Richard Blum’s research focuses on uniting concepts from science and eastern spirituality into a single vision. His Existence Framework offers a comprehensive vision spanning from the events which led to the big bang, to the formation of time and space, to how consciousness is generated in the brain, and concludes with an explanation as to why it is possible for humans to experience the infinite transcendent reality. His multidisciplinary approach was inspired by his college advisor and Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon while at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a follower of the spiritual master Meher Baba, and he has made many visits to his retreat in India, as well as being active at the Meher Center in Myrtle Beach, SC where Richard resides. Now that he is retired from his software development business, he is focused on developing his cosmological framework. His books, articles and videos can be viewed on his website.

Violeta heads up a global Eco-Civilization project  – http://www.ecocivilisation.eu/en/home/. She was the vice-president of Telemach, a major telecommunications provider from 1999 to 2000, and from 2000 to 2014 the CEO of Vibacom, Sustainable Strategies and Innovation Ecosystems. She also served as the European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2019 and as the Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia. 

Before Steve Farrell co-founded Humanity’s Team with bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch, he co-founded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley in the 1990s that spanned across both the United States and Europe, were featured on the INC 500 list, and were each operating at more than $75 million in revenue.

By that time, Steve was also an officer in both the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Young President’s Organization, but he walked away from all of it when he felt a calling to instead play an active role in creating a movement that could help people across the globe connect more deeply with the Oneness of all of Life and the Divine energy of the Universe.

Steve is the Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity’s Team and a member of the Evolutionary Leadership Council. 

He lives with his wife Stephanie and his two children in Boulder, Colorado.

Founder and CEO of Guna – Milano, Italian leader in Low dose Medicines

Pavel Luksha is a global thinker, change catalyst, and facilitator working with systemic social innovations in education, business, social entrepreneurship, culture and urban development. Pavel is the founder of Global Education Futures initiative. He is Professor at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA),  Partner of Education Vertical of Global Venture Alliance and a co-founder of two international social movements, Weaving Lab and Living Cities. 

Pavel sits on the Supervisory board of the 20.35 University and EcoClass (экокласс.рф), and on the Advisory board of Whittle Schools & Studios and Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research as well as in the Expert Council of the Russian Agency for Strategic Initiatives. 

He is the co-author of Rapid Foresight methodology used by thousands of futurists and practitioners across the world. Between 2012 and 2015 Pavel has been the program director of a globally unique Foresight Fleet and also co-founded “Boiling Point” future co-creation spaces currently in 41 cities across Russia. He is the founding member of the UN Working Group on the Future of Capital so as the co-founder of Future Skills research alliance of WorldSkills International. In 2015, he was the Chair of BRICS Skills Development Working Group. From 2009 to 2013, he worked with technology innovation management education, authored Skolkovo-Rosatom program that received EFMD Excellence in Practice Award, and co-founded Russian Innovations and R&D Directors Club (iR&Dclub). He also initiated and catalyzed NeuroNet initiative which since 2014 has become Russian national consortium in brain research and neural technologies. 

He is the lead author of numerous Global Education Futures reports, including “Learning Ecosystems: An Emerging Praxis” (2020), “Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation” (2018), “Future Skills: How to Thrive in a New Complex World” (2017), “Global Education Futures Agenda” (2014) which are all available on Global Education Futures‘ website and “Atlas of Emerging Jobs” (3^rd edition 2020), one of the most detailed global compendiums of new and emerging jobs  –  works that have catalyzed systemic innovations in multiple educational systems around the world.

William Stranger is the founder and editor of DharmaCafé Books and www.dharmacafe.com, an online magazine. A disciple of Adi Da Samraj since 1973, his background in the history of consciousness, classical spirituality, transpersonal psychology, traditional health practices, and post-Cartesian political, scientific, artistic, and cultural paradigms, along with his work as author, lecturer, literary agent, editor, and publisher, gives him a broad knowledge of today’s nascent cultural renaissance.

Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (PhD, LLM) is an evolutionary systems scientist, futurist, published author and international trainer for developing our future creative capabilities and collective leadership for a Thrivability Civilization. She holds a Masters degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a degree of Doctor from the School of Business and Economics of the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her PhD dissertation Into the Heart of Systems Change, is gaining international traction for the innovative guidance it provides for transitioning to a Thrivability Civilisation, and for how to transform the human systemic barriers in resolving our sustainability crisis.

Anneloes is Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre and the lead architect of the EARTHwise Tipping Point System (TPS), which is the practical application of her new paradigm research. TPS facilitates deep collaboration and transformational societal change through co-creative thrivability challenges that form part of Tipping Point Festivals and Music for Social Change Events. Anneloes also provides online New Paradigm Leadership courses in collaboration with the Laszlo Institute.

She has provided training, executive coaching, consultancy, and project development for the Mauritius Government, the Shift Network, UNESCO, the Mauritius Institute of Directors, LUX* Resorts & Hotels, St Regis Hotel, the Mauritius Commercial Bank, and the Indian Ocean Commission, among others. She developed the Education for Sustainability program for the Mauritius Catholic School’s Network through which she trained over 300 teachers, which served as national input for the curriculum innovation in Mauritius. Her multi-stakeholder dialogue process was adopted between 2012 and 2014 in 9 different countries for the UN Rio+20 civil society inputs. She also trained the SIDS (Small Island Developing States) youth leaders under UNESCO for the 2014 UN SIDS Youth inputs for the UN SDG formulations.