Australian, Victoria Wilding is co-founder and CEO of the SHIFT Foundation, which seeks to accelerate tipping points in leadership development worldwide. The SHIFT Foundation designs and facilitates transformative learning environments throughout the world, enabling young global leaders to develop more authentic ways of leading.

William Drayton, pioneer of the social entrepreneur movement, is currently the Chairman and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. After graduating from Harvard, he received his M.A. at Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He served in the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

William E. Marks, water philosopher - raised on an organic farm. As a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) - researched fish kills and industrial pollution and had major industry indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. He was subsequently honored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with the “Citizen Activist Of The Year” award.

Born in Japan, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is Founder and Chairman of Vision In Action, an outgrowth of The Twilight Club which was founded in the 1870s by Herbert Spencer, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and others, and where he served as Executive Director.

Bert Parlee, PhD serves as senior advisor at STAGEN in Dallas, complementing a private practice as Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer, OD Consultant and Mediator. His areas of expertise are training individuals, teams and organizations on how to bridge opposing perspectives, principles and worldviews, and thus to communicate more effectively in situations of difference, disagreement and conflict.