Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ: Barrett, your name is probably very familiar to a lot of people in the core integral group. Integral Leadership Review has many subscribers who are outside those boundaries. So they probably don’t know a lot about you, even though you have shown up in the pages of Integral Leadership Review before with some really remarkable work. I hope we can get to know you a little better. Would you tell us about how you came to your …
Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ:I would like to welcome Barbara Kellerman who is known for a couple of reasons.
One is her scholarship in the field of leadership that has connected beyond the notion of the heroic leader into the that of the relationship between leader and follower. More recently her work extends beyond that—and we will get into that. A second reason is that she is also the founding Executive Director of the Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership at …
Fresh Perspective / June 2012
Topic: Barrett’s Ph.D. research on how leaders with post-conventional consciousness design and engage in complex change initiatives, specifically in the field of sustainability.
Interview Date: August, 2011; Available to public: March-April, 2012; Transcribed: May, 2012
An audio version of the interview can be found on the Integral Life website, which requires subscription access. http://integrallife.com/node/126950
Ken: Hello, Barrett.
Barrett: Hello Ken.
Ken: How are you, buddy?
Barrett: I’m great. Excellent to hear your …
Fresh Perspective / March 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ: It has been all about seven months since we last talked. In the August issue of 2011 we had a conversation in which you were showing me how you were bringing Spiral Dynamics analysis in working both with business and in looking at the spread of the cartels in Mexico. So let’s see if we can spend a little time today catching up, what’s been happening since then.
Roberto: The war against crime and drugs is still …
Fresh Perspective / January 2012
Russ Volckmann
James O’Dea is one of those people who hasn’t just talked about peace. He has had a career that has been dedicated to peace and human rights. He has a fascinating career with 
organizations that I’ve supported through donations and membership: Amnesty International and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He was the CEO of the Seva Foundation. He is also a member of the Evolutionary Leaders group spearheaded by Deepak Chopra. Wikipedia reports: “In August 2010 James …
Fresh Perspective / January 2012
Nick Shannon
Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was
Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are “The Good Book”, “Ideas That Matter”, “Liberty in the Age of Terror” and “To Set Prometheus Free”. For several years he …
Fresh Perspective / October 2011
Ken Wilber, American philosopher, has been a prolific writer and contributor of Integral Theory in relation to self development and application across all domains of human activity.
Raquel Torrent, founder and former President of the Spanish Integral Association (2005) and founder of the Spanish Integral Conferences (continuing from 2003), visited Ken Wilber at his home in Denver, Colorado, USA. One purpose of this fourth visit to Mr. Wilber was to conduct this interview. Ms. Torrent, in conjunction with the Spanish …
Fresh Perspective / October 2011
Dr. Don Beck s best known as the coauthor of the book, Spiral Dynamics. He has traveled the world with his compelling messages about the application of spiral dynamics to reframing how we define issues and understand the people involved in them. His work has taken him to South Africa, Palestine and Israel, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and many other countries. In addition he has worked with corporations in the United States. His interest in sports included …
Fresh Perspective / August 2011
Russ Volckmann
Russ: Roberto, we have been in communication for several years and much of it has been in relation to the work you have done with Don Beck in Mexico. For example, one of the things that you have written about is the work that you have done with the Department of Education and the Teachers’ Union. Can you tell us about the status of that project?
Roberto: Sure. Well, it’s not really good news. When we got close …
Fresh Perspective / August 2011
Russ Volckmann
Gail Hochachka is director of Drishti – Centre for Integral Action, where you can find some of her writing and reports on international development (http://www.drishti.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=14) and Integral Program Coordinator at One Sky: Canadian Institute for Sustainable Living. Her husband, Michael Simpson, is the Executive Director of One Sky. Their work in Nigeria and Peru will be discussed here, but a quick search will demonstrate the extensiveness of their work, including …