GBN : Our Practice

Laurie Anderson

Performance artist, writer, and musician; creator, "Home of the Brave," "Stories for the Nerve Bible," "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick" and "Homeland"

John Brockman

Literary and software agent; president, Edge Foundation; author/editor, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years, and Curous Minds, How a Child Becomes a Scientist

Sandy Close

Journalism pioneer and executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service; founder, YO! (Youth Outlook) and New California Media; MacArthur fellow

Brian Eno

Avant-garde artist, composer, musician; producer of U2, David Bowie, and others; author, A Year

Betty Sue Flowers

Poet; scenario writer; professor emeritus, English, University of Texas; former director, the LBJ Presidential Library; author/coauthor of eight books, including The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Presence

Peter Gabriel

Award-winning singer, song-writer, composer, and world music advocate and producer; human rights activist; cofounder, WOMAD, On Demand Distribution (OD2), and the WITNESS Project

Joel Garreau

Geographic demographer and cultural commentator; professor of law, culture and values at Arizona State University's law school; fellow, New America Foundation; former senior writer, The Washington Post; author, The Nine Nations of North America, Edge City, and Radical Evolution

William Gibson

Science fiction writer, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition,Spook Country, and Zero History

Charles Hampden-Turner

Organizational psychologist and creator of dilemma theory; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; visiting professor and fellow in entrepreneurship studies, Essex University; author, The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Mastering the Infinite Game, and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century

Gerald Harris

Scenario and strategic planner specializing in energy and utilities, nonprofits, and communities of color; former practitioner, GBN, and strategist, PG&E and Bechtel; author, The Art of Quantum Planning

Barbara Heinzen

Geographer and scenarist specializing in public/private development processes in advanced and developing countries and managing in times of systemic transition; author, Feeling for Stones

John Kao

Serial innovator, entrepreneur, and advisor on corporate innovation and transformation; director, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium; chair, the Institute for Large Scale Innovation; film and Broadway producer; former director, executive innovation programs at Harvard and Stanford; author, Innovation Nation and Jamming

Kevin Kelly

Writer on technology, culture, and change; senior maverick, cofounder, and former executive editor, Wired; cofounder, The Long Now Foundation; author, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, New Rules for the New Economy, and What Technology Wants

Kaiser Kuo

Digital media blogger, journalist, and rock musician; director, international communications, Chinese search engine Baidu; former director, digital media, Ogilvy China; former Beijing bureau chief, Red Herring; founding lead guitarist, Tang Dynasty

Jaron Lanier

Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence, UC Berkeley; author, You Are Not a Gadget

Lawrence Lasker

Independent film writer/producer; co-producer,War Games, Awakenings, and Sneakers

Graham Leicester

Integrative thinker on governance, learning, health, and policy; cofounder, International Futures Forum, Scotland; former diplomat (EU and China); co-author, Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency; author, Transformative Innovation in Education and Beyond Survival

Pamela McCorduck

Science and technology writer; author, Machines Who Think and Aaron's Code; coauthor, The Futures of Women

Jay Ogilvy

GBN cofounder, philosopher, and educator; former dean, Presidio Graduate School and Yale professor; former research director for SRI International’s Values and Lifestyles Program. Author, Facing the Fold: Essays on Scenario Planning; Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow, and Living Without a Goal.

Walter Parkes

Motion picture producer and writer; P+M Productions; former president, Dreamworks SKG and Amblin Entertainment; films include "Sweeney Todd," "The Kite Runner," "Gladiator," "Minority Report"

Nancy Ramsey

Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women

Chris Riley

Brand strategy, design, and communications specialist and founder, Studioriley; media entrepreneur; former head of planning, graphic design group, Apple, Inc. and head of strategic planning, Wieden + Kennedy worldwide

Brian Sager

Entrepreneur; bio- and nano-tech venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology-based solar energy company; new classical music composer

Orville Schell

Director, the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations; former dean, Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; China scholar and journalist; author of 14 books, including Discos and Democracy, Mandate of Heaven, and Virtual Tibet

Alexander Singer

Film and television director ("Star Trek," "Hill Street Blues"); story teller; consultant on digital technology in entertainment and media

Bruce Sterling

Science fiction writer, The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, Distraction, and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years; popular science journalist; catalyst, the Viridian movement; design instructor

Fons Trompenaars

World authority on cross-cultural management; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; author/coauthor of 14 books,including Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Riding the Waves of Culture, Riding the Waves of Innovation, Twenty-One Leaders and The Global M and A Tango: Cross-cultural Dimensions of Mergers and Acquisitions

Vernor Vinge

Science fiction writer and Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Rainbow’s End;retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University

Alain de Vulpian

Analyst of sociocultural change in Europe and North America; founder, Groupe Cofremca and Sociovision, Paris; author, Toward the Third Modernity

Lawrence Wilkinson

Founder, Heminge & Condell, an investment and advisory firm; cofounder and vice chair, Oxygen Media; film and television producer; cofounder and former president, GBN

Alain Wouters

Viability pioneer and founder of Whole Systems, a Belgium-based consultancy using integrated, human-centered, systemic approaches for enabling viable enterprise and win-win solutions; coauthor, The Millennium Bug

Michael Zielenziger

Managing editor/thought leadership for Oxford Economics. Former Asian bureau chief for Knight Ridder, based in Tokyo; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way and "China: Life Science Leader in 2020"

Andrew Zolli

Founder, Z+ Partners, a foresight, brand, and design lab; futurist, Popular Science magazine; curator, Pop!Tech conference; former chief marketing officer, Seigel & Gale brand strategists; editor, Catalog of Tomorrow

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