C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the founding chair of the Presencing Institute. He is the author of Theory U, Leading from the Emerging Future, and a coauthor of Presence. He also is faculty chair of MIT s IDEAS program and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. In 2012 he co-founded the Global Well-Being and Gross National Happiness (GNH) Lab, which links innovators from Bhutan, India, China, Brazil, Europe, and the United States in order to prototype profound innovations in government, business, education, and civil society.

Wayne Shepherd has been featured as the host of many Christian radio programs for over 35 years, many of those years with WMBI and Moody Broadcasting in Chicago.