Riane Eisler

Duane Elgin

Duane Elgin, is an internationally recognized author, speaker and media activist. He is the co-director of the Choosing Earth Project. His books include: Choosing Earth, Awakening Earth, The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, and Voluntary Simplicity. He received the Peace Prize of Japan—the Goi Award—in Tokyo in 2006 in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” His personal website is: and project website is:

Jean Houston

The Chancellor of Meridian University, Dr. Houston is a visionary researcher who has authored nearly 30 books and worked intensively in over 40 cultures, lectured in over 100 countries, and worked with major organizations such as UNICEF and NASA. Dr. Houston has developed a worldwide network of leaders including Joseph Campbell, Margaret Mead, Buckminster Fuller, Jonas Salk, US presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, as well as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, giving her unique insight into the human potential. 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. Since 2002, Dr. Houston has been working with the United Nations Development Program, training leaders in developing cultures throughout the world in the field of Social Artistry.

Thomas Hubl

Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, a spiritual teacher whose work integrates the essence of the great traditions of wisdom with scientific knowledge and his own personal experience. Since 2004, Thomas’ work has spread worldwide, through workshops, multiyear training programs, online courses, and the Celebrate Life Festival, which raises funds for charity and brings together more than 1,500 people annually. In 2008, he founded the Academy of Inner Science (AIS) as a framework for research on the Mystical Principles that underlie our everyday realities. Over the years, Thomas has led several Healing Events that brought together thousands of Germans with Israelis to acknowledge, face, and heal the cultural shadow left by the Holocaust. In 2016, Thomas founded the Pocket Project, a non-for-profit, with the aim of spreading his work to help stop the vicious cycle of recurring collective trauma and ultimately integrate and reduce its effects in our global culture.

Annette Kaiser

Annette Kaiser is a Swiss born spiritual teacher and a visionary of a Universal Spirituality. She is devoted to transconfessional and transcultural evolutionary spirituality, which implies an open aware state of being as the natural expression of an integral way of living. This is leading into Universal Spirituality and Universal Cooperation as integral Not-Two. She sees the 21st Century as a call for humanity to recognise itself as inseparably One, co-creating a new culture in collective wisdom and love of One Heart.

She is married, mother of two adult children and grandmother.

https://www.goldenerwind.ch/en/annette-kaiser/

Aftab Omer

Aftab Omer, Ph.D. is a sociologist, psychologist, futurist and the president of Meridian University. 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, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and the power of imagination. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping 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.

Monica Sharma

Dr. Monica Sharma, a physician and epidemiologist, worked for the United Nations for 23 years, directed programs for whole systems transformation and leadership development world-wide. She led teams for policy, strategy and programme development in over 60 countries, building multi-stakeholder partnerships. Currently, she works with United Nations, universities, management institutions, governments, non-governmental organisations, civil society, business, media, and other organizations. She created a unique response model based on extensive application –a conscious full-spectrum response model- and generated equitable and sustainable results on several Sustainable Development Goals, worldwide. Monica Sharma is the author of the award -winning book “Radical Transformational Leadership”.

Roger Walsh

Roger Walsh MD, Ph.D. DHL is professor emeritus of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology at the University of California where he researches contemplative practices, wellbeing, and our global crises. His books include Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices, The World of Shamanism, and The World's Great Wisdom, and his work has received over twenty national and international awards. He is a student, researcher, and teacher of several contemplative traditions and an authorized lama in Tibetan Buddhism. Recently he graduated from the San Francisco Comedy College and had an extremely brief and unsuccessful career as a standup comedian. For more information see

Maria Bakari

Maria is an Organisational Psychologist, passionate about activating the magic and catalysing power of synergy in teams and organisations as well as within, as a place of perception, interdependence and action. She is deeply connected to her Hellenic roots while working in multicultural contexts for many years. She designs and artfully applies participatory processes that create conditions for collective creativity, collaboration and transformative learning in organisations and community. Maria is the initiator of Synergy – Rhodes and co-founder of the Next Stage World initiative as well as a constant learner and practitioner of systemic change and radical, profound hospitality.

Hanno Burmester

Hanno Burmester works at the intersection of societal, organisational and individual transformation. He is author of the book Unlearn. A Compass for Radical Transformation (Perspectiva Press), and a frequent speaker at international events and conferences. As Policy Fellow at the Berlin-based think tank Das Progressive Zentrum, Hanno designs, writes and facilitates around the future of democracy. With his company Unlearn, he helps companies transform towards cultures of self-organisation. You can learn more about him and his work at .

Jennifer Campbell

Jennifer Campbell is committed to helping leaders and executives transform their business, boost return on investment and live happier lives. With over 25 years of change management experience, Jennifer has had 3000+ flourishing and engaged clients. Jennifer‘s mission is to help leaders and organizations drive change to be happy in life, to successfully conduct international business and to add value by enabling, managing, and facilitating high quality return or investment, boosting change, organizational development and leadership projects. Jennifer’s clients are leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and terms in multinational settings, who want to take themselves, their organizations and results to higher levels. Jennifer is the founder and organizer of the annual global Systemic Leadership Summit.

Elizabeth Debold

I call myself a gender futurist who sees a new potential for human relationship in the emergent realm of We Space. For the past twenty-some years, I have committed myself to exploring the transformative potential of the We, beyond and including our many Me's. Through founding One World in Dialogue, I am working with my partner, Thomas Steininger, and others across the globe to develop a unified field of conscious awareness that can hold our differences in creative friction rather than conflict. Our programs, such as the 24-hour vigil One World Bearing Witness, bring sacred activism into the global digital age.

Diane Hamilton

DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition.

As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area.

She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.

John Dupoy

John Dupuy, MA, is the founder of Integral Recovery® and author of the award-winning book Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction. John is also CEO of iAwake Technologies, a company that produces brainwave entrainment tracks to enhance meditation, flow states, and healing emotions. John teaches around the world on the subjects of Integral Practice and the use of brainwave entrainment technology to deepen one's meditation practice and in the treatment of addiction, depression, and PTSD. He hosts the online series Spiritual Tech Talks 2.0 and co-hosts the popular Journey of Integral Recovery podcast.

Raymond Fismer

Born 1956, physicist.

Long-time work in adult education, ecological engineering and ngo administration.

Facilitator for ngo workshops, coach for relationship counselling, author and workshop leader on male development. Administrative manager of Integrales Forum (integral association in German-speaking countries) and of Bundesforum Männer (German umbrella association for equality-oriented men’s politics).

Susanne Cook Greuter

Susanne Cook-Greuter is a founding member and elder of the Integral Institute. She earned her doctorate at Harvard University. She is considered a leading authority in ego development theory and structural text analysis. She used to teach vertical development theories worldwide. Now Susanne is mostly retired and focuses on writing her book on ego development theory and measurement. She still supervises and certifies professionals in developmentally-tailored coaching. In 2019 she gave a keynote at the first Integral African Conference addressing the hacking of minds by English as a world language and Western/Integral ideas of adult development known as WEIRD. Susanne sees a need to expand our appreciation of non-Western and Indigenous wisdom traditions and for learning about different conceptions of what it can mean to be a mature human being.

Tom Habib

Tom Habib, Ph.D. was founder and managing partner in a private group Clinical Psychology practice for 26 years. Tom is an independent researcher serving as the Chairperson for the IEC’s International Consortium of Integral Scholars. He is currently running a study on the incidence of the Highly Sensitive Person within the Integral Community and similarly, developing We-space experiences at San Diego Integral. All of this is utilized to enhance the intimate couples’ stage and state development within his clinical practice and in presentations.

Lukas Herrmann

Lukas Herrmann is a facilitator and researcher interested in shifting social fields to a deeper, more generative level which fosters evolutionary change processes. He works with the Center for Systems Awareness towards system wide change in the US educational sector and in his PhD at Heidelberg University investigates the transformation of social fields via whole-school training in presence and relational competence. Lukas promotes Global Social Witnessing as awareness-based practice for global citizenship.

Lukas worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Neuroscience, investigating the contemplative training of perspective-taking. Lukas is a trained psychologist, family therapist and Master Practitioner in Compassionate Systems.

Santiago Jimenez

Santiago is an industrial engineer, musician, facilitator and Zen monk authorized to teach in the lineage of Zen Master Genpo Roshi, and Shinzen Young. He is the current director of the Integral Center Colombia, one of the pioneer integral institutions in Latin America.

As a facilitator, he has worked in different countries with individuals and groups ranging from indigenous tribes to multinational executives, sometimes in the same setting. As a musician Santiago has toured throughout Europe, the US, Asia and Latin America. He is currently working on how to bring integral awareness into the music world.

Pier Luigi Lattuada

Pier Luigi Lattuada M. D., Psy. D. Ph. D. Founder of Biotransenergetics, Pier Luigi is the Director of the Integral Transpersonal Institute of Milan. He is also director of the Transpersonal Psychotherapy School in Milan, which has been fully recognized by the Ministry of Education University and Research since 2002. He is Faculty and chair of the Department of Integral Transpersonal Psychology at Ubiquity University. He is President of EUROTAS, Global Transpersonal Network. Pier Luigi has published twenty books and several scientific articles.

Rami Mani

Transformative peacebuilder-performer and leader-educator Dr. Rama Mani is the Founder of Theatre of Transformation Academy, and Convenor of Enacting Global Transformation at the University of Oxford. She is the Co-Founder of Home for Humanity, with her husband, Prof. Alexander Schieffer. She is a Councilor of the World Future Council. Formerly, she was Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka, & Director of the Global Peace and Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She received the Visionary Leadership Lifetime Award in 2020 in Canada, the Excellence in Leadership Award in 2018 in the UK, and the Peter Becker Peace Prize in 2013 in Germany.

Kazuma Matoba

Kazuma was born in Kobe/Japan and studied Linguistics and International Politics at Sophia University in Tokyo.

After his PhD study in Germany he has taught and researched at several Universities in Japan and Germany. Since 2018 he is Professor for intercultural education at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. He is co-founder of Institute for Global Integral Competence (), managing director of Academy of Inner Science Graduate Program and Master of Arts in Inner Science at Ubiquity University. One of his research topics is “Global Social Witnessing” and leading a research project ().

Annette McCall

I am practicing integrally informed family medicine on the beautiful Sunshine Coast just outside of Vancouver, Canada. Our Canadian healthcare system is in dire need of transformation and not aware of an integral framework as of yet. I am a mother of three sons in their 20s who tolerate my attempt at offering an integral perspective. I am also a student of Doshin Roshi,(Integral Zen) and a member of his sangha. This all allows me to be a student, mentor, teacher, coach and practitioner on this evolutionary path.

Lisa Norton

Lisa Norton is a guide disguised as a professor. She is piloting Uncertainty Lab, a social-emotional learning context for practices of uncertainment – states of negative capability, humility, and awe necessary for grappling with our global crises of meaning, learning and creativity. Professionally, Norton's coaching, facilitation and consulting practices focus on cultivating conditions for the emergence of resilience in complex adaptive systems such as creative teams. She also serves as Professor of Design Leadership in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design where she teaches Creative Team Dynamics: identity and change.

Paddy Pampallis

Dr Paddy Pampallis, educationalist, integral psychologist and IntegralU coach, has immersed herself in human consciousness and development. The founder/CEO of Integral Africa (Institute); The Coaching Centre (TCC, 2003); Integral African Conference (2019 IAC) and Ubuntu Coaching Foundation. She partners Susanne Cook-Greuter co-teaching on Leadership Maturity globally. Her unique application of Wilber’s AQAL theory, into the IntegralU Practice of Leadership & Coaching™, from an Africa perspective, has met with Wilber’s acclaim. Hundreds of students have graduated through the ICF accredited programme (IPCP), and many leaders have benefitted from integrative transformational work with individuals, teams and organisations towards consciousness, mastery and impact.

Markos Perrakis

Markos Perrakis, PhD, is leadership development & process facilitator, psychologist, speaker and founder of Fractality -EU Training & counselling provider. During the last 20 years he has been working with eclectic systemic appreciative approaches, participatory design methods and Spiritual Intelligence worldwide. He is also Scientific Assistant of SOL (Society of Organisational Learning) and EUMU (European Union of small and medium enterprises) in issues of Strategic Planning, Human Resources Development, Dynamic Governance and European Programs in Greece. He provides training, supervision and facilitation for Professionals, HR Experts, local communities, politicians and NGOs, helping citizens express and transform themselves to a co-creative transition. His works with people who are sensitive with environmental and societal issues with values and their actions bring a positive social impact to the world.

George Por

George is a mentor and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders and organizations around the world. He is the founder of Enlivening Edge magazine, Campus Co-Evolve virtual university for evolutionary agents, and Future HOW, the Center of Action Research for Evolutionary Emergence. With Aftab Omer, he is the co-developer of the “Transformative Communities of Practice” theory. His past academic posts include the California Institute for Integral Studies, London School of Economics, UC Berkeley, and the Université de Paris. His consulting clients included European Commission, Ford, Greenpeace, Intel, UN Development Programme, World Wildlife Foundation, Zappos. He can be reached at george@campus-coevolve.org.

Jonathan Reams

Jonathan practices the cultivation of leadership through awareness-based consulting, coaching and action research on leadership development program design and delivery in a variety of settings. He has a position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, and is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and of the European Center for Leadership Practice. He brings awareness-based leadership development practices to his work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges.

Eric Reynolds

Eric Reynolds received his MA in Transformative Leadership from the California Institute of Integral Studies and his PhD at Saybrook University in Organizational Leadership and Transformation (OLT). As a transdisciplinary scholar of Next-Stage Organizations, and Executive Editor of Integral Leadership Review, he passionately bridges the many silos of human knowing, being, doing, and relating.

Nico Roenpagel

Nico is enthusiastic about novel expressions of wisdom in today’s world of unprecedented complexities and possibilities. Equipped with a PhD in art education (UNSW Australia) and a research-based understanding of the benefits of meditation and embodied leadership, he has brought mindfulness to corporate environments, universities, art museums and classical music. To him, the ultimate purpose of mindfulness is collective awakening. Sources of inspiration in his life are his meditation, yoga and dance practice since 2002; as well as imaginative inquiry, evolutionary philosophy, constellation work and collective intelligence.

Bonnitta Roy

Bonnitta Roy is founder of Alderlore Insight Center, an education and retreat center that offers collective insight retreats for people interested in breaking away from limiting patterns of thought. She teaches a masters course in consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology at the Graduate Institute. Her teaching highlights the embodied, affective and perceptual aspects of the core self, and the non-egoic potentials from which subtle sensing, intuition and insight emerge. Bonnitta is an author and fellow at Perspectiva, where she writes about emergent themes in education and spirituality. She is a contributor and associate editor of Integral Review.

Jeff Salzman

Jeff Salzman is the host of The Daily Evolver podcast, now in its 10th year. The Daily Evolver looks at current events in culture, politics and spirituality through the lens of integral, evolutionary theory. Jeff worked with Ken Wilber in building the Integral Institute, producing the Institute’s original seminar series. He also co-founded The Boulder Integral Center, hosting hundreds of events dedicated to furthering the integral vision. Jeff is guided by the insight that “evolution is beautiful, but not pretty.”

Akasha Saunders

Nothing brings more joy to Akasha than cultivating spaces for liberatory-growth. He works with Cultivating Leadership and is known for his success designing and facilitating interventions that support vertical development and intercultural competence.

Akasha is a pilgrim, educator, and developmental coach. He teaches developmental psychology and gender inequality at St. George’s University in Grenada. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University and is credentialed through the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. He spends most of his time between Grenada and Bermuda with his partner, their son, and very protective cockapoo dog.

Alexander Schieffer

Professor Alexander Schieffer is an integral philosopher, academic activist, passionate educator, and mystic poet. He is Co-Founder of TRANS4M Academy for Integral Transformation (Geneva, Switzerland) Co-Founder of Home for Humanity (France), Professor of Integral Development at Da Vinci Institute, South Africa and St. Gallen University, Switzerland. Author of many books (including Integral Development, Transformation Management, Integral Economics and Integral Research-and-Innovation), as well as two poetry volumes and a novel. He is also Co-Editor of the Transformation and Innovation Series and the Integral Green Society and Economy Series, both with Routledge. He has a Ph.D. from St. Gallen University entitled The Development of Leadership Personality.

Melissa Schwartz

Melissa Schwartz, Ph.D. is the Chief Academic Officer at Meridian University where she guides integrally-oriented programs in Education, Business, and Psychology. The Director of Meridian’s Center for Transformative Learning, Melissa is dually licensed as both a psychologist and as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). She serves as a reviewer for the American Psychological Association’s Journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and the California Psychological Association’s Office of Professional Development. As well, she serves as a Subject Matter Expert for California’s Board of Behavioral Sciences in the continual development of the state’s MFT licensure examination. Melissa’s research interests are in the areas of adult development, the psychology of women, integral transformative assessment, and the role of culture in transformative learning.

Anneloes Smitsman

Dr Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM), is Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre. She is a visionary scientist, published author, futurist, system architect, and global catalyst. She holds a Masters degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, and received a degree of Doctor from Maastricht University (the Netherlands) for her research “Into the Heart of Systems Change”. Anneloes has a unique vision and understanding of the Cosmic architecture of life and how to apply this for the renaissance and redesign of self and society, and the development of our future human capacities. This also features in her forthcoming book “Future Humans - The Quest of Rose” with her co-author Dr Jean Houston. Anneloes is also the author of the Amazon Bestseller “Love Letters from Mother Earth – The Promise of a New Beginning”. Anneloes is passionate about empowering people in developing the future systems, capabilities, and architecture for thrivable civilizations. She is the lead architect of the EARTHwise Tipping Point System, and a powerful teacher of Evolutionary Leadership, Social Innovation, and Transformational Change. Her unique programs and teachings have empowered thousands of people and organizations from around the world. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. Website - https://www.earthwisecentre.org/anneloes-smitsman

Rica Viljoen

Dr Rica Viljoen is currently the SVP: Organisational Development Sibanye-Stillwater. She is associated with various Centres of Human Emergence. Rica works closely with Don Beck and until recently with Loraine Laubscher in studying changing life conditions and human adaptation. Rica has published books, chapters and articles on change, spiral dynamics and multi-culturalism. She expresses the passion of ensuring that untold stories of minority groups. Amongst other prices, she has been awarded the CEO-award for her contribution nationally/internationally by the Institute of People Management. She study led more than 90 PhD and Masters theses and co-hosted the first Integral African Conference.

Anne-Marie Voorhoeve

Anne-Marie Voorhoeve is an evolutionary leader, founder - consultant of The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence (THC). At the heart of THC is the uplifting of networks and the development of complex multi-stakeholder projects to develop a world that works for all. Strategically Coalescing Authority, Power and Influence (CAPI Adizes), she has co developed this praxis of Meshworking (first coined by Don Beck and spiral dynamics integral) around the world. She loves to work intergenerationally, balancing the masculine and the feminine in co-creation and addressing profound issues, big questions and be in the not-knowing until clarity arises.

Mathias Weitbrecht

Mathias Weitbrecht is a European pioneer in the field of visual facilitation. Since 2005 he has developed products, business models and teams - always aligned with a strong purpose-driven approach. He is founder and CEO of Visual Facilitators GmbH with a team of 35 visual strategists, graphic recorders and facilitators, as well as author of the book “Co-Create! Das Visualisierungs-Buch” /(Wiley Publ/).