Purposeful Pathways: Professional Practice and The Coach's Journey

Aftab Omer, Ph.D. is the president of Meridian University which offers degree and professional programs globally, emphasizing the power of transformative learning.

He is a sociologist, psychologist, developmentalist, and futurist. Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics of transformative learning, dialogic capability, developmental power, cultural leadership, civil society, generative entrepreneurship, and the power of imagination.

Aftab’s advising work focuses on team development and on leveraging the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Always driven by pioneering the new, Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller has been an entrepreneur for 35 years and an international Business Consultant, Coach, and Mentor for over two decades. Seeing how often the workplace feels disempowering, leading to people feeling disengaged and unfulfilled, and being guided by her personal purpose “The unification of love and power,” Christiane has specialized in new forms of organizing for 15 years, focusing on self-organization and purpose-guided work. Based on her many years of experience, Christiane is invited to deliver programs, and to speak at events and conferences all over the world.

Her main focus has always been to create, hold, and host spaces for the personal journey into this new way of being, doing, and becoming. She sees life as a spiritual journey, of which everyone's work in the world is a part and is, therefore, sacred - it is what wants to come into the world through each and everyone.

Christiane is a co-founder, partner, and member of encode.org, PowerShift Journeys, and EntheoWork, all enterprises that are part of the PowerShift™Ecosystem. She is the developer of the Language of Spaces Approach, a methodology for deep reflection and introspection in support of the learning journey into the new world of work. She also developed and teaches the JournaLogue Practice, a spiritual journaling practice for self-coaching in support of navigating the many challenges of our times.

Inspired by what she learned in the many years of exploring and experiencing this new world, Christiane decided to write her book: “New Stories of Love, Power, and Purpose; A Global Invitation to Experiment With the Unknown”, which was published in 2022.

The Chancellor of Meridian University, Dr. Houston is a visionary researcher who has authored over 40 books and worked intensively in even more cultures, lectured in over 100 countries, and worked with major organizations such as UNICEF and NASA. She has been an advisor to numerous world leaders, and the past international consultant for the United Nations. Dr. Houston's book, A Passion for the Possible, was an expansive compliment to her inspiring PBS special of the same name. Dr. Houston has served on the faculties of Columbia University, Hunter College, Marymount College, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California. She holds doctoral degrees in both psychology and religion.

Dr. Khaled ElSherbini, a faculty member at Meridian University, is a transpersonal psychologist and former aerospace scientist. As the visionary founder of "The Consciousness Academy", he dedicates his expertise to the realms of awakening, personal development, and transformation, while leading the Academy as its chairman.

With an eclectic academic background, Dr. ElSherbini holds advanced degrees in Psychology, Business and Innovation Management, Sustainability and environmental sciences, and Engineering. Beyond this, he is a credentialed ICF PCC coach, a Spiral Dynamics Integral practitioner, and an internationally recognized Enneagram Professional.

His global contributions include the creation of widely-respected programs such as "Awaken through Enneagram", "Integral Enneagram", and "Conscious Coaching". In these offerings, he masterfully blends various modalities, drawing from the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics integral, the Integral Consciousness framework, contemporary psychological insights, and the profound teachings of Sufi spiritual philosophy and psychology, to shed light on the evolution and development of human consciousness.

Martin is a NARM Trauma Informed Integral Relationship Author, Trainer, and Consultant who supports singles and couples in co-creating healthy integral love relationships that make the world a better place.

He moved from Germany to California in the 90s where he trained with Eckhart Tolle as a group facilitator and later became an avid student of Ken Wilber's Integral Philosophy. This allowed him to integrate his relationship experiences into his three books “Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men”, “Sex, Purpose, Love: Couples in Integral Relationships Creating a Better World”, and "Integral Relationship Practice: A Manual for Singles, Couples, Helping Professionals and Group Facilitators" which Wilber calls terrific and groundbreaking. Martin currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and California, and consults and teaches online and facilitates experiential workshops and trainings locally and worldwide.