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Bill Veltrop, co-founder. Bill is a senior social architect with extensive experience in the fields of organization design, learning and change. A pioneer in organic action-learning approaches to leadership development, he has designed and led numerous generative leadership learning expeditions. Bill’s professional background includes over 35 years of experience in leading innovative organization design and large-scale change implementations in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East, both as an internal at Exxon and later as an external consultant. Bill’s deep commitment is to the ‘metamorphosis’ of our social systems throughout our planet (education, health care, commerce, governance, media, agriculture, etc.), in a way that best serves all life — for all time. Continue to Bill’s detailed bio… |
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Max Shkud, co-founder. Max brings to GlobalGEA his extensive corporate experience in management, product development, and organization development and change. During his career at Snapfish and later HP, Max led several large scale, division-wide initiatives focusing on business transformation and innovative organization design. In 2009, after completing an advanced degree in Organization Development at Pepperdine University, Max chose to dedicate himself to his deep passion for social architecture and generative social system design, which he considers his life’s work. Max firmly believes that reinventing the social architecture of our systems is our most potent lever for solving today’s many crises, and a sure pathway to sustainable prosperity and well-being for humanity and all life on our planet. |
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Bert van Lamoen has over 25 years of international experience teaching at and developing business schools in Europe, Africa and the Far East. Bert is serving as a pioneering ally in growing GlobalGEA’s presence and contribution throughout Europe. His dream/passion is to transform business school education in a way that equips them to play a leadership role in the “metamorphosis” of our organizations, institutions and communities. Bert is committed to serve as an “evolutionary architect” in supporting pioneering business schools in promoting and leading societal metamorphosis to social forms that touch the earth lightly and are designed be self-evolving. He is currently involved in the Imagine Rural Development Initiative, Zambia, and Campus Amersfoort, Netherlands. Bert has been strongly influenced by paradigm-shifting luminaries such as I. Prigogine (science of complexity), E. Jantsch (system dynamics), F.A. Popp (biophysics). |
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John Renesch stimulates people to think differently about work, leadership and the future. A veteran businessman for over five decades, he’s been exploring the field of human consciousness and potentiality – particularly how they impact business organizations and society – since the mid-1970s. Through his hundreds of articles, 14 books and keynote speeches all over the world, John has become a highly-respected businessman-turned-futurist and renowned global thought-leader. He is a member of the practitioner faculty for the Center for Leadership Studies, past member and project advisor of the World Future Society, current member and inaugural board chair of the Shaping Tomorrow’s Foresight Network (a global network of over 3,500 futurists), and founding Fellow of the Global Collaborators’ Alliance. John considers himself a lifetime scholar of systems thinking and large scale organizational change theory and has written extensively on the subject. His most recent book is The Great Growing Up: Being Responsible for Humanity’s Future in which he points the way to a world that works for everyone. John’s articles have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, Journal of Values Based Leadership, The Ecologist, The Guardian, Journal of Human Values, and Directors Monthly. |
