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 is currently a Board Trustee of the Charter for Compassion, an advisor to the Spirit of Humanity Forum, a steering group member of the Galileo Commission 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.

Simon Lightman is an educator, writer, researcher, and systems thinker working across sustainability education, youth agency, educational futures, spirituality in education, and human flourishing. His work explores how schools can become living systems that cultivate ethical imagination, ecological awareness, relational belonging, and the capacities young people need to navigate a complex and uncertain world.

Simon is Founder of the City of London Youth Natural Environment Board, Vice Chair of Trustees at SEEd, a member of the Steering Committee of the Spirituality in Education Alliance UK, Specialist Adviser for Youth and Community Flourishing at YESfest CIC, Board Member of The Sustainables Academy, and Board Advisor for Educational Futures, Sustainability and Global Wellbeing at GOER. He is also a Freeman and Co-opted Member of the Worshipful Company of Educators’ Education and Liaison Committee, represents the Company on the Livery Climate Action Group, and serves as a member of the Livery Climate Action Group Executive Committee. In 2025, he received the Educators’ Trust Environmental Educator Award. His academic and public scholarship focuses on whole-school sustainability, global citizenship education, flourishing, youth voice, systems change, and the philosophical foundations of educational renewal. His recent and forthcoming work includes publications with the European Journal of Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury, alongside commentary for Schools Week, TES, and Green Edge. He is currently acting as an advisor to Novana on educational development, strategic partnerships and international growth across the UK, Middle East and wider international school sector.

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.

The founder of the Flourish Project, Wendy, will bring to this Lab much that was learned from the three-year Galileo Worldviews Study that she has been co-leading, together with the previous three-year process of the ‘Our Shared Future’ global collaborative. The intention is to clarify and safeguard the core principles identified, and to carry them forward into contemporary systems, ensuring that innovation across education, governance, economics, media, and technology remains aligned with what sustains life rather than undermines it.

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.

Simon is an educator, writer, researcher, and systems thinker working across sustainability education, youth agency, educational futures, spirituality in education, and human flourishing. His work explores how schools can become living systems that cultivate ethical imagination, ecological awareness, relational belonging, and the capacities young people need to navigate a complex and uncertain world. His academic and public scholarship focuses on whole-school sustainability, global citizenship education, flourishing, youth voice, systems change, and the philosophical foundations of educational renewal. His recent and forthcoming work includes publications with the European Journal of Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury, alongside commentary for Schools Week, TES, and Green Edge.

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.