2021 Journal Article Authors

ANNA S. CHOI’s promise is to elevate humanity’s consciousness by serving high-achieving conscious leaders to find peace in chaos, master their energy, and embody their brilliance. As a broke art major with zero experience or connections, she started and sold her first financial planning business grossing six figures by age 25. Burned out from the hustle and grind, she became an energy master, martial artist, and qigong yoga instructor. Her work has appeared in Forbes magazine. She has been a TEDx speaker. A mother who homeschooled her children, she loves to sing and play the ukulele, cook vegan meals, and dance.

DANIEL KAMANGA is the founder and executive director of the Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation whose vision is “An Africa that works for everyone” and has a mandate “to create one million transformed leaders.” He brings more than 30 years of experience to addressing Africa’s widespread failures in leadership. His multi-sectoral experience in Africa’s private sector (media, telecoms and financial services), as well as the development sector (micro-finance and agriculture,) gives him powerful insights into what needs to be done to address the leadership challenges in Africa.

DIANA PAGE JORDAN’s career is a collage of on-the-air, on-camera, on stage and online accomplishments. She’s on-the-page, too. Her stories have been published in a half-dozen anthologies, such as A Cup of Comfort for Writers, and in national magazines, including Writers Digest and The Costco Connection. As a book coach, Page Jordan uses her inspirational interviewing that she honed with thousands of authors for 800 Associated Press Radio Network stations, XM Satellite, BN.com, ABC and CBS TV stations and other media. Her mission is to communicate the truth, while educating, entertaining and inspiring audiences.

GISELE LAROSE joined the State of the World Scorecard team in 2020. As an occupational therapist, her background in human development sourced many careers from clinical practice, continuing education presenter, and executive positions in rehabilitation and now higher education. Her current commitment is to listen for our power to create as human beings. After attending three Conferences for Global Transformation and 22 years of learning ontology, she is sourcing a nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating “bringing all minds on deck” to innovate student success.

INA R. AMES is a retired communication professor with specialties in communication theory, speech performance, theater, accent reduction and English as a Second Language. Ames was president of the Communication Association of Massachusetts for eight years and was chair of two divisions of the National Communication Association. She has been published, paneled, and programmed statewide, nationally and internationally. A participant in est/Landmark’s work since 1980, she is currently a custodian of the Inquiry calls of the Social Commons, a former seminar leader and facilitator in the Wisdom area. She participated in both The Hunger Project and Holiday Project launches in Boston.

JUDITH OWENS-MANLEY is a writer and adventurer living primarily in Alaska with annual sojourns to the East Coast to spend time with family. A former Wisdom Unlimited course leader and seminar leader, she has a Ph.D. in social work and declares her work as a community-level practitioner, committed to people thriving as their best selves in the social commons. She co-authored a book on Bosnian refugees in America and has written about domestic violence and public welfare. A retired university professor and administrator, she participates on nonprofit boards when she’s not skiing, hiking, sailing, or biking.

KET FOX founded and incorporated Solutions Service Systems, Inc.,™ a membership organization dedicated to world peace. An engineering and physics major at the University of Arizona, he has served as a custom engineer, senior analyst, system design specialist and quality control manager for various companies. He did the est Training in 1977 and has participated since in Landmark courses and programs. He is also the author of the World Peace Project Source Document; The Abundance Project, A White Paper; and The Virtue of Negotiating, An Exercise In Principle.

Originally from Bulgaria, MARIA ZAHARIEVA has been living in Sweden for 21 years. A clinical psychologist with more than 250 hours of psychodrama training and an undernurse with years of experience in taking care of and being around elderly patients in the last stages of life, she is also a coach, transformational consultant and speaker. She has participated in countless trainings at Landmark, including working on staff for two years and being the Partnership Explorations champion for Europe for five years. She has attended many other courses and workshops for the past 20 years.

PEG MILLER is a retired physical therapist, certified drug and alcohol counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist. She retired December 4, 2020. She now writes, participates in the Poor Peoples’ Campaign in California and is involved in Adult Children of Alcoholics locally and worldwide. She does outreach through her church and is involved with a county multi-faith organization to deal with economic injustices. A custodian of the Inquiries of the Social Commons, she and Bob, her husband of 55 years, have four children, 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She lives in Alamo, California.

ROSE GRANT is inspired by a vision of a bright world, with healthy communities and vibrant ecosystems everywhere and is committed to potent climate action. Working with farmers and land and water managers, Grant has witnessed the effects of atmospheric pollution on lives and livelihoods over three decades. An early adopter of renewable energy, electric vehicles and regenerative agriculture, she is now exploring new opportunities to enrich environments, strengthen economies and build vibrant communities.

SUSAN HOSKINS is chief executive officer of I AM HUMANITY, whose mission is to provide expanded awareness, shifts in self-concept and highlight leadership that promotes and nourishes the flourishing of humanity. Hoskins is also founder of the Human Spirit Institute, which offers workshops, classes, coaches and products that unleash and foster self-expression and in-the-moment experience of a quality of life. She is committed to the declaration that the 2020s is the Decade of Honoring the Human Spirit. Previously, Hoskins founded the Coalition for Economic Empowerment and served as chief executive officer for 28 years delivering programs to support low-income peoples globally.

WENDY KEILIN is committed to creating the next world economy for a World That Works for Everyone. In a future where human labor is no longer required, what kind of economy could we create? Where a powerful few control much of the world’s resources, what does equity look like? A transformational leadership consultant to high-performance teams and leaders, her work both led to this inquiry and provides a springboard for forwarding it. A 2021 Scorecard Team addition, she inquires: If transformation starts locally, how do we measure its emergence? Who measures? With what agenda? What could we measure? How?