Robin L. Athey
Founder & Partner
Integral Growth, LLC.

Robin is Founder and Partner of Integral Growth, LLC, a platform to advance the practice of leadership development.

As an advisor, Robin collaborates with leaders to accelerate leadership development, align individual and organizational values, and build purpose-led organizations, to create sustainable growth. Current clients include two global professional services firms and one of the nation's oldest and largest non-profits.

As a researcher, she writes on the topic of leadership development amidst complexity. She is a fellow at Harvard University and co-leads a project at the University of Virginia.

As a coach and trainer, Robin works with leaders to tap their core values and beliefs, and align their sense of purpose with the broader needs of their organizations and society.

For nine years, Robin served as Research Director at Deloitte, where she led the firm's global research around the human aspects of organizational performance. She has authored dozens of studies and articles, teaming with faculty from MIT, Harvard University, and INSEAD. Her work has been cited in major media around the world, such as The Economist, ABC World News, The Times, Investors’ Business Daily, and The Globe and Mail. She has presented at major conferences and led executive roundtables in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. She also served as an adjunct coach with Deloitte Career Connections, the firm’s internal coaching practice.

Robin has served on the boards of Balance Integration Corporation and the United Nations Association, as well as executive councils at the Conference Board, Harvard University, University of Virginia, and Babson College.

She has extensive international experience, having worked in 28 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. Prior to joining Deloitte Research, she led global production as Vice-President at Cole-Haan, a subsidiary of Nike. She began her career as a manager and consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates.

She holds a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida; an M.A. in International Economic Policy from Columbia University; and an Advanced Certificate in Organizational Development and HR Management from Columbia University and the University of Michigan.

Rachel Newton Bellow
Strategic Innovation Consultant
Manchester, Massachusetts

For more than 25 years, Rachel has worked on strategic innovation in the nonprofit and commercial sectors. After spending eight years as Program Director at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she spun off Project 180, an incubator for joint ventures between nonprofit and commercial enterprise. In 1999, Rachel became a Partner at Divine, Inc., a venture capital firm and incubator, where she was responsible for strategy and acquisitions for its ‘social markets’ division. She began her career on the design team for the MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ awards, where she helped develop a system for identifying maverick talent and coordinated a dynamic map of leaders and their institutions in all industries and fields.

Rachel's consulting work has focused on helping companies to clarify mission, identify new market opportunities and fulfill the potential of their optimum social impact. Her focus has been on start-ups and companies at critical inflection points, where innovation is a priority and there is a call for dramatic, accelerated change. Clients and engagements have included: Standard & Poor's, Cushman & Wakefield, Dan Yankelovich, Inc., WNYC Radio, The New Press, and The American Center in Paris, where she served as acting Director and member of the Board.

Rachel has a B.A. Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard University and was awarded the William Warner prize at NYU for her graduate paper, "Obstacles to Innovation in Philanthropy." She has served on the Boards and Advisory Committees of many organizations, including the TED Conference, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Bohen Foundation, Open Society Institute (Soros Funds), the National Endowment for the Arts, Streb Dance Company, and Poets House, Inc.

Paul Chippendale
Software Engineer & Infrastructure Developer, Minessence Group
Brisbane, Australia

Paul Chippendale is a pioneer in the use of values and technology to improve the way people live and work. Paul's passion for using technology in this way began in the 70s when he was responsible for the design and installation of radio stations throughout Queensland. He designed, and supervised the installation of, the world’s first National Radio Station (4WP Weipa) to be built in a transportable hut. When complete, it was taken, via semi-trailer, from Brisbane to Cairns and then via barge around Cape York to Weipa.

Paul's work with values started in the 1980s when he was CIO of Telecom Queensland and a mentor of Telecom's organizational cultural change program. Paul came to the realization that addressing an organization's values, and those of its people, were pivotal processes in any organization's development. He also came to the realization that there was very little available to help people work with values in organizations.

In 1988, Paul began working with Brian Hall and the Hall-Tonna Inventory of Values (HT-IV). There was an immediate need to change the HT-IV to suit Australia's non-religious-based culture. The HT-IV became the AHT-IV (Australian Hall-Tonna Inventory of Values), and, eventually even the conceptual underpinnings of the AHT-IV diverged from the HT-IV—the AVI (A Values Inventory) was born. The AVI is now one of the world's leading values inventories used by high-profile organizations such as: Coca Cola (NZ), Vodafone, Lion Nathan, Westfield, and Burger King. One aspect of the AVI that distinguishes it from all other values inventories is that it is under continual development by an international team, driven by input from those who use it.

Paul has a Bachelor of Engineering (Communications & Electronics) from the Queensland University of Technology, a Bachelor of Commerce (Organizational Behavior & Information Systems) from The University of Queensland, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Planning from The University of Queensland.

In 1995, Paul was appointed Fellow, Values & Ethics, IMC (International Management Centres).

Karynne Courts
Values Consultant & Leadership Trainer
Sidney, Australia

Karynne is one of Australia’s leading values specialists, actively coaching executives, and designing and facilitating values-based processes for large groups and individuals. She is a popular speaker at conferences and is frequently invited to address community groups, organizations and business forums. She facilitates the highly acclaimed Visionary Leadership Program, which has over a thousand graduates from diverse industries.

Karynne has worked extensively in the values field and is well known for her fun workshops and her zealous approach to her work. Providing leadership development, executive coaching, and cultural change initiatives, she has presented and facilitated workshops around Australia and internationally, focusing on Change, Leadership and Technology issues for organizations including AGL, IBM, AMP, QBE, Westfield, Westpac, The Club Managers Association, Centrelink, Adapt Business Technologies, The Benevolent Society, The Defence Materiel Organization (DMO), and SME’s in a range of industries.

Karynne is committed to encouraging life-long learning, cultivating curiosity and creativity. She knows that what is within us – (our values, our attitudes and our beliefs and assumptions) either expands our choices and opens us to possibility thinking, or keep us contracted in limitation and self-restricting comfort zones! Her down to earth approach and ability to present complex issues with sincerity, clarity and compassion inspire confidence, enthusiasm and motivation - resulting in life-changing experiences for her clients.

When not facilitating workshops, Karynne escapes to a world of music, art, books, bushwalking, and writing.

Rob Geier
Information Technology Consultant
Boulder, CO

Robert Geier is an innovative business and IT consultant with a focus on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, organization, leadership, governance and implementation as a vehicle for improving organizational performance. As a co-founder of The SOA Monitor and former IT executive, he has guided IT many leadership teams in the adoption of new organization and governance models; developed and implemented business, IT, Service oriented architecture (SOA), and integration strategies; and implemented complex new business processes.

Prior to The SOA Monitor, Rob held executive positions at Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios, and Qwest Communications where he helped design and implement consolidated IT organizations that were more responsive to business needs; and delivered systems and processes that enabled new product, marketing, distribution, and operational strategies. He began his career at Accenture where he implemented enterprise systems and change management programs at fortune 500 companies. Rob received an MBA, Magna Cum Laude from the Stern School of Management at NYU.

The SOA Monitor’s consulting clients include Time Warner Communications, Motorola, the Rallinc Corporation, TD Banknorth, Sony Pictures and others. The SOA Monitor has helped these organizations to transform and govern more agile technology infrastructures, and to make the necessary organizational changes required to deliver and support these new Information technology platforms. Understanding the existing organizational values and culture, and working to shape these so that they are supportive of a new approach to technology is a key element of the work of The SOA Monitor.

Anders Ferguson
Founding Partner, Veris Wealth Partners, LLC
New York, N.Y

Anders Ferguson is an experienced, successful entrepreneur and financier. He focuses on the leading edge of sustainability & wellbeing. He brings his passion for sustainable alternative assets, capital formation, strategy, and transformational leadership to support Veris.

Veris Wealth Partners is an independent wealth management firm founded by five partners who share a deep conviction in the interdependence of values, wealth and sustainability. Veris believes managing that interdependence with knowledge and wisdom delivers benefits for individuals, companies, and society.

Anders also currently serves as Vice-Chair of Uplift Media LLC, the largest portfolio company of Uplift Equity Partners. Uplift is an investment partnership focused on opportunities in the rapidly growing Health and Wellness market. He has been actively involved in the sale or purchase of a dozen Sustainable & Wellness firms and a partner/advisor with 3 Investment Banks.

In 2000 he founded "Spirit in Business", which connects a world wide community of leaders who are involved in the practical exploration of how values, psychology and the mind affect leadership, business practices and corporate profitability.

Anders served as the Chair of Northeast Cooperatives, an Organic Distributor that he helped grow revenues 20 times to $125 million before selling to United National Foods (UNFI) in 2002. Anders graduated from Oberlin College, B.A., in History and Environmental Studies and studied agriculture at Purdue University.

Peter J. Miscovich
Management Consultant, New York, New York

Peter J. Miscovich is a leading business consultant in the areas of Workplace Transformation and Workplace Sustainability. Since 1985, Peter has developed, executed and managed comprehensive workforce and workplace solutions for global Fortune 500 companies involving enterprise sustainability, real estate, human resources, finance, technology, operations, procurement, security, outsourcing and strategic planning functions. Peter also has extensive consulting experience in the financial services industry, serving global investment institutions, commercial banks and consumer banks for more than twenty years.

In his prior roles, Peter was responsible for the development and execution of workplace strategies and change management implementation programs as a partner with both Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also developed an organization integration model for implementing new service offerings and has provided insights to create multiple thought leadership articles on key workplace and enterprise sustainability issues.

Peter has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a minor in architecture from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He is also the founding member and corporate sponsor of the International Workplace Studies Program at Cornell University. In addition, Peter has earned executive management credentials from the Executive Leadership Development and Transformational Change program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Peter serves on the boards of several organizations including Talent Scope LLC and VERIS Wealth Management in addition to serving on the board of New York Charities.

Richard Wagner
Integral Financial Planning
Denver, CO.

Richard B. Wagner, JD, CFP® has been a thought leader in the financial planning world for twenty-five years.  He is currently an editor for InsideMoney.org and Inside FP.org, online journals addressing our personal and collective relationships with money, particularly the roles of the financial planning profession and individual financial advisors.  With over eighteen years since its publication, his article  ToThink…Like a CFP continues to serve as a seminal statement of vision and potential for the financial planning profession. 

After years of service to the profession, including a year as national ICFP president in 1992-93, Dick was awarded the prestigious FPA's P. Kemp Fain Jr. Award in 2003. This award recognizes an individual member of the Financial Planning Association "who has made outstanding contributions to the financial planning profession in the areas of service to professional activities, society, academia and/or government and upholds FPA's core values of integrity, competence, relationships and stewardship."

In 1995, Wagner co-founded "The Nazrudin Project," a professional think tank devoted to discussions and mutual support regarding the human and spiritual aspects of money and personal finance. In addition to his work with InsideMoney.org, he continues as a regular columnist for Financial Advisor Magazine as well as writing for other publications addressing various aspects of money and the money forces.

He graduated from the College of Wooster in 1967. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1977 and his Certified Financial PlannerT certificate in 1987.

Ellen Weil
Co-founder, Value Mentors LLC
Boulder, CO

Ellen Weil is a psychotherapist, life & executive coach, family therapist and group leader. She is considered by many of her clients, including professional counselors, as “the therapist’s therapist”. For over 30 years she has been helping clients with business challenges, personal & relational issues, increasing emotional intelligence, as well as supporting the deepening of spiritual awareness. She is a powerful facilitator of emotional healing and sustainable inner transformation, counseling clients world-wide on the phone, in-person and on the internet. Her clients have included artists, leaders and executives in numerous industries including entertainment, advertising & media, technology, real estate development, health & wellness.

Ellen’s business background includes market research, retail management and real estate sales/management in New York. Her short stories have been published in the Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul series (Penguin Books, 1998/99). She is a contributing author in the book Lose to Win, A Cardiologist's Guide To Weight Loss And Nutritional Healing, by Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. Graduating cum laude in 1972 from Queens College, New York at the age of 20, Ellen continued her training in psychotherapy with Dr. Alexander Lowen, a renowned psychiatrist and founder of the International Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis.

In 2001 she was personally invited by Eckhart Tolle, best selling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, to teach the Practice of Presence.