Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education (formerly the Sustainability Education Center), which is dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.  Ms. Cloud teaches extensively, and writes and facilitates the collaborative development of numerous instructional units and programs that are designed to teach core courses across the disciplines through the lens of sustainability and to inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.  Examples include: Ecological Economics for Life; Introduction to Sustainability; Changing Consumption Patterns; Systems Thinking; Core Content and Habits of Mind of Education for Sustainability, and From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems. Ms. Cloud has also helped design and launch two secondary school courses: a one year business and entrepreneurship education course entitled, Business and Entrepreneurship Education for the 21st Century (BEE 21), and a one semester Participation in Government course entitled, Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21^st Century (Inventing the Future).

Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founding chair of SoL. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. In September 2000, a new fieldbook on education was published, the award winning Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, co-authored with Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively toward common goals.

Linda Booth Sweeney is an educator, researcher and writer, whose work is dedicated to helping people of all ages develop their own insights about the systems they encounter in every day lives. Most recently, Linda co-developed a simulation to enable youth and adults better understand the dynamics of climate change.  Previously, Linda taught a course at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education called “Talking with Children about Complex Systems.”   For the past twelve years, Linda has been research affiliate MIT’s Organizational Learning Center (now SoL—Society for Organizational Learning), helping practitioners in schools and organizations develop systems thinking capacity and integrate systems thinking into their development programs and school curricula. Linda received her doctorate in Education from Harvard University in 2004.  She wrote the The Systems Thinking Playbook: Volumes I-III (1995/1998/2001), to help people of all ages explore and physically experience many of systems thinking concepts in a non-threatening way.  The Playbook has been translated into Chinese and Russian and will soon be translated into Dutch and Portuguese. Her second book, When a Butterfly Sneezes:  A guide for helping children explore interconnections in our world through favorite stories (2001), was written as a guide for parents and educators who want to help children understand everyday system dynamics through children’s literature.  She is currently the director of SoL’s Education Partnership.

Lees Stuntz, Executive Director of the Creative Learning Exchange (CLE), founded the organization seventeen years ago under the direction of a Board of Trustees, which includes Jay Forrester, the founder of the field of system dynamics and the inventor of the core memory for the computer.  The CLE is a successful networking center for all K-12 educators interested in systems thinking and dynamic modeling in a learner-centered environment. The Creative Learning Exchange (CLE) facilitates communication among teachers and schools, nationally and internationally, to help create a network of schools and teachers using system dynamics and learner-centered learning as critical thinking tools. The CLE makes teacher generated materials available at minimal cost to educators, produces a quarterly newsletter and hosts a biennial conference on systems thinking and dynamic modeling.

As Director of the CLE, Ms. Stuntz gives workshops on systems thinking and system dynamics for educators as well as visiting schools to coach and lend her expertise to teachers and administrators. She maintains contacts with the system dynamics community and educators who are interested in utilizing systems thinking and system dynamics in their schools, both administratively and in the curriculum.  She is always on the lookout for good approaches to teaching and learning systems thinking and system dynamics with a learner-centered methodology.

Ms. Stuntz has her A.B. in Sociology from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Child Study from Tufts University. Her volunteer activities have included serving on the School Board in her district for many years and on the Board of Directors for a children’s discovery learning museum.