The Conscious Leadership Guild, a professional membership association, was formed in 2018 in order to provide continuing support for our members in improving the quality and effectiveness of our work in conscious leadership. We were incorporated under the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Law of California and were granted non-profit status by the IRS in early 2020.

Following a retreat called the Conscious Leadership Congress at 1440 Multiversity in mid-February 2018, follow-up groups took on various tasks inspired by the Congress, including the formation of the Guild. An international group of 18 executives, consultants/coaches and academics collaborated to form teams of volunteers to cover various functions and launch the Guild several months later. Here is a list of these Founding Members and their affiliations at the time of our founding:

Linda Alepin, former Executive Professor, Santa Clara University
Mariana Bozesan, Co-Founder, AQAL Group, Munich
Sam Chan, Founder and CEO, Applied Computer Online Services, San Jose
Peter Doyle, Founder, Guidelight Psychology, Australia
Tom Eddington, CEO, FutureShapers, Sausalito
Gina Hayden, Founder, Global Centre for Conscious Leadership, London
Valita Jones*, Faculty, University of California at San Diego
Eric Kaufmann, President, Sagatica, San Diego
Kiran Mani, Managing Director, US Sales, Google Inc., San Francisco
Peter Matthies, Founder, Conscious Business Institute, Santa Barbara
John Montgomery, Esq., President, Lex Ultima, Point Reyes
Judi Neal, co-founder, Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, Fayetteville
Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever, The Netherlands
Srikumar Rao, teacher, MBA course “Creativity and Personal Mastery,” New York
Michael Ray, Professor Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Santa Cruz
John Renesch, Founder, Renesch Advisory Services, San Francisco
Bill Vogelgesang, Co-founder, EPOCH Pi, Cleveland
Corrie Voss, Adjunct Faculty, Bowling Green State University, Toledo
*emeritus
 
Guild members meet face-to-face twice a year to share our wisdom and learn from one another. We meet virtually as often as we wish.