Gary Braasch
Gary Braasch is a world caliber environmental photojournalist who creates remarkable images and documentation about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming. His images and assignment articles have been published by Time, LIFE, Discover, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and the United Nations among many others.
He received the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra…
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee is founder, co-director, and research director of the non-profit Co-Intelligence Institute. From the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, his work focused on developing a society's capacity to function as a wise democracy. Since 2005, his work has increasingly focused on the dynamics of conscious evolution -- in particular the conscious evolution of social systems. These intertwined…
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney is the Executive Director of the Interreligious Engagement Project (IEP21), working with global religious communities to address the world’s critical problems through cooperative partnerships with government, business, education, media, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society.
He is the author of Thriving in the Crosscurrent: Clarity and Hope In a Time of Cultural Sea…
David Korten
David C. Korten is an American writer, lecturer, engaged citizen, student of psychology and behavioral systems, a prominent critic of corporate globalization, and an advocate of Ecological Civilization. He is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum and an active member of the Club of Rome, a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Academy for Multicultural…
Monica Sharma
Monica Sharma, trained as a physician and epidemiologist, worked for the United Nations since 1988 for 22 years. Currently, she engages worldwide as an International Expert and Practitioner on Leadership Development for sustainable and equitable change. She works with United Nations, Universities, Management Institutions, governments, business, media and civil society organizations. She is…
Neal Gorenflo
Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal is perhaps an unlikely voice for sharing. A revelation in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people share through Internet startups, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends…
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…