I was talking with Matthew Kalman (founder of London Integral Circle) and the conversation took a strange turn:

Matthew: “Russ Volckmann getting a group of people together to discuss Integral Leadership … and I think you would make a good participant”

Keith: “Russ who?”

Matthew: “The publisher of Integral Leadership Review.”

Keith: “Publisher of what?”

And therein ended my first introduction to Russ. As an integral newbie, interested in the application of AQAL in the business world I made contact …

I did not know Russ personally. We had a few brief email exchanges over the years about some of the ILR content. But I sure was an avid reader of the review. I especially enjoyed his 12-part discussion series with Mark Edwards. ILR was, and hopefully under new leadership will remain, a significant contribution to the syntegral community.…

My heart is sore as I write this letter to Russ. We never met in person (with my only mental image of him for years being his e-tag cartoon). Instead, we emailed and Skyped over a period of 11 years. He first reached out to me in October 2006. He wanted to review a copy of my home economics philosophy and leadership book released that year, titled Transformative Practice. It contained a chapter on transdisciplinarity (TD). He said “Sue, …