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A Two-Day Conference on Wisdom & Wellness @ Work

Today change is a constant, and one creative idea effectively implemented can disrupt an entire industry. It’s the ability to creatively adapt that often makes the difference.

This unique two-day conference explores the question so many small and large businesses are asking: how do we harness the Innovative Mindset at work, both in ourselves and the culture where we work?

Many businesses today confuse great activity with great efficiency. While people are extremely busy -- always checking their emails, making constant phone calls -- their actions are not effective or innovative. Stress, overwhelm, frustration, and interpersonal conflicts pervade the company culture. Company leaders then wonder why the products they create and the communication they have do not get the impact they desire.

There is a new effort, however, that focuses on the "state" from which people work, and on creating business cultures infused with mindfulness, innovation, and engagement.

Whether you are a senior executive in a large corporation, a small business owner, or a one-person consultant, join us for the first annual Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference where we will explore ways to integrate ancient wisdom in modern business life, such that engagement and innovation can thrive.

2012 Speakers:

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About Wisdom 2.0

Wisdom 2.0 Business

Wisdom 2.0 Business is a two day conference in San Francisco on May 11th and 12th bringing together business leaders and entrepreneurs to explore the next wave of creative company. 

Whether it is using social media, holding meetings, or making decisions, our actions can either be infused with presence and engagement, or with stress and fear. The next generation of successful company will not only know "what to do" but more importantly will focus on the right "process" that engages people in ways that the best decisions can present themselves. 

The old model based on fear, and top-down management techniques simply no longer works. There is a new generation of leader focused on wise and meaningful leadership and engagement. Wisdom 2.0 Business was created to help identify and foster this effort. It is for both those in for- and non-profit interested in living in this way and creating teams that are more engaged, present, and creative.

Wisdom 2.0

Wisdom 2.0 is an exploration of how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.

Our year-round series of events bring together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to address the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective for our work, and useful to the world.

To stay in touch about these events, please consider joining the Wisdom 2.0 email list. A short video of our annual 2011 Wisdom 2.0 conference can be found below.

2012 Speakers

• Kerena and Ben Saltzman

  

  Kerena and Ben lead interactive sessions on both Friday and Saturday. You can contact them at Ben Saltzman: touchedandtransformed.com. Kerena Saltzman: Authenticpath20s.com

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  Pam Boney

  Founder, Tilt, Inc.

  Pam Boney, Founder of Tilt, Inc., has devoted three decades to the study of leadership presence and influence and has developed a strengths-based model that gives individuals and organizations a process to measure the phenomenon we call leadership. She is the author of a mind-bending framework called Tiltology™, a disruptive theory that reframes human potential by breaking through the limitations of our traditional Typology systems, so we can move well beyond our TYPE. She posits that our "true self" wants to come forward to play in the world and if we commit to moving beyond our self-imposed boundaries, we can courageously find our true unique expression and creative potential.

  Pam is also author of a single-point, whole-person system to develop mission critical leaders in organizations that want to teach True Tilt Leadership® that is Balanced, Conscious, Creative and Inspired. The Tilt Parallel Solution® provides measurement systems for leaders, teams and culture, including the Tilt Leadership Predictor®, Tilt Team Climate Predictor® and Tilt Innovative Culture Predictor®. This systems solution has been proven to predict leadership that will create a climate for innovation and it does so with precision, accuracy and reliability.

  Pam has coached many of the best and brightest leaders business has to offer and is a catalyst for conscious capitalism. She is a prolific poet and has just released the novel True Tilt, an uncommon quest. As Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Tilt, Inc. Pam has devoted her life to the cause of changing the world, one leader at a time.
   

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  Jenna Buffaloe

  Leadership Development Coach

  Jenna is a leadership development coach and consultant for Axialent, an international consulting firm committed to creating results through the development of more conscious leaders and organizational cultures. She began her career as a lawyer, leaving five years later to pursue a masters degree in Jungian psychology. She lives in Boulder, CO where she enjoys life in a mountain town, rigorous yoga, and time with her irrational and irresistible two-year-old daughter, Serafina.

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  Greg Burdulis

  Mindfulness Coach

  Greg has been practicing meditation over 25 years. After 7 years as a monk in Burma, he returned to lay life to share his insights. Today, he helps others learn what he was taught in the monasteries. He teaches meditation and communication, and cultivates happiness and creativity with individuals and at corporations and businesses including CP+B, Sterling Rice Group and eBay. Greg also holds an M.A in Spirituality and has professional experience as a chaplain, mountaineering instructor and storyteller.

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  Renee Burgard

  Mindfulness and Health

  Renée Burgard is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist, consultant, and educator in private practice. She teaches Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs for Google, Inc., and Apple Computer, partnering closely with each company to optimize the program for their unique environments. She teaches MBSR programs for Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and for other schools, corporations, and nonprofits in the SF Bay Area.

  Renée holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley in Psychology, Clinical Social Work, and Health & Medical Sciences. Her background includes extensive education in the sciences, including neurosciences. She has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn (MBSR), and is in the process of receiving certification in Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) with Dan Siegel, MD. She lived and worked as a health consultant, photographer, and writer for large NGOs in India for several years, studying and practicing yoga and meditation while there.

  She has been ordained as a lay monastic by Thich Nhat Hahn, facilitates a meditation community in Palo Alto practicing in his tradition, and has been a practitioner of meditation and other mindfulness practices for many years. Her websites are www.mindfulnesshealth-psychotherapy.com, and www.mindfulnesshealth.com.

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  Pat Christen

  CEO HopeLab

  At HopeLab, Pat engages a multidisciplinary team developing products that harness the power and appeal of technology to improve the health of young people with chronic illness. To do its work, HopeLab has developed a values-based culture intentionally designed to support creativity, innovation, and full engagement. Under Pat's leadership, HopeLab launched the groundbreaking Re-Mission video game for cancer in 2006; research demonstrating the efficacy of Re-Mission in improving treatment adherence was published in the medical journal Pediatrics in 2008. In 2011, Zamzee, a product developed by HopeLab to increase physical activity in teens, will launch through a for-profit social enterprise established by HopeLab.

  Pat previously was president and executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where she worked with counterparts nationally to craft the federal Ryan White C.A.R.E. Act, and served as president of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. She has written, studied and lectured on social and health issues in the United States and abroad, and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

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  Diana Chapman

  Co-Founder, Conscious Leadership Forum

  Diana guides high-impact leaders into and through important transitions in life, business and consciousness. She works extensively CEOs, executive teams and YPO groups. Her provocative and direct style combined with down-to-Earth tools ignite expanded awareness and innovation.

  Through Conscious Leadership Forum, Diana and her Co-Founders are spearheading a movement to propagate new models of leadership based on personal and collective empowerment. Their book on the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is forthcoming.

  Diana and her husband of 23 years are raising two teenagers on an urban farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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  Chip Conley

  Founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels

  At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre (JDV), and, as CEO for two-dozen years, expanded it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in the U.S. A bestselling author, Chip is a veteran practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and in his latest book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency. The preeminent thought leader at the intersection of psychology and business, Chip speaks around the world on finding meaning at work, is a regular blogger on The Huffington Post and his own blog at www.emotionalequations.com. Chip has been honored with the highest accolade in the American hospitality industry, the coveted ISHC Pioneer award, and was named the Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the "2nd Best Place to Work" – in the entire Bay Area by The San Francisco Business Times. He received his BA and MBA from Stanford University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center, where he is the school’s 2012 Scholar-Practitioner in residence.

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  Melissa Daimler

  Head of Organizational Effectiveness & Learning, Twitter

  Melissa Daimler is passionate about helping people leverage professional experiences to grow personally. As Head of Organizational Effectiveness & Learning at Twitter, she is excited about building a company in which growing our people is integral to growing our business.

  Prior to Twitter, Melissa headed up Global Learning and Organizational Consulting at Adobe Systems. At Adobe, she started and built the Organizational Development function. In 2011, her team won top honors for The Best Learning Team from Brandon Hall. Prior to Adobe, she led HR at Epylon (now part of Accenture).

  Melissa currently sits on the Chief Learning Officer & Talent Board for the Institute for Corporate Productivity. She speaks widely on issues of Organizational Effectiveness & Learning including regular lectures in the Berkeley/Columbia MBA program.

  Melissa graduated from Pepperdine University with a M.S. in Organizational Development. Her personal learning projects are competent sailing in San Francisco Bay and studying Mandarin. You can follow her on Twitter @mdaimler.

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  Rich Fernandez

  Dir. of Executive Development, Google

  Rich believes that people and organizations have the innate potential to be fully vital, capable and joyful – and sees his work as facilitating this expression of personal and organizational excellence.

  Rich currently has the role of Director of Executive Development at Google, where he and his team work with people in senior roles to help them grow and develop as leaders.

  Prior to joining Google, Rich worked as a leader in the talent, leadership and organization development space at companies such as eBay, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase. Rich was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught courses on organizational effectiveness and career development, and earlier in his career he worked in hospitals and community clinics.

  Rich earned his M.A. in Social & Organizational Psychology and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Rich received his B.A. from the University of California at San Diego, where he majored in surfing and minored in sun tanning.
   

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  Michelle Gale

  Leadership Coach

   

  Michelle is a leadership coach and strategic advisor to the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. She is also embarking on a new adventure to partner with Tilt, Inc. on their new venture “The Tilt Academy”. Following a decade of experience consulting to high-growth start-ups in San Francisco, she spent the last few years supporting the growth of leaders & building learning & development programs with Twitter.

  She is a certified New Ventures West Coach as well as Leadership Embodiment Teacher, a somatic practice developed by Wendy Palmer. Earlier in her career she was a primary school teacher & continues her passion for youth by volunteering to teach mindfulness to children using the “Mindful Schools” curriculum.

  Michelle is a student of various mindfulness based practices as well as the enneagram. She lives in Marin County with her husband and two young sons.

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  Soren Gordhamer

  Founder, Wisdom 2.0

  Soren is the founder and host of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, the annual event exploring living with awareness and wisdom in the technology age. He is also the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Teachings for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, 2009), and is a regular contributor to the Social Media blog, Mashable.

  He has led mindfulness programs in a wide range of settings, including to youth in New York City juvenile halls, trauma workers in Rwanda, teachers in Nigeria, and US technology companies. As project director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized the Healing through Great Difficulty Conference with his Holiness the Dalai Lama. His website: www.sorengordhamer.com
   

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  Larry Harvey

  Founder, Burning Man

  Larry Harvey is the Founder and Executive Director of Burning Man, President of the Board of the Burning Man Project, and Chairman of the Board of the Black Rock Arts Foundation. He co-chairs Burning Man’s Art Department, scripts and co-curates the annual art theme, and collaborates with artists in creating aspects of the art theme and the design of Black Rock City. Larry is also a political planner. He supervises the organization’s lobbying efforts and regularly attends meetings with state, county and federal agencies. As a spokesperson for Burning Man, Larry has lectured at Harvard, the Commonwealth Club of California, the Walker Art Center, and the Oxford Union.

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  Gopi Kallayil

  Community Partnerships and Marketing Leader, Google+

  Gopi Kallayil works at Google on the marketing of Google+. Prior to this, Gopi led the marketing of the Company's flagship advertising products AdWords and AdSense.

  Before joining Google, Gopi was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Nextance, an enterprise Contract Management Software startup. He was also Vice President of Business Development and a founding management team member at Allegrix, an Application Software Provider startup acquired by Progress Software. While a consultant with McKinsey & Co., he worked on engagements helping the management teams of large corporations improve business performance and maximize revenues. Additionally, Gopi has led large Information Technology projects for global corporations in India, China, and the US. He graduated from The Wharton school of Business at UPenn and the National Institute of Technology in India.

  He founded and teaches a weekly yoga program for Googlers called Yoglers. He has had a long term meditation practice and regularly returns to Burning Man.
   

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  Scott Kriens

  Former CEO, Juniper Networks

  Scott is co-founder with his wife Joanie of the 1440 Foundation, which is a way of sharing with others their belief in the power of strong, healthy relationships for improving lives. 1440 works in the three domains of education, wellness, and the workplace, supporting organizations and serving champions whom they feel will make the world a better place by developing and nurturing authentic relationship skills in the work they do.

  This belief in the power of strong relationships manifested itself in leadership development practices at Juniper Networks where Scott serves as Chairman and spent 12 years as CEO, taking it from its early start up days to a $3.5B global company of over 7,500 people in more than 100 countries.
   

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  Jenny Lykken

  Learning and Development Specialist, Google

  Jenny Lykken is a Learning and Development Specialist at Google, where she works on a team within the Talent organization. Their mission is to provide a learning environment where Googlers are encouraged to develop and achieve their greatest potential. In her current role, in addition to supporting development efforts targeted at Google’s early career population, Jenny manages and facilitates global personal growth programs. These programs range from classes to tech talks to virtual meditation hangouts, and they cover topics including mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and stress and energy management.

  Before Google, Jenny completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Harvard University. She grew up in North Dakota and spent multiple summers working in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming. She loves hiking, snowboarding, yoga, and life and live music in her current city, San Francisco.

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  Bill McLawhon

  Executive Coach, Facebook

  Bill McLawhon is the first on-staff executive coach at Facebook, where he has been coaching leaders and focusing on building leadership development programming since 2009. Bill brings over 20 years of corporate experience in sales, line management and human resources within the financial services industry, and most recently as a Vice President at a Fortune 500 company. Bill holds a B.A. from California State University at Fullerton.

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  Chris Murchison

  VP Staff Development, Learning and Innovation, HopeLab

  Chris Murchison is responsible for cultivating an agency culture that values learning, innovation and informed risk taking to support HopeLab’s work.

  At HopeLab, Chris has led a strategic staff expansion to support a focused portfolio of work. He also has led the creation and documentation of principles and practices that serve as a resource to guide staff and organizational development and embed HopeLab’s core values into the everyday practices of the organization. Chris also has initiated an innovative, research-based health and wellness program at HopeLab that emphasizes energy, engagement and personal fulfillment to significantly increase staff’s capacity to get things done, enhancing productivity and quality of life in the workplace and beyond.

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  Susan Nichols

  Master Somatic Coach and Teacher, Strozzi Institute

  Susan Nichols is a Master Somatic Coach and Teacher with Strozzi Institute. She has been with the Institute since 2002 and teaches the Leadership in Action courses, School of Embodied Leadership (SOEL) and special contract Leadership development courses for corporate groups and Universities.

  Prior to joining Strozzi Institute, for 17 years Susie worked with and held leadership positions in business development and marketing in a broad range of industries -- global for-profit companies (adidas, Nike, DDB Needham), fast growing entrepreneurial start-ups (Avia and @Once, a successful internet start-up) and an Educational Non-profit (Outward Bound). She has lived and worked internationally, most recently in Amsterdam where she coached and taught leadership.

  Her teaching is informed by these experiences and a lifelong commitment to self development and mastery, two years of study in a non-denominational spiritual ministry program, her experience as a three sport varsity athlete / captain and committed student of aikido, the martial art of peace.

  With two other colleagues, Susie was instrumental in founding the Young Women's School of Embodied Leadership program for High School girls at Strozzi Institute. In addition, Susie's work with clients was recently published in the 2008 Pfeiffer Annual Compendium of leading ideas in the field of Leadership Development in a chapter on Somatics and Leadership.

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  Tiphani Palmer

  Leadership Embodiment

  Tiphani is an executive coach and facilitator with 10 years teaching and working with Leadership Embodiment, a model for cultivating leadership presence. This dynamic approach offers the individual, group or organization tools and practices to develop presence, confidence and the ability to act from a more effective, centered state.
  Tiphani received her 2nd degree black belt in Aikido, a non-violent Japanese martial art and brings 15 years of experience owning and running a successful design business, Tiphani Palmer Design.
  Leadership Embodiment develops a more authentic leadership presence that unifies mind, body, emotions and intuition as a way of meeting leadership challenges in today’s changing world. The work offers tools and practices to stay more centered and connected to vision and what is important in the face of conflict, disagreement
  and adversity.
  Tiphani lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and two children.

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  Susan Phillips

  VP Human Capital, Omidyar Network

  Susan joined Omidyar Network in early 2009 following more than 20 years in consumer marketing and people development roles. She provides marketing and organizational expertise to portfolio organizations as part of Omidyar Network's human capital efforts. Previously, Susan led the firm's marketing and communications function, managing media relations, internal communications, brand development, and marketing programs.

  Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Susan worked at eBay, Inc, Paypal, Excite@Home, Arnold Advertising and Foote Cone & Belding, and Bank of America. Susan earned her MBA in marketing and organizational behavior at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA with distinction in rhetoric and communications studies at the University of Virginia. She is a certified Integral Coach and Myers-Briggs facilitator.
   

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  Annemie Ress

  Senior Director of People Innovation, eBay

  Annemie joined eBay in 2004 as Human Resources Director for eBay UK. She currently is Senior Director, leading People Innovation globally for the Marketplaces business. During her time at eBay she also lead Skype HR globally and the eBay and PayPal HR team in Europe.
  Prior to joining eBay, Annemie was Vice President of Human Resources for the International Petroleum Exchange (now IcE Futures) and she worked for PEPSICO in South Africa and the UK.
  Annemie has wide ranging experience in designing and implementing significant organizational change and transformation in multi-national businesses. She enjoys leadership development and talent management.
  Annemie holds an undergraduate Law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and has postgraduate degrees in Law and in German.
  Her inspiration is Nelson Mandela – she had the good fortune of meeting him. He also wrote the foreword to a book she edited on Human Rights in Local Government.

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  Mike Rognlien

  Learning and Development Manager, Facebook

  Mike runs the Americas L&D team at Facebook, which covers orienting new hires as well as developing professional and management skills in Facebook employees around the globe. He's worked in the high tech industry for over a decade at companies like Intel and Microsoft, and has been in learning and development the majority of his career. He holds a BA in Organizational Communication and Creative Writing from CSU, Sacramento and an MS in HR and Org Development from the University of San Francisco.

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  Patton Sarley

  Program Officer, 1440 Foundation

  Patton Sarley (also known by his Sanskrit name, Dinabandhu) has been a leader in the field of spirituality and human development for 35 years. He has lived a unique blend of dedicated spiritual inquiry and high impact social entrepreneurship in the field of whole person development. Patton spent nearly two decades as a dedicated “yoga monastic” living in spiritual community focusing on deep spiritual study and practice. In his secular pursuits, Patton has also held key leadership positions in the two largest and most successful holistic educational centers in the United States during their periods of greatest institutional vitality.

  Patton served as CEO of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health from 2004-2010 where he and his wife Ila led a renewal of vision, mission, and business development, that brought the organization back from the brink of bankruptcy to its current position as the largest and most successful holistic retreat center in the U.S. During their 7-year tenure Patton and Ila revitalized the Kripalu brand and quadrupled net revenues. Patton also served as President of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, from 1995 to 2004. During his tenure as President of the Omega Institute, Patton led the effort to professionalize and modernize the organization from top to bottom and developed a reliable new revenue model that supported significant expansion of the Omega mission and its social impact.

  Patton is the co-author of two books on yoga and was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Earnst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in New England.

  An active speaker and workshop leader in the areas of yoga, stress management, communications, and leadership, Patton has devoted his life to the intensive practice of both Eastern and Western disciplines for spiritual growth, personal transformation, and authentic leadership.

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  Eric Schiermeyer

  Co-founder, Zynga & Integrative Health Programs

  Eric is a co-founder of Zynga where he led product development and also spearheaded the creation of Zynga's wellness program, which maintains a strong emphasis on holistic and preventative health. Prior to launching Zynga, he was the CTO at eUniverse, the company that became Intermix Media, parent company of MySpace. He is currently helping to develop Integrative Health Programs (IHP), a company that is dedicated to providing on-site holistic health and wellness services to businesses and corporations. He also acts as an advisor/board member/angel investor to other Silicon Valley startups that either adopt wellness programs or further the adoption of wellness programs.

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  Tony Schwartz

  Founder, The Energy Project

  Tony Schwartz founded The Energy Project in 2003 .Tony's most recent book, Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live, was published in May 2010 and became an immediate New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His previous book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co-authored with Jim Loehr, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages.

  Tony is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is one of HBR.org's most popular bloggers.

  Tony began his career as a journalist. He has been a reporter for the New York Times, an editor at Newsweek, a staff writer at New York and Esquire, and a columnist for Fast Company. He also co-authored the #1 worldwide bestseller The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, and wrote What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America.

  Tony has delivered keynotes to audiences around the world and has worked with leaders at dozens of organizations including Google, Sony, Ford, Barclays Capital, Wells Fargo, Ernst and Young, Intel, Oracle and Kraft, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department, the Cleveland Clinic and the National Security Agency.

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  Sara Sperling

  Diversity and Inclusion, Facebook

  Sara Sperling leads diversity & inclusion programs for Facebook, where she focuses on creating a work environment where people can be their authentic selves. Prior to Facebook, she was a Senior Learning & Development Program Manager at Yahoo. She has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, SCU Leavey School of Business, and Foothill College. Sara holds a MA from Stanford University, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Irvine. She has been published in Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority and It Gets Better:Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

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  Biz Stone

  Co-founder, Twitter

  BIZ STONE has been named Nerd of the Year by GQ, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME magazine, Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc Magazine, and one of Vanity Fair’s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age but Biz Stone, 37 is best known for over a decade of developing collaborative web systems freely accessed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

  As a progenitor of the early social web, Biz became an Internet entrepreneur in 1999 and went on to work for Google. Later, Stone co-founded Twitter which launched in 2006. In June of 2011 with his long time collaborators Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, Stone co-founded The Obvious Corporation to focus on building systems that help people work together to improve the world.

  An adamant believer that when we help others, we also help ourselves, Stone supports a new way of doing business with a higher level of ambition, and a better, more altruistic way to measure success. Beyond immediate needs, Stone advocates selflessness; insisting we follow this path in order to deliver deeper meaning in our work and in so doing, place value before profit.

  Biz lives in Marin County, California with his wife Livia.

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  Meng Tan

  Jolly Good Fellow, Google

  Meng, whose official title at Google is “Jolly Good Fellow,” is an early employee of Google who for years worked as a Software Engineer at the company and is now Head of Google University's School of Personal Growth, where among other activities he oversees and teaches the mindfulness-based program, "Search Inside Yourself."

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  Kelly Traver

  Founder/CEO Healthiest You

  Kelly Traver, MD is the founder of Healthiest You, a company which delivers unique, online health programs that get smarter with use. These highly personalized programs interact with an individual according to the way the brain naturally operates. This interaction takes advantage of each individual’s unique underlying motivators to maximize efficacy and allow one to become more engaged and empowered in his or her health.

  Dr. Traver received her medical degree from Stanford where she specialized in Internal Medicine. During an additional year as chief resident she won the “Excellence in Teaching” award and then served as adjunct clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford.

  She has practiced medicine for over twenty years. She was a practicing partner and physician at Menlo Medical Clinic for many years, served as Google’s Medical Director and is featured as one of America’s Top Physicians. Her background includes research in biochemistry, teaching in neuroanatomy and a public health study in South Africa. She has served on Stanford Hospital’s Medical Board, as a Managing Partner of Menlo Medical Clinic and Board of Trustees for the Institute for the Future.
   

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  Kristen Wheeler

  Leadership Development Consultant

  Kristen brings together human thriving and results. Partnering with clients like eBay, WhiteWave Foods, and comScore, she helps senior teams get unstuck, reveals collective wisdom to resolve perennial problems, cultivates innovative mind/body states, and leverages Native Genius. She is in the process of founding the Native Genius Lab to research, implement, and spread the practice of Native Genius. Before her private practice began over twenty years ago, Kristen began her career as a CPA and Software Developer for what is now Accenture. She has advanced degrees in Mythology and Body-Centered Psychology.

Wisdom 2.0 Business Schedule

Watch the conference free online!

We stream each conference for free online, click the link above. The conference starts at 9:00a.m. Friday May 11th. View the schedule page for speakers and times.

Friday, May 11th:

9:00 - 9:10     Introduction by Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

9:10 - 9:30    This is Not an Ice-Breaker
                        Talk by Chris Marcell Murchison, HopeLab

9:30 - 10:00   The Future of Learning in Business
                         Melissa Daimler, Head of Organizational Effectiveness & Learning, Twitter
                         interviewed by Soren Gordhamer

10:00 - 10:20   Break

10:20 - 11:00    Connecting Wellness and Innovation
                          Talk by Kelly Traver, MD, Founder/CEO Healthiest You

11:00 - 11:10    Mindfulness practice

11:10 - 11:45    Conscious Coaching Panel: Can We Coach Self Awareness?
                           Panel with Jenna Buffaloe, Leadership Development Coach,
                           Diana Chapman, Conscious Leadership Forum,
                           and Michelle Gale, Leadership Coach
                           moderated by Susan Phillips, Omidyar Network

11:45 - 12:00     Interactive exercise

12:00 - 1:30      Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 2:20       Culture, Start-ups, and Mindfulness
                          Biz Stone, Co-Founder, Twitter, interviewed by Soren Gordhamer

2:20 - 2:40       Innovating Fiercely with a Peaceful Mind
                          Talk by Meng Tan, Google

2:40 - 3:00       The Springtime Edge of the Bleak Question:
                          Leading with Curiosity, Candor & Integrity
                          Talk by Pat Christen, CEO, HopeLab

3:00 - 3:20        Break

3:20 - 4:10       Why a Wiser Workplace Really Works!
                           Talk by Tony Schwartz, CEO, The Energy Project
                            follow-up interview by Soren Gordhamer

4:10 - 4:50       Authentic Leadership in Business
                          Talk by Scott Kriens, Cofounder, 1440 Foundation; former CEO, Juniper Networks
                           Follow-up interview by Rich Fernandez

4:50 - 5:00        Closing

7:30 - 10:30     Party and Networking event at the Hub in San Francisco

Saturday, May 12th:

9:00 - 9:10       Opening

9:10 - 9:50       What does TCM theory, Indian philosophy, Martial Arts and Philosophy
                         Have To Do With Building a Billion-Dollar Business?
                           Talk by Eric Schiermeyer, CoFounder, Zynga and IHP
                            Follow-up interview by Rich Fernandez, Google

9:50 - 10:20      What is This Thing Below My Head?
                          Tapping the Wisdom of the Body for Leadership Effectiveness
                           Discussion with Michelle Gale, Leadership Coach, Susan Nichols, Strozzi Institute,
                           and Tiphani Palmer, Leadership Embodiment

10:20 - 10:50    Break

10:50 - 11:10    The Facebook Approach to Learning & Development
                           Mike Rognlien and Sara Sperling, facebook, interviewed by Soren Gordhamer

11:10 - 11:25    Mindfulness Practice

11:25 - 11:45    Supporting the Innovative Mindset
                          Interview with Annemie Ress, Head of People Innovation, eBay
                          Follow-up interview by Kristen Wheeler, Leadership Development Consultant

11:45 - 12:00    Interactive Session

12:00 - 1:30      Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 2:15       The Wisdom of our Emotions in the Context of Business
                          by Chip Conley, Founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels
                          Follow-up interview by Pat Christen

2:15 - 3:00       The Inward Journey: Mindfulness in Corporate America
                          Panel with Greg Burdulis, Mindfulness Coach, Jenny Lykken, Google,
                          and Renee Burgard, Mindfulness and Health
                          Moderated by Gopi Kallayil,Google

3:00 - 3:20         Break

3:20 - 3:50       True Tilt, A New Framework for Leadership
                           that Creates a Climate for Creativity & Innovation
                           Talk by Pam Boney, CEO, Tilt
                            Follow-up interview by Bill McLawhon, Executive Coach, Facebook

3:50 - 4:20        Harnessing the Experience Exercise by Patton Sarley, 1440 Foundation

4:20 - 5:00        Identifying and Building Your Tribe
                           Larry Harvey, Founder, Burning Man, interviewed by Soren Gordhamer

5:00                  Closing

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Sponsors

Presenting Sponsors

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  1440 Foundation

  http://www.1440foundation.org

  1440 Foundation supports programs and best practices that cultivate authentic relationship skills in education, wellness, and the workplace. 1440 invests in three broad disciplines:

  • Self awareness and whole person development: Inner fitness as realized through a wide variety of contemplative practices
  • Relationship development: Relational fitness as realized through the practice of thoughtful and deliberate skill building and understanding of others
  • Authentic leadership development: The development of authentic leaders and leadership practices in the classroom, the medical system, and the workplace

  Website: 1440foundation.org

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  Integrative Health Programs

  http://www.integrativehealthprograms.com

  At Integrative Health Programs (IHP), we provide cost-effective, preventative health care solutions to businesses and corporations. We focus exclusively on modalities that take into account the whole person (body, mind, spirit) and the inherent knowledge we have about our own bodies. We offer services that help employees unlock resources of energy and creativity that optimize their ability to innovate, collaborate, and adapt in today's competitive business environment. Our client list includes Google, Twitter and Zynga.

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