Our Faculty
Carol Grojean Ph.D.
Carol Grojean Ph.D. ... is a social systems scientist passionate about human behavior in human systems. Her Ph.D. research was based on organizational behavior and leadership transformation through the lens of rituals, rites of passage ceremonies, and contemplative practices to guide culture change. Additionally, Dr. Grojean has 3 master's degrees across Information Systems, Sustainable Change Management, and Leadership & Organizational development. She has led organizational transformations across 25,000-person teams to reengineer and program managing several billion-dollar software projects, to implement agile processes within low-budget NGO startups in West Africa.
Langdon Morris
Langdon Morris ... is one of the world's leading thinkers, writers, and consultants in innovation. Working around the world with a fascinating variety of clients, from UNICEF to Total Oil, France Telecom, Bayer, Gemalto, and many others, Langdon helps these organizations implement world-leading innovation systems. Formerly Senior Practice Scholar at the Ackoff Center of the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught strategy at universities in Europe and South America. His recent innovation books The Innovation Master Plan and Permanent Innovation are two of the most widely read innovation titles of the last five years.
Dan Greening Ph.D.
Dr. Daniel R Greening is serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, software executive, and agile coach. He co-founded three software startup companies with two successful exits. His computer science research has focused on statistical optimization: integrated circuit placement and routing, personalization, and parallel computation. He led software, data science, and agile project manager teams in Microsoft/Skype, Citrix, and other companies. He has published work on scaling agile management practices to large organizations. He is currently researching artificial intelligence applications.
Dr. Greening has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, and a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from University of Michigan.
Po Chi Wu Ph.D.
Dr. Po Chi Wu is an Innovation Evangelist and an Investor in Human Capital. He is an active Advisor at SkyDeck, the incubator/accelerator program at UC Berkeley and advises several startups around the world. His passion for making a difference has grown over several decades of experience as an advisor to governments in Asia, venture capitalist, entrepreneur and educator in Silicon Valley and in Greater China, most recently as an adjunct professor teaching entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and UC Berkeley. He is a co-founder and senior partner at Futurelab Consulting, which is focused on new technologies at the intersection of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. He is a co-author of “Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity” (Wiley & Sons, 2014) and “Quantum Design Sprints (2019).
Dr. Wu has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Princeton University and BA degrees in Mathematics and Music from UC Berkeley.
Lucus Root Ph.D.
Lucas Root Ph.D. ... is a seasoned entrepreneur and strategic advisor with a track record of transforming underperforming startups into thriving ventures. As the Founder and CEO of The Fractional COO, Lucas specializes in providing fractional leadership to companies seeking growth and operational efficiency. His multidisciplinary background in Consciousness and Human Potential, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics allows him to approach business challenges with a unique holistic perspective. In addition to his work with startups, Lucas is an active community builder and the host of the "Elements of Community" podcast, where he delves into the dynamics of human connection and collaboration. An advocate for diversity in leadership and sustainable technology, Lucas is committed to driving positive change in the business world.
Moses Ma
Moses Ma ... is a remarkable business visionary who has been praised in Time Magazine, the New York Times and many other publications. He has enjoyed a rich and diverse professional life spanning academia, science, technology, philosophy and business at the forefront of many exciting technologies. A legendary game designer who created two of the world’s best selling computer games, including SpectreVR, which literally invented the category of networked games, he built an uncapitalized software startup into the 97th largest, 7th fastest growing, and 11th most profitable in the country. He also co-developed with IBM the first specification for universal identity on the Internet, and at the CommerceNet think tank he invented the concept of eMarkets and helped to establish the foundational guidelines for the semantic Web. He is also an innovation consultant who has helped companies to increase innovativeness and creativity.
Scott Minneman Ph.D.
Dr. Scott Minneman is an accomplished user experience designer, mechatronics engineer, inventor, and futurist with degrees from MIT (Architecture & ME), a Ph.D. from Stanford (ME, Design Division) and thirteen US patents. He spent fifteen years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as a Senior Member of the Research Staff and art/design evangelist, designing novel systems for collaborating over video telecommunications, shared drawing systems, and automatic video indexing technologies. Scott co-founded exhibit design make-tank Onomy Labs, where he designed award-winning interactive multimedia storytelling devices for clients worldwide. He was a Principal Research Scientist in Amazon.com's Grand Challenge division, leading the prototyping and hardware design of a confidential new-to-world product. He co-developed combinatoric methods of Technology Futures Research at the Institute for the Future and is currently a Full Professor in the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts, Chief of User Experience at Intelling Media, and works with FutureLab on all of their amazing projects.