A social technologies researcher and provocateur, exploring the edges of communication, co-creation and commerce in a network society. She often synthesizes insights and analysis into video-based communications along with blogs and reports. One of her well known projects is The Future of Money project, which provided a visionary point of view for the banking industry and was presented to over 200 global heads of banks at the SIBOS Conference in October 2010. Her current projects include work on the Future of Facebook, social currency, digital identity, and p2p finance. Her views have been featured in leading media outlets such as CNN and Forbes, as well as her own widely followed blog, Emergent by Design. She is also a board member of the Acceleration Studies Foundation and an advisor for a number of tech startups and social change initiatives.

Practitioner of human-centered approaches to organizational change involving technological innovation. Methods informed by current research in social psychology, organizational and systems science.

Architect of a series of innovative movement-building projects, including a common progressive agenda (Thinking Big), a major conference on leveraging national resources to build state infrastructure (2009 National Progressive Roundtable), and the first-ever strategic planning summit for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (2011 CPC Policy Summit). These projects have built the framework for closer coordination and increased impact of progressive messaging and policy campaigns, including the current fights over job creation and the federal budget. Also directs collaborative research projects; recent projects covered topics including progressive identity, values, infrastructure development, framing, future forecasting, and cultural strategy.

A meeting designer, teacher, and visual thinking specialist. She helps clients like non-profit organizations, corporations, and community groups to translate their visions, processes, plans - anything! - into engaging images. Whether listening to a keynote at a large conference or sitting at the table during a small meeting, Mariah captures her clients key messages and themes in Visual Records - metaphors, images, and words that she draws in real time. She also loves designing meetings that tap into the wisdom of groups and their ability to think together.

designs social and organizational structures that, in turn,foster new socioeconomic and political structures. He founded GiftCircle Network, which brings people together in geographic communities to share resources. The network extends from Fairfax to Chicago and Bangladesh. He also helped design non-hierarchical structures for conferences and groups with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Meditation Mount, Ojai Foundation, and CAST, among others. Alpha co-authored The Open Collaboration Encyclopedia which is a study of the new types of structures.

I have diverse experience in strategic leadership, product design and stewardship, compliance and regulatory management, supply chain management, stakeholder engagement, EH&S, manufacturing and quality management. I love building inspiring teams and designing solutions that create positive change in the world.

An ethnographer by trade and inclination. I have spent the last twenty years researching and documenting how individuals, groups and organizations change to navigate crisis and embrace possibility. With Erika Gregory I co-founded the social innovation consultancy Collective Invention, Inc. We use holistic diagnostics, theater, futures thinking, and research-based persona and scenario development to create immersive experiences that enable our clients to explore future options, and develop a forward-acting resilience.

A futurist & strategist with a focus on creating communities of transformative innovation to help organizations understand and deal with the global challenges of the 21st century. He is a co-founder of the Idea Hive, a boutique innovation consultancy, and a fellow of the International Futures Forum, a global network of futurists, as well as advising several ventures in the social innovation space.

leader, strategist and innovator in multiple contexts including consulting, start-up, corporate R&D and membership organizations. Management experience in research and strategy. Sustainability professional specializing in system design and transformational change initiatives.

brings to her clients a deep understanding of the transformative process and of the capacity required to move towards more sustainable and conscious business practices. Passionate about her work, Beatrice is deeply committed to supporting her clients whatever storm they face, using a broad range of skills and expertise including strategy development, leadership capacity development, a holistic and collaborative approach to problem investigation and resolution, work process performance assessment and improvement, and other organizational development services.

my passion is to ignite cultures of greatness. My expertise comes from growing companies, small and big for 20 years. I'm a behavioral strategist, which means I blend strategic models, frameworks with an understanding of how humans actually behave. Because I've experienced a rather full range of roles within organizations (starting as an admin, serving as a division leader, becoming a start-up exec, taking on entrepreneurship, making payroll for many people as a CEO, and now serving as a director for corporate boards), I value practical ideas that work.

Executive and Organizational Development: Pamela works with senior teams at the intersection of Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Culture. We design and teach Leadership Academies which build the capacity for innovation, creativity and passion focused on results. We are passionate about working with executives and organizations who recognize the importance of successful businesses driving the shift to a regenerative economy.

Facilitates individuals striving to express their talents and commitments as fully as possible, bringing forth the character within each of us who has the ability to choose a new path. We might call it our will, our inner leader, our guide or our executive. In industry where Jim has spent his career, good executives are called on to break corporate habits, take the bet on new technology or markets, make the call, restructure, and inspire the population of managers and workers to abandon some or much of what they know how to do and set off on an uncertain, unfolding course, with not much certitude. So it is in ourselves. The Executive within must be capable of managing the inner call to a new direction, rewrite self history to include the new direction, direct the unlearning and learning and redesign from an idea or urge through possibility into achievement.

We engage people in helping to make tomorrow by design, not default. As wayfinders, we help organizations and communities to imagine the power and promise of this new paradigm, and to design processes and tools that enable them to shape and live it into being. We do this by bringing people together through a collaborative design process that reveals, draws forth, and connect resources, talents, and skills helping communities develop their unique creative capacities, resilience and evolvability.

President of Meridian University, which infuses transformative education and innovation into its graduate programs in Psychology, Business, Education and the Arts. Aftab's research has focused on the emergence of human capacities within transformative learning communities and his work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. His publications include "The Spacious Center: Leadership and the Creative Transformation of Culture" and "Between Columbine and the Twin Towers: Fundamentalist Culture as a Failure of Imagination." He is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and The World Academy of Art and Science.

a Columbia and Oxford University trained educator and leadership coach dedicated to helping leaders develop the agility, vision, integrity, and authenticity needed to add genuine value to the global community while succeeding in today's global marketplace. Her expertise includes helping clients identify and align with their values and adopt new frames of reference to optimize individual and team performance. Marina teaches a unique combination of emotional, social and somatic intelligence designed to integrate head, heart and gut and help clients become exemplary leaders, influencers and innovators. An Asia expert with global work experience, Marina brings deeply human solutions to business challenges, believing that personal mastery is the key to modeling and embodying transformational leadership. Marina is a partner at Global Reach Leadership.

Milicent is an idealistic realist with a passion for learning, laughing, and building community. Her passion for empowering communities to find meaningful solutions and resilience led her to work on asset building and economic development through education, policy, research, and community organizing with a focus on low income communities and communities of color. She is thankful that the Shareable community has confirmed her belief that all we could possibly want or need is actually within ourselves, our communities, and the people around us. In her role at Shareable, Milicent's main objective is to network shareable urban designers, businesses, alternative economy and thought leaders with communities that are ripe for implementing sharing practices in order to strengthen the sharing movement.

Over twenty years of experience working in project management and senior management positions with sustainability, environmental and social change organizations in the non-profit arena. Substantial consulting experience with local and state government agencies and business. I specialize in utilizing ecological principles to build community and improve effectiveness in organizations, coalitions, civic engagement and public education efforts.

She is passionate about deepening her and others connection to the natural rhythms of our earth in order to heal our communities. She is co-founder of Earthseed Consulting LLC, a holistic consulting firm whose work deepens the impacts of environmental advocacy in the lives of diverse communities. She studied at Columbia and Tufts University. She has lectured extensively around issues of diversity, women's leadership, the environment, and human rights. Her writing includes a childrens book, various curricula and a greenbuilding manual for youth. She has studied and lived in over ten countries and some of her other achievements include presenting at Tedx Denver, being awarded fellowships to Columbia University Human Rights Program as well as Green For All's Green Fellow Program. She also volunteers regularly and served as a Global Peer to four Nigerian women working to bring safe water technology to their communities through the Global Women's Water Initiative.

is an economist, communication expert, and evolutionary media sociologist. He was a 2006 Yale World Fellow at Yale University. He has ten years of university teaching expeience and now teaches at the MOME Theoretical Institute in Budapest. He has designed an introductory course in the field of Emergence. The course covers evolutionary theory, networkology, the science of memes, studies of human cooperation, and internetology, a complex field he named Evolutionary Media Sociology. His theory is that, when dealing with the huge data sphere interlocking with volumes of human interaction, we create a new hybrid evolving entity that shows the distinct signs of a complex system: the media sphere is a living being, evolving, changing and surprising us with emerging properties.

A strategist, future thinker and facilitator of complex change projects across sectors and systems. She founded Adaptive Edge in 2004 to create cutting-edge, collaborative approaches to tackling the critical long-term challenges facing her clients. Over the last 15 years, Nicole has worked in over a dozen global industries and sectors. Clients include leaders from Fortune 100 companies, governments, and civil society organizations. She learned her unique craft at Global Business Network (GBN), a pioneering think-tank in San Francisco, best known for its network of important future thinkers and future-thinking organizations. Prior to her futures work, Nicole worked for a venture capital firm financing digital infrastructure in Asia.

Edward West is an entrepreneur and educator. In 2006, Edward co-founded Mission Motors, manufacturer of advanced electric powertrains for vehicle manufacturers and high performance electric motorcycles. In the four years after the founding of the company while he served as President, Mission grew to a staff of 35, raised two VC funding rounds and a PE round, and created multiple contracts with major vehicle manufacturers. In order to prototype the future, he has a deep interest in using the principles of evolution and complexity to create self-replicating urban innovation clusters, with the goal of a more conscious, loving, just, regenerative and sustainable world.

A media artist and theorist, he works with visualizations of scientific datasets and cultural imagery to create performative environments that facilitate reflective examination of different approaches to modeling knowledge. He co-founded the Elumenati, a design and engineering firm that creates immersive projection environments and custom installations for clients including NASA, Burning Man, Cirque du Soleil, and 350.org. Through the Elumenati, he is currently the creative director of the Worldviews Network, a collaboration of scientists, artists, and educators re-imagining the big picture of humanity's home in the cosmos. David is also President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems.

In the broadest sense, my interest is creating environments that develop the precursors necessary to build products and services, and then designing products and services so that they regenerate these precursors in society. In this way, the cycle - the economy - can function elegantly and support what we, as humans, value in our lives. This approach is highly relevant to evaluating the impact of investment and grantmaking, creating innovation environments, ensuring corporate social responsibility programs are strategic assets, developing sustainability efforts, etc.

Student of Life, Global Knowmad, Challenger of Convention, and Creativity Enthusiast. Those are the words that most accurately describe me, a 20-year-old girl trying to make sense of our world and how I fit into it. After growing up living in various countries and working in the world of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship, I am at the moment primarily involved in creating change and inspiring others to have a voice in crafting their own learning and life paths. My vehicle to do this is The Eduventurist Project, which I am working on while taking my own time away from college and formal schooling. I am also currently the editor of the first San Francsico Bay Area edition of the Community Lover's Guide to the Universe, a project I learned about while traveling solo in Europe for 4 months this year. Additional fun facts about me: I have a strong interest in design and how it can be applied to solving social and environmental problems, the notion of community is something I continually aspire to explore and learn about, I love to dance, and I am passionately obsessed with tea.

A cofounder of Global Business Network. He is also a board member of the Arlington Institute and the Meridian International Institute, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a member of Forum 21, and the International Futures Forum. Until recently he was a senior associate a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency. Before joining GBN, Napier spent more than 30 years in the international oil industry, mostly with companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. He was a senior member of the small team at Shell that developed scenario planning in the early 1970s under the leadership of Pierre Wack.