Alain B. Volz

Founder / Synnervator, ATMA – Authenticity Talent & Management Advice

Alain Volz M.Sc.(1969) has studied Business Administration and Organisational Psychology. He started his career with Royal Dutch Ahold and has worked with IPMMC and TC&O. For the last 10 years Alain has been working with Twynstra Gudde Consultants and Managers as senior consultant Human Talent & Change Management.

Currently Alain is co-director of the Center for Human Emergence in the Netherlands and founder of the School of …

Thierry C. Pauchant, PhD

Professor in management at HEC Montreal (a top 10 MBA programs outside the US, according to BusinessWeek), Thierry C. Pauchant has served as a manager and a consultant for organizations such as AT&T, CGI, Holiday Inns, IBM, General Electric, the Government of Quebec and Environment Canada. Author and coauthor of more than 130 publications, including 9 books, he has been invited to present his research findings at M.I.T (USA), INSEAD (France) or IIMB, Bangalore (Inde), and …

Margaret J. Wheatley, Ed.D.

Margaret (Meg) Wheatley writes, teaches and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She has worked in virtually every type of organization and on all continents (except Antarctica), and has been a dedicated global citizen since her youth. The consistent focus of her work has been to encourage people to organize as life does–cooperatively, generously, systemically and nonhierarchically. She seeks to create organizations where people are known as the blessing, not …

William Rockwell Torbert

Now Director of Research for Harthill Consulting UK and a convener of by-invitation Alchemists’ Workparties, Bill Torbert is also Professor of Management Emeritus at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where, between 1978 and 2008, he served as the school’s Graduate Dean and Director of the PhD Program in Organizational Transformation.  Within the academy, he served as Chair for the Organization Development & Change Division of the Academy of Management and on the Board of …

Ronald Riggio, PhD

Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute Psychology

Educational Background

B.S., Santa Clara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Teaching Interests

Leadership

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Nonverbal Communication

Research Interests

Predication of leadership and managerial potential

Charismatic leadership theory

Nonverbal communication in social interaction

Communication processes in organizational settings

Assessment center methodology for personnel selection, employee development, and measurement of leadership potential

Learning strategies in higher education

Selected Professional

Dr. Barbara Mossberg

President Emerita of Goddard College, and Senior Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, Barbara Mossberg is an activist educational leader who weaves being a poet, lecturer, scholar, author, consultant, and actress into a career that spans college and university teaching and academic administration, community and national service, and federal and international appointments. A dedicated and prizewinning teacher, with emphasis on promoting creativity and expression for greater consciousness and conscience …

Dr. Ian I. Mitroff

Ian Mitroff known as the father of crisis management. His work in this field is known internationally. In addition, he has been a follower of Ken Wilber’s work since the early 1908’s. In his early book, Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind, he specifically references Wilbert’s work. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California and also serves as:

• University Professor, Alliant International University;
• Senior Investigator, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley;
• Adjunct Professor,