People
Stefanie Syman
Stefanie is a long-time company builder and author, steeped in the cultural history of both inner and outer technologies. She’s the cofounder of pioneering web media company FEED Magazine and author of The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America. She helped launched a conversational AI assistant (a decade ago!) and has advised startup CEOs from seed to exit. Much of her work centers on understanding how norm changing technologies become commonplace. She has also experienced her own version of exile and return.
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Andrew Markell
Andrew Markell is Director and Co-Founder of The Dawn Collective, a hybrid nonprofit developing scalable solutions in trauma healing, metabolic health, and human performance. He works at the intersection of leadership development, physiological intelligence, and applied strategy. Over three decades, he has worked with senior leaders, founders, investors, and special operations personnel from global corporations and nonprofits to startups worldwide. His work, across the hybrid nonprofit and through his strategic leadership consultancy, The Dawn Studio, is forged from the fighting and healing arts, and the frontier science of human mastery.
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Fotini Markopoulou
Fotini is a quantum gravity physicist and industrial designer. With over two decades in academia, she was founding faculty of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, followed by cofounding a tech company that applied research in neuroscience to mental health, and advisory roles in organizations that support science.
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Bennet zelner
Bennet Zelner is a business school professor who broke with mainstream economics after recognizing that the tools he was trained in couldn't see past the systems they were built to serve. He redirected his work toward understanding how systems actually change, and what regenerative alternatives might look like in practice.
His work sits at the intersection of regenerative economics, leadership, and psychedelics. He asks what it takes for people to lead toward a regenerative future—exploring both catalysts that open new ways of seeing and being, and the cultural, organizational, and economic containers shaping how people lead and build.
Bennet's work challenges the story that incremental reform within existing systems is sufficient. Associate Professor, University of Maryland Smith School of Business. PhD, UC Berkeley; BA, Brown.
Kimberly syman
Kim Syman is a Senior Partner at New Profit. She’s passionate about unlocking the power of entrepreneurs to transform systems so that people and the earth thrives. She partners deeply with exceptional leaders in democracy, health, climate, economic development, education, child welfare, legal system reform and more. Her mission: spurring philanthropy to more powerfully support the work of systems change.