Chuck Peters
Chuck lives in Chicago, IL. After thirty years working in corporate management, leading large organizations such as Amana Refrigeration and small start-ups such as Breakthrough to Literacy, Chuck’s last ten years have been focused on generative education, particularly effective literacy environments for children ages 3-11. Generative learning environments enable both the leaders and the learners […]
Yuka Saionji Matsuura
Yuka Saionji is deputy chairperson of Goi Peace Foundation and Byakko Shinko Kai, a spiritual organization dedicated to world peace and raising the consciousness of humanity that originated in Japan over 50 years ago. She is a board member of the Miratsuku (which means emerging future), a nonprofit organization working on community-building through dialogue. Saionji […]
Vanessa Reid
Architect. Activist. Systemic Transformer. Vanessa is co-founder of the Living Wholeness Institute (LWI), which supports and co-creates emergent social movements and systemic transformation initiatives across the globe. Vanessa is a practice leader and pioneer in social innovation who brings 20 years of experience in creating new cultures at the intersection of institutions, artistry and civil society. She […]
Tatiana Glad
Tatiana Glad is an entrepreneur, social innovator and connector who has spent her career working at the edges of transformation — where sectors meet, stories shift, and new possibilities emerge. Raised in Canada and Belgium, Tatiana’s path has moved through AIESEC, Pioneers of Change, microfinance in Bangladesh, global banking in the US, and social entrepreneurship […]
Maaianne Knuth
Back in the early part of this century, I felt a yearning to return to my home in Zimbabwe and create a space for people to learn how to live well together. Kufunda Learning Village was born from that yearning. Our work in the Village and in Zimbabwe is to help rural people build self-reliance at […]
Izumi Leelahana
Izumi walks alongside those navigating leadership and life through times of change, complexity, and renewal. Her work is guided by a simple understanding – how we lead cannot be separated from how we are. Over decades of practice, she has worked with people from more than 65 countries, offering spaces for reflection, learning, and transformation […]
Bob Stilger, PhD
Hi, I’m Bob Stilger and I founded New Stories in 2000. My focus is on helping us all create new stories which demand social and environmental justice equity and inclusion — the new stories needed to shift our mental models and meta-narratives enabling us to step into systemic shifts which regenerate healthy and resilient communities. […]
Lynnaea Lumbard, PhD
Lynnaea Lumbard, PhD, is a transformational psychologist, interfaith minister, wilderness guide, community weaver, social artist, and strategic philanthropist. Her journey began during her time at Stanford in a course called Consciousness and the Human Potential, launching her into the emerging field of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. She trained in a wide range of practices, including […]