GBN : Our Practice

Our People

Environmentalist and entrepreneur; cofounder, The Natural Capital Institute, WiserEarth, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; chair, The Natural Step; coauthor, Natural Capitalism; author, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strategist, forecaster, and essayist on long term technological change; lecturer, Stanford University; member, national and corporate science advisory boards

Michael Schrage

Writer and consultant on digital innovation, collaboration, and risk management; fellow, Sloan School of Management's Center for Digital Business; author, Shared Minds and Serious Play

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

Digital sociologist, professor, and director, Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT; author, The Second Self, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Alone Together

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

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

Network Expertise