FLOW CONSCIOUSNESS INSTITUTE - Key Persons
With 30 years experience in acquiring, developing, and redeveloping a broad range of real estate asset classes, Adam C. Hall has extensive expertise in land development and community building. He has raised in excess of $1.5 billion in equity and debt from both private and institutional sources alike. As a leading impact investor, Adam is dedicated to the quadruple bottom line of People, Planet, Profits and Purpose. He is widely recognized as a leading steward and innovator of postmodern business models. He currently oversees land conservation and community building projects in Hawaii, Nevada and California. The EarthKeeper Alliance has conserved miles of pristine coastline and thousands of acres. His projects build communities that connect people in innovation, collaboration, and wellness with a shared vision and cause. Adam C. Hall is the author of The Earthkeeper: Undeveloping the Future, which chronicles his journey from earth conqueror to a conscious capitalist. He has put forth a radically new approach to everyday commerce. The EarthKeeper Alliance primary purpose is to help heal the earth while at the same time help all global citizens to reclaim meaning, purpose and function in their own lives. Adam is also a leading expert and author on emergent genius and a committed researcher of the mind, consciousness and evolutionary and involutionary spirituality. He is a faculty member and lecturer at the Conscious Business Institute and sits on the board of a number of social impact focused companies and organizations.
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- Co - Founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute
David Gershon, co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world's foremost authorities on behavior-change, community empowerment and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include the cities of Palo Alto and Los Angeles, Fortune 500 organizations and large non-profits, government agencies, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues ranging from low carbon lifestyles, livable neighborhoods, and sustainable communities to organizational talent development, corporate social engagement, and cultural transformation. Over the past 30 years, the empowerment programs he has designed have won many awards, and a major academic research study described them as "unsurpassed in changing behavior." David used this empowerment proficiency to conceive and organize at the height of the cold war, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund and ABC Television, one of the planet's first major global consciousness-raising initiatives-the First Earth Run. Building on his background as the Director of the Lake Placid Olympic Torch Relay, he used the mythic power of relaying a torch of peace around the world to engage the participation of twenty-five million people in sixty-two countries, the world's political leadership and, through the media, an estimated 20 percent of the planet's population in an act of global unity. Millions of dollars were also raised as part of this event to help UNICEF provide care for the neediest children of the world. David is the author of eleven books, including the award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, and best-sellers Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds and, with his wife Gail Straub, Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It. He co-directs Empowerment Institute's School for Transformative Social Change which empowers change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting edge social innovations. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change and community empowerment issues.
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- Serial Entrepreneur, Systems Theorist, Futurist
David Hofstatter is a serial entrepreneur with 30 years experience ranging from ideation to IPO and beyond. He is an active impact investor, and serves as founder, advisor, director or chairman to a number of projects and organizations focused on collective intelligence approaches to innovation at the ecosystem, platform, and application level, all aimed at convergence towards whole systems. He is living in service to creating sustainable and life-affirming for-profit solutions that are a mirror of their fully conscious and awake creators. He is most passionate about the potential for solutions to hyper-complexity that exists through integral personal development, access to trans-personal intelligence and alignment of capital to purpose. During his long and distinguished career as a serial disruptive innovator in a number of fields ranging from telecommunications (CallWave, Co-founder, $240 million IPO) to green energy (P4P Energy, Investor & Former Chairman) to the automotive industry (AutoVitals, Chairman) the startup community with consciousness-based incubators (Tangle Lab, Investor and Partner) and more, David's ability to foresee, foster and successfully execute the development, deployment and large-scale adoption of paradigm shifting technologies has earned him a reputation as one of the planets most innovative and successful visionary thinkers.
Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and author. She was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK, as CFO and Executive Board Member of two major international companies. She has a Master's degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in quantum physics and cosmology, and a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Reading researching ancient cosmologies. She has travelled to more than 70 countries, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and been a life-long researcher into the scientific and experiential understanding of the nature of reality. The author of 6 books, the latest The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation, she is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle and lives in Wiltshire, England.
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- Executive Coach, Member, Forbes Coaches Council
Elsie Chang is a trusted sounding board for leaders and change agents committed to realizing their highest purpose and mission. Ms. Chang's career spans 20+ years in Fortune 500 companies, multilateral organizations, international NGOs, and the political arena. Her global mindset was indelibly shaped by early experiences in her birthplace Hong Kong, and formative years spent as a Third Culture Kid around the world. She continued a peripatetic lifestyle as an expat living in and venturing to more than 50 countries on business assignments and personal jaunts. Her qualifications include an MBA in International Business earned at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Ms. Chang is entrusted with a Top Secret/SCI security clearance granted by the US government. She is a Knowledge Partner and board member of Working Mother Media's Advisory Board of the annual Leadership Summit for Women in National Security Careers. She also provides pro bono coaching at Working Mother Media's annual Multicultural Women's National Conference. She contributed to the coaching profession by serving on the Board of Directors of the International Coach Federation Metro DC Chapter. Elsie is a passionate supporter and member of the governing Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic.
Jackie Knechtel, M.A., is an international speaker, facilitator, serial entrepreneur and pioneer in the area of flow. She is the co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute, which holds cutting edge trainings, retreats, leads workshops and delivers transformational experiences worldwide, and Shiine, an early stage tech start-up supporting underserved communities with mental health. She is an advisor for several social impact-focused non-profits and startups and serves on the board of directors for SOSF/Evolutionary Leaders Circle, an esteemed community of notable consciousness thought leaders. Widely known for being a super-connector and community architect, Jackie is skilled in weaving together eco-systems at the intersection of social-impact and consciousness-focused entrepreneurship, investment and philanthropy. Jackie also holds a Masters in Speech/Communication Sciences & Psychology where her work with children on the spectrum led her to deep expertise in behavioral psychology and somatic healing, which she leverages in the development of flow programming. Losing her brother at a young age catalyzed a profound healing journey which led Jackie to travel the world studying cutting-edge healing modalities and ancient wisdom traditions, eventually inspiring her to create transformational experiences blending science and spirituality into practical tools for actualizing human potential. She is committed to helping shift consciousness on a global scale to create a more equitable, collaborative, and thriving future.
Justin Faerman is an international speaker, serial entrepreneur and consciousness researcher working to create large-scale shifts in human consciousness, integrate high-level intuitional skills more deeply into the business world and everyday life and deliver solutions-focused media to a global audience. He is the co-founder of Conscious Lifestyle Magazine and the Flow Consciousness Institute and a sought after teacher, known for his pioneering work in the area of flow and the mechanics of consciousness. He has a diverse entrepreneurial background that includes pioneering exponential growth at green tech companies and building some of the world's top conscious media publishing platforms and he currently serves as an advisor to a number of social-impact driven growth stage companies and is actively involved in multiple large-scale projects to re-imagine and re-engineer human sociocultural systems to create a sustainable, enlightened future for all life. His current work is largely focused on creating disruptive, paradigm shifting technologies and teaching platforms that integrate the best of both scientific and transpersonal insights into the nature of reality and human consciousness with the end goal of helping people to create socially impactful, deeply fulfilling and prosperous lives and businesses. Justin currently travels the world holding talks, trainings and workshops on the art of living in flow consciousness, merging intuition and business and conducting deep research into the practical applications of consciousness enhancing, psychospiritual technologies.
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- International Trauma Healing Expert, Humanitarian, Founder, Create Global Healing
Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA is a stress and trauma healing professional who is known internationally for using cutting-edge healing modalities in her work with hundreds of orphaedn genocide survivors in Rwanda. With her unique brand of heart-centered humility, humor and grace, Dr. Leyden finds the beauty that is possible out of tragedy and has brought comfort, peace and hope to thousands around the world from Rwanda to Australian indigenous and refugee groups, and now to survivors of the Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL. Dr. Leyden heads up the Tapping Solution Foundation and it's Newtown Trauma Relief and Resiliency Project supporting those traumatized by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, CT. Dr. Leyden also founded the non-profit organization Create Global Healing and established Project LIGHT: Rwanda - the world's first international youth healing, heart-centered leadership and entrepreneurship program. Project LIGHT is a new form of humanitarian aid that nurtures our next generation of young people to heal, work and lead us into a peaceful future. She is also the Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary, When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy, chronicling the transformation of 12 Rwandan orphan genocide survivors and how they paid it forward to hundreds from Rwanda to Sandy Hook, CT. Lori is the author of The Grace Process Guidebook and The Stress Management Handbook: Strategies for Health and Inner Peace available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Korean. She holds a doctorate in Health and Human Services, a master's degree in Business Administration and is an AAMET certified master EFT trainer.