Visionary educator Nina Meyerhof founded Children of the Earth to empower youth as compassionate global leaders. Her programs cultivate self-esteem, spiritual awakening, and social action, inspiring young changemakers to transform conflict into cooperation and build a peaceful, sustainable world.

MIT-trained physicist and entrepreneur Peter Fiekowsky founded the climate-restoration movement. His 2022 book Climate Restoration maps a technically and financially viable pathway to restoring safe CO2 levels. This supports his vision of humanity flourishing for millennia to come.

Rev. Patrick McCollum is an interfaith chaplain and peace envoy whose ministry spans prisons, parliaments, and the Dalai Lama’s International Peace Council. Vice-president of Children of the Earth, he weaves spirituality, ecology, and restorative justice into pathways toward planetary harmony.

Jesse Raney Bridges is a strategist, storyteller, and DEI architect guiding mission-driven institutions. Deputy Director of Global DEI Learning at the Gates Foundation and board member of youth-literacy nonprofit Reach, she empowers young leaders through trust-building frameworks and culture.

Futurist Dr. James Canton heads the Institute for Global Futures, advising Fortune 100 boards and governments on emerging tech, climate risk, and geopolitical shifts. A former Apple executive and author of Future Smart, he anticipates trends and strategies for resilience.

Sophia Swire is an award-winning philanthropist and impact investor with 30 years’ experience empowering women through education and enterprise. She recently founded GEDI, a venture firm and academy backing female-led tech startups in MENA. Earlier, she created 100,000 jobs for artisan women through her ethical brand and led training programs for women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A frequent keynote speaker at Davos and the UN, she champions sustainable, market-based solutions to displacement and economic exclusion in fragile regions.

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Tam has over 20 years of experience in international development and diplomacy, with a focus on strategic partnerships, technology and innovation, and ecosystem building to drive cross-sectoral impact. She has worked with multilateral, intergovernmental, philanthropic, and private sector organizations, leading and advising on policy analysis, program design and management, institutional capacity building, and knowledge platforms. Her experience and networks span the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, across sectors including health, green energy, education, agriculture, water and sanitation, SMEs, and AI. She is the co-founder of Meridan Partners.

Jerry Connolly is a climate communications and brand advisor with decades in marketing. A Columbia Climate & Society graduate student, he advises the Human Impacts Institute and Climate Mental Health Network, crafting storytelling strategies that mobilize audiences toward climate action.

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Geoscientist Alison Burchell integrates volcanology, isotope geochemistry, and activism to advance natural terrestrial carbon sequestration and ecological resilience. A Clean Energy Action co-founder and Dream Tank board member, she mentors youth and policymakers toward regenerative, biodiversity-restoring climate strategies.

Leo Ramirez Jr. is a social entrepreneur and CEO–co-founder of Encast, the platform aligning corporate culture with purpose through Cause Mutual Funds. Stanford-trained, he previously steered a $515 million homelessness initiative and boldly evangelizes accessible, data-driven philanthropy that uplifts communities worldwide.

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Christine Arena is founder of social-impact production company Generous Films, former Edelman EVP, and pioneering storyteller on purpose-driven business. She produces award-winning climate-justice films like Let Science Speak and Not the Science Type, exposing greenwashing and mobilizing public accountability.

Edi Pyrek is a futurist, writer, and AI ethicist. Co-founder of GAIA (Global Artificial Intelligence Alliance) and iMind Institute, he has advised three prime ministers, negotiated Afghan peace talks, and designs “Brand Religion” frameworks aligning compassion, technology, and human potential.

Janice Anne Hall, a futurist and social alchemist, is the Founder of Natural Network International, a business development, trends-forecasting, and strategic marketing firm. She guides, wellness, sustainability, clean-tech, and regenerative economy sectors with multidimensional market intelligence—building transformative ecosystems globally.

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Telecommunications veteran and attorney Joe Sandri has three decades’ experience in spectrum management. As legal strategist and Environmental Health Trust board member, he advocates responsible wireless policy, blending engineering insight with safeguards to protect ecosystems and communities.

Scott Leonard is a sustainability pioneer and co-founder of Indigenous Designs, one of the Fair Trade and B-Corp fashion brands. As venture partner at One Step Closer Fund, he scales regenerative agriculture and circular-economy startups driving climate and biodiversity impact.

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George Miller founded the World Preservation Trust in 2006 and still leads it as president. Drawing on three decades of real-estate entrepreneurship, he channels private wealth into global conservation and cultural-heritage projects, safeguarding Earth for future generations and inspiring stewardship.

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Carol Ann Wentworth founded and leads Wentworth Executive Recruiting. With 30 years’ retained-search experience, she specializes in critical C-suite hires and mindful career coaching, building mission-driven teams and guiding leaders toward purpose-aligned growth across the San Francisco Bay Area today.

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Eileen Barker is an internationally recognized mediator, former U.S. Department of Justice litigator, and founder of the Forgiveness Training Institute. For 25 years she has pioneered integrating forgiveness into conflict resolution, training lawyers globally and earning the Forgiveness Alliance’s top award.

Andrew Roettger is the founder and director of the Catalyst Group of companies:
Catalyst Financial, Inc. (Founder and CEO), a tax and financial consultancy firm based in San Francisco and New York, with offices in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and London. Catalyst Financial has orchestrated several successful IPOs, ICOs, M&A deals, and other complex financial transactions.

Named a 2020 World-Changing Woman by Conscious Company, Anita Sanchez, Ph.D., is a transformational leadership consultant, speaker, coach and author of the international award-winning bestseller, “The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times,” available in hardback, paperback, audiobook and ebook, from Simon & Schuster. With four decades of experience coaching and training executives and their teams in dozens of Fortune 500 companies, governmental groups and non-governmental agencies, Anita is a recognized leader in global organizational change initiatives, where she bridges indigenous teachings with the latest science to inspire and equip women and men to enjoy meaningful, empowered lives and careers.

Julia Dederer is a transformational leader and coach, an expert in organizational development with over 40 years of experience as a leadership and executive coach, leading senior programs at Landmark Education and similar organizations in transformational education, and organizational consulting. She continues coaching leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives in the U.S. and internationally. Julia’s voice, for the last ten years, has been instrumental in creating the fields of climate restoration www.f4cr.org, and the global movement called I AM HUMANITY, www.iamhumanity.net, dedicated to the flourishing of humanity for millennia to come.

Renewable-energy champion Chip Comins chairs the American Renewable Energy Institute and founded AREDAY, convening leaders from Jane Goodall to President Carter. A filmmaker and COP veteran, he accelerates climate solutions, linking technology, finance, and community action into his “Climate Constellation” network.

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