Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan is the founder, president, and chief operating officer of The Shift Network (which has over 500,000 members in 170 countries) and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders.

Stephen helped create and directed the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers. As the former director of membership and marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program and the One Minute Shift media series.

He is the author of Sacred America, Sacred World and Radical Spirit. He has been a featured speaker at the World Cultural Forum in China, the Alliance for a New Humanity in Costa Rica, Renovemos Mexico in Mexico City, and the University of Cuenca in Ecuador, as well as many US conferences, events, radio programs, and online summits.

Stephen is a graduate of Stanford University (human biology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (East-West psychology). He lives in San Rafael, California, with his wife Devaa.