Russ Volckmann graduated from Monmouth University, studied for an M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from Sonoma State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Fellow in India for his dissertation research. Russ was an organization development consultant for over 20 years and has been focused on executive coaching and leadership development since 1997. Russ is the co-founder of Integral Publishers, LLC, publisher and editor of the Integral Leadership Review and LeadingDigest. He is on the Board of ARINA, Inc., an international research and development organization, and on its Editorial Committee for the Integral Review.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni's path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.