Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, poet, farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most. He holds a BA in religious studies from the University of Vermont and a master’s in religion and art from Yale University. He is the author of the 7-volume Metamodern Spirituality Series as well as Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics. His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work.

Robb Smith is a leading thinker on the Transformation Age and the global Integral movement. He is the creator of the augmented leadership platform Context, co-founder and CEO of Integral Life and founder of the Institute of Applied Metatheory. Through his role at Integral Life, he advises entrepreneurs, executives and thought leaders on leading-edge innovation and applications of integral philosophy. He founded the Institute of Applied Metatheory in 2022 to help integrative movements experiment with applied social action. In 2023 IAM spun out Context, the world’s first Augmented Leadership platform, which merges AI with mental model visualization to help leaders think integrally naturally and easily. He is a graduate of University of Nevada (undergraduate in finance, graduate work in philosophy) and is a fellow of Desert Research Institute, a former fellow of Aspen Institute and former trustee of Nevada Museum of Art.