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Pioneer of collective intelligence, economist, and MIT senior lecturer C. Otto Scharmer asks WIE founder and teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment Andrew Cohen about the significance and science of creating a unified, enlightened state of consciousness in groups of otherwise “unenlightened” individuals.

Edward Artis is a founding member of the international aid organization Knightsbridge International. His high risk, high impact aid work is featured the acclaimed documentary, Beyond the Call. Artis spoke with WIE's Carol Raphael about the timeless virtues of chivalry, what it's like to be both warrior and saint, and why he pursues the most extreme—yet undeniably direct—form of aid work imaginable.

In part two of this Unbound interview, WIE editor Elizabeth Debold speaks with pioneering corporate executive Tex Gunning about the power of authentic leadership, the advantages and hindrances of ego in the marketplace, and the potential of big business to create a better world.

International business consultant Joseph Jaworski speaks with WIE’sElizabeth Debold about harnessing the power of group intelligence to transform business, civil society, and ultimately the world.

Mats Lederhausen, socially conscious business consultant and managing director of McDonald's Ventures (the restaurant giant's future-oriented investment subsidiary) speaks with WIE's Elizabeth Debold about his visionary efforts to balance out big business's bottom line with the needs and concerns of the people and the planet.

Innovative organizational change makers—and their corporate counterparts—are tackling one of the most complex problems facing humanity: the urgent need for big business to evolve from being a profit–driven machine to a living system working for the future of the planet.

While this diminutive woman draped in a white sari might appear to belong to an era long past, she is the inspiration and spiritual guide to many of the world's leading business visionaries, such as Brian Bacon, Tex Gunning, Charles Handy, Peter Senge, David Cooperrider, Rita Cleary, and others.

This former professor of environmental studies takes high-powered business consultants on vision quests, leading them far into the wilderness in order to connect with the unity we share with each other and with the planet that sustains us. He has been a guide to Brian Arthur, Joseph Jaworski, Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge, and others.