Summit Introduction and Overview
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About the Speakers
Ginny Jiko Whitelaw (Summit Co-host)
Dr. Ginny Jiko Whitelaw (summit co-host) is an 86th Generation Rinzai Zen master, Chosei Zen priest, and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She has been developing whole leaders for over 25 years and is the author of Resonate and The Zen Leader, and co-developer of FEBI (pronounced “fee-bee”), a personality assessment that links mind and body and behaviors.
Formerly, Deputy Manager for integrating NASA’s Space Station Program, she has a doctorate in biophysics, degrees in physics and philosophy, and a 5th degree black belt in Aikido. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com in leadership strategy.
Kelly Bannister (Summit Co-host)
Dr. Kelly Bannister (summit co-host) is an ethnobiologist and applied ethicist who has devoted three decades to supporting respectful and equitable intercultural collaborations that bridge Western scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems. She is committed to understanding how we can work well across different worldviews and knowledge systems, guided by diverse wisdom traditions and embodiednpractices to address contemporary social and ecological crises. She is Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). She is also an Aikido and somatic movement practitioner, a Zen student with Chosei Zen, and an Instructor with the Institute for Zen Leadership.
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