From Brett’s Twitter bio:
Professor in Exile. Evolutionary Trade-Offs. Telomeres, Senescence and Cancer. The DarkHorse Podcast. Emoticons imply irony. Game~B/Fourth Frontier.
From Wikipedia:
An American biologist and evolutionary theorist who came to national attention during the 2017 Evergreen State College protests. He is considered a member of the informal group of pundits called the Intellectual Dark Web.
From the Perspectiva Website:
Anthea Lawson is an activist who is thinking about activism. Troubled by the ways in which campaigning sometimes replicates what it tries to change, she is working with Perspectiva to enquire into the inner life of activism and what it means for our efforts to change the outer world in which we live.
She trained and worked as a reporter at The Times, then did investigations into the arms trade and corruption in the natural resource industries for campaigning organisations such as Amnesty International and Global Witness. Following an investigation into how the finance sector fuels grand corruption, she launched an award-winning campaign for transparency in company ownership, which – with the hard work of many other activists – has resulted in new laws in 42 countries. She is still campaigning to get a pelican crossing installed at the end of her road.
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Anthea is also an author and an editor at The Dark Mountain Project.
From the Cocreation Foundation site:
I am a theory artist and wordsmith who is developing a new cultural code to foster social and cultural change towards a more inclusive and listening society.
For the past many years I’ve been working as a writer and developmental editor. I’m one of the co-founders of the think tank project Metamoderna and have helped the great Hanzi Freinacht publish The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two (2017) and its sequel, Nordic Ideology (2019).
I have also been working as a developmental editor for the writer, philanthropist and exfinancier Tomas Björkman on the books Världen vi skapar (2017) and the new and updated English language edition titled The World We Create (2019). Currently, I’m working on a new secret book project together with Hanzi Freinacht and his close ally Daniel Görtz.
From LinkedIn:
I co-host a podcast about technology, society, and consciousness. FutureThinkers.org. We talk about blockchain technologies, the technological singularity, artificial intelligence, meditation, future societies, and how we will be affected by the exponential curve of progress.
From Future Thinkers:
Mike Gilliland grew up in Western Canada and studied audio and video production at the Art Institute of Vancouver. He has a 10+ year background in the multimedia industry and is a jack of all trades when it comes to multimedia production and digital storytelling. He has been involved in online businesses for just as long and has started several companies. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to audiobooks, deep-diving into really obscure subjects, playing Minecraft, wearing neck pillows, and spilling coffee. He is an INTJ.
From Ronan’s LinkedIn Profile:
Ronan Harrington is a visionary thinker on how organisations and societies can develop at the psychological and cultural level to move from overwhelm to resilience.
He speaks worldwide on resilience and change, health and well-being, adapting to digital transformation, culture change, employee engagement, and understanding millennials.
With the emergence of mindfulness and vulnerability in the workplace, there is a growing demand for developmental thinking: how humans can grow, individually and collectively, to meet the challenges of our time.
Ronan is a leading expert in the space having founded Alter Ego, a global network of influential leaders who are pioneering psychological and cultural development in organisations and society.
Bio:
At 23, he was nominated as one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society of the Arts;
at 24, he was Head of Innovation at a global creative agency,
at 25, he was a lead futurist at the British Foreign Office;
at 26, he was accepted to the Oxford School of Government;
at 27, he was one of the youngest executives in the City of London, as Director of Futures and Strategy of a global firm;
at 28, he founded Alter Ego, a global network of leaders who are pioneering transformational change in society.
at 32, he is one of the lead political strategists for Extinction Rebellion UK, coordinating political strategy for the October 2019 Rebellion and now their UK General Election Strategy.
Derived from David’s LinkedIn Profile and Wikipedia page:
David is currently working on the application of natural sciences to social systems through the development of a range of methods and the SenseMaker® software suite. He is known for the development of the Cynefin framework and is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, a management consulting firm specializing in complexity and sensemaking.
Specialities:
- Sensemaking
- Knowledge Management
- Complexity Science applied to organisations
- Narrative
Joss is a founder of Systems Innovation.
From Joss Colchester’s LinkedIn profile:
I am interested in how to use new ways of thinking (systems and complexity theory) and new ways of organizing (networks) combined with new technologies (decentralized web) to enable systems-level change (systems innovation).
In general, I help people and organizations to understand and use the ideas from complexity theory and systems thinking to better model, analyze and design complex systems towards enabling systems-level change.
In 2014 I started an eLearning website for systems thinking and spent the next 4 years mass-producing video courses that have been watched millions of times and used daily by universities and enterprises small and large around the world.
Based on Tony’s website:
Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
He is the author of mulitple Amazon best-selling books. Of most relevance to TLLP is his co-authorship of “Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom”.
He has been featured in several movies and documentaries including Bloomberg’s Forward Thinking: A Sustainable World, 2040, and SunGanges. He is recipient of many awards including the Savvy Award (2019), Solar Future Today’s Visionary Influencer Award (2018), and Clean Energy Action’s 2017 Sunshine Award. He is the creator of the Seba Technology Disruption Framework™ (download PDF).
His work focuses on technology disruption, the convergence of technologies, business model innovation, organizational capabilities and product innovation that leads to the creation of new industries and societies and the collapse of existing ones.
Compiled from profiles on her business websites:
For more than 30 years, Dr. Lisa Lahey has specialized in identifying personal and organizational impediments to change. She has personally helped thousands of individuals and groups to unpack and understand these insights, and to ultimately break free of unproductive habits in order to achieve personal and professional goals.
She is a world-renowned author on adult education and development, based on her successful research partnership with Robert Kegan.
Lahey is a faculty member and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For her seminal research, creation of developmental diagnostics and models, and prolific writing on the topic of adult development, Lahey has earned numerous awards, particularly Boston University’s Gislason Prize for contributions to organizational leadership.
Lahey is an inspirational speaker, whose passion for adult education, women’s development, diversity and inclusion, and care for the aged have earned her special attention from the healthcare, nonprofit and education sectors. She is the former associate director of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group, a national project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvements in US public school districts.
She is a co-founder and owner of both The Developmental Edge and Minds at Work.
Daniel’s central interest is civilization design: developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution.
He has an eclectic educational background, mostly from outside of institutional settings, in the natural sciences, social sciences, and philosophy…with an emphasis in the epistemics needed to better approach ‘wicked’ problems, and the ethical considerations to inform the design criteria for adequate solutions.
John Bunzl is a global political activist and businessman. In 2000, he founded the Simultaneous Policy (Simpol) campaign, a way for citizens to use their votes to drive politicians towards global cooperation. It has supporters in over 100 countries and enjoys the support of a growing number of Members of Parliament around the world. He has authored or co-authored a number of books including Monetary Reform – Making it Happen!, People-centred Global Governance – Making it Happen!, and Global Domestic Politics. He has published numerous articles on global governance in the Journal of Integral Theory & Practice. He has lectured widely, including to The Schumacher Society, The World Trade Organisation, The Lucis Trust, and various universities.
From the Harvard website:
Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. His work explores the possibility and necessity of ongoing psychological transformation in adulthood; the fit between adult capacities and the hidden demands of modern life; and the evolution of consciousness in adulthood and its implications for supporting adult learning, professional development, and adult education. In addition to his faculty appointment at HGSE, Kegan serves as educational chair of the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education; as co-director of a joint program with the Harvard Medical School to bring principles of adult learning to the reform of medical education; and as co-director of the Change Leadership Group, a program for the training of change leadership coaches for school and district leaders. Kegan, a licensed clinical psychologist and practising therapist, lectures widely to professional and lay audiences, and consults in the area of professional development. “I have been told,” he says, “it may help to know that I am also a husband and a father; influenced by Hasidism; an airplane pilot; a poker player; and the unheralded inventor of the ‘Base Average,’ a more comprehensive way of gauging a baseball player’s offensive contributions.”
From the Cocreation Website:
“I work on new forms of collaboration and cocreation which empower our individual potential to discover our joint potential in diverse, living processes.
Over the past 16 years I have been working as a founder, creator, designer, and project developer. I’m a moderator and facilitator of participatory and collaborative design processes. As a permaculture designer I understand how to design complex sustainable systems. As a philosopher, theorist and intellectual I work on the theory and methodology of cocreative processes and transformative practice, steadily seeking options that allow us to develop the collective intelligence that is necessary to design the world we live in, in different and better ways.”
From the New Discourses website:
James Lindsay is an American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory.
Joe runs the study group Earth Regenerators
Derived from LinkedIn Profile:
Joe has a unique background in physics, math, philosophy, atmospheric science, complexity research, and cognitive linguistics. Awakened to the threat of human-induced climate disruption while pursuing a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, he switched fields and began to work with scholars in the behavioural and cognitive sciences with the hope of helping create large-scale behavior change at the level of global civilization.
He was an active member of the Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinois studying pattern formation in physical and social systems before joining renowned linguist, George Lakoff, at the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley to analyze political discourse and reveal the structures of meaning in human language.
In 2008, Joe launched the research consultancy Cognitive Policy Works whose mission was to apply insights from cognitive science to social change efforts. It was here that he built up a global network of collaborators in the nonprofit, governmental, and social impact business domains.
He has spoken at many global conferences on the science of social change and the human dimensions of planetary sustainability. And has given workshops on three continents about the workings of the human mind and the strategic tools for designing and enacting positive change in the world.