Barrett C. Brown

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"Barrett serves as Co-Director of the Integral Sustainability Center at Integral University. Since 1995, he has worked with organizations throughout the Americas in communications, sustainability, and human development. Barrett represents Kosmos Journal and the Integral framework at the United Nations, holding UN consultative status through the Center for Psychology and Social Change. His current consulting focuses on using the Integral framework to customize sustainable development and organizational development initiatives to stakeholders and systems.

"In addition to consulting, researching, speaking, and mentoring about Integral Sustainability, Barrett also co-designs and delivers workshops on Integral theory and practice for Integral Institute (I-I). A member of I-I since 2002, he serves as associate editor of AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Barrett has completed advanced trainings and certifications in: measuring ego-development using the Leadership Development Profile; Integral Organizational Leadership; Integral Life Practice; Spiral Dynamics Integral; and ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). In addition to Kosmos, he is also an advisory board member for: the Shift Foundation, which works with high-potential youth; and IntegralCity.com, focusing on urban sustainability issues. He previously served as the International Development Director for The Sustainable Village, supporting renewable energy and appropriate technology projects in developing countries.

"Barrett has delivered scores of training seminars and presentations, including speeches at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (side event), the Bioneers Conference, the School for International Training (SIT), and the Spiral Dynamics Integral Conference on Natural Design. He has briefed officials at the US State Department and at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) headquarters. Barrett is currently a doctoral student in the human and organizational systems program at Fielding Graduate University. His undergraduate work was in English literature and mechanical engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barrett has traveled extensively, lived in Curitiba, Brazil and Cuenca, Ecuador, and speaks Portuguese and Spanish. His home is deep in the green mountains of Vermont. "

• Advisory Board, Kosmos Journal