Purposeful Pathways: Professional Practice and The Coach's Journey

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.

Jonathan Gustin, M.A, MFT, is the founder of Purpose Guides Institute. He guides people to find and embody their life’s purpose, as well as trains those who want to become Purpose Guides themselves. The guest faculty at PGI includes, David Whyte, Thomas Moore, Bill Plotkin, Sharon Blackie, Parker Palmer, Jean Houston, Michael Meade, Adyashanti, Stephen Cope and Joanna Macy.

Jonathan has been a psychotherapist, meditation teacher and Purpose Guide for over 25 years. He is also a retired adjunct professor at JFK University and co-author of Purpose Rising with Ken Wilber, Erwin Laszlo, and Bill Plotkin. He has had the pleasure of co-teaching programs with luminaries such as Human Potential pioneer George Leonard, eco-activist Joanna Macy, eco-psychologist Bill Plotkin, and Non-Duality pioneer Adyashanti.  Once a year in September Jonathan starts a new cohort for Purpose Discovery and Purpose Guide Training. Join us! purposeguides.org

Susan Lucci (she/her) is a Soulful Facilitator, Certified Purpose Guide™ and dynamic facilitator of nearly 1,000 transformational conversations using a unique Circle model she developed. Enjoying holding space for the emergence of group wisdom that leads to inspired action, she is passionate about facilitating soulful conversations that deepen connections, empower engagement, and grow healthier communities. Susan is also an enthusiastic editor who has midwifed many others' books, and a writer who has been published in 365 Moments of Grace and Purpose Rising: A Global Movement of Transformation and Meaning. This former lawyer's mission is to be part of creating an equitable and just world where everyone feels like they belong and fully expresses their purpose!

Brody is the founder of SoulTrue, a Purpose Guide™, a facilitator, an imaginal catalyst, and a teacher. Brody is a senior teacher at Purpose Guides Institute and leads the Integration and Embodiment programs. In addition, he's currently guiding interdisciplinary groups, which include CEOs, leadership teams, architects, land planners, and community stakeholders, in uncovering and expressing the vision, soul, and purpose of place-based projects such as public spaces, venues, and campuses. His ultimate goal is to facilitate a new model of development that is regenerative, equitable, rooted in beauty, and enriches all of life.Brody's creative journeys include: developing curricula and teaching a graduate program at the Academy of Arts in San Francisco that studied the power of art and design as a lever of social change; co-creating a children's book about wisdom featuring folks like Tom Hanks and Jane Goodall; facilitating vision, values, and mission work for corporate leadership teams and not for profits; designing a sculpture installation in the Presidio of San Francisco; developing strategy and creative for clients such as Whole Foods, The International Museum of Women, and the Olympics; and cultivating a 2-acre pocket farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, two teenagers, 17 chickens, and two dogs.

Holly Woods PhD is founder of Emergence Institute, a strategic coaching and consulting firm with a 35-year track record in helping founders create purpose-driven products and businesses that impact the world, create sustainable revenue and meaningful work. She has spent her life imagining a world where everyone can become who they're meant to be, awake and alive to express their innate and purposeful gifts. Holly is the creator behind the Purpose Flywheel™ and the Wild Beyonder™. She has served as faculty at the University of CO, University of Denver, Colorado Technical University, CO Mountain College and consulted with the University of California and companies large and small in many industries.

Holly guides awakening visionaries to uncover their nuanced purpose, gain capacities and mindset to attain their unreasonable goals, and align products and systems around what matters most. Using a validated methodology and toolkit, this work facilitates visionary leaders to gain Inner and Outer Mastery and Co-create in the quantum field, so their innovations are sourced from purpose. Holly is the author of The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life. Learn more at EmergenceInstitute.net.