Eva Pomeroy is Research Lead and Senior Faculty at the Presencing Institute, an awareness-based action research organization at the intersection of science, consciousness, and profound social and organizational change. She is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and core faculty for MITx Online's u-lab: Leading from the Emerging Future, an online-to-offline transformative change program based on Otto Scharmer's Theory U. Eva is Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, whose research focuses on expanded epistemologies and social field approaches to transformative learning and systems change. She has published in journals such as the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Journal of Transformative Education, OD Review and Journal of Applied Behavioural Sciences. Eva lives in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke with her husband and two sons.

Dr. Melanie Goodchild, moose clan, is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibway woman) from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation and Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) First Nation. She is a systems thinking and complexity scholar who offers a uniquely Anishinaabe approach to making sense of society's most entrenched problems.

Dr. Goodchild is Vice President Indigenous Knowledge, Scholarship and Research at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, an Indigenous post-secondary institute located in Baawaating (place of the rapids), within the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy.

Dan is a Turtle Clan member of the Mohawk Nation and a citizen of the Rotinonshón:ni (Haudenosaunee – People of the Longhouse), originally from Ohsweken – the Six Nations community on the Grand River. Dan is an Associate Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies at Trent University, founding Director of the Indigenous Environmental Science/Studies program (IESS) and acting Director of the newly formed Indigenous Environmental Institute (IEI). He was also the first Director of Studies of Trent's Indigenous Studies Ph.D. program. Dan designed and developed the IESS program – the first of its kind on Turtle Island. Granting both B.A. and B.Sc. degrees since 2009, the IESS program is an innovative and multidisciplinary undergraduate program that brings together principles of both Indigenous and Western (or neo-European/colonial) Knowledge systems for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners.

Melissa Roberts, an Elder, knowledge keeper, cultural advisor, powwow dancer, grandmother, and retired educator, strives to live her life following the Seven Sacred Teachings. Over her 31-year tenure with Lakehead Public Schools and involvement in various educational and cultural initiatives, Melissa has dedicated herself to fostering understanding and inclusion across diverse groups. Her expertise is particularly evident in the development of culturally enriched educational programs that have garnered recognition, such as the innovative land-based program for Anishinaabeg students, which was celebrated in a full-page feature in the Globe and Mail.

Julian Norris, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner and wilderness guide, and founding director of the Wolf Willow Institute who has spent his life exploring the crossroads where human development and systems transformation meet. Originally trained as an anthropologist, he is a faculty member at the Haskayne School of Business where he teaches courses in leadership and complexity. Julian's work is seasoned by a love for the bardic traditions, a lifetime spent in wild landscapes and a long-standing practice of contemplative and somatic disciplines.

Vanessa Reid is an architect of cultural evolution who works at the intersection between systems and soul. She co-founded the Living Wholeness Institute which works around the world to co-create cultures and communities of practice dedicated to systems transformation amidst complexity, collapse and chaos. Vanessa has Masters degrees in both architecture and process-oriented psychology and brings her depth of practice and wild perspective to her work with the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning and the Trailblazery’s Hedge School, lauded for its ‘exploration of the possible.’ She is the former executive director of Santropol Roulant and publisher of ascent magazine. A translocal practice leader, Vanessa has a particular call to work with transitions, transformation and the natural cycles of life – from the mess and excitement of creating new systems and initiatives to Conscious Closure and the Wild life of Dying.