• Answer questions about the program, faculty and how to  participate in the Conscious Business Curriculum
• Discover the Timeline of the Conscious Business Initiative and how CBCAs are The Heart of Change
• Become familiar with the Conscious Business Declaration history and all 7 principles
• Participate in an experiential process to identify where each of us is along our unique Conscious Business Change Agent path

• Seeing business as inherently one with the Divine, humanity, and all of life
• An integral view of business as a force in human evolution
• Understanding how “waking up” and “growing up” are both essential for transforming ourselves and the organizations we lead

• Use Life Visioning to become a clear, compassionate, powerful change agent
• Transformational inner technology for application in business leadership
• Articulate and become that which is seeking to emerge through you!

Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, a trans-denominational, multi-cultural community where music holds a significant place in the weekly celebrations, classes and conferences. Beckwith is also co-founder and president of The Association for Global New Thought (AGNT), convener of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

• Create a foundation and overall plan for a coaching business that delivers freedom, fulfillment, and abundance
• Triumph over the most common obstacles to entrepreneurial success
• Create authentic marketing short and long-term strategy that align with your values

George Kao has been a business coach for 7 years full-time, helping clients create their true livelihood.
 His specialty is helping people grow their ideal audience through honest online marketing. This can include developing an effective social media presence (including Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google+), using authentic webinars to nurture potential clients, and creating authentic online visibility using blogs, videos, and podcasts.

George Kao helps clients stabilize their income, expand their visibility online, and structure their business so that they can experience freedom and joy in their work.

• Shift in business from the primacy of shareholder value to creating prosperity and flourishing for all
• Moving from “sustainability” to “flourishing”
• Transforming consciousness as the greatest point of leverage for the new leadership orientation

Chris Laszlo is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management where he is the faculty director for research and outreach at the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. He is the author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business(2014), Embedded Sustainability (2011), Sustainable Value (2008), and The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005). His work over the last decade has helped launch mainstream management approaches to sustainability for value and profit. In 2012, he was selected a “Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America™. In 2015, he was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Management.

• This class will be in the form of presentation and dialogue.  I will at first describe the context for the evolutionary of business, which is the New Story of Creation with us as active agents within it. 
Our unique life purpose is that Impulse of Evolution motivating us. It holds the genius of evolution encoded in it.


• As we face crises where we cannot continue to do more of the same, we will find that business shifts its emphasis to innovation and creativity  for Planet, for Profit, and for Greater Purpose to empower the good.


• A new Source  Code for Success emerges: the Power to Invent a viable future

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called “the voice for conscious evolution of our time” by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s book, The Mother of Invention. A prolific author, visionary, social innovator and educator, she is founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. Its purpose is to accelerate our conscious evolution.



• Remain in your authentic power in high-pressure & conflict situations
• Learn the repeated behavior that’s causing stress & conflict in our lives & businesses
• Learn about the steps to overcome stress & struggle

• The power of connection - how connected people, teams, organizations, and communities can lead to a thriving world
• Using Theory-U methods to presence the future that is seeking to emerge
• Using Appreciative Inquiry to transforms problem solving in business

Ilma Barros, Ph.D., received her doctorate in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University where her research and teaching focus on leadership development, sustainability, and organizational change. In addition to her academic experience and consulting work, Ilma is a co-author of the book, Flourishing Enterprise, the New Spirit of Business, and of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. 

Ilma has advised organizations and leaders in some of the world's largest organizations.

• Discovering the magic that happens when you consecrate your corporate career to the awakening of all humanity
• Learning to live in the Unknown and ride the currents of synchronicity within turbulent corporate culture
• Lessons learned from eco-technology (ad)ventures at Intel Corporation

• Creating organizations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness
• Characteristics of business that embody the emerging integral paradigm
• Practical steps for implementing the new holistic organizational model

CEO and Founder, Complete Coherence
Alan Watkins is recognized as an international expert on leadership and human performance. He has a broad mix of commercial, academic, scientific and technological abilities. Over the past 18 years he has been a coach to many of Europe’s top business leaders and has helped companies treble share price, enter the FTSE 100, salvage difficult turnarounds and establish market leadership in their industry. He has written 5 books on leadership and how to solve some of the world’s toughest problems. He advised the GB Olympic squad prior to London 2012 and is continuing to work with them leading up to Rio in 2016. He has a three degrees and is a neuroscientist by background.

• The unprecedented value proposition inherent in the “third wave” of conscious business
• How businesses aligned with Oneness create prosperity on many levels and for all
  
• The four P’s that are foundational in every conscious business: People, Planet, Profit and Presence
• How conscious businesses are going beyond B Corp/B Lab to transform the world of commerce
• Why the Conscious Business Declaration is seen as a new standard of doing business for the 21st Century

• Creating financial, social and ecological transparency within an organization
  
• The art of fearless risk-taking and innovation fueled by a higher Source
  
• Building a conscious culture with mutual trust and respect as the organization’s “power plant.”
  
• Steve’s Spirit-led journey from the private sector / Silicon Valley to leading a thriving international nonprofit that is changing global business
  
• How to measure the progress of a conscious business through benefits assessment
  
• Experience Synchronicities, Serendipities & Transcendence
  
• Creating virtuous circles with business results, employees, customers, supply chain and community
  
  

• How U.S. companies spend $170 billion on leadership development yet leadership is broken everywhere you look.
  
• Why our current leadership theories centered around motivation and fear are outmoded and ineffective
  
• How conscious businesses allows inspiration—which is love-based—to “light a fire within someone versus light a fire under someone.”
  
• How tapping your inner spark ripples out to others, thereby changing the world
  
• Reinventing our language and understanding of relationships (to people and everything else) in words that business leaders can relate to and understand
  

• The role of “Business as Model Community Citizen” and its power to inspire positive change and ignite local and global transformation
  
• Why community building is vitally important, especially now
  
• How to create a sense of community and trust within organizations, as well as in the environments with which they interact
  
• Why cultivating a sense of trust both inside the organization and in external environments is more important than ever
  

• The “former” paradigm of marketing and why it’s increasingly ineffectual
  
• Hallmarks of the new paradigm of marketing, including “essence vs. strategy,” “authenticity vs. falsehood,” “self-centric vs. universe-centric” and more
  
• A multi-dimensional approach to marketing that directly connects individuals and organizations with their purest missions and consumers who align with them from a newly explored divine space
  
• How intuition and creative alchemy come into play to restore balance, reshape communication and integrate higher thought in marketing campaigns
  

• Real-life case studies of CBCAs serving in the business world right now
  
• How to use your training to help you take your business concept to manifestation, from inner desire to outer action
  
• A brief history of CBI