockton, California, Dr. Goleman attended Amherst College, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and graduated magna cum laude. His graduate education was at Harvard, where he was a Ford Fellow, and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology and personality development. To read more about Dr. Goleman, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Daniel Goleman:

Emotional Intelligence in Business

David Gershon

David Gershon, co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on behavior-change, community empowerment and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include cities, large organizations, government agencies, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues ranging from low carbon lifestyles, livable neighborhoods, and sustainable communities to organizational talent development, corporate social engagement, and cultural transformation. Over the past thirty years the empowerment programs he has designed have won many awards, and a major academic research study described them as “unsurpassed in changing behavior.”

David used this empowerment proficiency to conceive and organize at the height of the cold war, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund and ABC Television, one of the planet’s first major global consciousness-raising initiatives—the First Earth Run. Building on his background as the Director of the Lake Placid Olympic Torch Relay, he used the mythic power of relaying a torch of peace around the world to engage the participation of twenty-five million people in sixty-two countries, the world’s political leadership and, through the media, an estimated 20 percent of the planet’s population in an act of global unity. Millions of dollars were also raised as part of this event to help UNICEF provide care for the neediest children of the world.

David is the author of eleven books, including the award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, and best-sellers Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds and, with his wife Gail Straub, Empowerment: The art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. He co-directs Empowerment Institute’s School for Transformative Social Change which empowers change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting edge social innovations. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change and community empowerment issues. To read more about David Gershon, visit his personal site.

David Krieger, Ph.D. (1942-2023)

In Memoriam

David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as President of the Foundation since 1982. Under his leadership the Foundation has initiated many innovative and important projects for building peace, strengthening international law, abolishing nuclear weapons and empowering new peace leaders. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has received many awards for his work for a more peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world, including three awards for Peace Writing by the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology for his three books of poetry. He has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC and many other national and international television and radio shows.

Dr. Krieger holds leadership positions in many other civil society organizations working for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He is one of 50 Councilors of the World Future Council, which seeks to be a voice for future generations, and serves as chair of the Council’s Peace and Disarmament Working Group. He is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. He also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and International Steering Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative, which works with middle power governments to promote progress toward nuclear disarmament. Dr. Krieger is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000 organizations and municipalities committed to the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

He is the author of many studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 volumes and has written hundreds of articles and book chapters. His latest book is The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers (2012). Other books he has written or edited are: Never Enough Flowers: The Poetry of Peace II (2012) Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action (2011); God’s Tears; Reflections on the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2010), published in Japanese and English; The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (2009); At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation? (2008); The Doves Flew High (2007); Joseph Rotblat – Visionary for Peace (2007); Today Is Not a Good Day for War (2005); Hold Hope, Wage Peace (2005); Einstein – Peace Now! (2005); Peace 100 Ideas (2003); Hope in a Dark Time, Reflections on Humanity’s Future (2003); The Poetry of Peace (2003); Choose Hope, Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (2002); A Maginot Line in the Sky; International Perspectives on Ballistic Missile Defense (2001); Nuclear Weapons and the World Court (1998); Waging Peace II, Vision and Hope for the 21st Century (1992); Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age, Ideas for Action (1988); Disarmament and Development: The Challenge of the International Control and Management of Dual-Purpose Technologies (1981); and The Tides of Change, Peace, Pollution and Potential of the Oceans (1975).

Dr. Krieger is the recipient of the Earth Charter Award for Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace by Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions (2011); the PeaceWriting Award for Poetry of the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology (2010); The Golden Dove (2009); Occidental College Alumnus of the Year (2008); the PeaceWriting Award for Poetry of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology (2007); the Freedom from War Peace Leadership Award (2006); Global Green’s Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership (2005); the PeaceWriting Award for Poetry of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology (2005); the Peace Educator of the Year Award of the Consortium of Peace Research, Education and Development (2001); the Gakudo Peace Award of the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation (2001); Soka Gakkai Hiroshima Peace Award (2000); Peace Award of the International Journal of Humanities and Peace (2000); Soka Gakkai International Peace and Culture Award (1997); Soka University Award of Highest Honor (1997); Peace Award of the War and Peace Foundation (1996); Big Canvas Award of Santa Barbara Magazine (1996); and the Bronze Medal of the Hungarian Engineers for Peace (1995).

He serves on the Advisory Council of Free the Children International (Toronto), Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (London), Right Livelihood Foundation (Sweden), the International Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Israel), the International Institute for Peace (Vienna), Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence (Virginia), Mayors for Peace (Hiroshima), the Peace Resources Cooperative (Yokohama), the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (Sweden), the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (New York), the Foundation for Conscious Evolution (Santa Barbara), and Peace Media (peacejournalism.com). He is a member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet.

Dr. Krieger served as Panel Chair of the Citizens’ Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq, held in Tacoma, Washington in 2007, and as a member of the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul in 2005.

In his early career he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii and San Francisco State University. He worked at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on issues of international law, ocean governance, nuclear terrorism and disarmament; and at the Foundation for Reshaping the International Order (RIO Foundation) in the Netherlands on the effects of dual-purpose technologies on disarmament, development and the environment.

He is a graduate of Occidental College, and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Hawaii as well as a J.D. from the Santa Barbara College of Law. Dr. Krieger served for 20 years as a judge pro tem for the Santa Barbara Superior Court.

He is married and has three children. His interests include tennis, hiking and poetry.

David L. Cooperrider

David L. Cooperrider is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Professor Cooperrider is past President of the National Academy of Management’s OD Division and has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, MIT, University of Michigan, Cambridge and others. Currently David serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, a new “school within the school” focused on business and society leadership, at the Weatherhead School of Management.

David has served as researcher and advisor in the arena of sustainable development to a wide variety of organizations including, for example, Yellow Roadway Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, McCann-Erickson, Nutrimental Foods, World Vision, Cleveland Clinic, American Red Cross, and United Way of America. Most of the projects are inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology for which Professor Cooperrider is best known. His founding work in this area is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change; it is helping companies all over the world discover the power of the strength-based approaches to planning and multi-stakeholder cooperation. Admiral Clark, the CNO of the Navy, for example met with David to bring AI into the Navy for a multiyear project on “Bold and Enlightened Naval Leadership”. And in June 2004 Cooperrider was asked by the United Nations Global Compact to design and facilitate a historic, unprecedented Summit meeting between Kofi Annan and 500 business leaders to “unite the strengths of markets with the authority of universal ideals to make globalization work for everyone.” Cooperrider’s work is especially important because of its ability to enable the transformation toward sustainable value in systems of very large and complex scale.

David’s often serves as meeting speaker and leader of large group, interactive conference events. His dynamic ideas on sustainable development and appreciative inquiry have been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Management Inquiry, The OD Practitioner, and in research series such as Advances in Strategic Management. More popularly, Professor Cooperrider’s work has been covered by The New York Times; Forbes Magazine; Science, Fast Company, Fortune, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Biz Ed and others. He has been recipient of Best Paper of the Year Awards at the Academy of Management and top researcher and best teacher awards at Case. Numerous clients have likewise received awards for their work with Appreciative Inquiry. Among his highest honors David was invited to design a series of dialogues among 25 of the world’s top religious leaders, started by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who said, “If only the world’s religious leaders could just know each other, the world will be a better place.” Using AI, the group has held meetings in Jerusalem and at the Carter Center with President Jimmy Carter. David was recognized in 2000 as among “the top ten visionaries” in the field by Training Magazine and in 2004 received a major award in Washington D.C. for “distinguished contribution” to the field of organizational learning from the American Society for Training and Development.

David has published 13 books and authored over 60 articles and chapters. Cooperrider’s volumes include the best selling Appreciative Inquiry published by Berrett-Kohler (with Diana Whitney); The Organizational Dimensions of Global Change (with Jane Dutton); Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage and Appreciative Management and Leadership (both with Suresh Srivastva). David is editor of a new academic book series Advances in Appreciative Inquiry (with Michel Avital) published by Elsevier Science. David’s wife Nancy is an artist. His son Daniel is a philosophy of religion major at University of Chicago, and Hannah and Matt have just finished high school in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. To read more about David Cooperrider, visit his personal site.

Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center For Well Being in La Jolla, California in 1995, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions. Dr. Chopra serves as the Director of Education at The Chopra Center for Well Being which offers training programs in mind body medicine (Journey into Healing). The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has granted continuing medical education credits for this program, which satisfies requirements for the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award. Through his partnership with David Simon, M.D. and numerous health care professionals in both conventional and complementary healing arts, Chopra’s work is changing the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness.

What prompted Deepak Chopra to expand his view of conventional medicine to embrace complementary treatments from around the world? Formerly the Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, Dr. Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice in Boston in the 1980’s. His teaching affiliations included Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine. Chopra realized in his medical practice that there was potential in western medicine for the establishment of a new life-giving paradigm, one which encompassed the fundamental principle that perfect health is more than just the absence of disease. He began to envision a medical system based upon the premise that health is a lively state of balance and integration of body, mind and spirit. He is widely credited with melding modern theories of quantum physics with the timeless wisdom of ancient cultures. In 1992, he served on the National Institutes of Health Ad Hoc Panel on Alternative Medicine.

Chopra is known worldwide for his published works. The author of more than 27 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles, he has been published on every continent, and in dozens of languages. His newest book, Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging is on bookshelves now. Ten million copies of Deepak’s books have been sold in English alone, and his best-sellers include How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries, Perfect Health; Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The Return of Merlin, and The Path to Love. Chopra has published numerous books focusing on health issues that include The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health; Perfect Weight: The Complete Mind / Body Program For Achieving and Maintaining Your Ideal Weight; Restful Sleep: The Complete Mind / Body Program For Overcoming Insomnia; Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind / Body Medicine and Creating Health. Popular audio books and CD-ROMS include Magical Mind, Magical Body; The Higher Self; Journey to the Boundless; and The Wisdom Within. Many know him from his regular work with PBS, which included Body, Mind and Soul: The Mystery and The Magic, one of the most highly viewed and successful fund-raisers in the history of the network; and The Way of the Wizard, Alchemy and The Crystal Cave.

Deepak Chopra’s popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. As the keynote speaker, he appeared at the inauguration of the State of the World Forum, hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev and the Peace and Human Progress Foundation, founded by the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace prizewinner Oscar Arias. Esquire Magazine designated him as one of the top ten motivational speakers in the country; and in 1995, he joined the distinguished company of President Nelson Mandela, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Tom Peters and Garrison Keillor as a recipient of the Toastmasters International Top Five Outstanding Speakers award. He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1997.

Through The Chopra Center For Well Being, Dr. Chopra is revolutionizing common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of “bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east” remains his thrust as he and his colleagues conduct public seminars and workshops and provide training for health care professionals around the world. Dr. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. To read more about Dr.Chopra, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Deepak Chopra:

Diana Whitney, Ph.D.

Dr. Diana Whitney is an inspirational speaker, provocative educator and pioneering thought leader in the growing field of Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Change. Through her work, her teaching, and her writing she has positively influenced the lives of millions of people around the world.

Dr. Whitney is an award-winning author. Recognized in 2004 by the International Organization Development Network (ODN) for her contribution to the field through writing she is the author or editor of fifteen books, as well as dozens of articles and chapters.

Diana is President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry – the revolutionary process she helped develop and spread – to resolve the most pressing challenges of our time. In fields ranging from health care to education; from peace-building to business; from community development to government, Diana coaches executives and their teams in support of organization culture transformation, strategic development and leadership capacity building. With over thirty years of experience, her clients include Merck, British Airways, Verizon, J&J, Calgary Health Region, University of Virginia Health System, Idaho Department of Education, and Sisters of Good Shepherd. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recognized her Appreciative Inquiry work at GTE (Verizon) with their Best Culture Change of the year award.

Diana is a Founder of the Taos Institute, a center for dialogue among family therapists, educators and organization consultants. She is an ongoing advisor to the United Religions Initiative, a global interfaith organization dedicated to peace. She is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center where she teaches and advises PhD students. She is an expert faculty for the NCR Picker Patient Centered Care Institute.

Dr. Whitney received her Ph.D. from Temple University (1980) in the field of Organizational Communication. Her early research into the dissemination of educational innovations funded by the National Institute of Education created an agenda for the ongoing development of educational R&D laboratories throughout the United States. To read more about Dr. Whitney, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Diana Whitney:

Spirituality as an Organizing Principle
Partnership at Work

Diane V. Cirincione, Ph.D.

Dr. Cirincione is a therapist and former postdoctoral clinical researcher at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cirincione is an internationally known lecturer and author as well as an entrepreneur with 30 years business experience in the corporate world, including with her own four companies. She is co-founder with Barbara Marx Hubbard of “The Regenopause Dialogues,” about revaluing and redefining the stages of women’s lives.

Dr. Cirincione serves as Vice-President of the Jampolsky Outreach Foundation, a non-profit foundation responding to worldwide requests to introduce and mentor culturally appropriate adaptations of Attitudinal Healing, to integrate this innovative, time tested psycho-social-spiritual model into every aspect of daily life.

From 1982-1992, working on Dr. Jerry Jampolsky’s project, “Children As Teachers of Peace,” Dr. Cirincione inspired individuals from numerous countries to bridge the gap among youth from various countries, including Russia, China, and Central America. She is author of Sounds of the Morning Sun and “The Identification of Relationships Between Women Witnessing Spousal Abuse in Childhood and Psychological Symptomatic Distress in Adulthood.” She is co-author with her husband, Dr. Jampolsky, of Love Is The Answer; Wake-Up Calls; Change Your Mind, Change Your Life; Simple Thoughts That Can Change Your Life; and for children, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.

Dipak C. Jain, Ph.D.

Dipak C. Jain has been named Dean of INSEAD, the international business school based in Fontainebeau, France which also has campuses in Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Bloomberg Businessweek ranked INSEAD #1 in its “Best International Business Schools 2010.”

From 2001-2009, Jain served as Dean of the Kellogg School of Management, where he had been a faculty member since 1987. More recently he has been the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and a professor of marketing at Kellogg. For the five years prior to his appointment as Dean of Kellogg, he served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.

Dean Jain’s areas of research include the marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation and competitive market structure analysis; cross-cultural issues in global product diffusion; new product diffusion; and forecasting models. He has had more than 50 articles published in leading academic journals.

In 2003, he was appointed as a foreign affairs adviser for the Prime Minister of Thailand. He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Phillips and Hyatt International. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Hartmarx Corporation, Deere & Company, Northern Trust Corporation and Reliance Industries (India). He is also a former director at United Airlines and Peoples Energy.

His long career in education began as a student in Tezpur (Assam), India. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics in 1976 and his master’s degree in mathematical statistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India. He taught at Gauhati for the next five years before leaving for Dallas to pursue his Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Texas. In addition to his positions at the Kellogg School, Dean Jain has been a visiting professor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. To read more about Dr. Jain, visit his personal site.

Don E. Beck, Ph.D. (1937-2022)

In Memoriam

Don E. Beck, Ph.D. has been the prototype for activists in the new millennium. His dedication to service and discovery saw him become profoundly involved in global ventures that continue to grow in scope and gather momentum.

In 1981, having taught for 20 years and been listed as “Outstanding Educator in America,” Dr. Beck chose to resign his professorship to dedicate himself to serving in the South African transformation process.

From that pivotal point in his life, Beck worked at the highest levels of social concern. Between 1981 and 2002, he made 63 trips to South Africa, working behind the scene with political, business, and religious leaders, and the general public in the transition from apartheid to democracy. He was honored in 1996 by a Joint Resolution of the Texas House and Senate with these words: “The Texas House and Senate takes great pride in commending a truly remarkable Texan, Dr. Don Edward Beck, for his invaluable contributions toward the peaceful creation of a democratic South Africa.”

In addition to serving alongside Nelson Mandela on the creation of deep reconciliation strategies in the post-apartheid South Africa, Dr. Beck consulted with Tony Blair and his Policy Unit in search for new ways to implement “Third Way” initiatives in the UK and abroad, and with Bill Clinton in discussing racial issues in USA. He also worked with the Singapore government and the Mexican government.

While much of Dr. Beck’s work was in the area of large-scale systems change, he was also active for more than 30 years in working with corporate leaders, public institutions, educational enterprises, and not-for-profit agencies on transformation. He was unique in that he moved freely between cutting-edge academic and scientific theories of value formation and change, and a proficiency in implementing practical and highly effective change in the real world.

Spiral Dynamics Integral

Dr. Beck has inspired thousands of people toward a new experience of organizational and personal empowerment through Spiral Dynamics (Spiral Dynamics Integral), his unique values-based model that charts the evolution and emergence of human nature.

Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi), concerns itself with the deep complexity codes that shape our many worlds. The model describes and makes sense of the enormous complexity of human existence, and then shows how to craft elegant, systemic problem-solutions that meet people and address situations where they are.

Conceived and led by Dr. Beck, SDi is an advanced extension and elaboration of the biopsychosocial systems concept originated by the late Dr. Clare W. Graves of Union College, New York, and later developed as Spiral Dynamics—a model that Canada’s Maclean’s Magazine rather grandly dubbed “The Theory that Explains Everything.”

Beck built upon Spiral Dynamics in the development of a powerful new conceptual system, called MeshWORKS: The Search for Human Cohesion in a World of Fragmentation, which enables the essential process of integrating, aligning, and synergizing resources, especially at the community and local levels, to meet the needs of people at different stages of development (MESHWORKS).

Dr. Beck’s achievements:

Founder in 2004 of the Center for Human Emergence

Founding Partner of The National Values Center in Denton, Texas

President and CEO of The Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc., a global enterprise

Member of The American Psychological Association; The World Future Society; The International Paleopsychology Project, and the “Cadre-of-Experts on Ethnopolitical Violence,” named by the American and Canadian Psychological Associations.

Head of PhD program at Adizes Graduate School • Associate Professor, Conoco Corporate University

Founder, The Institute for Values & Culture

Fellow of the George Gallup Institute at Princeton. Beck was named outstanding professor at the University of North Texas in 1978; named an Honor Professor in 1979. He was also team psychologist for South African Springbok, winners of the 1995 World Cup Rugby competition.

Beck is coauthor of Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change (1996).

Dr. Dorothy Maver

Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Her background as an educator and peacebuilder includes teaching and coaching at the high school and university levels, developing and facilitating courses and workshops with a focus on the application of spiritual principles in life, creating a culture of peace, community organizing, and designing experiences for community members to plan and implement their ideas for change. She also served as the Executive Director for River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding.

Dot has served with Polaris Center, Denmark as International Faculty and USA/Australia Teacher Trainer. She assisted with the development of curriculum and the program for Transformational Kinesiology Teacher Certification, and taught in the USA, Germany, Denmark, and Australia. She was adjunct faculty at Norwich University, Vermont, the oldest private military college in USA where she developed and taught two courses in the Peace Corps and Service Leadership Department: Third World Perspectives, designed to provide undergraduate students with an understanding and appreciation of the issues of intercultural interaction, and World Community, raising awareness of diverse perspectives in the world community and cultures.

At the Graduate Institute, CT, USA she developed an intensive titled: Shifting from a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: a shared responsibility, shared leadership model, for master degree students who were strategizing their intentions and developing projects to transform their groups, organizations and communities.

Dot has designed and co-facilitated seminars and courses in the USA, UK, Australia, Denmark, USSR, New Zealand, Germany and Canada with a focus on philosophy and group work based on spiritual education, and she co-developed and co-taught a course on Inclusive Coalition Building at Woodbury College in Vermont, USA.

Dot’s early education experience was in New Jersey at the High School level teaching Health, Physical Education and Driver Education, and Coaching varsity softball, volleyball, bowling and field hockey. She also served as Adjunct Faculty at Kean College of New Jersey where she was a supervisor of student teachers and junior field experiences and taught education classes for physical education majors.

Professional Experiences in Peacebuilding / Community Building
In her work as a community organizer and peacebuilder, Dot’s keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model (SR/SL) developed over thirty years, she brings together individuals and groups around a common purpose while creating a work environment that demonstrates right relationship in a culture of peace.

Over the past two years, as part of the core team creating a National Peace Academy, Dot played a leadership role in identifying the shared purpose, bringing together a multi-stakeholder group for a visioning summit and, one year later, a design summit. Presently Dot serves as Director of the National Peace Academy as the team strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace, always working from purpose, in the spirit of cooperation, making decisions with an eye to the greater good, with a focus on right relationship. Dot is also a founder of, and member of the Leadership Council for, the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace, a movement striving to create infrastructures of peace, including a call for National Peace Academies.

Dot served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance, building a grassroots lobbying effort in fifty states for the US Department of Peace Campaign while building a culture of peace within the organization and movement, utilizing her SR/SL model. Prior to that she served as National Campaign Manager gathering diverse constituents from all over the country to work together around their individual and common interests. To read more about Dr. Maver, visit her personal website.

Eddie Erlandson, M.D.

Eddie Erlandson brings a unique background as a physician and business leader to helping executives make needed changes. He uses his understanding of the science of stress and change, drawing on 25 years experience as a vascular surgeon and co-founder a Wellness program. He uses the technique of Resets to help people modulate their own physiology for enhanced and sustained impact as a leader. He models his commitment to fitness by participating in over 50 marathons and ultra-marathons.

He is a popular keynote presenter, as well as a coach and facilitator for teambuilding offsites. He has worked with executive teams across a number of industries, including high tech, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, services, government and sports. To read more about Dr. Erlandson, visit his personal site.

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant on Living Systems Design. Showing the relevance of evolving biological systems to organizational design, she travels as a speaker in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She makes television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops.

Dr. Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T., was a science writer for the HORIZON/ NOVA TV series. She was invited to China by the Chinese National Science Association, organized Earth Celebrations 2000 in Athens, Greece and has been a United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a participant in the Humanity 3000 dialogues of the Foundation for the Future, the Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil and the USA.

Dr. Sahtouris uses nature’s principles and practice, revealed in biological evolution, as useful models for organizational change. She applies them in the corporate world, in global politics and economics, in our efforts to create sustainable health and well being for humanity within the larger living systems of Earth. To read more about Dr. Sahtouris, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Elisabet Sahtouris:

Watch Dr. Sahtouris’s recent TEDx presentation “East and West in our Global Family”:

Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. He is the Founder and President of the Club of Budapest, President of theWorldShift Network, the Founder of the General Evolution Research Group, Co-Chair of the World Wisdom Council, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. He has a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and is the recipient of honorary Ph.D.’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary.

Dr. Laszlo is the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan (the Goi Award), and the International Mandir of Peace Prize in Assisi, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author or co-author of 54 books translated into 23 languages, and the editor of another 31 including his new book,WorldShift 2012: Making Green Business, New Politics, and Higher Consciousness Work Together.

Earlier this year, with Marco Roveda, he electronically published a free e-book, Finding Bliss in the Shift, which describes the roots of our global sustainability crisis and the way we can overcome it through a shift in consciousness. To read more about Dr.Laszlo, visit his personal site.

F. Byron (Ron) Nahser, Ph.D.

Managing Director for CORPORANTES, Inc., an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising, Dr. Nahser is currently a Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and also Provost Emeritus of Presidio School of Management, San Francisco (offering the first accredited MBA in Sustainable Management). He lectures and consults with business and academic audiences in the US and internationally on business values, vision, marketing strategy, branding, social responsibility and integrative sustainable management.

The author of Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business and Journeys to Oxford: Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business and Education, he has developed a strategic business problem-solving model known as PathFinder Pragmatic Inquiry® which has been used by more than 100 organizations and thousands of participants including 3M, Levi-Strauss & CO., The Quaker Oats Company, Time Inc., Harris Bank, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford GSB, Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, DePaul University Kellstadt GSB, Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Presidio School of Management, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and many others.

The former chairman, president, and CEO of The Nahser Agency of Chicago, serving such advertisers as The Quaker Oats Co., CNA Insurance, Harris Bank, Schwinn Bicycle Co., Merlin’s 200,000 Mile Shops, Solo Cup Co., and Florsheim Shoe Co., Dr. Nahser earned a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MA degree in Religious Studies from Loyola/Mundelein College and the Ph.D. in American Business Philosophy from DePaul University.

In his four-year term as Provost and Co-CEO at Presidio School of Management, he re-positioned and re-branded the college, guided the faculty, refined and integrated the educational philosophy and the School’s curriculum and executive education program; and placed paramount emphasis on helping individual students discover their true callings through their careers, and organizations to connect their strategies with their values and vision.

Having successfully completed the first five iterations of the MBA program and played a major role in growing the School by ten-fold, from 22 students in 2004 to 220 students in 2008, Ron has been conferred the title “Provost Emeritus” by the College’s Board of Directors. As Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, he is nowleading the launch of an Executive Education Program on Integrative Sustainable Management.

He is also a Curator of the Willis Harman Archive and the Founding Partner of the Oxford Leadership Academy in USA. To read more about Dr. Nahser, visit his personal site.

Lorenzo Kristov, Ph.D.

Lorenzo Kristov is an energy policy strategist working to transform the architecture of our electricity systems to a distributed, layered structure that’s designed from the bottom up to provide community-level resilience and other local economic benefits, a structure that mimics the way nature designs complex organisms and ecosystems.

From 1999 to 2017 Lorenzo was a principal in market design for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the not-for-profit public benefit corporation that operates California’s high-voltage power grid and wholesale electricity markets. Following California’s notorious energy crisis in 2000, Lorenzo worked with a small group of CAISO experts to redesign the markets to be more stable and flexible by aligning the market systems with the physical structure and operation of the grid. Over the years he led other major projects to redesign core CAISO functions to align with and facilitate the rapid growth of renewable solar and wind resources.

In 2013 Lorenzo began to focus on the revolution in electric service being spurred by new clean technologies of all sizes that can be customized and installed locally, to meet local priorities and reduce dependence on the more vulnerable bulk power grid. The growth of scalable distributed resources upsets the century-old electricity paradigm, especially the utility-regulatory framework, which was designed for the centralized fossil fuel-based bulk power grid and is not adequate to meet today’s needs for sustainable energy, resilience and environmental and social equity.

Meeting these 21^st century needs requires opening the power system to bottom-up design and deployment of local electricity systems, which the 20^th century power system cannot accommodate without major reforms. Lorenzo therefore works on redesigning the institutional structure of the power industry — who’s responsible and accountable to do what; how should regulated monopoly utilities be defined to yield the greatest societal benefits of competitive third-party innovation and private investment. Using the discipline of grid architecture developed by the Department of Energy, Lorenzo is reimagining the regulated utilities as open-access platforms and technical experts supporting local governments and communities to create local electricity systems and enabling energy customers to become active participants in the operation of the power network.

Prior to joining the CAISO Lorenzo was an Energy Economist at the California Energy Commission (1995-9) and a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia (1993-4). He has a BS in Mathematics from Manhattan College, MS in Statistics from North Carolina State University, and PhD in Economics from the University of California Davis.

Notable Papers and Articles:

21st Century Electric Distribution System Operations (with Paul Di Martini, co-author) – May 2014 (NOTE: For an additional Academy Fellows commentary on this paper, please see The Role of Fuel Cells within a Microgrid System – by Rinaldo S. Brutoco, Nov 2014)

The Future History of Tomorrow’s Energy Network: A look back from the year 2050 on what we thought we once knew (downloadable pdf)

NOTE: Originally published in May 2015, Public Utilities Fortnightly (paywall)

To read more about Lorenzo’s work and find links to his publications please visit his LinkedIn page.

Gary Zukav

My life is dedicated to the birth of a new humanity. That birth is now in progress. We are all involved in it. The new humanity is being born inside us. We are awakening to new perceptions and new values. These are leading us to new goals.

Our new perceptions are that the Universe is alive, wise, and compassionate. It is a friendly place, not the violent, merciless place that we have often made our small part of it. Our new values are the values of the soul — harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. Our new goals are authentic power – the alignment of the personality with the soul — and a planet without conflict.

Your soul is much more than your personality. It is the essence of who you are. It existed before you were born, and it will exist after you die. We are beginning to understand that all that we choose, create, and experience is part of a learning process. That process serves the evolution of our souls. This is the heart of the new perception that is transforming the human experience. This is multisensory perception, the ability to see and experience far beyond the limitations of the five senses. Our species is becoming multisensory very fast.

This site serves the needs of the emerging multisensory humanity – the thirst for harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. Current social structures cannot meet these needs, and so, they are dissolving. We are creating their replacements – seven billion of us, together.

In other words, this web site is dedicated to spiritual growth and social transformation. It is to help us connect and share. A team of heart-connected volunteers worked hard to put this first version of it online in time for Oprah Winfrey’s shows featuring these ideas, and me, Gary Zukav. Much more is coming. Gatherings and conferences will be listed here. Innovative ways to access information and each other are being planned. In time, online interactions will be hosted here. Please make yourself at home, take what you need, and — as we become equipped for it — share what you have. To read more about Gary Zukav, visit his personal site.

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom, joy, and love. Let us make this the human experience.

Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.

Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., was Professor of Counseling for twenty-one years in the school of Education at the University of Colorado, where he began teaching in 1974 shortly after receiving his doctorate from Stanford University. Gay is one of the leading theorists in the emerging field of body-mind integration and is author of over 20 books in education, transpersonal psychology and centering, including Conscious Breathing, The Centering Book, Learning to Love Yourself, Conscious Loving (co-authored), At the Speed of Life, and The Corporate Mystic.

Gay’s work has been mentioned and/or reviewed in Self, GQ, Psychology Today, Yoga Journal, Delicious, Lotus Journal, Catalyst, USA Today, Edmonton Journal and Springs Magazine. Originally trained as a traditional psychologist, Gay later gravitated toward a body-centered approach after a life-changing experience taught him that when you resist your feelings, you create a state of duality. If you open up to what’s inside—what actually is—feel it deeply and learn to love it, the nature of the feelings change. To read more about Dr. Hendricks, visit his personal site.

George Land, Ph.D. (1932-2016)

In Memoriam

George Land was an author, speaker, consultant, and general systems scientist. In 1965 he founded a research and consulting institute to study the enhancement of creative performance. This research ultimately led to the formulation of Transformation Theory-a theory of natural processes that integrates principles of creativity, growth, and change. From these principles, Dr. Land developed unique strategic thinking and innovation processes for organizations. He invented the first computer-interactive approaches to group innovation, decision-making, and strategic thinking. His exceptional processes are now licensed by over 400 major corporations worldwide. Dr. Land has also taught interdisciplinary science and creative/innovative process to the faculties of some three dozen universities. Among his articles and books is his seminal work Grow or Die: the Unifying Principle of Transformation. Originally published in 1973 by Random House, it was a main selection of the Saturday Review Book Club and was submitted Random House as its nominee in the science category for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. With Dr. Beth Jarman he co-authored Breakpoint Beyond: Mastering the Future – Today, published by HarperCollins in 1993 now also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Korean. Dr. Land has been elected a senior fellow of the University of Minnesota, a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contributions to science, and a colleague and fellow of the Creative Education Foundation. In 1989, Dr. Land received the Outstanding Creative Achievement Award from the Creative Education Foundation for his lifetime achievements in creativity. In 1995, the Innovative Thinking Network created the George Land World Class Innovator Award in honor of Dr. Land. His listings include Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He passed away in March 2016, but his work on Transformation Theory and creativity will continue to impact the world for decades to come.

Academy Articles by George Land

Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future – Today

Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. (1925-2020)

In Memoriam

For words in remembrance of our dear colleague and friend, we invite you to view words from Dr. Jampolsky’s son, Dr. Lee Jampolsky, and a tribute in loving memory from Michael and Doris Stillwater.

Dr. Jampolsky is a graduate of Stanford Medical School and a former faculty member of the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, where he held fellowships in child psychiatry at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, and education. In 1975, he and some friends established the original Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California, where children and adults with life threatening illness may find peace of mind that is transforming for them and their families. Through his work at the Center, Dr. Jampolsky created the first Support Group Model now used extensively worldwide. In 1987, he helped co-found with his wife, Dr. Diane Cirincione, the AIDS Hotline for Kids based at the Center. There are now over 130 independent Centers for Attitudinal Healing, all serving their communities in 26 countries. Dr. Jampolsky has published extensively and is also the author of Love is Letting Go Of Fear; Teach Only Love: The 12 Principles of Attitudinal Healing; Goodbye to Guilt; Out of Darkness Into the Light; One Person Can Make a Difference; Forgiveness, The Greatest Healer of All; and Shortcuts to God. In addition to his co-authored books and tapes with Dr. Cirincione, he has authored and narrated the audiotapes Love Is Letting Go Of Fear; Teach Only Love; One Person Can Make a Difference; and Forgiveness, The Greatest Healer Of All.

Gordon Davidson

Gordon Davidson is the president of the Center for Visionary Leadership and a co-founder of Sirius Community, and is the founding director of the Social Investment Forum and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres). Through Soulight Consulting, he served as a consultant and personal coach in spiritual growth, leadership, conflict resolution and individual and group decision-making and worked closely with many corporate, government and nonprofit leaders and organizations. Gordon is co-author of The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change, Spiritual Politics, andBuilders of the Dawn, and is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He taught courses on meditation, leadership, and spiritual development for more than 30 years in the United States and Europe. He expressed his creative nature through gardening, photography, and painting and his well-developed sense of cosmic humor.

Academy Articles by Gordon Davidson:

Spirituality and Politics, What We Each Can Do to Create a Better World

Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Central Asia Institute, which works to empower communities in Central Asia through literacy and education, especially for girls; and to promote peace through education.

As described in Greg’s bio, as of 2010, Greg had established over 145 schools in rural and often volatile areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education for more than 64,000 children, including 52,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.

In 2009, Greg was awarded Pakistan’s highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan (“Star of Pakistan”) for his 15-year humanitarian efforts to promote girls’ education in rural areas.

Greg is the co-author of the bestseller, Three Cups of Tea (2006), which has sold over 4 million copies and been published in 47 countries.

His latest book is Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009). To read more about about Greg, visit his personal site.

Harlan Cleveland, PH.D. (1918-2008)

Dr. Cleveland was born January 19, 1918 and passed away May 30, 2008.

A Princeton University graduate in 1938, Dr. Cleveland was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1930s; an economic warfare specialist (in Washington, D.C.) and United Nations relief and rehabilitation administrator (in Italy and China) in the 1940s. In 1948 he joined the Economic Cooperation Administration, where he served as Director of the China Aid Program, then developed and managed U.S. aid to eight East Asian countries, and later became (as Assistant Director for Europe of the Mutual Security Agency) the Washington-based supervisor of the Marshall Plan for European recovery in its fourth year, 1952. In early1953 he left Washington to become executive editor, and later also publisher, of The Reporter magazine. In 1956 he was appointed dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He was a delegate from the state of New York to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. During the 1960s Harlan Cleveland served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the administration of President John F. Kennedy, and in 1965 was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as U.S. Ambassador to NATO, serving in that post also under President Richard Nixon until May 1969. From 1969 to 1974 he was President of the University of Hawaii, of which he is now President Emeritus. From 1974 to 1980 he developed and directed the Program in International Affairs of The Aspen Institute, with headquarters both in Princeton, New Jersey, and in Aspen, Colorado. During 1977-78 he was also chairman of the U.S. Weather Modification Advisory Board. In 1979 he served for one semester as the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor of World Peace at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.

During the 1980s he served as the founding dean of the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, a graduate school, research think-tank, and center for leadership education. He concurrently served two three-year terms as Trustee-at-Large of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He retired as Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, where he still has an office in the Humphrey Center. In 1991 he was elected to a five-year term as President of the World Academy of Art and Science, and in 1994 was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of VITA (Volunteers in Technical Assistance), a private voluntary agency based in Arlington, Virginia that has long worked on information transfer to developing countries and is now experimenting with low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites to bring into the world communication system people who still live “beyond the last telephone pole.” Harlan Cleveland has authored hundreds of magazine and journal articles, and eleven books, mostly on executive leadership and world affairs. The latest is Birth of a New World: An Open Moment for International Leadership(1993). Other books include The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society (1985), republished in paperback 1989, and The Global Commons: Policy for the Planet 1990). From 1987 to 1993 he wrote a fortnightly column on world affairs for the Star Tribune, Newspaper of the Twin Cities. Read more about Dr. Cleveland.

Academy Articles by Harlan Cleveland:

Beginning the World Again
The Global Confidence Game
Fairness and the Information Revolution
Needed: A Global Public Sector
The Global Century
The Inevitability of Uncentralization
The Transatlantic Erosion

Harrison Owen (1935-2024)

In Memoriam

Harrison Owen is President of H.H.Owen and Co. His academic background and training centered on the nature and function of myth, ritual and culture. In the middle ’60s, he left academe to work with a variety of organizations including small West African villages, urban (American and African) community organizations, Peace Corps, Regional Medical Programs, National Institutes of Health, and Veterans Administration. Along the way he discovered that his study of myth, ritual and culture had direct application to these social systems. In 1979 he created H.H.Owen and Company in order to explore the culture of organizations in transformation as a theorist and practicing consultant. Harrison convened the First International Symposium on Organization Transformation, and is the originator of Open Space Technology. He is the author of Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations, Leadership Is, Riding the Tiger, Open Space Technology: A Users Guide (Second Edition. Berrett-Koehler), The Millennium Organization, Tales From Open Space (editor), Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology (Berrett-Koehler), The Spirit of Leadership (Berrett-Koehler), The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform (Berrett- Koehler) and The Practice of Peace (Human Systems Dynamics Institute).

Client Engagements and Presentations: Owens/Corning Fiberglas, Procter and Gamble, Dupont, Eastern Virginia Medical Authority, Shell/Netherlands, Shell Tankers (Dutch), Shell/Canada, The French Ministry of Telecommunications (PTT), The US Forest Service, The US Internal Revenue Service, Jonathan Corporation, The US Army, Ikea (Sweden), Statoil (Norway), SAS Airlines, Young Presidents Organization, City University Business School (London), Gronigen University Business School (Holland), Taj Hotel Group (India), Congresso De Desarrollo Organizacional (Mexico), PepsiCola (Venezuela), National Education Association, Toronto-Dominion Bank (Canada), American Management Systems, American Society of Training and Development, Scott Paper, TELCEL/Venezuela, The American Society of Association Executives, The Presbyterian Church (USA), The Accor Hotel Group (France), Ermetek Corp (South Africa), The Union of International Associations (Belgium), Rockport Shoes, Corporate Express, The World Bank, AT&T, IBM, USWEST, The Organization Development Network, Lucent Technologies, Park-Davis Pharmaceuticals, Phillip Morris, and The Bank of Montreal. To read more about Harrison, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Harrison Owen

Learning for Free
Endings and New Beginnings: A Different Kind of Plant Closing
Sustaining Spirit with Structure
How is the Spirit?
A Transformative Moment …Now
The Business of Business is Learning

Hazel Henderson, Ph.D. (1933-2022)

In Memoriam

Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996).

Her editorials appear in 27 languages and in 200 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times,Christian Science Monitor; and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese. She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Foresight and Futures (UK).

She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), and Resurgence, Foresight and Futures (UK). She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996). Since becoming a full-time TV producer, Hazel has stepped down from her many board memberships, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), and other associations, including the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Hazel remains a Patron of the New Economics Foundation (London, UK) and a Fellow of the World Business Academy. The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFIý), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators (Desk Reference Manual, 2000), updated regularly at www.calvert-henderson.com.

In addition, she has been Regent’s Lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California-Berkeley, and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco, Soka University (Tokyo) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the World Future Society (USA), a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Hazel has many awards and is listed in Who’s Who USA, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Business and Finance and Who’s Who in Science and Technology. She is an Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to Britain’s Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754, and in 2010 she was honored as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior 2010” by Trust Across America. To read more about Dr. Henderson, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Hazel Henderson:

Helen Palmer

Helen Palmer is the author of five international best-selling books in the literature of consciousness. Her works include: The Enneagram: Exploring the Nine Psychological types and Their Inter-Relationships in Love and Life, The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate & Business Relationships, The Enneagram: Understand Yourself and the Other in Your Life, and The Pocket Enneagram: Understanding the 9 Types of People. Her most recent book, The Enneagram Advantage: Putting the 9 Personality Types to Work in the Office, pinpoints the interpersonal dimension in teambuilding, coaching, communication and motivation. She consults internationally, presents lectures and regularly conducts workshops on the issues addressed in her books. To read more about Helen, visit her personal site.

Jagdish Parikh, Ph.D.

Dr. Parikh is Managing Director of the Lemuir Group of Companies, a Director of the TechNova Group of Companies and Travel Corporation (India) Ltd.

Dr. Parikh has an MBA from Harvard and a PhD in Management. He is Co-founder of the World Business Academy (USA); Member, Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management (Manila); Founder President of the Centre for Executive Renewal (Switzerland) and Managing Trustee of the Education Foundation of India.

Dr. Jagdish Parikh is also a Keynote Speaker in various International Conferences.

He is a Visiting Speaker at CEDEP (France), DIEU (Denmark), Euroforum (Spain), Hernstein (Austria), IMD (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), IFL (Sweden), LIFIM (Finland), London Business School (UK), Lancaster University (UK), MCE (Belgium).

He is also a seminar speaker / consultant at several multinational corporations which include Ambrosetti, ExxonMobil, Gerling, IBM, KPMG, Lufthansa, Microsoft, Nokia, Novartis, Phillips, Scancem-Heidelberger, SEB, Swiss Air Group, Swiss Reinsurance, UBS, Weinerberger.

He is the author of “Managing Your Self: Management by Detached Involvement”; “Managing Relationships: Making a life while making a living”; Lead-author of “Intuition: The New Frontier of Management”; and co-author of “Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology”. He has also produced a multi-media interactive CD ROM on “Managing Your Self.”

He has worked in several honorary capacities for the Government of India as Chairman of FFC, now National Film Development Corporation (co-producer of the multiple Oscar winning film GANDHI); Vice Chairman of the Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism and in other advisory roles. To read more about Dr. Parikh, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Jagdish Parikh

Managing Relationships
Business Strategies in a Changing Paradigm

James B. Channon (1940-2017)

James B. Channon was born in 1940 and passed away September 10th, 2017.

Recognized worldwide as the original pioneer of the corporate visioning process he has been a trusted strategic designer for ten of the world’s hundred largest companies. He was the lead futurist and educational technologist for the U.S. Army. Jim has been described as a cross between Buckminster Fuller and Walt Disney. He created advanced visual language AVL and the virtual reality exercise VRX. He has done cultural voyaging with tribal groups worldwide. Presently his social architecture looks toward a new Pacific renaissance. Jim recently produced a thirty-hour theatrical outdoor adventure for three hundred business people in the great central desert in Western Australia. He is a lover of life, the fastest magic marker on the planet and a spell-binding story teller. To read more about James Channon, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by James Channon:

James C. Thompson

Jim Thompson is founder and Executive Director of Positive Coaching Alliance, a non-profit formed at Stanford University with the mission to create a movement to transform the culture of youth sports so that all youth athletes have a positive, character-building experience.

For more than 10 years, Jim was director of the Public and Global Management Programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also taught courses in leadership and non-profit issues. US News named Stanford’s Public Management Program the top nonprofit business management program in the nation in 1992.

He has a degree in elementary education from the University of North Dakota, a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Oregon, and an MBA from Stanford.

Since its founding in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance has developed a network of more than 130 trainers across the U.S., who have delivered 6,000-plus workshops for youth sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes. Jim was named one of the Top 100 Sports Educators in the U.S. by the Institute for International Sport in October 2007. Dan Doyle, IIS Executive Director, described PCA as “the finest organization of its kind in the United States.”

In March 2004, Jim was named an International Fellow by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public—an organization that recognizes outstanding social entrepreneurs.

He is the author of four books: The Double-Goal Coach, Positive Coaching, and Shooting in the Dark: Tales of Coaching and Leadership, and his most recent, Positive Coaching in a Nutshell.

Jim is a member of the faculty in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program where he teaches courses in coaching, leadership and sport and spirituality. To read more about James Thompson, visit his personal site.

James Milojkovic, Ph.D.

James Milojkovic (pr. Miloy’ko’vich) is the Founder and Chief Education Officer of KnowledgePassion.

Milo’s research and consulting focus on human motivation and highlight the power of language in thought and action for innovation and creativity at work.

His acclaimed executive programs on transformational thinking and creating breakthrough have been presented in Australia, Europe and throughout the United States.

Milo’s most recent clients include: Kaiser Permanente, Bayer Biotechnology, AppGenesys, NCR, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Apple Computer, Marriott International, SBC Internet Services, Adobe Systems, New United Motor Manufacturing, Foote, Cone & Belding, Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Company, and Hewlett-Packard.

Previously, Milo’s management experience was gained as Vice President for Research and Development at TeleLearning, Inc., a pioneer in interactive distance education via telecommunications. He subsequently served as Vice President of Market Research at Rowen Communications and as Executive Vice President at Creative Directions, Inc.

Milo founded and served as the Academic Director (1996-98) of the annual Stanford Leadership Academy as well as being a core faculty member of Stanford’s program on Managing Innovation. As a Lecturer at Stanford University, he has taught courses on Creative Thinking in the Center for Teaching and Learning, and on New Directions in Innovative Problem Solving in the Department of Psychology. The Stanford Instructional Television Network has broadcast his executive courses: Creating a Learning Organization, Breakthrough Learning and Leading with Emotional Intelligence.

Milo is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. Born and raised in Australia, he graduated with First Class Honors in Psychology from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a full scholarship to pursue graduate work at Stanford University where he earned an M.A. in Interactive Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Social Psychology. His research and practice of “Charismatic Teaching” have been recognized by a graduate teaching award from the American Psychological Association. To read more about Dr. Milojkovic, visit his personal site.

James “Mitch” Ewan

James “Mitch” Ewan is truly a leader in the hydrogen and fuel cell field. Mr. Ewan is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. After a successful naval career that included command of diesel-electric submarines and a destroyer, Mr. Ewan entered private industry where he served in a variety of senior executive positions including senior management (Board Member, VP & GM) of publicly traded companies.

His hydrogen and fuel cell career spans over 30 years. He led the team that designed and built the “Green Car”, the world’s first PEM fuel cell powered automobile. Mr. Ewan is the former Co-Chair of the United States National Hydrogen Association and served on the Business Advisory Board of the Florida Solar Energy Center. For the past 19 years Mr. Ewan has been on the staff of the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (“HNEI”) as the Hydrogen Systems Program Manager where he is helping to develop HNEI’s hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cell programs including two hydrogen production and fueling stations, and three fuel cell electric buses.

He is the host of the ThinkTech Hawaii weekly energy show entitled “Hawaii: The State of Clean Energy.” Mitch also serves on the advisory boards of several renewable energy and hydrogen related companies. He has been awarded two hydrogen-related patents.

Mr. Ewan also has several publications dealing with hydrogen and fuel cell energy. To read them, visit his publications page. For more on Mr. Ewan’s resume, visit his LinkedIn page.

Jayantilal (Andy) K. Chande (1928-2017)

Sir Jayantilal K. Chande was born May 7, 1928 and passed away April 6, 2017.

Born in Kenya, Andy, who was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, was a fellow of the International Academy of Management and of the Chartered Management Institute, England. He had an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from International Management Centres, England, and a Consulting Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (International Multi-Disciplinary Research Group). He was also a member of the Conference Board, New York, and of the Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California.

A former Member of Parliament in Tanzania, he had served on the country’s Executive Council – the highest governing organ. He had served either as Chairman or as a member of the Board of Directors of a number of private and public companies and of government and multi-government corporations including East African Railways Corporation, East African Harbours Corporation, Tanzania Harbours Authority, Air Tanzania Corporation and Tanzania Tourist Corporation. He was Chairman of Tanzania Railways Corporation and of Barclays Bank Tanzania Limited.

Andy was advisor to the Ministerial Committee of the Organization of African Unity dealing with the Arab League on the oil crisis. He was the deputy leader of Tanzania’s delegation to the UN Preparatory Committee for the Rio Conference on Environment and Development. He was elected to serve as the coordinator between the countries in G77 (and China) and G7 on fiscal environmental facility and participated in the Rio Summit.

Andy was a Board Member of the Muhimbili National Hospital – the largest teaching Hospital in Tanzania and Founder of a school for deaf children in Dar es Salaam. He was actively associated with many other educational, social and welfare institutions.

Andy is survived by his wife Jayli. They have three sons and three grandchildren. To read more about Jayantilal Chande, visit his personal site.

Jean Houston, Ph.D.

Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement.

In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher of the Mystery School, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential. The Mystery School began in 1983 and takes place on both the East and West Coasts annually.

Dr. Houston is a prolific writer and author of 26 published books, including A Passion for the Possible, The Possible Human, Public Like a Frog, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, and The Passion of Isis and Osiris. Her book Jump Time explores a new Global Paradigm and speaks boldly of a re-genesis of human society. The questions raised in this book and the exciting suggestion of possibilities are producing new pioneers – Social Artists – working on the frontiers of this new global society. As well as the Mystery School, Dr. Houston offers seminars in Social Artistry.

A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Dr. Houston has worked intensively in 40 cultures helping to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness while they become part of the global community. She has worked in over 100 countries and is the recipient of many awards. She works at all levels of leadership and is currently broadening her work with the United Nations as a Senior Advisor to the UNDP – training leaders in developing countries this new field of Social Artistry (human development in the light of social complexity).

In 2007, Dr. Houston received a mandate from Dr. Monica Sharma, the Director of Leadership and Capacity Development for the United Nations to train 10,000 trainers, who in turn will be training some 100 million people worldwide by 2017.

Jean Houston’s ability to inspire and invigorate people enables her to readily convey her vision – the finest possible achievement of the individual potential – while sharing with her audiences and students throughout the world the inner fire and excitement of that possibility!

Academy Articles by Jean Houston:

Our Evolutionary Journey: It’s Jump Time
We are all New Yorkers

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Website: www.jeanhouston.org

Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D.

Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is an author, anthropologist and activist. From 1972 to 2014 he served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught a course on “Psychedelics and Culture.” Dr. Brown is coauthor with Julie M. Brown of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Inner Traditions, 2016). He is also coauthor of “Sacred Plans and the Gnostic Church,” Journal of Ancient History (2014) and of the forthcoming “Entheogens in Christian Art,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies (2019). Brown received his B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Antioch College and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University.

Over the past decades, Dr. Brown has worked to create positive social and environmental change through public policy organizations. In the 1960s, Dr. Brown coordinated Cesar Chavez’s Grape Boycott on behalf of California farm workers. In the 1980s, he worked with Business Executives for National Security, an organization of Fortune 1000 executives that lobbied to prevent nuclear war and end the Cold War. From 2013-2018, he coordinated the World Business Academy’s Safe Energy Project to close the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear power plants in California. He serves as an Academy Fellow and Director.

Dr. Brown is co-author of Profiles in Power: The Antinuclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and of numerous articles on energy policy and social change. He is co-author with Rinaldo S. Brutoco and James A. Cusumano of Freedom from Mid-East Oil (2007), which describes how America can significantly decrease dependence on foreign oil in ten years.

Jessica H. Fullmer

Jessica Fullmer is founder and CEO of Mo-DV. Mo-DV was formed in the summer of 2002 to use memory cards for video in mobile devices, demonstrating full motion VHS-quality color video.

Founded and grew the Sustainable Business Institute, a nationally and globally recognized institution for the business community to take the lead in implementing worldwide sustainability practices where she managed hundreds of people. She was responsible for obtaining over $3 million in funds, goods and services to fund operations and activities to build brand and products for the globally respected and recognized organization, the Sustainable Business Institute.

As Western field Coordinator, Jessica managed over 250 sales agents and 12 branch managers at a p harmaceutical/cosmetic firm. Her organization had top sales, internationally, 10 years consecutively. Western Field Coordinator. She was one of 5 people to be advisor to chairman of the Board for product development and strategy.

Consulted for several hundred organizations within the private sector, government, and education (including teaching at numerous colleges and universities). During that time she worked with numerous special government groups, the last being the merger for Lockheed Martin for the first commercial strategic planning off-site, that led to closing a multimillion dollar client.

One of the 14 Board of Directors: West Coast Quality Forum (SEMATECH) responsible for supply chain development

Fullmer was mentored and trained by Dr Edwards Deming and his protégées. These are methods and practices that explore the concepts, processes, and skills necessary for sustainable change in a quality-focused corporate culture. IBM, Intuit, NASA, Avery Dennison, and Lockheed are a few of the companies that Jessica has worked with in that field. To read more about Jessica Fullmer, visit her personal site.

Jim Selman

Jim Selman, the founder of Paracomm International, was among the first practitioners to distinguish organizational culture as a phenomenon in the early 1970s. A pioneer in the field of organizational transformation, in 1984 he introduced “coaching” as an alternative paradigm of management and distinguished the leverage points for leaders and managers to generate change. His original work offers a new paradigm for transformational leadership and sustainable cultural change that produces recognized, lasting benefits. Mr. Selman’s theories and practices constitute a technology for mastery of what he distinguishes as the ‘emerging paradigm’. A member of the Transformational Leadership Council, this innovator and leader has worked extensively on four continents for more than 30 years to address issues of cross-cultural coordination, deconstruct deeply ingrained cultural patterns, and create business processes based on new ways of observing action.

As a coach, facilitator and consultant, he has made numerous breakthrough contributions to his clients’ capacity to mobilize people and build competencies in the areas of communication, relationship, business process design, coordination and executive leadership.

He received his BA degree from the University of Oklahoma with majors in Social Psychology and Philosophy, and he attended graduate school at the University of Florida. He is co-founder of an accredited post-graduate coaching program in Buenos Aires. Jim has spoken widely and published groundbreaking works. To read more about Jim Selman, visit his personal site.

John Adams, Ph.D.

John D. Adams, Ph.D. has been at the forefront of the Organization Development profession for more than 30 years. He was the chair of the sustainable development task force at the World Business Academy and is the owner of Eartheart Enterprises, an international publishing, consulting, and speaking business.

John has produced 11 books and over 50 articles on a variety of personal and organizational change topics. His widely acclaimed books, Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, were the first to define organizational transformation and to encourage the creation of visions to guide business in today’s complex marketplace. His Understanding and Managing Stress series of books were among the first to define the challenges of “Work-Life Balance.”

Most recently, he has written two books to provide guidance and support for living in the 21st Century:

Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of the Sustainable Consciousness

Life Changes: Growing Through Personal Transition

Academy Articles by John Adams:

Six Dimensions of a Sustainable Consciousness

Managing Dispersed Work Effectively

John B. Taylor, Ph.D.

John B. Taylor, Ph.D. is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He formerly served as the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he is now a senior fellow, and he was founding director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center.

Taylor’s academic fields of expertise are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. He is known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy, which has been applied by central banks and financial market analysts around the world. He has an active interest in public policy. Taylor is currently a member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, where he also previously served from 1996 to 1998. In the past, he served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1976 to 1977, as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1991. He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 2001.

For four years from 2001 to 2005, Taylor served as Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs where he was responsible for U.S. policies in international finance, which includes currency markets, trade in financial services, foreign investment, international debt and development, and oversight of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He was also responsible for coordinating financial policy with the G-7 countries, was chair of the working party on international macroeconomics at the OECD, and was a member of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. His book Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World chronicles his years as head of the international division at Treasury.

Taylor was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award for his overall leadership in international finance at the U.S. Treasury.

He was also awarded the Treasury Distinguished Service Award for designing and implementing the currency reforms in Iraq, and the Medal of the Republic of Uruguay for his work in resolving the 2002 financial crisis. In 2005, he was awarded the George P. Shultz Distinguished Public Service Award. Taylor has also won many teaching awards; he was awarded the Hoagland Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the Rhodes Prize for his high teaching ratings in Stanford’s introductory economics course. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society; he formerly served as vice president of the American Economic Association.

Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1984, Taylor held positions as professor of economics at Princeton University and Columbia University. Taylor received a B.A. in economics summa cum laudefrom Princeton University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1973. To read more about Dr. Taylor, visit his personal site.

John Raisian, Ph.D.

Dr. Raisian is an economist who specialized in national and international labor market and human resource issues. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution in 1986, he was President of Unicon Research Corporation, an economic consulting firm. In 1980, he entered public service as a senior economist in the Office of Research and Evaluation, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1981, he joined the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy. As a result of his work for the U.S. Department of Labor, he received the Department’s Distinguished Service award. In 1983, he took a leave of absence from the Labor Department to serve as executive director of the President’s Task Force on Food Assistance. Dr. Raisian has published numerous articles on the economics of labor markets, one of which resulted in an award from the Western Economic Association in 1979 as the best publication of the year in Economic Inquiry. To read more about Dr. Raisian, visit his personal site.

Joseph Jaworski

Joseph Jaworski has devoted much of his life to exploring the deeper dimensions of transformational leadership. As founder and Chairman of both Generon International and the Global Leadership Initiative, Joseph advises CEOs and senior executives in Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in the design and execution of large-scale organizational change as well as strategy formation and implementation. He is a pioneer and prominent thought leader in the discipline of ‘Strategic Foresight’, enabling leaders to deepen their capacity for tactical and strategic insight.

Joseph began his professional career as an attorney at Bracewell, a prominent international law firm, where he was a senior partner and a member of the executive committee. In 1975, he was elected as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor awarded to the top 1% of American litigators. In addition, he ran a successful horse-breeding operation (Circle J Enterprises) and helped found several businesses including a life insurance company and an oil refining company.

In 1980, Joseph founded the American Leadership Forum, a non-governmental organization dedicated to strengthening collaborative civic leadership in the United States. Ten years later, he joined the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies in London to head Shell’s renowned team of scenario planners. Under his leadership, the Shell team made a fundamental shift in the way the company framed and used scenarios as a tool for strategy formation. Joseph encouraged the company to use scenarios not merely to adapt to different possible futures, but to generate—to participate in bringing forth—better futures.

Joseph returned to the U.S. as a senior fellow and member of the Board of Governors of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, later co-founding the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). Jaworski is the author of the critically acclaimed international best-seller, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership (2nd Edition released June 6, 2011). He is also co-author of Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (Doubleday/SoL, 2005), which explores the collaborative development of a new theory of profound innovation and change.

Joseph’s most recent book, Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation, was published in January 2012. That book describes the development of the process of Generative Discovery, which enables organizations, teams and individuals to access the source from which truly profound innovation and discovery flow.

Jaworski currently resides in Wimberley, Texas. To read more about Joseph, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Joseph Jaworski

Leadership – Six Essential Elements

Karen Wilhelm Buckley

Committed to cultivating conscious awareness in leadership for over three decades, Karen partners with leaders and their organizations over many years as they develop wise leadership – the skills, strategies, and presence to cultivate committed performance and effectively drive change. Leaders and their teams expand their rich potential, create sustainable enterprises and establish cooperative partnerships that promote the common good through Karen’s company, Communicore, which provides consultation, coaching and training.

Karen’s passion is designing focused dialogue that results in meaningful action. She convenes women’s leadership retreats in Hawaii and online wisdom retreats on living love through leadership. Based on the highly successful Women’s Forums at the June 2003 Spirit in Business Global Conference in San Francisco and the WBA Global Conference in 2004, she has convened US and European forums to bring together leaders effectively working toward a sustainable, caring and regenerative world.

In 1989 Karen co-organized and facilitated an International Conference on Intuition in Business sponsored by the World Business Academy and the International Management Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2002 and 2003 Karen moderated the leading-edge Spirit in Business Global Conferences bringing together business and community leaders, spiritual teachers, and academics to explore the boundaries and relevance of spirit and wisdom in business.

Karen received the first Annual Willis Harman Award in 1990 for her outstanding contribution as a Fellow of the Academy.

A published author and experienced speaker on wisdom in leadership, personal transformation, and managing complex change, her work facilitates breakthroughs in leaders, key meetings, and across organizations – from multi-nationals to government systems to privately held companies to non-profits and communities. Karen’s work on organizational change and spirit-filled leadership has been published in many professional journals and books, including Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, edited by John D. Adams, (also a WBA Fellow) 1984 and 1986, re-published in 1998. The Washington Post called each “A classic in its field.”

Karen’s bi-monthly blog explores timely topics and proven strategies around wise leadership, women leaders, managing change, and small business coaching.

Karen is an active participant in a number of professional associations including:

The Conscious Leadership Guild
GLEN – Global Learning and Exchange Network
Verdant World – where humans and forests thrive
And has been a Fellow with the World Business Academy since 1987 when Willis Harman personally invited her to join.

Because of a passion for spirit-based whole-child education Karen co-founded the GreenWood School in Mill Valley, California, in 1992, an innovative Waldorf inspired elementary school.

Friends, collaborators, gardening, hiking Mt. Tamalpais, and rolling out a yoga mat bring her great joy along with adventuring with her two adult children and their mates, her husband, and big red fluffy dog.

To read more about Karen visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Karen Buckley:

Cultivating Spirit in Organizations

Karl-Hendrik Robert, M.D.

Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt is one of Sweden’s foremost cancer scientists whose work on damaged human cells led to a deep interest in the environment and his subsequent founding of The Natural Step – a framework for strategic planing toward ecological sustainability that is world-renowned. He was awarded the Green Cross Award for International Leadership in 1999, and the Blue Planet prize – “the Nobel prize of the Environment” – in 2000. To read more about Dr. Robert, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Karl-Henrik Robert:

The Natural Step In The United States: A Consensus Approach
The Hope of Our Hidden Leadership

Kate Ludeman, Ph.D.

Kate Ludeman is a widely recognized executive coach, speaker and author. In 1988, Kate founded Worth Ethic Corporation. Her BS in engineering and PhD in psychology give her a unique approach when working with analytical, data-oriented executives who want to expand their emotional intelligence and create company cultures where people perform at their highest potential.

With 20 years of experience, Kate has worked with over 1,000 senior executives in a wide range of industries. She has coached CEOs, presidents and vice presidents in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America as well as the United States. Previously, she was Vice President of Human Resources for a high-tech Silicon Valley company.

In 1999, Kate was a featured speaker at the Fortune Magazine Summit of the Best and Most Admired Companies. In 1998, Worth Ethic was ranked on Inc. Magazine’s List of 500 Fastest Growing Companies, and Executive Women International honored Kate with the Ma Ferguson Award for Excellence in Business.

Her fourth book, Radical Change, Radical Results was released in May, 2003. Her previous books include The Worth Ethic, Earn What Youýre Worth, and The Corporate Mystic, now in its eighth printing.

Kate has written articles for Harvard Business Review, the New York Times and dozens of business publications.

In 1991-1992, Kate wrote and filmed Work-Wise, a weekly TV column for a news show aired by San Francisco’s ABC affiliate, which was nominated for an Emmy. Kate has appeared on more than 100 television and radio programs and hosted a portion of “Good Morning, Dallas” for a year. To read more about Dr.Ludeman, visit her personal site.

Kirk Hanson

Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, is University Professor of Organizations and Society. In 2001, he took early retirement from Stanford University where he taught business ethics in the Graduate School of Business for 23 years.

As executive director, Hanson coordinates the work of 15 staff who work directly for the Ethics Center and 50 faculty who are affiliated with it. The Markkula Ethics Center is one of the most active ethics centers in the United States, working in the fields of business, biotechnology and health care, K-12 character education, public policy and government, and emerging issues in ethics. Its affiliated faculty scholars work on all aspects of applied ethics, the professions, and their academic fields.

At Stanford from 1978 through 2001, Hanson was senior lecturer in business administration and a national leader in the study of business ethics and business responsibility. He was also faculty director of the Stanford Sloan Program, Stanford’s master’s program for mid-career executives. He taught in Stanford’s MBA and Executive Programs for 23 years.

Hanson writes on managing the ethical and public behavior of corporations. His current research interests are social auditing and the design of corporate values programs. He was the founding president of The Business Enterprise Trust, a national organization created by leaders in business, labor, media and academia to promote exemplary behavior in business; the first chairman of the Santa Clara County Political Ethics Commission; and has written a weekly column for the San Jose Mercury News. He has served on the boards of the Social Venture Network and Students for Responsible Business, national organizations; and of American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley. He served on the Advisory Board of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics from 1995 until his appointment to head the Center. He has twice chaired Stanford’s Committee on Investment Responsibility, which advises the Stanford Board of Trustees on social investment issues.

Hanson is a graduate of Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has held graduate fellowships and research appointments at the Yale Divinity School and the Harvard Business School. To read more about Kirk Hanson, visit his personal site.

Lance H. Secretan, Ph.D.

Lance Secretan is a pathfinder and missionary, and one of the world’s foremost thinkers about leadership, inspiring people at work and reawakening spirit and values in work and life. A master teacher, Dr. Secretan works with a gifted worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and companies and revolutionizing the way they think about leadership. He is an international best-selling author, an award winning columnist, philosopher, corporate healer, and one of North America s most sought-after keynote speakers, retreat leaders, and business advisors. Voted one of the nation’s top ten speakers, and one of the twenty-first Century’s most influential, he addresses audiences around the world. One in five of Industry Week’s 100 Best-Managed Companies are among his clients. Lance was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and former Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program. In recognition of a lifetime of caring about people and the planet, Lance was awarded the prestigious International Caring Award (the US equivalent of the Nobel Prize), whose other recipients include Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall. The International Management Council has also recognized his contribution to leadership with the McFeely Leadership Award. Lance lives with his wife Tricia and their wonder dog, Spirit, on the edge of a 700-acre wilderness in Ontario, Canada. To read more about Dr. Secretan, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Lance Secretan:

Larry Spears

Larry Spears was named Chief Executive Officer of The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership in 1990. Spears had previously been Managing Director of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, a cooperative association of 12 colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. He has also previously served as a staff member with the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s Philadelphia Center and Friends Journal, both in Philadelphia, PA.

Spears grew up in Detroit, Michigan and in Shelby County, Indiana, and graduated from Morristown High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from DePauw University.

Larry is also a writer and editor. Since 1970 he has published over 300 articles, essays and book reviews, including many for in-house publications. He has also been interviewed by numerous publications, including: Fortune, The Indianapolis Business Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, and Advancing Philanthropy. His recent articles include: ” Servant-Leadership: Quest for Caring Leadership,” and, “Servant-Leadership and Philanthropic Institutions.” He writes and edits the Greenleaf Center’s quarterly newsletter, The Servant Leader.

Larry is the editor of Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership in the 21st Century (2002, John Wiley & Sons), The Power of Servant Leadership (1998, Berrett-Koehler), Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit and Servant-Leadership (1998, John Wiley & Sons) and Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf’s Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today’s Top Management Thinkers (1995, John Wiley & Sons), as well as the co-editor of Seeker and Servant (1996, Jossey-Bass) and On Becoming a Servant Leader (1996, Jossey-Bass). He is also a contributing author to Cutting Edge: Leadership 2000 (2000, University of Maryland), Stone Soup for the World (1998, Conari Press), and Leadership in a New Era (1994, New Leaders Press). Larry is Series Editor of the Voices of Servant-Leadership Essay Series.

Spears is a frequent speaker on servant-leadership. The titles of some of his addresses include “Servant-Leadership and the Honoring of Excellence,” and “Greenleaf’s Influence on Trusteeship.” Among his presentations are addresses to The University of Michigan, Alberta (Canada) School Board Association, Indiana Bell, National Society for Experiential Education, and the Association of College Honor Societies. He has also addressed audiences in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Under Larry’s leadership The Greenleaf Center has experienced tremendous growth and influence throughout the 1990’s. The Center now has eight branch offices around the world. Larry has two decades of experience in entrepreneurial development and grant-writing, having envisioned and authored 30 successful grant projects totalling over three million dollars. He is a longtime member of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, the World Futures Society, the National Society for Experiential Education, and the American Society of Association Executives. From 1988-2000 Larry served as a board trustee for Friends Journal and chaired its advancement committee. Larry is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and serves on the Advisory Board for its publication called Perspectives. He and his wife, Beth, are the parents of two sons: James, 14; and, Matthew, 11. To read more about Larry, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Larry Spears:

The Power of Servant-Leadership

Lester R. Brown

The Washington Post called Lester Brown “one of the world’s most influential thinkers.” The Telegraph of Calcutta refers to him as “the guru of the environmental movement.” In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.”

Brown started his career as a farmer, growing tomatoes in southern New Jersey with his younger brother during high school and college. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. In 1959 Brown joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service as an international agricultural analyst.

Brown earned masters degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Maryland and in public administration from Harvard. In early 1969, he helped establish the Overseas Development Council.

In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lester Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues.

Brown has authored or coauthored 50 books. One of the world’s most widely published authors, his books have appeared in some 40 languages. His most recent book is World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

In May 2001, he founded the Earth Policy Institute to provide a vision and a road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. In November 2001, he published Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, which was hailed by E.O. Wilson as “an instant classic.”

He is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including 25 honorary degrees, a MacArthur Fellowship, the 1987 United Nations’ Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his “exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems.” More recently, he was was selected one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers of 2010. To read more about Lester Brown, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Lester Brown:

Wind Power: The Missing Link to Bush’s Energy Plan
Eco-Economy Offers Alternative to Middle East Oil
World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent In 2001
World’s Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure
Ecological Deficits Taking Economic Toll
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Crossing the Lines: What’s the Future of Wind Energy?
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Part 1
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Part 2
Guns or Butter, Food or Fuel

Linda Crompton

“Innovation and perspective comes from the margins.” – Linda Crompton

Linda Crompton (Dallas. Texas) is an internationally recognized thought leader with a focus on helping women to reach their full potential, and on transforming the nature of leadership to fit the priorities of today. With more than 25 years of experience in leading organizations to achieve both profitability and mission-driven objectives in various markets, she has served as senior executive, consultant, and strategy advisor in nonprofit and for-profit sectors. She has more than 25 years of experience as a CEO of six national organizations across Canada and the US, and brings a strong and diverse background in pioneering innovative strategies to achieve mission-driven objectives.

The first woman to head a bank in Canada, Linda has a track record of innovation – including initiatives to help pave the way for women’s advancement, as well as being an influential force in the world of ethical investment and corporate governance. She is an outspoken proponent of corporate responsibility and ethical business practice, holding the view that within the next 20 years, the only successful corporations of the future will have a human-values base, rather than profit-only approach, to doing business.

In 1987, Linda began her career in the Canadian banking industry, where she was the driving force behind the creation of Canada’s first electronic bank, as well as the first bank with a social mandate. From 1996 through 2001, Linda served as Founding President/CEO of Citizens Bank of Canada in Vancouver.

Since 2001, she has called the U.S. home, when she was named President and CEO of the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute. From 2007 to 2013, Linda served as President/CEO of BoardSource. Since 2013, she has been an adviser to organizations wanting to expand their capacity and respond to new market demands.

She is currently the President and CEO of Leadership Women, Inc. – the largest and longest-running women’s leadership development organization in the nation. The role allows her to combine a lifelong interest in accelerating opportunities for women with a passion for recreating the concept of ‘leadership’.

A lifelong advocate for women, she has used a gender lens in her work to ensure equality and leadership opportunities for women. In the banking industry, Linda spearheaded the creation of Return to Work, a program designed to encourage women to stay engaged with their work while taking maternity leave. As CEO of Citizens Trust, the predecessor to Citizens Bank of Canada, she revised loan criteria in order to level the playing field for female entrepreneurs.

Linda has also been a columnist for Woman to Woman magazine and, in more recent years, advocated for more women candidates in corporate board roles.

In addition to her commitment to equity for women, Linda has advocated for global sustainability and action on climate change for almost thirty years. She served on the first boards of directors for ethically screened funds, and was an early supporter of ESG factors to be included in mainstream investment decision making – serving as CEO of IRRC (Investor Responsibility Research Center) in the mid 2000’s. In 2020, she was appointed Co-Chair of the Global Advisory Board of Ethical Markets Media, a leading provider of sustainability-based research and technologies worldwide.

Linda holds B.A., M.A., and M.B.A. degrees.

Lynne Twist

For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty and hunger and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, Lynne’s on-the-ground work has brought her a deep understanding of the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in.

Author and Writer

The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspired Lynne to write her best-selling, award-winning book “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life” (W.W. Norton, 2003).

The book has been translated into eight languages including Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, French, German, Japanese, Bulgarian and Portuguese. In addition, Lynne has contributed chapters to more than ten books including:

“Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Live Them” Katherine Martin (New World Library, 1999)

“Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals” Darian Rodriguez Heyman (Jossey-Bass, 2011)

“Einstein’s Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination, and Excellence in the Workplace” Dawson Church, Ph.D. (Elite Books, 2007)

“Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution” Barbara Marx Hubbard (Shift Books, 2012)

Ms. Twist has written numerous articles for RSF Quarterly, Fetzer Institute, Noetic Sciences Quarterly, YES! Magazine and Balance, to name a few.

Consultant and Coach

Founder of the Soul of Money Institute, Lynne has worked with over 100,000 people in 50 countries in board retreats, workshops, keynote presentations and one-on-one coaching in the arenas of fundraising with integrity, conscious philanthropy, strategic visioning and having a healthy relationship with money.

Her clients cover a wide variety of profit, social profit (nonprofit) and educational institutions including: Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, Charles Schwab, United Way, The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Women Presidents’ Organization, Young Presidents’ Organization, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Stanford Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University.Ms. Twist has been an advisor to several organizations, including the Desmond Tutu Foundation, Network of Grateful Living and The Nobel Women’s Initiative — an initiative of seven living Nobel Women Peace Laureates who work together to end violence against women and girls.

Keynote Speaker

A sought-after speaker, Lynne travels the world giving keynote presentations and workshops for conferences including: United Nations Beijing Women’s Conference, Nobel Women’s Conference on Sexual Violence, State of the World Forum Conference, Alliance for a New Humanity Conference with Deepak Chopra, Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Governor’s Conference on California Women, among others.

In addition, she has co-presented and shared the stage with some of today’s most influential thought leaders including: Angeles Arrien, Marianne Williamson, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, F.W. de Klerk, Stephen Covey, Riane Eisler, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jane Goodall, Jean Houston, Roshi Joan Halifax and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. To read more about Lynne Twist, visit her personal site.

Marc Luyckx, Ph.D.

Born in 1942, married with Isabelle, six children, He is living in the neighbourhood of Brussels. He has studied mathematics, Philosophy and has a PhD in Russian and Greek Theology. He has lived in Italy, Brazil, and USA, and has lectured in Brazil, US and Europe.

He has been during almost 10 years, working directly for Presidents of the European Commission Jacques Delors and Jacques Santer, as a member of the “Forward Studies Unit”, in the European Commission, from 1990 until 1999. He was in charge of the meaning of the European construction and of its ethical, cultural, religious, and political dimensions, in the context of the paradigm shift. To read more about Dr. Luyckx, visit his personal site.

He is now active in futurology research and is:

Director of “Vision 2020”, a think Tank on the post industrial society (New paradigm).
Expert for the Information Society Programs of the European Commission, Brussels.
Visiting Professor at Dunkerque, Rouen, IEPAL Brussels etc. University Degrees:
MA in Mathematics (civil engineer) University of Louvain, Belgium 1960
Baccalauréat en Philosophie. University of Louvain.1961
Licence (MBA) in Catholic Theology. University of Louvain, 1967
PHD (Doctoratus) in Russian and Greek Theology, (“Pontificio Istituto Orientale”), Rome Italy. 1972.

Honours and memberships

Fellow of the “World Business Academy”, Ojai, Ca. USA
Fellow of the “World Academy of Arts and Science”. USA.
Member of the Exec. Committee of the Brussels-EU Chapter of the “Club of Rome”.

Latest Publications…

” Au delà de la modernité, du Patriarcat et du capitalisme: la société réenchantée.” Préface Ilya Prigogine (+), Prix Nobel 1977. Editeur: L’Harmattan, Paris. 2001.
” Neskey: An innovative research on Sustainable development and social inclusion” In Ianis Newsletter www.ianis.net/downloadables/repository/IANIS_NL_Oct_03.PDF October 2003, p.16.

Academy Articles by Marc Luyckx:

Global Mind Change: Homage to Willis Harman

Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley is president of The Berkana Institute, and an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973 and a dedicated global citizen since her youth. Her first work was as a public school teacher and urban education administrator in New York, and a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea. She also has been Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and Cambridge College, Massachusetts.

For the past decade, she has been working with an unusually broad variety of organizations on six different continents. Her clients and audiences range from the head of the U.S. Army to twelve year old Girl Scouts, from CEOs to small town ministers. This diversity includes large corporations, government agencies, healthcare institutions, foundations, public schools, colleges, major church denominations, the armed forces, professional associations, and monasteries. All of these organizations are wrestling with a common dilemma – how to maintain their integrity and effectiveness as they cope with relentless pressures for speed and change in chaotic environments. But there is also another similarity: A common human desire to live together more harmoniously, more humanely.

The Berkana Institute is a charitable scientific, educational, and research foundation founded in 1991. Berkana experiments with the new ideas, processes, and structures that represent the future of organizing. It has actively explored, through dialogues, seminars, and consulting, how organizations can develop and sustain their capacity, clarity and resiliency in these turbulent times. Information about Berkana can be obtained from www.berkana.org. In 2000, Berkana initiated From the Four Directions: People Everywhere Leading the Way. This a global leadership initiative that organizes on-going circles of leaders in local communities across the world, and then connects these local circles into a global community of life-affirming leaders. To read more about Margaret Wheatley, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Margaret Wheatley:

The New Story is Ours to Tell
Journeying to a New World
Honest Leadership: Finding the Answers Together

Mark-André Olivier

Marc-André has co-developed and co-facilitated the Learning as Leadership curriculum for 15 years. He has studied organizational learning techniques with some of the most respected pioneers in the field, and combines this with a background in economic development, healthcare and intercultural dialogue. Marc-André’s unique insights into human behavior enable him to assist participants in moving beyond deep-rooted patterns that prevent them from achieving their goals. As a primary designer of LaL’s public and in-house training programs, Marc-André coaches management teams and executives to practically apply the tools of LaL to their current business challenges. He is a Member Consultant of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and studied mathematics and physics at Reims University in France. He has lectured at University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business on the topic of “Mental Models and Leadership.” To read more about Marc-André, visit his personal site.

Mark Gerzon

Mark Gerzon is one of the key architects of the field of global leadership and global citizenship, an experienced facilitator and mediator in high-conflict zones, and a best-selling author.

He has advised a wide variety of organizations including the UNDP, multinational corporations, and the U.S. Congress. He now serves as UN advisor on leadership in conflict-torn countries in Africa and Asia.

For the past 20 years, Mark has served as President of Mediators Foundation, a non-profit he founded which is an incubator of innovative projects to resolve conflict and promote cross-cultural and cross-ideological understanding. Mark also founded the Conflict Transformation Collaborative, a network of peace-builders from around the world, and co-founded the Global Leadership Network. As a former EastWest Institute Distinguished Fellow, he spearheaded EWI’s Global Leadership Consortium, which harnesses talent from around the world to address threats to global peace and security.

Earlier in life, he co-founded WorldPaper, a “global newspaper” that reached a circulation of 1.5 million in five languages; worked as a citizen diplomat to bring together Soviet and American civic leaders to help end the cold war; served as president of a socially responsible film company; founded a Rockefeller Foundation community conflict resolution project; and designed and facilitated the first and second U.S. House of Representatives’ Bipartisan Congressional Retreats.

In addition to Leading Through Conflict, his most recent books include Global Citizens, which already has Dutch, Korean, and Japanese editions; Chinese, Arabic and other editions are being developed. To address the particular challenges of U.S. citizens becoming global citizens, he created a U.S. version of Global Citizens, called American Citizen, Global Citizen.

He is now designing an interactive, awareness-raising workshop, “The Global Citizen Journey” based on his most recent books.

His articles and commentaries have appeared recently in newspapers ranging from the Washington Post to the International Herald Tribune. He is a graduate of Harvard College.

Mark S. Albion, Ph.D.

After twenty years as a student and marketing professor at Harvard Business School, Dr. Albion made the decision that there was more to living than the quest for “money, power and fame.” He founded You & Co., a recruiting firm that matches MBAs and socially responsible companies, and co-founded Students for Responsible Business, which now has branches at more than 100 business schools. He is a New York Times best-selling author of the book Making a Life, Making a Living; he continues to consult and speaks regularly at major business schools. To read more about Mark Albion, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Mark Albion:

True to Yourself: Leading a Values-Based Business, Part 1
True to Yourself: Leading a Values-Based Business, Part 2

Max Goldberger (1924 – 2012)

In Memoriam: the World Business Academy will miss our dear friend and colleague, Max Goldberger, who passed away in early March 2012 at the age of 88. We will remember him always as a brilliant, warm, and witty person whose life enriched all who knew him.

Max Goldberger was a brilliant physicist who worked on clean energy technology. Max grew up in the small Transylvanian village now in Romania. At 18, he was sent to a Nazi concentration camp where he spent 3 ½ years, surviving using his extraordinary facility for languages and technology.

After the war he worked on telecommunications research and development for the Romanian government, rising to a level equivalent to a brigadier. He escaped to the West on a trip to East Berlin, and made his way to the U.S. There he became a citizen and a renowned pioneer of advanced missile and rocket science, working with the Navy at China Lake.

Describing Max’s career, the Navy wrote: “His work on exotic fuels led him to champion environmentally clean energy. His international reputation led to projects for Zambia, Uganda, the Philippines, Taiwan, Somalia, Jordan, and the King of Thailand.” Max eventually moved to Hilo, where he still works on cutting edge clean energy technology.

Max’s life journey is vividly described in Friends & Enemies, Presidents & Kings by Tammy Lee McClure.

Michael Ray, Ph.D.

Michael L. Ray is the first John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Creativity and Innovation and of Marketing (Emeritus) at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. A social psychologist with extensive experience in marketing communication and in developing generative work environments for companies and individuals, he has produced over one hundred publications including ten books, among them two of the first books in the field of consumer information processing and two that helped establish and develop inquiry into new paradigm business.

His latest book, The Highest Goal, gets to the heart of what he has learned in teaching his Stanford University creativity course. His best-selling Creativity in Business (with Rochelle Myers) was named, one of the nine “Greatest Business Books Ever Written” by Inc. magazine. The Path of the Everyday Hero (with Lorna Catford) garnered the title of the best business self-help book of the year, and The Creative Spirit (with Daniel Goleman and Paul Kaufman) was the companion book to the PBS series of the same name, inspired by his course, Personal Creativity in Business.

Called “The Most Creative Man in Silicon Valley” by Fast Company magazine, Michael is at work on Conversations on the Basics in collaboration with teachers of his creativity course. He lectures and consults to organizations and groups worldwide and has served as a director of a major retailer, a food company, a catalog company, a start-up airline, a national cable systems company, an advertising agency, and four non-profit organizations. To read more about Dr. Ray, visit his personal site.

Academy articles by Michael Ray:

“Creativity, Compassion and Community in the Business in Transition”
Compassion – the Essence of True Creativity

Michelle L. Buck, Ph.D.

Michelle L. Buck is Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, teaching in the areas of leadership and negotiation. She serves as Director of Leadership Initiatives, responsible for coordinating and developing all leadership offerings for the School.

As an Academic Director of Executive Education, she designs and oversees many executive programs, including the STC Executive Program for Brazilian managers, and the Soul of Leadership program with Deepak Chopra. When teaching leadership, Professor Buck uses innovative methods in emphasizing three themes: leadership communication; leadership as relationship, and the dynamics of leading and following; and the “leader’s journey,” of developing their story, vision, and values.

She has worked with organizations including Baxter International, Ernst & Young, Exelon, the FBI, Hewlett Packard, HSBC, and Mitsui & Co., as well as taught in leadership development programs for the nonprofit sector, and has spoken at conferences on spirituality and leadership. Her commitment in all her work is to enable people to find new possibilities in the way they interact with others, the way they work, and the way they think about themselves.

Professor Buck previously taught at McGill University in Montreal and Washington University in St. Louis, receiving teaching awards at both institutions. She received her PhD and masters degrees in social psychology from Princeton University, and a bachelors degree in psychology from the University of Michigan. In addition to her academic pursuits, Michelle loves dancing Argentine tango, doing photography, visiting Brazil and Paris, and learning capoeira. To read more about Dr. Buck, visit her personal site.

N. Mohan Reddy, Ph.D.

Dr. N. Mohan Reddy is Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His interests follow two dimensions: The first is focused on how non-market institutions (professional societies, trade associations) influence the adoption and diffusion of new technologies. A second area of interest concerns the dynamics of how public goods (social goods) are created through private (corporate) interests. Dean Reddy serves on the Board of Directors for Brush Engineered Materials, Keithley Instruments, Smith Industries, Dealer Tire, Jumpstart, and MAGNET. To read more about Dr. Reddy, visit his personal site.

Patrick K. Takahashi, Ph.D.

Patrick Kengi Takahashi, Ph.D., is the Director Emeritus of the University of Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTER).

In 1979, Dr. Takahashi led a comprehensive study on energy self-sufficiency and published a book, Solar and Wind Handbook for Hawaii. He concluded that Hawaii needed to help find a replacement for jet fuel because of the state economy’s dependence on tourism. He decided that a hydrogen-fueled aircraft was the future of air transportation for both tourists and air cargo.

During the second energy crisis of 1979, Dr. Takahashi joined U.S. Senator Spark Matsunga’s office. There he drafted the hydrogen bill that became known as the Matsunaga Hydrogen Act, which established the national hydrogen program. He returned to Hawaii in 1982 to co-found PICHTR to take university research in sustainable resources to the marketplace.

In 1983, Dr. Takahashi became the Director of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. During his 15 years of leadership, he was the principal investigator for more than $25 million of projects from the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Energy, Defense, Interior, and Commerce. He also has served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, and chair of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel.

Dr. Takahashi helped form the teams that became the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Hydrogen Center, the National Science Foundation’s National Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center, and the Department of Interior’s National Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology at the University of Hawaii. He also worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on laser fusion and with the NASA Ames Research Center on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Dr. Takahashi was awarded the Bechtel Energy Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1999, the Spark Matsunaga Memorial Award from the National Hydrogen Association in 2006, and the Ocean Pioneer Award from the Ocean Energy Council in 2007. He presented the 2003 Anton Brunn Memorial Lecture to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Paris on “Energy from the Sea,” and chaired the 2004 Next Generation Fisheries Summits held in Tokyo.

Dr. Takahashi was born and raised in Hawaii. He has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from Louisiana State University. He worked in biomass engineering and computer applications for industry, and in 1971 joined the University of Hawaii College of Engineering, teaching courses in renewable energy, computer programming, environmental engineering, and technology and society. He also served as associate dean of engineering and in the chancellor’s office.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Takahashi served as the reservoir engineer for the successful Hawaii Geothermal Project, and developed the Puna Research Center to utilize the geothermal effluents for new industries. He also directed the wind power applications program for Hawaii and served as chairman of the Wind Energy Division of the American Solar Energy Society.

Dr. Takahashi has published more than 100 papers on various aspects of ocean resources and renewable energy. He is also the author of two books, Simple Solutions for Planet Earth (2007) andSimple Solutions for Humanity (2008). To read more about Dr. Takahashi , visit his personal site.

Paul H. Ray, Ph.D.

Dr. Ray was educated at Yale and the University of Michigan, where he was also an associate professor. He is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Cultural Creatives. In this landmark book, he and his wife, psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson, draw upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more than 100,000 Americans, plus more than 100 focus groups and dozens of in-depth interviews. They reveal who the Cultural Creatives are and the fascinating story of their emergence over the last generation, using vivid examples and engaging personal stories to describe their distinctive values and lifestyles.

Formerly he was executive vice president of American LIVES, Inc., a market research and opinion polling firm doing research on the lifestyles and values of Americans. He has headed more than 100 major research and consulting projects and has published numerous articles on values and social change.

Academy Articles by Paul Ray:

The New Political Compass – Executive Summary

Peter Hoffmann (1935 – 2014)

Peter Hoffmann, In Memoriam (1935-2014)

Award-winning Author, Journalist, and Academy Fellow Peter Hoffmann passed away on April 18, 2014. We are deeply saddened by his passing. His cutting-edge research on the developing hydrogen economy has been essential to the work of the World Business Academy. His latest book, Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet, from The MIT Press, is a perfect example of the passion Mr. Hoffmann brought to an often-dry and technical subject. He explained the possibility hydrogen has for recreating our planetary fuel system and enabling a world of abundant, renewable energy.

As a Fellow to the Academy, Mr. Hoffmann informed our work, providing us with the latest developments in the field of hydrogen. His comprehensive monthly newsletter, The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter, was the go-to source for essential information on the emerging industry. His ideas and vision live on. Much of his research is incorporated in the Academy’s ongoing California Moonshot Project.

Mr. Hoffmann’s obituary appeared in The New York Times. Memorial donations may be made in Peter’s memory to the Rhinebeck Science Foundation, P.O. Box 508, Rhinebeck NY 12572.

Peter Hoffmann, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for a major business and technology news service, McGraw-Hill World News, wrote about hydrogen energy since the first oil crisis of 1973. From the late ’60s to the early ’80s he was stationed in Bonn, Germany from where he also covered what was then communist Central Europe, eventually as deputy bureau chief. In between he was bureau chief for four years (1970-74) in Milan, Italy.

Read The Hydrogen Solution, Hoffmann’s recent article cross-published by the World Business Academy.

His articles on hydrogen energy have appeared in Business Week, The Washington Post, the Friends of the Earth magazine Not Man Apart, Germany’s GEO, Britain’s Financial Times European Energy Report, Italy’s Ambiente, and McGraw-Hill’s Chemical Engineering and Chemical Week. He contributed the “hydrogen” entry to the 1986 New Book of Knowledge, a Grolier encyclopedia for young people. Peter and Sarah Hoffmann – she is H&FCL’s business manager – translated a seminal hydrogen energy book, Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier (Carl-Jochen Winter, Joachim Nitsch, editors – Springer Verlag, 1988, New York, Berlin), as well as several other books from German to English.

Hoffmann’s 1981 book, The Forever Fuel – The Story of Hydrogen, published by Westview Press, was called, “the book on the subject” by Kirkus Review. An extensively updated version, Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet (Foreword by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA), was published in September 2001 by MIT Press; a soft-cover version came out in 2002. The November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine said in its review, “this book has everything the reader needs to know about hydrogen — its discovery, the numerous attempts to use it as a fuel, its (quite good) safety record, and the practical and economic difficulties that must be overcome if hydrogen is to realize its potential as a nonpolluting, non-carbon-emitting fuel.” A New Scientist review said, “it clearly expounds the key issues surrounding hydrogen energy.” Chemical & Engineering News commented, “Peter Hoffmann discusses hydrogen and fuel cells – a key technology that is driving forward a hydrogen economy – with clarity and a light touch.” Translations have been published in Korea, Italy and, in 2009, in Arabic by a Beirut publisher with support from the Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.

A revised and expanded second edition was published by MIT Press in the spring of 2012, including a new foreword by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, until his retirement in 2011 the foremost hydrogen advocate in the U.S. Senate. The New York Times called it “encyclopedic,” and the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association DWV referred to it as the “second edition of a Classic.” CHOICE, a journal of the U.S. Association of College and Research Libraries, named it “Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 in the category of Engineering.”

Peter Hoffmann’s The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter, the voice of the international hydrogen community, had been published continuously since 1986. It covered the science, business, economics, and politics of hydrogen and fuel cells – nationally and internationally.

At the 2012 world conference of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy in Toronto, Hoffmann was awarded the title of IAHE Fellow for his “distinguished and sustained efforts” on behalf of the Hydrogen Economy. In 2005, the National Hydrogen Association honored Hoffmann with the Robert M. Zweig Public Education Award for publishing “the oldest, continuously published news source of its kind,” the second such honor (in 1997, NHA presented its Public Education Award to H&FCL). And the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Association (DWV) has called The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter the “best specialized publication in the field worldwide,” on its German-language website.

Peter Matthies

Peter is a former Venture Capitalist and founder of the Conscious Business Institute (CBI). As a Principal for one of the world’s leading Private Equity and Venture Capital firms, Apax Partners & Co, he saw first-hand how dysfunctional many of today’s organizations operate, and that the vast majority of employees are searching for better, more fulfilling ways to work and succeed. Realizing the enormous opportunity as well as the global need for building more life-giving and sustainable companies, he founded the Conscious Business Institute in 2005 to provide leaders with paradigm-shfting approaches for business and success.

Combining his experience in business, finance and technology with that of our world’s wisdom traditions, Peter has developed step-by-step approaches for individuals, leaders, and entire organizations to become more conscious, inspiring, and purpose-driven. Peter has worked with organizations from one to over 100,000 employees on five continents, including Starbucks, BMW Group, Siemens, Alllianz, Intel, and Morgan Stanley.

Peter started his career at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and later co-founded an IT company. He’s the author of 2 books and over 100 articles on business, finance, leadership, martial arts, and technology.

He’s a faculty member of the Goethe Business School in Frankfurt, serves as a global advisor of the Climate Prosperity Alliance, is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and is on the board of several for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Peter enjoyes living in Santa Barbara, California, and gets a kick out of Aikido, Capoeira, sailing, and a good dance with his wife.

More information about the Conscious Business Institute at www.consciousbusinessinstitute.com/

Peter Russell

Peter Russell is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest.

As a student, he studied mathematics and theoretical physics. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind he changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return to the UK and took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation.

He also has a post-graduate degree in computer science, and conducted there some of the early work on 3-dimensional displays, presaging by some twenty years the advent of virtual reality.

In the mid-seventies Peter Russell joined forces with Tony Buzan and helped teach “Mind Maps” and learning methods to a variety of international organizations and educational institutions. Since then his corporate programs have focused increasingly on self-development, creativity, stress management, and sustainable environmental practices. Clients have included IBM, Apple, Digital, American Express, Barclays Bank, Swedish Telecom, ICI, Shell Oil and British Petroleum.

His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. He has written several books in this area — The TM Technique, The Upanishads, The Brain Book, The Global Brain Awakens, The Creative Manager, The Consciousness Revolution, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God.

As one of the more revolutionary futurists Peter Russell has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences, in Europe, Japan and the USA. His multi-image shows and videos, The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time have won praise and prizes from around the world. In 1993 the environmental magazine Buzzworm voted Peter Russell “Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire” of the year. To read more about Peter, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Peter Russell

Who’s Kidding Whom: Is Western Civilization Compatible with Sustainable Development?
A Shift in Consciousness: Some Implications for Business
Y2K and Spirituality 101

Peter Senge, Ph.D.

Peter M. Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the “interdependent development of people and their institutions.” He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a new fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth.

Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals. Dr. Senge’s work articulates a cornerstone position of human values in the workplace; namely, that vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential if organizations are to realize their potentials. He has worked with leaders in business, education, health care and government.

The Journal of Business Strategy (September/October 1999) named Dr. Senge as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.

Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. To read more about Dr. Senge, visit his personal site.

Philip and Mikela Tarlow

Mikela and Philip Tarlow are leading the call for a psychological futurism: a way of envisioning the road ahead that takes into account the creative potential of the individual. To read more about Mikela and Philip, visit their personal site.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D., is a leading author, public intellectual, and spiritual leader. He is the Editor of Tikkun Magazine, the world’s most widely read and quoted liberal/progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine which he founded in 1986 as an alternative to the Jewish neo-conservatives. Tikkun Magazine has received numerous awards for its creative synthesis of progressive politics and spiritual wisdom.

Rabbi Lerner is also the Co-founder and Chairperson of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco.

Rabbi Lerner received a Ph.D. in philosophy from UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Clinical/Social Psychology from Wright University. He has been on the faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California in Berkeley.

He is the author of eleven books, among them “Jewish Renewal,” a national best seller published in 1994 and “The Left Hand of God,” a New York Times National Best Seller in 2006. In his book “The Left Hand of God” and through Tikkun Magazine, Rabbi Lerner presents a Global Marshall Plan as a model for America’s leadership to change from an attitude of domination to an attitude of generosity as a way of solving the world’s problems.

In 2005, Morehouse College in Atlanta awarded him the Martin Luther King Jr./Mahatma Gandhi Prize for Peacemaking in recognition of his work in forging a “progressive middle path that is both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.”

His most famous books include Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul (which was described by the Los Angeles Times a “one of the most significant books of the year 2000”), The Politics of Meaning, The Socialism of Fools: Anti-Semitism on the Left, and Healing Israel/Palestinefor which Lerner received the PEN-Oakland award.

Rabbi Lerner has been hailed by Rev. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, as “one of America’s most important spiritual teachers, a contemporary prophet whose insightful and visionary thinking has already had a profound impact on American culture and thought.”

He remains passionately committed to transforming global capital towards a “New Bottom Line” in which institutions, legislation, and social practice gets judged to be “efficient, rational and productive” not only to the extent that they maximize money and power but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness, generosity, and ethical and ecological sensitivity; enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings as manifestations of the sacred; and enhance our capacity to respond to the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur of all that is. To read more about Dr. Lerner, visit his personal site.

Rajendra S. Sisodia, Ph.D.

Rajendra S. Sisodia, Ph.D., is Professor of Marketing at Bentley University, and was previously Trustee Professor of Marketing and the Founding Director of the Center for Marketing Technology. A leading figure in the Conscious Capitalism movement, he is also the Founder and Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute.

An electrical engineer from BITS, Pilani (India), Dr. Sisodia has an MBA in Marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Bombay, and a Ph.D. in Marketing & Business Policy from Columbia University, where he was the Booz Allen Hamilton Fellow.

His research, teaching and consulting expertise spans the areas of conscious capitalism, corporate strategy and leadership, globalization, stakeholder management, marketing strategy, marketing ethics, relationship marketing, and measuring and improving marketing productivity.

In 2003, Dr. Sisodia was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” and named to the “Guru Gallery” by the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing (the largest marketing association in the world). In 2007, he was honored with the Award for Excellence in Scholarship by Bentley University. In 2008, he received the Bentley University Innovation in Teaching Award. He was recently chosen as one of ten “Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of 2010’s “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America.

Dr. Sisodia’s book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (with David Wolfe and Jagdish N. Sheth, Wharton School Publishing, 2007) has been translated into six languages and was named one of the best business books of 2007 by several organizations, including Amazon.com. His book The Rule of Three: How Competition Shapes Markets(with Jagdish N. Sheth, Emory University) was published by the Free Press division of Simon & Schuster in 2002, and has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Japanese and Chinese. It was the subject of a seven-part television series by CNBC Asia, and was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. Other books include Tectonic Shift: The Geoeconomic Realignment of Globalizing Markets (with Jagdish N. Sheth, Sage Publications, 2006) and Does Marketing Need Reform? (co-edited with Jagdish N. Sheth, M.E. Sharpe, 2006). Forthcoming books include The 4As of Marketing (with Jagdish N. Sheth), A Roadmap for Conscious Capitalism (co-edited with Shubhro Sen), and Conscious Capitalism (with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey).

Dr. Sisodia has also published over one hundred articles in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Journal of Business Strategy. He has authored book chapters on “Consumer Behavior in the Future,” “The Future of Marketing Education,” “The Impact of Information Technology on Relationship Marketing” and “The Future of Marketing.” He has also written over two dozen cases, primarily on strategic and marketing issues in the telecommunications industry, as well as authored a number of telecommunications industry and company analyses. His research reports titled The Consolidation of the Information Industry (with Jagdish N. Sheth) and The Future of Wireless Communications (also with Jagdish N. Sheth) have been published by the International Engineering Consortium.

Dr. Sisodia is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, The Economic Times, Upside and numerous other publications, radio shows and television networks such as CNN, CBC and Fox. His research has been cited in over sixty professional books and numerous academic articles. He has been interviewed on the American Public Radio national business programMarketplace, and appeared regularly with Steve Pearlstein of the Washington Post on the programsPublic Interest and One Union Station on National Public Radio, discussing business issues. He is on the editorial board of several journals, and was previously the Associate Editor of the Journal of Asia Pacific Business. He has served as reviewer for Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing and other leading marketing journals.

Dr. Sisodia was co-founder and Chairman of adAlive, Inc. (a VC-financed company in Waltham, MA) from March 2000 to June 2002. He has consulted with organizations and companies in the information technology, telecommunications, electric utility, real estate, healthcare and financial services industries. He has taught in numerous executive programs in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Chile, Dubai, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, India and England. Consulting and executive education clients have included AT&T, Nokia, Rabobank, KPMG, Ericsson, Siemens, Sprint, MCI, BellSouth, Bell Atlantic, Volvo, Northern Telecom, American Management Systems, Bellcore, IBM, Price Waterhouse, Perot Systems, Ernst & Young, Telecom Italia, Southern California Edison, United Nations, World Bank, Internal Revenue Service, US Postal Service, and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Dr. Sisodia has made nearly 300 presentations at leading universities, corporations, non-profits and other organizations around the world. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Mastek, a publicly traded IT services company based in Mumbai, India. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Conscious Capitalism Inc., a non-profit based in Austin, TX. To read more about Dr.Sisodia, visit his personal site.

Ravi Chaudhry

Ravi Chaudhry is a business strategy consultant, mentor to CEOs and corporate Boards, a public intellectual and an author. He is the founder Chairman of CeNext Consulting and Investment Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, a firm that provides strategic advisory services to corporations on sustainable global growth and competitiveness and to governments on investment promotion and development strategies. His clients include today’s and tomorrow’s Fortune 1000 corporations, NGOs, UN Organizations & Governments of Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, Norway, Uganda and Canada. Earlier, he was CEO/Chairman of four companies in Tata Group, India.

He has done extensive work with global companies to create “Emerging Market Advantage” in their strategic framework, and has done intensive research on “why companies succeed or fail” in cross-cultural environments. He specializes in “Strategy Audit & Re-alignment” to bridge the gap between performance and potential.

Ravi is a mechanical engineer, with specialization in business strategy. He has served on the boards of several companies and organizations. He continues to be Strategic Advisor to the Swiss Federal Government; Member, EVIAN Brains Trust on Fair Global Trade at IMD Lausanne; Member, EthicMark® Judges Panel; Member of the Advisory Committee L’avenir d’Auroville; and Convener, Future 500 India. He is proactively engaged in a series of pioneering initiatives in the realm of good governance, equitable global growth and advancement of human spirit.

His book, Quest for Exceptional Leadership: Mirage to Reality, outlines the emergence of a new fifth phase of human enterprise, redefining the criteria of success as well as re-configuring the routes to success. It has been widely acclaimed as “the best handbook for corporate executives in years, a magnum opus, a seminal book, brilliant and thought provoking, a masterpiece worth reading, a ground-breaking new book, a rare combination of sound business thinking and accessible philosophy, a wise and practical book and an essential read for both business leaders and business schools.”

He calls for a giant leap forward from CSR to ISR—from “Corporate Social Responsibility” to the “Individual Social Responsibility” of the CEO—from generic corporate accountability to individual answerability of the CEO, prompted by the CEO’s conscience. He makes a compelling case that corporations do not have the option to wait: they have to re-align themselves with the new reality now. And those who embrace the new realism will experience a pleasant surprise: a ‘Triple Top Line’ of joy, peace, and contentment,’ not only for them, but also in the personal lives of people all around.

Ravi is a much sought-after keynote speaker, communicating messages that come straight from the heart and the enlightened mind in a language that is understood by all, while evolving a completely new vocabulary in the realm of business and societal leadership. He has analyzed the base camp traits of today’s leaders and vividly portrayed the journey to the summit of leadership by introducing the “Tripod of Exceptional Leadership,” anchored on the three unyielding pillars of Wholeness, Compassion and Transparency. Contact Ravi at [email protected].

Riane Eisler, Ph.D.

Riane Eisler is the author of The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future in which she introduces the cultural transformation theory and the partnership and dominator model of human possibilities. Her newest book is The Power of Partnership, which applies the partnership model to day-to-day life and work. She is also the author of Tomorrow’s Children, Sacred Pleasure, Dissolution, and The Equal Rights Handbook and the co-author of The Partnership Way and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life. She has also written over 100 essays and articles for publications ranging from Futures, Behavioral Science, Holistic Education Review, and Political Psychology to The UNESCO Courier, The International Journal of Women’s Studies, the Human Rights Quarterly, and the World Encyclopedia of Peace. Dr. Eisler was recently honored as the only woman among twenty great thinkers including Vico, Hegel, Spengler, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee featured in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians, in recognition of the lasting importance of her work. She is President of the Center for Partnership Studies which was founded to further partnership relations. To read more about Dr. Eisler, visit her personal site.

Academy Articles by Riane Eisler:

The Hidden Subtext for Sustainable Change
Partnership Education for Our Future
The Power of Partnership: Inspiring Transformative Leadership

Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.

Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He is also adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the clinical and depth psychology programs. Formerly director of programs and education at Esalen Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view that has become both a bestseller and a widely used text in universities. He is also the author of Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, published by Viking Press in 2006. To read more about Dr. Tarnas, visit his personal site.

Robert M. Fulmer, Ph.D.

Robert M. Fulmer is currently academic director for Duke Corporate Education and Professor Emeritus at the College of William & Mary. A specialist in strategic leadership development, he is author or co-author of over 150 articles (in such periodicals as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal and Business Week) and almost 40 business books, monographs and editions (including Growing Your Company’s Leaders, The Leadership Investment and The Leadership Advantage). As an academic, he has held endowed chairs at Trinity, William & Mary, and Pepperdine, taught management and leadership at Columbia and Emory Universities and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He was responsible for worldwide management development at Allied-Signal, served as president of two consulting firms, and has conducted seminars in 26 countries on five continents. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, and the World Business Academy. His most recent book is Newcomers in Paradise.

Robert Quinn

Robert E. Quinn holds the M.E. Tracy Collegiate Professorship and is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan Business School. He has been on the Michigan faculty for 13 years. His previous 12 years were spent at the State University of New York at Albany.

He has published many papers and books on management and organization. Recent volumes are Beyond Rational Management, Becoming a Master Manager, and Deep Change. Each has been republished in multiple languages. His newest book is entitled Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture.

Professor Quinn is particularly interested in issues concerning leadership, vision and change. He has an applied orientation and has 25 years of experience in working with executives on issues of organizational change. He has been involved in the design and execution of numerous large-scale change projects. He has worked with a large percentage of the Fortune 500 companies. He teaches in both the MBA and Executive Education Programs at the University of Michigan and is known for innovative instructional efforts. Professor Quinn is also a fellow of the World Business Academy. To read more about Robert, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Robert Quinn

Building the Bridge as You Walk On It

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ph.D.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been repeatedly named to lists of the “50 most powerful women in the world” (Times of London), and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world” (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). She has received 23 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles.

In 2001, she received the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge, and in 2002 was named “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” by the World Teleport Association. In 2010, she received the International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals. She is the author or co-author of 18 books. Her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, a manifesto for leadership of sustainable enterprises, was named one of the 10 best business books of 2009 by Amazon.com.

Her previous book, Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End (a New York Times business and #1 Business Week bestseller), describes the culture and dynamics of high-performance organizations and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, hospitals, schools, sports teams, community organizations, or countries. Her classic prizewinning book, Men & Women of the Corporation (which won the C. Wright Mills award winner for the year’s best book on social issues) offered insight about the individual and organizational factors that promote success.Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda, and in 2001, a coalition of university centers created the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award in her honor for the best research on work/family issues. Another award-winning book, When Giants Learn to Dance, showed how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age. Her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times).

Through Goodmeasure Inc., the consulting group she co-founded, she advises CEOs of large and small companies, has served on numerous business and non-profit boards including City Year, the urban “Peace Corps” now focused on addressing the school dropout crisis, and national or regional commissions, including the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. She speaks widely, often sharing the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at national and international events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

She is Chair and Director of the Advanced Leadership Initiative of Harvard University, a collaboration across the professional schools to help successful leaders at the top of their professions apply their skills to addressing challenging national and global problems in their next stages of life. To read more about Dr. Moss Kanter, visit her personal site.

Ruben Nelson

Ruben Nelson has been fascinated by the future for over 40 years. Today, he is committed to understanding societal change and working to create a humane future society that truly fits the merging conditions of the 21st Century.

In 1960, as an undergraduate at Queen’s, he organized Canada’s first formal conference on the future. Since then, rather than do “real work,” he has pursued his passion as a pioneer of a knowledge-based economy. As a result, Ruben is now recognized as a big picture strategic thinker who is Canada’s most widely experienced professional futurist. As such, he is a think tank facilitator, keynote speaker and media commentator.

Ruben is invited to conferences, boardrooms and church basements to explore the forces that are shaping our future and what we could do in response to them, if we truly knew what we were doing.

Ruben was born in Calgary when it was an agricultural service centre of 100,000. Over the years, he studied and taught at both Queen’s University and the University of Calgary. He has lived in India and worked in Ottawa. In the late 1980s, Ruben directed Canada’s only research project into our transition to a post-Industrial society and economy. He has advised CEOs and Cabinet Ministers from Victoria to Halifax. Ruben also has a rich experience with voluntary organizations – at both the practical and policy levels.

Today, Ruben is well respected by his peers.

He the only Canadian who is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, the World Academy of Art and Science and the Meridian International Institute for Leadership, Governance, Change and the Future.

He is also a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.
He is a Director of the Enviros Wilderness School.
He is Vice Chair of the Creating Tomorrow Foundation and President of both the Alliance for Capitalizing on Change and Square One Management Ltd.
Ruben lives in the Alberta Rockies with Heather, his wife of 42 years, and their three cats.

Ruben challenges us to become wise and effective agents of transforming change, rather than victims of history. He calls us to the work of preparing ourselves and our institutions to face and meet the emerging challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.

Academy Articles by Ruben Nelson

Four quadrant leadership: Creating Profound Change
Reflections on Our Core Work in the 21st Century

Stuart L. Hart, Ph.D.

Stuart is the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and professor of management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Business, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. Before joining Cornell in 2003, he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and professor of strategic management at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory.

Stuart has published over 70 papers and authored or edited seven books. His seminal article “Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World,” won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, he co-authored the path breaking 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which first described how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world. Cambridge University selected Capitalism at the Crossroads, first published in 2005, as one of the 50 top books on sustainability of all-time. The book’s third edition was published in 2010. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work in the area of sustainable enterprise. To read more about Dr. Hart , visit his personal site.

Terry Mollner

Terry Mollner is one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing as a new asset class in the professional investment community. He is a founder and member of the board of the Calvert Family of Socially Responsible Investment Funds, the largest such family of funds with over $7 billion under management.

Dr. Mollner is also the Founder and President of Trusteeship Institute, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm in economic and social development. In existence since 1973, its current focus is on the development of “common good corporations.” These are business corporations where the highest priority is the common good of humanity and nature. This is evidenced by operating as socially responsible companies and having a cap on the return to equity investors based on the risk level of the investment. All excess profit above this each year will be permanently set aside and managed forever for the common good by the company. He believes this is the next stage in the evolution of capitalism.

He also stepped in to keep Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. from being bought by Nestle and eventually facilitated the company being bought by Unilever, his minority partner in the earlier negotiations. Unilever, a very socially responsible multinational, agreed to keep the board of directors in perpetuity by contract and all the social agreements agreed to in the previous negotiations. He now sits on that board which has primary responsibility for the social mission and brand integrity of Ben & Jerry’s.

He is the author of several books and articles and is currently working on a book entitled The Love Skill: It Determines How We Experience Everything Else.To read more about Terry, visit his personal site.

Academy Articles by Terry Mollner

Thoughts on How to End Terrorism
Economic Maturity Beyond Capitalism: What will define the next stage?

Thomas M. Rau, M.D.

Dr. Rau has been associated with the world’s foremost clinic for holistic medicine and dentistry, designed to create individual treatment plans based on the patient’s constitution, needs and therapy. He studied medicine in both Europe and the United States, and specializes in all chronic diseases, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and allergies, among others. He is a member of several medical societies and educational organizations related to holistic medicine and has been published extensively. To read more about Dr. Rau, visit his personal site.

Tom Oliver

Fortune Magazine has called Tom a “coach to many of the world’s most famous CEOs”.

eBay ́s first President and multi-billionaire self-made entrepreneur Jeff Skollsays: “Tom provides the right tools to show you that nothing is impossible when it comes to realizing your vision.”

Tom has been awarded lifelong seats in some of the most influential think tanks of our time, together with a wide range of bestselling authors, Nobel Laureates, and Heads of State. “Fabulously placed to inspire those around him to learn whole new levels of solutions” (Google HQSilicon Valley), Tom is also a frequent commentator on news outlets from CNNto Bloomberg. He is the Founder and CEO of the Tom Oliver Group, a worldwide management consulting firm. The Group’s clients include market leadersacross all industries and around the world, and it focuses on assisting families who own or manage companies.

Tom and his team have worked with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, financial leaders like Ernst & Young and theWorld Bank Group, and the best global brands from Johnson & Johnson to Coca Cola and Google in Silicon Valley. Tom has received personal praise for his work from world-famous business leaders like the President of eBay andSir Richard Branson and billionaire entrepreneur families like the Rockefeller family and the family of Warren Buffet.

The Tom Oliver Consulting Group provides tailor-made consulting and training solutions in the areas of Innovation, Succession Planning, Market Positioning, Organization, Marketing, Restructuring, Strategic HR Management, Executive Training, Long Term Strategic Planning, and others. The goal is always to maximize the potential of the business to thrive across generations.

Termed “one of the world’s best experts on leadership” (Wharton School of Business), Tom is also a Visiting Professor of Innovation, Change Management, Leadership, and Strategic Human Resource Management. Tom is a fellow of the World Business Academy, together with leading professors from the world’s top business schools, including Kellogg School of Management, Insead, and Harvard.

He founded the Global Leadership Circle at Manchester Business School while contributing to its being ranked as one of the top international business programs. Tom is also the author of the global McGraw Hill entrepreneur and leadership bible “Nothing Is Impossible” that has been endorsed by business leaders from SAP to eBay and Google.

He believes business should be a catalyst for social change. To this end, Tom Oliver founded the World Peace Foundation and World Peace Festival (WPF), which Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has called “the most influential peace gathering in history”.

Verna Allee

Verna Allee is an internationally recognized thought leader and author in knowledge management, intangibles and new business models. As President and Founder of Verna Allee Associates (formerly Integral Performance Group), she consults in knowledge management and strategic issues with Motorola, Eli Lilly, Chubb & Son, Hewlett Packard, Samtel, American Express India, Unocal, Assurant Group, Seagate Technologies, Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft, Primus Software, Peer3, Oracle, Rockwell Avionics, Unisys, Clarica, AT&T, Chevron, Steelcase, and others.

She is the originator of a unique knowledge complexity framework described in The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence and in the Knowledge Links. To read more about Verna Allee, visit her personal site.

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Wally Amos (1936-2024)

Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Wally Amos lived a childhood that was not always stable and trouble free. But as a child he had an innate spirit and gift to view the world with optimism. The most loving person in his life was Della Bryant, his aunt in New York City. At the early age of twelve, young Wally moved to New York to live with his aunt who assumed a parental role. She was also the first person to bake him chocolate chip cookies. Although the home was of modest means, it was abundant in the meaningful qualities that give a child principles, “a can-do” attitude.

After a four year stint in the Air Force, Amos began his early professional career in the stock room at Saks Fifth Avenue. He worked hard but was consistently underpaid. He asked for raises but was denied. Not having another job in place, but believing he was worth more Amos left the stock room ready for the next thing. That turned out to be the entertainment industry.

Just like at Saks, he started at the bottom. This time it was the mailroom at the William Morris Talent Agency. And just like before, Amos worked hard. At William Morris it paid off. Amos rose from mailroom clerk to agent in one year – their first African-American agent. He prided himself on his ability to find the next new thing. He was the first to book many of the top performers of that era including The Supremes, Simon & Garfunkle and Marvin Gaye.

When he felt he’d gone as far as he could with William Morris he formed his own theatrical management agency. Packing up his young family he moved to the west coast. There were ups and downs but Amos always stuck to his principles: work hard, be positive, and don’t look back.

It was during this time that Amos learned to unwind on weekends by taking up a new hobby – baking chocolate chip cookies. Baking relaxed him and made him reminisce about his Aunt Della’s cookies.

Over the years the entertainment industry began to wear on Amos. Show biz personalities weren’t always the easiest people to deal with. It was time for a change.

In 1975, long before there were “food personalities” like Emeril Lagasse, Paul Newman and Nigella Lawsohn, Amos came up with the idea that he could sell his cookies as an entertainment personality – a gourmet chocolate chip cookie. Borrowing $25,000 from friends, Amos opened the first freestanding store, on Sunset Boulevard, in Hollywood, CA, that sold only cookies: The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie store. Soon the entrepreneur became a national personality renowned not only for his cookies but for his ebullient and outgoing persona as well.

In 1985, a series of events began that led the company to change hands. It is now owned by the Kellogg Company. Amos eventually returned to baked goods through Uncle Wally’s Muffin Company.

Asserting that being famous only meant that lots of people knew who he was; Amos always wanted to use his wide recognition as a means to draw attention to an important cause. That cause became literacy. Amos dedicated his efforts to Literacy Volunteers of America where he served as their National Spokesperson from 1979 to 2002. As a literary advocate, Amos uses his well-known name to support educational causes and serves on the Boards of the National Center for Family Literacy, Read to Me International, and Communities in Schools, in addition to many others. In 2005, Amos and his wife, Christine, founded the Chip & Cookie Read Aloud Foundation, a publicly supported 501(c) (3) organization, to promote reading aloud to children.

He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the President’s Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, the Horatio Alger Award, and the National Literacy Honors Award. He has been inducted into the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs.

Amos is a well known inspirational speaker and is the author of eight books: The Famous Amos Story: The Face That Launched a Thousand Chips, The Power in You: Ten Secret Ingredients To Inner Strength, Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade, Watermelon Magic: Seeds of Wisdom, Slices of Life, The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Every Day Living, Be Positive, Be Positive!: Insights Into How To Live A Joy-filled and Inspiring Life, The Power In Self-Esteem: How To Discover And Fulfill Your Life Dreams and Live An Inspiring Life: Ten Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength.

His most recent project is working with his wife Christine Harris-Amos who created Chip & Cookie, two dolls fashioned in the image of “boy and girl chocolate chip cookies.” Once again Amos is in the kitchen baking cookies in the Chip & Cookie retail store located, on Oahu, in Kailua Town, Hawaii. www.chipandcookie.com. For Amos it’s the next new thing.

Over the years, Amos has acted in a number of network sitcoms and appeared on hundreds of interview shows, news programs, educational programs and commercials. On the lecture circuit, he addresses audiences at corporations, industry associations and universities with his inspiring “do it” positive attitude.

Over 150 million Americans know Amos. His fame is grounded in quality, substance and a positive attitude. To read more about Wally Amos, visit his personal site.

Warren Bennis, Ph.D. (1925-2014)

Warren Bennis, In Memoriam (1925-2014)

Warren Bennis Ph.D. is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California and the founding chairman of USC’s Leadership Institute. He has written 18 books including: On Becoming a Leader(which was translated into 19 languages), Why Leaders Can’t Lead, and The Unreality Industry, co-authored with Ian Mitroff. Bennis was successor to Douglas McGregor as chairman of the organization studies department at M.I.T. He also taught at Harvard and Boston Universities. Later, he was Provost and Executive Vice President of the State University of New York-Buffalo and President of the University of Cincinnati. He has published over 900 articles and two of his books have earned the coveted McKinsey Award for the Best Book on Management. He has served in an advisory capacity to the past four U.S. presidents (for better or worse) and consulted to many corporations and agencies and to the United Nations. Awarded 11 honorary degrees, Bennis has also received numerous awards including the Distinguished Service Award of the American Board of Professional Psychologists and the Perry L. Rohrer Consulting Practice Award of the American Psychological Association.

William Mcdonough FAIA

William McDonough is a globally recognized leader in sustainable development. Trained as an architect, Mr. McDonough’s interests and influence range widely, and he works at scales from the global to the molecular. Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet,” noting: “His utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world.” In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 2003 he earned the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his work with Shaw Industries. In 2004, he received the National
Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of environmental design. Mr. McDonough is the architect of many of the recognized flagships of sustainable design, including the Ford Rouge truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan; the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College; and NASA’s “space station on Earth,” Sustainability Base, one of the most innovative facilities in the federal portfolio.

Mr. McDonough has written and lectured extensively on design as the first signal of human intention. He was commissioned in 1991 to write The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability as guidelines for the City of Hannover’s EXPO 2000, still recognized two decades after publication as a touchstone of sustainable design. In 2002, McDonough and the German chemist Dr. Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, which is widely acknowledged as a seminal text of the sustainability movement. Their much-anticipated new book, The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability–Designing for Abundance was released in 2013.

Mr. McDonough advises commercial and governmental leaders worldwide through McDonough Innovation. He is also active with William McDonough + Partners, his architecture practice with offices in Charlottesville, VA, and San Francisco, CA, as well as MBDC, the Cradle to Cradle consulting firm co-founded with Dr. Braungart. He has co-founded, with Braungart, not-for-profit organizations to allow public accessibility to Cradle to Cradle thinking. These include GreenBlue (2000), to convene industry groups around Cradle to Cradle issues, and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (2009), founded at the invitation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to create a global standard for the development of safe and healthy products. Mr. McDonough also co-founded Make It Right (2006) with Brad Pitt to bring affordable Cradle to Cradle-inspired homes to the New Orleans Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Willis Harman (1918-1997)

In Memoriam: Willis Harman played a massive role in the founding of the World Business Academy as a Co-Founder. You can read more about his impact here.

Willis W. Harman was an American engineer, futurist, and author associated with the human potential movement. He was convinced that late industrial civilization faced a period of major cultural crisis which called for a profound transformation of human consciousness. Over a career lasting some four decades, he worked to raise public awareness on the subject through his writings and to foster relevant research through the nonprofit research institute SRI International, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and the World Business Academy. He served as president of IONS for two decades, and he was a cofounder of the World Business Academy. His many books include volumes coauthored with the futurist Howard Rheingold, who put forward similar views, and the mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Windeagle and Rainbowhawk (1923 -2012) Kinney-Linton

WindEagle and RainbowHawk, twin Keepers of the Origin Teachings of the Delicate Lodge, carry an ancient body of self-knowledge and earth wisdom teachings that derive from ancient indigenous American cultures. As Métis teachers, they have journeyed together since 1987. In 1995 they founded Ehama Institute, a not-for-profit teaching institute in New Mexico. They have worked with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities throughout the world for over two decades.

In 2003, WindEagle and RainbowHawk published their first book, Heart Seeds, a message from the ancestors, in which they retell the ancient stories of remembrance and share the relevance of these “heart seeds” for both the present time and our collective future.

In 2007, the World Foundation for the Discipline of Peace, a Global Expression of Ehama Institute, was formed to create a world-wise People’s Movement of the First Peace to bring together many traditions, cultures, and ages to celebrate their unique ways of creating peace in the self. To read more about Windeagle and Rainbowhawk, visit their personal site.

In Memoriam: Rainbowhawk Kinney-Linton (1923 -2012)

Yul Anderson

Yul Anderson is a nationally and internationally known Futurist. Yul started his interest in the Future after reading Megatrends and Limits to Growth. He continued his study of the future while pursuing a Masters at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He continued using his futures skills while working for the Cities of Boston, New York, Miami, and Atlanta; the Sates of Florida and Massachusetts and the County of Alachua in Florida. Internationally Yul used his futures skills in Sierra Leone and Nairobi Kenya.

Mr. Anderson developed the African American Future Society in 1995 and participated at United Nations 50^thAnniversary Summit meetings. He was a member of the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations and wrote for African profiles magazine while covering the news story of the African – African American Summit meetings convened by the late Revered Leon Sullivan and writing for African Profiles magazine while covering the war in Sierra Leone. Mr. Anderson lived six years in Kenya working with parliamentarians and those seeking office in Kenya. He also provides consulting services to businesses in the US and Africa.

Mr. Anderson is concerned about the future of Black America and Africa; and how futures connect the world. He has provided futures workshops and lectured at Universities, World Future Society, Blacks in Government, the National Forum of Black Public Administrators. and facilitated a workshop with the Millennium Project.

Mr. Anderson is also an Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, a Fellow of the Futures Forum, and sits on the Advisory Board of Ethical Markets, Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc. and Lifeboat Foundation. He is also associated with the Federal Foresight Community of Interest, Public Sector Foresight Network, Shaping Tomorrow, Techcast Global, Mixed Methods International Research Association.

Mr. Anderson is from Boston, Massachusetts, raised by a single mom and has no brothers or sisters. He attended public and private schools and then graduated from Dartmouth College and received his Masters from UMASS Amherst. He is married to Brenda Anderson, a US Veteran.

Mr. Anderson is a master gardener and enjoys gardening and picture taking.

Zhouying Jin, Ph.D.

Professor Zhouying Jin is a senior researcher and professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS) where she is Director of the Center for Technology Innovation and Strategy Studies (CTISS). She is president and founder of the Beijing Academy of Soft Technology and author of Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology To Soft Technology (Intellect UK 2005).

Prof. Jin is an academic member of Shanghai Academy of Systematic Science and a guest professor of Hohai University (Nanjing), Tsinghua University(Beijing) and Chinese University of Science and Technology. She was a member of the Professional Committee of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1992-1998).

In the recent fifteen years she led more than 20 important projects whereof 15 projects were asked by central government, ministry, Chinese academy of social sciences, or international organizations. She had been in charge of the Strategy Research for the Nation’s S863 Plan, organized a cross-discipline team to led the project of ”Long-term strategy integration and sustainable development” asked by CASS, National strategy for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Evaluation of Nation’s High-Tech Research & Development Plan, Assessment for The Breakthrough Project, Service innovation and NGO organizations in China, Strategic Management and institutional innovation on Coal bed Methane industry, Green Car Development Guideline and Environmental policy in China, Environmental strategy for transnational Auto companies, etc.

She is also chair and founder of the Future 500 China; a Planning Committee Member of the Millennium Project and Co-chair of the China node of the United Nations University American Council; a member of The Brussels-EU Chapter of the Club of Rome; a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 Institute at Austin; a member of World Future Society and a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation.

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