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
C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is co-author of Leading from the Emerging Future,…
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…
George Pór
George Pór is a strategic learning partner and adviser to leaders in
international business, government and NGOs in matters of innovation,
change management, collective intelligence, and knowledge ecology. He is
assisting them to cultivate an "appreciation culture" in their
organizations, a web of supportive relationships that reflect and
promote organic patterns of wholeness, balance, and…
Ginger Gilmour
In Beauty before me, I walk
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on January 19, 1949 and
ever since I can remember I had a ‘dream’ which filled my days with
wonder. That dream was a quest for ‘Beauty.’ Even within the smallest
rill of running water on a derelict building site, I found beauty. I
dreamt of prince charming and living happily ever after. I dreamt of…
Helen Titchen Beeth
After 30 years of living in Brussels and working for the European Commission as a linguist and gentle provoker of change, I have retired from organizational life and city living. I now live on a smallholding in the Flemish countryside (Belgium) in community with two close friends, where we practice conscious co-creation with place, applying the principles and methods of permaculture.
As a…