The people shaping how the world gathers.
The people shaping how the world gathers include 574 pioneers, meeting scientists, facilitators, and event designers behind the methods in the agenda corpus. Every profile is grounded in published work and public sources, ranked by a computed authority score, not popularity. If a profile is yours, you are welcome to claim and correct it.
Direct answer: use this people index to find credible gathering thinkers, method founders, meeting researchers, facilitation practitioners, and evidence sources before designing an agenda, exercise, TeamCreator use case, or benchmark page.
By authority score
Authority score blends citations, published books, named methods, and independent verification such as Wikidata. It is a research signal, not an endorsement.
Steven Rogelberg
American academic, professor of mangement, researcher
Simon Sinek
British/American author and motivational speaker
Nancy Margulies
author
John S. Dryzek
academic, author
Marshall Goldsmith
American author of leadership and management literature
Richard R. Nelson
American professor of economics (born 1930)
Douglas Ferguson
Practitioner, Trainer (Master facilitators & practitioners)
Amy C. Edmondson
Trainer, Academic (Master facilitators & practitioners)
Ranjay Gulati
indian-American organizational scholar
Kalle Lyytinen
Finnish management design academic
Jing Zhou
Research author connected to organizational development facilitation
Raphael Amit
Israeli American management professor
Richard P. Bagozzi
Research author connected to event marketing
Josh Lerner
economist, Ph.D. Harvard University 1991
Karim Lakhani
crowdsourcing and open innovation scholar
Donald Getz
event studies scholar
Barbara Benedict Bunker
psychologist and professor (born 1931)
Peter Senge
American systems scientist
Siew Hong Teoh
Research author connected to conference management
Tim Brown
Author, Practitioner (Master facilitators & practitioners)
James S. Fishkin
American political scientist (1948-)
David L. Cooperrider
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
David Cooperrider
American academic
Hélène Landemore
Academic, Author (Academics & researchers)
Jeff Speck
urban planner; author of "Walkable City"
Herbert A. Simon
Academic (Academics & researchers)
Geoff Mulgan
British political advisor
David J. Teece
Research author connected to open space technology facilitation
Ross Levine
American economist
Lynda Gratton
Business theorist
John Gastil
Academic, Author (Civic & deliberation practitioners)
Yves Sintomer
French political scientist
Jeffrey Pfeffer
American academic
Michael A. Hitt
Research author connected to business events management
Walter W. Powell
American sociologist
Herminia Ibarra
Cuban economist
Allen N. Berger
economist
Ram Charan
CEO advisor and governance author
Fred Luthans
American academic
Dhruv Grewal
researcher
Nicholas Bloom
British economist
Nick Bloom
Australian rules footballer
Richard M. Ingersoll
academic, professor of education
Patrick Lencioni
American writer
Jeanne Liedtka
strategist and professor of business administration
Erik Brynjolfsson
Danish academic
Adam Kahane
Canadian writer
Dave Gray
Author, Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Harrison Owen
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Lina Zhou
Research author connected to learning and development workshop
Mike W. Peng
1968-
Priya Parker
American facilitator, mediator, and author
Ronald Fry
(died 1971)
Angappa Gunasekaran
scientist
Keith Ferrazzi
American businessman and writer
Thomas H. Davenport
American academic and writer
Robert Handfield
researcher
Tom Atlee
American social/peace/environmental activist/author
Jane Mansbridge
Academic (Civic & deliberation practitioners)
Verne Harnish
American business writer
Archon Fung
American academic
Christina Baldwin
researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-3527-295X
Arnold Mindell
American psychologist (1940-2024)
Michael Doyle
Founder, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Don Norman
Academic, Author, Founder (Academics & researchers)
Ronald Lippitt
born:1914|died:1986|; Lippitt, Ronald, 1914-1986; Lippitt, Ronald, 1914-
Eric Mazur
Dutch physicist
John Buck
Author, Practitioner (Method founders & authors)
Ted Rau
Author, Practitioner, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
Tom Kelley
Author, Trainer (Method founders & authors)
John Heron
Founder (Method founders & authors)
J. Richard Hackman
Author (Method founders & authors)
Michael Porter
Author (Method founders & authors)
Christine Hogan
politician
Iain Walker
newDemocracy Foundation executive and deliberative democracy practitioner
Laurence Tubiana
French economist
Michael Margolis
Design Sprint research lead and user research practitioner
Paul Axtell
meetings author and practitioner
Peter Block
community and organization development author
Ruth Colvin Clark
American born Educational Psychologist
Sarah Lewis
Appreciative Inquiry practitioner-author
Simone Kauffeld
German psychologist, business economist, university lecturer
Wayne Nelson
Technology of Participation facilitator-author
Alex Pentland
American academic and entrepreneur
Vijay Govindarajan
American academic
Martha Finnemore
American professor of political science and international affairs
Daren Brabham
crowdsourcing scholar
Daren C. Brabham
author, academic, writer
Linda A. Hill
American economist
Nir Kshetri
Research author connected to field marketing events
Marc Stickdorn
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
C. K. Prahalad
Indian academic (1941-2010)
Bonnie Spring
spring in Lincoln County, New Mexico
John T. Cacioppo
American psychology researcher (1951-2018)
Joseph S. Alpert
Research author connected to business events management
Kenneth F. Schulz
researcher
Rafael Lozano
Research author connected to large group intervention
Ronald C. Kessler
American sociologist
David Hirshleifer
American economist
Mark Hallett
Research author connected to sponsor activation conference
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People index FAQ
What is the People page?
The People page is a public research index of gathering designers, meeting scientists, facilitators, method founders, civic practitioners, and event thinkers connected to the United We Transform agenda corpus.
How are people ranked?
People are ranked by a computed authority score that blends citations, published books, named methods, body of work, recency, and independent verification such as Wikidata. It is a research signal, not an endorsement.
Who should use the People index?
Use it when you need sources, method lineage, credible thinkers, workshop-design references, meeting-science evidence, or people to study before improving an agenda, exercise, or gathering format.
Can a profile be corrected?
Yes. Profiles are grounded in public sources and may be imperfect. If a profile is yours or you see an error, use the correction path and request a review.