Antoine Jaulmes is an engineer from the Paris School of Mines (Paris Tech) later trained in business and finance at HEC Business School, Antoine Jaulmes has worked for 27 years with PSA Peugeot Citroën, holding various positions in production and R&D, ranging from cost controller to plant manager and project director - he was particularly happy to be involved in the launch of two new car assembly plants, one in France and one in Slovakia; he is now Director of the PSA-FIAT joint R&D Platform.

John Graham is the author of "Stick Your Neck Out; A Street-smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond" (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005) and "Sit Down Young Stranger" (Langley: Packard Books, 2008). He is also President of the Giraffe Heroes Project www.giraffe.org and a former U.S. diplomat.

Cricket White currently serves as the national director for training and program development for Initiatives of Change, USA. She has trained facilitators in cities across the United States and in several countries. Her work in the US has focused on designing and delivering curriculum and dialogue formats that enhance trust building and honest conversation between individuals and groups who are separated by ideology, religion, race, class and/or culture.

Mike Brown and his wife, Jean, both writers, have worked since their student days with Initiatives of Change - including 10 years in India and 9 in America. Mike began writing in the 1960s as editor of a youth tabloid in Los Angeles. He spent 8 years on the staff of ‘Himmat’ magazine, a conscience-based news weekly in India. In 2003 his first book was published, 'No Longer Down Under - Australians creating change'. For 20 years both Mike has been active in the Australian reconciliation movement between Aboriginal people and the wider population. In 2000 he received the 'Non-Indigenous Person of the Year' award in his State. Since 2001 he has been one of the coordinators of Action for Life, an inter-generational community of 40 people from 21 countries moving through Asia.