Steve McIntosh J.D. is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and author of Developmental Politics—How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself (Paragon House, 2020). He is the co-founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution and Director of The Developmental Politics Project; organizations that focus on the cultural roots of America’s political problems. 

Steve is co-author of Conscious Leadership (Penguin/Portfolio, 2020), with John Mackey and Carter Phipps. He has also authored three previous books on integral philosophy: The Presence of the Infinite (Quest, 2015), Evolution’s Purpose (Select Books, 2012), and Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Paragon House, 2007). 

His innovative political thinking has appeared in USA Today, Real Clear Politics, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Areo Magazine, and The Developmentalist. He has been interviewed on NPR, Oxford Review, The Glenn Show, Rebel Wisdom, and many other podcasts. Before becoming a writer and social entrepreneur, Steve had a variety of other successful careers, including founding the consumer products company Now & Zen, and practicing law with one of America’s largest firms. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Southern California Business School. Steve grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two sons. 

He can be reached at: [email protected]

Christopher Cook has been active with the exploration and application of Integral Psychology / Integral Theory since 1997. In October 1998, at one of the foundational meetings of the Integral Institute, Christopher became enlivened by a personal commitment to Enabling Human Emergence which has proven to be his enduring and essential inspiration. 

Application across personal and professional settings has included many international assignments that have focused on Agriculture, Drought Recovery, Investment Management, Education, HealthCare, Organization Design and Alignment, Leadership Mentoring, Home Building, Training of Trainers, and Community Development. A personal and cultural scanning system, created by Christopher in 1998, known as 5 Deep Vital Signs, is recognized by Susan Cook Greuter as a distinctly reliable and highly trusted approach. 

Christopher has built upon the lineage established by Clare W. Graves and has developed conceptual frames known as Solonics and Full Spectrum Emergence. These frames of insight offer a comprehensive framework for application across all contexts. 

Christopher is now based in the UK and with his wife Sheila, they co-lead a hub in the global Savory Network. www.3lm.network Their focus is the application of Holistic Management and Regenerative Outcome Assessment. Their overarching purpose is ‘imagineering a regenerative layer’. Christopher has traded as 5Deep since 2001. http://www.5Deep.net He considers 5Deep as a living experiment in “the application of tomorrow's thinking today”.