GBN : Our Practice

Anthropologist; president, Institute for Intercultural Studies; fellow, International Leadership Forum; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives

Barbara Bylenga

Qualitative market researcher and strategic advisor focused on Gen Y trendsetters; president and founder, Outlaw Consulting; founder, Open a Door (mentoring Rwandan students); former advertising executive

Doug Carlston

Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute; board chair, Public Radio International, the Carlston Family Foundation; board member, MoveOn Political Action Committee, the Ploughshares Fund, the Albanian American Enterprise Fund,the Long Now Foundation

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

Robert Fuller

Educator, activist and citizen diplomat; former president, Oberlin College and professor, theoretical physics; author, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank

John Gage

Computer scientist; venture capitalist focused on green technologies, formerly with Kleiner Perkins; cofounder and former director of the science office, Sun Microsystems

Brenda Gourley

Education innovator and consultant; former Vice Chancellor and CEO, The Open University, UK; former Vice Chancellor and CEO, University of Natal, South Africa; founding board member, the Centre for Higher Education Transformation

Saul Griffith

Inventor, materials scientist and engineer; founder of Squid Labs, Potenco, Makani Power; columnist, Make magazine; co-author, HowToons comic book for young inventors

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

J.C. Herz

Principal, Joystick Nation, a research and design firm applying principles of game design to products, services, and learning systems; first New York Times video game critic and a technology columnist; author, Surfing on the Internet and Joystick Nation

John Holdren

Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential advisor; former professor, environmental policy, Harvard University and president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow

Charles House

Authority on innovation and technology-enabled collaboration, communications, and community; chancellor, Cogswell College; former executive director, Media X, Stanford University; former executive at technology startups, Intel and, for 28 years, HP; author, The HP Phenomenon

Mimi Ito

Cultural anthropologist, Keio University and University of Southern California; researcher on portable technologies and new media and learning, especially among youth

Kathryn Johnson

Healthcare and community advocate and educator; cofounder,the Center for Global Service and the Food Commons initiative; former president, Health Forum

Art Kleiner

Editor-in-chief, strategy + business; adjunct assistant professor, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program; author, The Age of Heretics and Who Really Matters; coauthor, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Dances with Change, and Schools That Learn

Mia de Kuijper

Advisor on corporate strategy, finance, and international business; co-dean, Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam; former executive at AT&T, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, and investment banker at Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley; author, Profit Power Economics

Jaap Leemhuis

Economist and specialist in scenario and strategy development; cofounder, Fairsights; former president, GBN Europe; 25 years in planning and management with Royal Dutch/Shell; musician and former Olympian

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

Michael Murphy

Cofounder, Esalen Institute; author, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, and The Future of the Body; coauthor, The Life We Are Given

Maureen O'Hara

Clinical psychologist; educator, writer, and innovator in human and gender relations, organizational and relational psychology, and myths and consciousness; chair, department of psychology, National University (CA); coauthor, Ten Things To Do in a Conceptual Emergency

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.

Pierre Omidyar

Philanthropist and entrepreneur; chair and CEO, Omidyar Network; chair, eBay

Nancy Ramsey

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

Howard Rheingold

Author, Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs; founder, Electric Minds; two-decade track record of foreseeing and interpreting the societal impacts of information and communications technologies

AnnaLee Saxenian

Political scientist specializing in regional economic development and information technology; dean, School of Information and professor, city and regional planning, U.C. Berkeley; author, Regional Advantage and Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Clay Shirky

Consultant and writer on the social, cultural, and economic effects of internet technologies; joint NYU appointments in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and jourmalism department; author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Alexander Singer

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

Nan Stone

Historian; partner, Bridgespan, specializing in strategy for nonprofits; writer on management ideas and practices; former director, the Peter Drucker Institute; former editor, Harvard Business Review

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Strategy professor, Harvard Business School; former founding dean, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; coauthor, The Knowledge Creating Company, Can Japan Compete? and Extreme Toyota

Hardin Tibbs

Scenarist,strategist, and pioneer in sustainability and industrial ecology and design; founder, Synthesys Strategic Conuslting, U.K.; former consultant, Global Business Network and Arthur D. Little

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