Richard Falk

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Fellow of the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014) proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. In 2001 he served on a three-person Human Rights Inquiry…

Rinaldo Brutoco

A leading international executive, writer and keynote speaker, Rinaldo Brutoco is widely recognized as a practical visionary, change agent and futurist. He is Co-founder and President of the World Business Academy, a collaborative network, publishing pre-eminent new paradigm business literature. He has served on numerous non-profit boards including The Gorbachev Foundation, Institute of…

Tatiana Glad

Tatiana Glad is a social entrepreneur, sustainability practitioner and change strategist. She works across sectors and cultures to develop life-affirming and resilient leadership for whole systems innovation. She is passionate about systemic change, sustainability, water, enabling start-up initiatives/enterprises, creating synergies, good questions and meaningful conversations.  Tatiana is a…

Ann Florini

Ann Florini is Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative. From 1997 to 2002, she was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University. She has…

Barrett C. Brown

Barrett specializes in leader development and organizational and systems change. For 20 years he has supported individuals and organizations to navigate complex challenges and unlock deep capacities. His recent work has involved engaging entire sectors to undergo system-wide sustainable development.  Barrett is often asked to speak, and has presented widely, including to CEOs and government…

C. Otto Scharmer

Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), an innovation platform that links twenty leading global institutions across the three sectors of business, government, and civil society, in order to prototype profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. He also is a…

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan runs the numbers on modern American life—a making large-format, long-zoom artwork from the most mindblowing data about our stuff. Photographer Chris Jordan trains his eye on American consumption. His 2003-05 series "Intolerable Beauty" examines the hypnotic allure of the sheer amount of stuff we make and consume every day: cliffs of baled scrap, small cities of shipping…

David Cooperrider

David Cooperrider is the Fairmount Santrol-David L. Cooperrider Professor of Appreciative Inquiry at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University where he is faculty founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and Co-director of the Strategy Innovation Lab.  David is best known for his founding theoretical articulation of Appreciative Inquiry,…

Don Edward Beck

Don Edward Beck Ph.D. has designed and implemented transformational practices for almost thirty years in corporate, governmental and community settings worldwide through Spiral Dynamics Integral. His unique values-based model charts the evolution and emergence of human nature - a bio- psycho-social-spiritual map of living human systems that focuses on natural designs and offers integral solutions…

Drew Dellinger

Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally known speaker, writer, poet, and teacher whose keynotes and poetry performances—which address ecology, justice, cosmology, and interconnectedness—have inspired minds and hearts around the world. Dellinger has presented at over 1400 events across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia—including Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn, TEDWomen, and…