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…
Jean Houston
“In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of
humanity begins. It is the time where we partner with Creation in the
creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the
regenesis of society, and in the assuming of a new type of culture: the
culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and
recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and…
Jordan MacLeod
Jordan MacLeod is the author of New Currency: How Money Changes the World as We Know It (2009).
Since its publication, New Currency has garnered critical acclaim and
MacLeod has been dubbed a “visionary thinker” and “one of the promising
pioneers of a new planetary civilization” for his work on the impact of
consciousness on money and economic systems. He is also a……
Joseph P. Firmage
Joseph brings a lifetime of passion for science and more than a
decade of business experience to his leadership as Chairman and CEO of
ManyOne Networks. Known throughout Silicon Valley and beyond as a
visionary at the cusp of 21st century science and technology, he has led
companies that pioneered both object-oriented programming tools and the
commercial adoption of the World Wide Web. He began…
LeLy Hayslip
A survivor of unspeakable torture during the Vietnam War, LeLy Hayslip
tells of her war-time experiences as a 12 year old spy for the Viet Cong
and her remarkable transformation into an international leader of peace
and reconciliation, in her bestselling autobiography When Heaven and
Earth Changed Places. Her book is translated into 17 languages, made
into an Oliver Stone movie “Heaven and…