Delair Shaker

Born in Baghdad in 1971, Delair Shaker started his journey in an environment surrounded by art, culture, and creativity. At home, Delair's mentor was his father, Saad Shaker, a pioneer in ceramic art in Iraq, who instilled in him the love of art and appreciation of beauty in all forms. Since he was seven years old, Delair has spent most of his time in his father’s ceramic studio where he…

Dinesh Chandra

Dinesh Chandra is founder of Globalcitizenship Inc. He was born in India and moved to US in his twenties and worked in US for another twenty years prior to his work in 15 different countries. As Director of Productivity for Beckman-Coulter Corporation he was instrumental in implementing Total Quality and in creation of a Knowledge Sharing culture using the Learning Communities. In addition to…

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 Cameron

Drew Cameron is a paper and book artist living in Burlington, VT.  He served in the U.S. Army beginning in August 2000 for four years on active duty and subsequently two years in the VT Army National Guard. He operated as a Field Artillery Soldier with a base of operations at Camp Anaconda, Iraq from April to December 2003. Since returning from Iraq, Drew has become involved with the Green…

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…

Drew Luan Matott

Drew Luan Matott received his MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College-Chicago and his BFA in Printmaking from the Buffalo State College. He co-founded the Green Door Studio, People's Republic of Paper, the Combat Paper Project, BluSeed Paper Mill and Free Your Mind Press. Drew divides his time between teaching at colleges, doing art residencies and coordinating the Combat Paper Project.…

Ed Bastian

Ed Bastian, Ph.D. is President of the Spiritual Paths Institute. His Doctorate is in Buddhist Studies and Western Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bastian studied for nearly a decade with Buddhist Monks in monasteries in the U.S., India and the Himalayas. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied Indian philosophy at Banares Hindu University and translated Buddhist scriptures from…

Elisabet Sahtouris

Internationally known as a dynamic speaker, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author, and consultant on Living Systems Design. She shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in business, government, and globalization. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, an advisor to EthicalMarkets.com and the Masters in Business program at Schumacher…

Ervin Laszlo

Prof. Dr. Ervin Laszlo, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, was one of the first representatives in the area of systems philosophy and general theory of evolution. He published nearly 70 books translated into as many as 18 languages. In the course of his long academic career as a professor for philosophy, systems philosophy and future sciences, he worked in teaching and research at a…

Evan Leeson

Evan Leeson is a Canadian artist, technologist, writer, activist and entrepreneur. He lives with his wife, Lisa, and daughter, Verity, on the West Coast of British Columbia, splitting time between Victoria and Vancouver.