About Us Beginning in the early 1980s, few people realized the tumultuous decades that were about to unfold. Globalization and the corporate growth that was to fuel it was just beginning to kick into a higher gear. Within a decade, the term Shareholder Value would become the crest to which all aspiring-to-be-successful corporations had sworn their dedication. This era would be known as one of great change, great wealth-creation, and on the other hand, also the era of the greatest ethics blunders in business, enormous environmental destruction by business, and great inequities among people around the Planet. During the same period, the founders of Integral Partnerships Dixon de Leņa and Paul H. Ray were involved in their own separate efforts to bring transformative ideas to businesses. Paul had started his landmark research of an emerging subculture of American adults driving the social and progressive politic movements, natural and organic food, alternative health, healthy lifestyles, and alternative energy in the United States and Europe. When he finally coined the term "Cultural Creatives" in 1994 to name these constituents, customers, and investors, he provided clarity for businesses to see a previously ill-defined but rapidly growing market. Dixon's focus had been on the values transformation of leadership, management and organizational culture through his consulting and coaching. He worked with some of the most entrepreneurial companies to some of the largest corporations in the Fortune 50/500 to help them achieve a vision of authentically empowering their people to add profits to the bottom line. Almost all of his clients who stood for a culture of authentic power and values surpassed their financial goals, and in one case, produced new revenue of $1 billion dollars annually. It was during the writing of Paul Ray's and Sherry Anderson's book ,"The Cultural Creatives: 50 Million People Changing the world", that Dixon and Paul began their discussion around the possibility of the research in helping businesses, NGOs, and governments understand the powerful implications of this intelligent, transformational values-laden peoples. It was one, new, and tangible value proposition for businesses, besides shareholder value that justifies growth-without-limits, and encourages the creation of a business paradigm built on an expanded bottom line that includes planetary sustainability, virtue, a consideration for indigenous peoples and their culture, and much more. They created Integral Partnerships in 1999 from their unequivocal commitment to help to integrate Business, Planet and Society. Integral Partnerships' mission is to assist business, political organizations, and civil society in the most urgent need of our time -- to generate significant velocity towards building a wiser, ultimately sustainable, and resilient future for our Planet through visionary action. Read more...   About You -- Our ideal client As an executive or senior manager, you always envisioned business being a great contributor to industry and to society at large. Throughout your career, you've succeeded, partly because you've been willing to ask why and how your company does business and make the hard, though necessary ethical choices. Most recently, in light of global warming, you may have realized that the biggest gut check is here today. And it's possible that your deepest intuitions and fears about the true cost of business has been validated with the recent science on global warming, environmental damages, rise of social inequities, and other serious measures that business has not paid much attention. As the leader of your organization, you know that you have to prepare your people and all the other organizations that you affect and that affect you, for the greatest transition, and the greatest journey, that few modern organizations have undertaken. However, you are willing and prepared to take the greatest risk to becoming one of the first truly sustainability and Planetary-oriented business enterprises. You're the kind of person that knows that the biggest unknowns are ahead of you. You're willing to inquire deep, and far outside your personal paradigm, so that you are able to thrive, while you lead your enterprise into an uncertain future.