George co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 to use design to heal, be just, and be restorative. Previously, he spent seven years at a global innovation firm before being hired as the first human-centred designer at the Chicago Transit Authority. Since founding Greater Good, he has guided clients and teams through complex projects that honour reality, create ownership, and build power.

George will help us understand the mechanics of power and how to wield it with care as we move forward in our community change efforts. He speaks frequently across the US and internationally. George is an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University. Previously, he was a Full Professor (Adj) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Louise is a bold and grounded leader with 10+ years' of experience in systems change, policy and evaluation. She is the founder of Caprivian Strip Inc (CSI) and co-steward with the Transition Bridges Project. 

She brings care and intention to uncovering the roots of tangled problems; enabling shifts to greater resilience, sustainability and impact. 

 She believes that co-creating more nimble, transparent and creative institutional spaces is key to the reinvention that we have learned through our most recent pandemic (and polycrises) that we all need.

Margaret (Meg) Wheatley began caring about the world’s people in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea.  In many different roles–speaker, teacher, consultant, advisor, formal leader—she acts from the unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to invoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity and need for community.

As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. Since 1973, Meg has taught, consulted, and advised an unusually broad variety of organizations on all continents (except Antarctica). Her clients and audiences range from the head of the U.S. Army to twelve-year-old Girl Scouts, from CEOs and government ministers to small-town ministers, from large universities to rural aboriginal villages.  She has served as full-time graduate management faculty at two universities, and been a formal advisor for leadership programs in England, Croatia, Denmark, Australia and the U.S.  Through Berkana, she has advised leadership initiatives in India, Senegal, Brazil, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Greece, Canada and Europe.

Meg has authored twelve books and received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, her Master's in Media Ecology with Neil Postman from N.Y.U., and her Bachelor’s from the University of Rochester (with a year’s study at University College London). She has been honoured for her ground-breaking work by many professional associations, universities, and organizations