Wendy Ellyatt is a futurist, author, systems thinker, and social entrepreneur whose work focuses on creating the conditions for human, societal, and ecological flourishing. She is the Founder of the Flourish Project and the architect of the Ecosystemic Flourishing (ESF) Framework, an integrative approach that brings together insights from wellbeing science, education, systems thinking, ecology, leadership, economics, spirituality, and cultural transformation. For more than three decades she has worked at the intersection of education, wellbeing, values, and systems change. Throughout her career, she has championed approaches that recognise the interconnected nature of human development, community wellbeing, environmental stewardship, and social renewal. Her work has been presented internationally through universities, research institutes, educational networks, and global wellbeing initiatives.

She was an early Global Council Member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and Board Trustee of the Charter for Compassion. She is currently an advisor to the Spirit of Humanity Forum, a steering group member of the Galileo Commission, co-lead of the three-year Wordviews Study, and a Founding Director of the LCARE Research Institute. Through the Flourish Project, Wendy is helping to build a global ecosystem dedicated to nurturing the conditions in which people, communities, organisations, and the living world can mutually thrive.

You can read more about Wendy on www.wendyellyatt.com

Laura Burgis is a developmental psychologist, nonprofit leader, consultant, and educator whose work focuses on how organizations and learning communities are designed, led, and governed to support collective well-being and to optimize human potential. Her scholarship and applied work sit at the intersection of organizational psychology and human development, with particular emphasis on culture transformation. A distinctive focus of her work is the development of learning communities that foster collective wellbeing and ecological belonging — an emerging and interdisciplinary frontier.

Dr. Burgis serves as full professor of practice at Claremont Graduate University in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences. She is founder and Executive Director of the Human Values Center, a nonprofit public-benefit organization that partners with universities, public agencies, nonprofits, and global networks for organizational- and systems-level social impact. In service, Laura is an active member of the Higher Education Wellbeing Project (WHEN), a global initiative anchored by Georgetown University; a board trustee of the ACPA International Higher Education Association; and she serves as Chairman of the Global Charter for Compassion board of directors. Her social enterprise board appointments include My Homies Kitchen, Fresno, CA, and Baltazar & Rose, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.

 Simon Lightman is a doctoral researcher, writer, educator and speaker working at the intersection of philosophy, education, ecology and human flourishing. His research explores the ontological foundations of global citizenship education, questioning the assumption that education is primarily concerned with developing autonomous individuals. Instead, he examines how relational understandings of human existence might reshape our responsibilities to one another, the more-than-human world and generations yet to come. Simon is also interested in the contradictions between the transformative aspirations of institutions and the structures within which they operate. His wider work considers how institutions might become more responsive to the relationships, responsibilities and futures they help shape.

Alongside his academic work, Simon has contributed to educational leadership, sustainability and youth participation through schools, governance and international initiatives. He founded the City of London Youth Natural Environment Board and has worked with organisations seeking to strengthen young people's agency in shaping their communities and environments. He is currently Head of Humanities at Victoria International School of Sharjahin the UAE. His scholarship appears in The Oxford Handbook of Global Citizenship Education (Oxford University Press, 2026), the European Journal of Sustainable Development and the Transition Design Conference proceedings. He also writes for wider audiences and speaks internationally on education, sustainability and systems change. Underlying his work is a conviction that flourishing cannot be understood simply as the achievement of individual wellbeing, but must be considered through the relationships, ecologies and responsibilities that constitute our shared existence.

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The Founder of the Flourish Project and architect of the Ecosystemic Flourishing (ESF) Framework, through the alignment of these Labs, Wendy is uniting her interest in worldviews, values and ways of knowing with education, governance, economics, media and technology. Her extensive work across education spans early childhood, children’s rights and wellbeing, learning environments, teacher and leadership development, and the wider conditions that enable human potential to unfold. The Wisdom Lab explores the core elements that have optimised human wellbeing and potential across time. The Learning Lab draws these strands together, connecting research, practice and the lived experiences of children, young people, educators and communities. It explores education as a living ecosystem, attending to the relationships between human development, culture, place and the natural world. Together, the Labs will seek to deepen understanding and strengthen practices that support human and planetary flourishing.

Harriet's research spans early childhood education, sustainability, global citizenship and holistic development, with a particular focus on creating the conditions that enable children, families and communities to thrive. She completed her ESRC-funded doctorate at Durham University, investigating compassion-enabling environments in early childhood education, and has published widely on compassion, resilience and well-being. Alongside her academic research, Harriet brings more than fifteen years of experience working with children and families across Montessori, nursery, school and community settings. As Project Director of the Flourish Nurture Lab, she leads the Lab's work to reimagine the earliest years of life as the foundation for lifelong flourishing, supporting educators, researchers, families and policymakers to create compassionate, relational and life-enhancing environments in which every child can realise their unique potential.

An expert in strategy development, training design and business coaching, Simon ran his own consulting business for a number of years, through which he created the concept of Wholehearted Customer Management (WCM). He also worked extensively in local government, where he helped to design, develop, implement and support the very best customer experiences, involving strategy development, training design and delivery, coaching and mentoring. Simon was an early supporting founder of the original Flourish concept and is now bringing his experience of working with a leading UK care home group to explore how the Flourish framework could optimise the wellbeing of residents and staff within care settings.

Marina Demchenko is a Social Ecosystems Evolution researcher and Integral Development practitioner, a futurist and visionary focused on the development of humanity. A TED speaker and author of several peer-reviewed papers, she is currently a co-founder of Living Cities Earth – a global horizontally organised action community of 100+ of the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the field of integral urban development - and co-founder and lead researcher of the Soul of the Cities Initiative and the Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (LCARE) Research Institute.

Laura Burgis is a developmental psychologist, nonprofit leader, consultant, and educator whose work focuses on how organizations and learning communities are designed, led, and governed to support collective well-being and to optimize human potential. Her scholarship and applied work sit at the intersection of organizational psychology and human development, with particular emphasis on culture transformation. A distinctive focus of her work is the development of learning communities that foster collective wellbeing and ecological belonging — an emerging and interdisciplinary frontier.

Lana Jelenjev is a healing-centered writer and facilitator working at the intersection of nervous system awareness, ancestral wisdom, and collective care. As a Narratives Weaver, she supports individuals and communities in making sense of complexity through story, reflection, and embodied practices. Her work draws on Filipino Indigenous psychology (kapwa and pakikiramdam), healing-centered frameworks, and relational practices to help people reconnect with themselves, each other, and the wider web of life. Lana’s writing and facilitation create gentle yet powerful pathways toward belonging, repair, and regenerative futures. She is a founding member of the Global Healing Day steering group.