David Orme-Johnson received his BA in psychology from Columbia University in 1963, and his MA, Ph.D. Psychology from the University of Maryland. Dr. Orme-Johnson is recognized as a leading expert in research on meditation. He was one of the first scientists to research the effects of meditation on the elimination of stress. His pioneering research in this area was first published in 1973 in the journal, Psychosomatic Medicine. To date Dr. Orme-Johnson has published over 100 papers on the psychological and sociological effects of meditation. Dr. Orme-Johnson has presented his research at over a hundred scientific conferences in 37 countries, including presentations to the United Nations on four occasions. Orme-Johnson D.W., Oates R.M. (2009). A field-theoretic view of consciousness: Reply to critics. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23(2):139-166 Orme-Johnson, D. W., Dillbeck, M. C., & Alexander, C. N (2003). Preventing terrorism and international conflict: Effects of large assemblies of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36, 283-302. Orme-Johnson, D.W., Alexander, C. N., Davies, J.L., Chandler, H.M., & Larimore, W.E. (1988). International peace project in the Middle East: The effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32(4), 776-812.

Deborah Rozman, PhD, is president of HeartMath® Inc. located in Boulder Creek, California. Dr. Rozman has been a psychologist in research and practice, entrepreneur and business executive for over 30 years. She was founding executive director of the HeartMath Institute, and serves on the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board and Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee. Deborah has penned a dozen books herself, and co-authored, with Doc Childre, the Transforming book series, published by New Harbinger. The series includes four titles, including Transforming Stress, Tranforming Anger, Transforming Anxiety and Transforming Depression. She also co-authored the recently released Heart Intellgence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart. She is a key spokesperson on the role of the heart in stress management, resilience, health and performance.

HeartMath provides scientifically-validated and market-validated tools and technologies that enable people to achieve emotional self-regulation to dramatically reduce stress levels, increase resilience and achieve sustainable behavior change. HeartMath’s award winning emWave® and Inner Balance™ technologies monitor and provide real time feedback and training to improve the user’s heart rhythm (HRV) coherence baseline, an important indicator of overall stress and resilience. HeartMath also offers certification training programs for health professionals and coaches.

Jonni Pollard is a meditation master, who has studied and taught for over 18 years across many wisdom traditions. He is now at the forefront of an emerging generation of social entrepreneurs driven to effect progressive change in the world. He is the Co-founder and Executive Director of 1 Giant Mind, a research and education not for profit dedicated to inspiring 100 million new meditators in the world by 2020. His mission is to facilitate an experiential, philosophical and scientific understanding of human consciousness and the role our minds play in shaping our personal and collective relationships to the demand of change. Jonni travels extensively teaching, consulting, speaking and facilitating mass meditation experiences.