Cindy Wigglesworth is a long time supporter of Conscious Capitalism. She has presented at numerous conferences including Conscious Capitalism, the World Business Academy, Spirit at Work, and Spirit in Business. She has appeared on Oprah, PBS and numerous radio programs.

Cindy discovered the importance of Conscious Leadership and spiritual intelligence skills in her own leadership development process. She was so passionate about what she learned that after 20 years of working in Human Resources management at Exxon she left to found her own company, now called Deep Change, Inc. She has created the Deep Intelligence approach to coaching and consulting - which evaluates not just the technical skills & IQ needed for success, but looks at emotional and spiritual intelligence as well. Her belief is that to develop Conscious Leaders so that we can move Conscious Capitalism forward we need to understand how to measure and develop our leaders across multiple intelligences.

Inspired by the work of Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis and their work with Emotional Intelligence, Cindy has created and researched a psychometrically sound Spiritual Intelligence Assessment (the SQ21). She defines spiritual intelligence as "the ability to behave with Wisdom and Compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation". Using much admired spiritual leaders (such as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa) as her starting point she has described 21 skills which can be measured from novice level to expert level. Her assessment has been through multiple levels of validation and is highly correlated to higher stages of adult development - which leads to higher levels of leadership capacity.

In a complex world with many stakeholders, and in a movement where Conscious Leaders are needed to help us create a new and brighter form of Capitalism, she believes that learning the skills of Spiritual Intelligence will be essential.

Kip Tindell has been at the helm of The Container Store since it first opened its doors in Dallas in 1978 - creating the first ever store devoted solely to storage and organization products. As the company celebrates more than 30 years with stores nationwide and a thriving Web site, Tindell continues his commitment to being a trailblazing retailer. But for Tindell, the goal never has been growth for growth's sake. Rather, it's to adhere to a fundamental set of corporate values, centered around intense employee commitment, strict merchandising, and superior customer service. Success has been the natural and inevitable result. Tindell continues to embody the unique corporate culture he created, and has nurtured a fierce employee loyalty that has landed the company on FORTUNE magazine's list of "100 Best Companies to Work For" 12 years in a row.

"Fill the other guy's basket to the brim, then making money becomes an easy proposition."

Michael Strong is an Author and Thought Leader. He is lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with John Mackey, Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Hernando de Soto, Co-Chair of the U.N. Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, and others. Michael's work is featured in academic journals (The Journal of Business Ethics, Economic Affairs, Critical Review, etc.), specialty publications (Microfinance Insights, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Ethics, etc.) and in media reaching popular audiences (The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, Barron's, etc.). He serves on the board of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., The Free Cities Institute, The Seasteading Institute, and the Advisory Boards of The Lifeboat Foundation, Trilinc Global, The Moorfield Storey Institute, and is a mentor for developing world entrepreneurs for the MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development.

Michael is currently focused on the entrepreneurial creation of legal systems based on his 2009 article "The Legal Autonomy of the Dubai International Financial Centre: A Scaleable Strategy for Global Free Market Reforms" and his blog posts at "Let a Thousand Nations Bloom." Prior to his work on FLOW, Michael spent fifteen years as an educational entrepreneur, creating several high-performance private and charter schools, including one named the 36th best public school in the U.S. on the Washington Post's Challenge Index. The author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice, Strong has consulted for hundreds of schools around the world. Michael was educated at Harvard, St. John's College, and the University of Chicago.

"Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems"

He is also now Co-Founder and CEO of The Purpose Institute, a consulting firm whose purpose is to help people and organizations discover and live their purpose. Along with Haley Rushing, Roy co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business is Driven by Purpose.

Under Roy's leadership, his agency has helped grow some of the world's most successful brands like "Don't Mess with Texas", Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, DreamWorks, the PGA TOUR, BMW, the U.S. Air Force, LLBean and the Clinton Global Initiative. Roy has been a trusted advisor to legendary leaders including Sam Walton and Southwest Airlines founder, Herb Kelleher. His council has also been sought by U.S. presidents and leaders in the State Department and Department of Defense.

Roy has been named Ad Man of the Year and Idea Man of the Century.

Roy has been married 33 years and has three children--Courtney, Ashley and Shay. He is a member of the board of directors of the Conscious Capitalism Institute, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.

And finally, Roy's passion is entrepreneurship. He deeply believes that entrepreneurship is the Miracle of America. His mantra is "Don't Do Mild" in work or life; follow your dreams, follow your passion and follow your purpose.

Dr. Raj Sisodia is one of the thought leaders of the Conscious Capitalism movement globally. His book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose is considered a foundational work in explaining the precepts and performance implications of pursuing a conscious approach to business. It was named one of the best business books of 2007 by several organizations, including Amazon.com. Raj has an MBA in Marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai, India, and a Ph. D. in Marketing & Business Policy from Columbia University. In 2003, he was cited as one of "50 Leading Marketing Thinkers" and named to the "Guru Gallery" by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Bentley University honored him with the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2007 and the Innovation in Teaching Award in 2008. He was recently chosen as one of ten "Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010" by Good Business International, and one of 2010's "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America.

"The search for meaning is changing expectations
in the marketplace, and in the workplace. Indeed,
we believe it is changing the very soul of capitalism."

Dr. Sisodia has published seven books and over 100 academic articles. His book The Rule of Three: How Competition Shapes Markets was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNBC and numerous other media outlets worldwide. Dr. Sisodia was Chairman and Co-Founder of adAlive, Inc., a VC-financed company in Waltham, MA. He has consulted and taught executive programs for numerous companies, including AT&T, Nokia, Walmart, POSCO, McDonalds, Ericsson, Siemens, Sprint, Tata, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Volvo, KPMG, IBM, Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, and Southern California Edison. A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Dr. Sisodia has made nearly 300 presentations on Conscious Capitalism at leading universities, corporations, non-profits and other organizations around the world. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Mastek, a publicly traded IT services company based in Mumbai, India. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

Tami is a founding member of the Integral Institute, a long-time member of the Social Venture Network, a Dharma Ocean Foundation board member, and a meditation instructor under the guidance of Dharma Ocean director Reggie Ray, who is carrying on the practicing lineage of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Familiar to many as "the voice of Sounds True," Tami introduces each audio program and conducts in-studio author dialogs and podcasts. Celebrating 25 years in 2010, Sounds True has over 1,000 titles in spoken-word audio, books, music, DVDs, interactive learning kits, and online courses.

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Doug Rauch recently retired from Trader Joe's, and now serves as the CEO of Conscious Capitalism , Inc. and consults with small and large retailers. In his thirty-one years with Trader Joe's Company, the last fourteen as President, Doug played a pivotal role in their growth from a small retail chain in Southern California with nine stores to a nationally acclaimed retail success story with more than 325 stores in 26 states. He developed their prized buying philosophy, created their unique private label program, and championed their wildly successful culture of outstanding customer experience. Trader Joe's delivers a level of customer delight that wins it raving fans, and double digit growth.

In 1978, at the age of 25, John borrowed $10,000 from his father and raised an additional $35,000 of equity investments to co-found Safer Way Natural Foods with Renee Lawson. Two years later, in 1980, he and Renee teamed up with two other young entrepreneurs to create Whole Foods Market, a 10,000 square foot store on Lamar Boulevard in Austin. As one of the very first supermarket-style natural foods stores in the country, the store thrived from its opening day.

The store was followed by four others in Texas, then an expansion into Louisiana in 1988, Northern California in 1989, and North Carolina in 1991. Whole Foods Market did an Initial Public Offering of stock in 1992, which raised $28 million, and embarked on an aggressive campaign of expansion and acquisition through the 1990s. Through this process, while Whole Foods Market expanded its reach, the entire natural products industry-from farmers and suppliers, to distributors and wholesalers, to other retailers-expanded as well.  By the end of 2008, the organic foods industry in the U.S. was more than $24 billion in size, a development John sees as beneficial for all concerned. Whole Foods Market now has more than 300 stores in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

John and the Whole Foods Market leadership team are firm believers in decentralization and remain willing to experiment with new business ideas. Recent examples include offering $10 million in low-interest loans to local farmers and food producers to help them expand their enterprises, launching the Whole Planet Foundation to help end poverty in developing nations with micro credit, creating a platform in the marketplace to improve welfare for food animals, creating transparency in seafood sustainability, and promoting Healthy Eating education for Team Members and customers.

The Whole Foods Market workplace is based on the ideals of respect for the individual and self-empowerment. The company honors a strict pay cap (currently 19 times the average wage for Team Members) for all of its executives, which reflects Whole Foods Market's commitment to "internal equity" between all Team Members. John cut his salary to $1 annually in 2006 and forgoes stock options and bonuses.  He continues to work for Whole Foods Market for the pleasure he realizes from leading such a great company, and to better answer the call to service that he feels in his heart.

John's most recent professional focus is re-invigorating Whole Foods Market's emphasis on healthy eating and lifestyle choices. According to John, "many of our country's most serious health conditions, including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease can be lessened or eliminated by following some simple principles of healthy eating that include primarily plant-based, unprocessed whole foods and avoidance of all fats but those found naturally in plants." An active promoter of a new business paradigm that he terms "Conscious Capitalism," John is co-founder and an active promoter of Conscious Capitalism .

From 2005 until 2009, in collaboration with John Mackey, Michael Strong and Phyllis Blees, Jeff built FLOW, the predecessor of Conscious Capitalism, Inc, and has co-produced each of the annual Conscious Capitalism CEO Summits since 2007.

Jeff is author of the award-winning book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, to support conscious entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders and change agents at work.

Jeff serves as Director, Conscious Business Development and Liquid Revolution, Campaign Director for O.N.E. Coconut Water. He also serves as Executive Director of Being Human.org a project dedicated to fostering public dialog and deepening understanding of the nature of human experience, as revealed by the latest insights from cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, philosophy and contemplative traditions. Jeff is producing Being Human 2012, in San Francisco, March 24, 2012.

Jeff was one of the visionaries and driving forces behind Private Music, the career of Yanni, Spinning, Seeds of Change, ChiRunning, and FLOW. He has consulted for the Esalen Institute, the National Geographic Society, GlobalGiving, the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Peace Cereal, among others.

He enjoys surfing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, ChiRunning and moving in general. He is an active father of a 13-year-old daughter, and resides in San Rafael, Calif.

R. Edward Freeman joined the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in 1987. Currently he is University Professor and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration; Senior Fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics; and, Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. Freeman is also Professor of Religious Studies and a Faculty Advisor to the University's Institute for Practical Ethics. He is also Adjunct Professor of Stakeholder Management at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and a Visiting Professor at Nyenrode Business School (Netherlands). He currently holds an honorary appointment as the Welling Professor at George Washington University and the Gourlay Professorship at University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to The Darden School Mr. Freeman taught at University of Minnesota, and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Freeman's latest book, Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Managing for Stakeholders was published in 2007 by Yale University Press. His co-authors are Jeffrey Harrison, Andrew Wicks, Bidhan Parmar, and Simone de Colle. He is the author or editor of over twenty volumes and one hundred articles in the areas of stakeholder management, business strategy and business ethics.

Freeman is perhaps best known for his award winning book: Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, published in 1984, where he traced the origins of the stakeholder idea to a number of others, and suggested that businesses build their strategy around their relationships with key stakeholders. That book was re-issued in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. He was the editor of the 15 volume Ruffin Series in Business Ethics published by Oxford University Press. He is the co-editor with S. Hart and D. Wheeler of the new series, Business, Society and Value Creation, published by Cambridge University Press, which currently contains six volumes.

Mr. Freeman has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington University, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Duke University. He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in economics (DHC) from Comillas University in Madrid for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. He has received the 6th Annual Outstanding Teaching Award from the Wharton Advisory Board, a Top Ten Teachers Award from the Wharton MBA Program, and in 1986 was named Teacher of the Year at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. In 1991, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2007, and 2008 he was selected by the graduating class of the Darden School to be a Faculty Marshall. In 1993 he was chosen for the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Darden student body. In 2001 he was honored by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute with a Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2005 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council on Higher Education. Mr. Freeman is a lifelong student of philosophy, martial arts, and the blues.

No hotel executive in the world has overseen the development and creation of more boutique hotels than Chip Conley, founder and Executive Chairman of Joie de Vivre, California's largest independent hotel company and America's second largest boutique hotelier. At the age of 26 with no industry experience, Chip transformed a seedy 1950's "no-tell motel" into the world-renowned Phoenix Hotel, a legendary rock 'n roll hotel catering to the likes of David Bowie, Linda Ronstadt and Little Richard. Inspired by the French expression for "joy of life," Chip created Joie de Vivre with the intention of developing what USA Today has called "the most delightfully schizophrenic collection of hotels in America."

Building on an innovative design formula that inspires guests to experience an "identity refreshment" during their visit, today Joie de Vivre consists of over 40 unique and award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas across the state, over 3,000 employees, and annual revenues approaching $250 million. In a feature article on the growing proliferation of boutique hotels in the U.S., TIME magazine suggested that "few boutique hotels are as genuine as those run by Joie de Vivre." Chip and his company's time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal.

A best-selling author, Chip shares his unique prescription for success in his most recent book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Based on noted psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic Hierarchy of Needs theory, PEAK illustrates how a business's three key stakeholders - Employees, Customers and Investors - are ultimately motivated by peak experiences that address their higher, unspoken needs, and he demonstrates how to create such experiences using real-world examples from his own company and other peak-performing organizations such as Apple, Whole Foods Market, Harley-Davidson, and Southwest Airlines. Chip credits this theory for helping Joie de Vivre triple its annual revenues between 2001 and 2008. PEAK was nominated as a finalist in the prestigious 800CEOREAD American Awards in the "New Perspectives" category in its debut year. Renaissance Executive Forums, an international company dedicated to helping top executives accelerate positive change in their businesses and lives, selected PEAK as their singular 2010 Book of the Year to be universally taught to their members, which are comprised of select C-level executives around the world. PEAK is also being taught in business schools and in hospitality management programs around the country.

A popular speaker and innovative leader, Chip is regularly consulted by corporate, civic and academic institutions for his opinions, guidance and wisdom on building and maintaining a successful and transformative enterprise - involving areas such as organizational leadership, creative business development, corporate social responsibility, and creating unique culture. Chip has delivered keynote presentations and leadership seminars to hundreds of corporate audiences from Charles Schwab to State Farm Insurance to Google. Chip was a speaker at the 2009 Conscious Capitalism Conference (C3). Chip also spoke at TED2010, one of the world's most exclusive annual gatherings of thought leaders. Chip's previous books include The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, with a foreword by Richard Branson (Simon & Schuster, 2001) and Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World, co-authored with Eric Friedenwald-Fishman (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006).

Chip has been honored with top industry and business awards. In 2008, Chip was selected as one of the four finalists for the 2008 "Corporate Hotelier of the World" award by the prestigious Hotels magazine. Other honors include the Guerrilla Marketer of the Year for the U.S., National Humanitarian Hospitality Company of the Year, and Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2007, Chip was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as the Most Innovative CEO among business leaders across all industries in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco and East Bay business communities. The following year, Joie de Vivre was awarded the 2nd Best Place to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chip is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, the Global Business Network and the Social Venture Network. A committed philanthropist, Chip founded San Francisco's Annual Celebrity Pool Toss, which has raised over $3 million for inner city youth programs that now thrive in the troubled neighborhood where he launched his first hotel. Chip received his BA and MBA from Stanford University, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center in 2009.

Patricia Aburdene is one of the world's leading social forecasters. Her work inspires millions of people to capitalize on the power of social change. Co-author of the number one New York Times bestseller Megatrends 2000, Patricia wrote Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, which describes seven trends transforming free enterprise. Patricia's new book will be published in 2012 by Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster. She was named one of 2010's "Top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business" by Trust Across America and serves on the advisory board of Satori Capital, a social equity firm specializing in Conscious Capitalist firms.

Patricia has lectured throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia and the Pacific Rim for clients like Herman Miller, Harley-Davidson, Carrefour, Deloitte, LOHAS, SRI in the Rockies and the Management Institute of New