Rob Riemen
Rob Riemen is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Nexus Institute,
a leading international center for intellectual reflection to inspire
the Western cultural and philosophical debate. Mr. Riemen is also the
editor of the essay journal "Nexus." In 2004, the Nexus Institute
initiated the cultural philosophical debate on European identity during
the Dutch presidency of the European Union. Riemen…
Robert Sardello
Robert Sardello, PhD is co-founder of The School of Spiritual Psychology. He is author of Facing
the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (re-issued as Love and the
World), Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the
Twelve Virtues, and the recently published Silence. He
served as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of
Dallas, head of the Institute of…
Roberta Baskin
Roberta Baskin is a recovering investigative journalist who recently set out on a radical new career path. She joined the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University to find and showcase “good companies” across the globe. She’s wildly enthusiastic about promoting innovative businesses on AIM2Flourish.com. In contrast, during her distinguished broadcast career, her passion…
Rolland Smith
Rolland Smith has over 40 years of broadcast and television
production experience. He is former news anchor at WWOR-TV in New York
and at WCBS-TV also in New York.
Smith first joined WWOR-TV in 1988 from the CBS network where he was
co-host of "The CBS Morning Program," a 90-minute talk and news
broadcast. Smith left WWOR-TV in 1993 to work for NBC in California. He
returned to Channel Nine in…
Sander Tideman
Sander Tideman, LL.M.,University of Utrecht, University of London and
Chinese Language and Culture, Taiwan National Normal University served
as Chief Representative of ABN AMRO Bank in Beijing, China (1990-1995)
and as Vice President of Structured Export Finance for ABN AMRO Bank in
Amsterdam (1995-1998). As consultant he has focused on sustainability
and development finance, advising on projects…
Sarla Chandra
What a joy to meet once again—to experience Sarla Chandra’s deep artistic commitment to India’s treasures of philosophy, mythology and culture. She puts light and energy onto canvas with insight and inspiration manifesting
her own deep love of God, Nature and Man...a yoga that is both natural as well as wondrous, fresh as well as eternal.
—Srimati Kamala, May 2007
Sarla…
Shehzad Noorani
Shehzad Noorani has deep interest in social issues that
affects lives of millions of people in developing countries. He has
covered major stories resulting from manmade and natural disasters in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Other
assignments for international developmental agencies like UNICEF, The
World Food Programme, and UNAIDS have taken him to over 40 countries…
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Sheila Watt-Cloutier was born in Kuujjuaq, Northern Quebec, Canada on 2
December 1953. Her mother, Daisy Watt (1921-2002) was one of Kuujjuaq's
best-known elders and was recognized throughout Nunavik for her skills
as a healer, interpreter and musician. Her brother, politician Charlie
Watt, was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1983 and was made an
Officer of the Order of Quebec in 1984.…
Silke Helfrich
Silke Helfrich is a writer and commons advocate who has been involved in
the field of development politics since the mid-1990s. She was the
Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from 1996 to 1998. As Director
of the foundation’s regional office in Mexico City from 1999 to 2007,
she focused on globalization, gender and human rights. Helfrich engages
with activists, academics,…
Stephanie Shorter
Stephanie Shorter PhD was trained as a sensory neuroscientist and cortical electrophysiologist, and has long been interested in perception, cognition and consciousness.
She is a seeker who embraces yoga as her tool of individual transformation on her path towards being an agent of social transformation. Stephanie left her career in traditional academia in 2006 to devote her science and writing…