Jim Walsh is founder and chairman of HESA. He has served as Chairman of the Board for Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate since 1992 and Intentional Chocolate since 2007. He is co-founder and member of the Badger Angel Capital Network, and serves on the advisory boards for the Center for Creating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness at the Chicago Theological Seminary.

George Churinoff (Gelong Thubten Tsultrim), MA, graduated from MIT in 1967 with a BS in Physics. After attending graduate school in Physics, he taught at Choate School in Connecticut and American Community School in Beirut. He was ordained as a novice monk in India with Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche in 1976 and as a Gelong (or Bhikshu, a fully ordained monk) with Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in 1977. Venerable Churinoff was instrumental in founding the Master's Program at Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa in Italy. He received an MA in Buddhist Studies from Dehli University in 1991. He currently teaches at Deep Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin.  

Richard J. Davidson, PhD, is Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. He received his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University in 1976. He has published more than 250 articles, chapters, and reviews, has edited 13 books, and was founding co-editor of the journal EMOTION. Some of his most notable awards include the Mani Bhaumik Award (UCLA), the William James Fellow Award (APS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (APA). In 2006, TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Max Lagally, PhD, earned his BS in Physics from Pennsylvania State University, his MS and PhD in Physics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently Erwin Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include the Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, the Welch Award, and the Outstanding Science Alumnus Award from Pennsylvania State University. In 1999, he was elected to fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2000, to the National Academy of Engineering. His works have been cited more than 11,000 times. 

Michael Levin, PhD, is professor and director at the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He completed a BS in computer science and biology from Tufts University and a PhD in genetics from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Levin is Co-Director and Senior Research Investigator at the Forsyth Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. The editors of Nature ranked his work on asymmetry as one of 24 key milestones in twentieth century developmental biology.

Andrea Maloney-Schara is president of Leaders for Tomorrow (LFT), and has served as faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family at Georgetown University since 1990. 

Fernando Manzanilla, MPP, is vice chairman of HESA. He is founder and CEO of ImaginaMexico, founding partner and board member of Intentional Chocolate, founder and president of Corporacion Mexicana de Comida, Facthum, and Imex Servicios Empresariales. He serves on the advisory board to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He holds a BA in economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Robert Moore, PhD, is Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality in the Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness. Psychoanalyst and consultant in private practice, Dr. Moore has served as a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is Director of Research for the Institute for Integrative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and for the Chicago Center for Integrative Psychotherapy. His most recent books include The Archetype of Initiation, The Magician and the Analyst, and Facing the Dragon.

Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. He holds a BSEE degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MS in electrical engineering, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Radin has written or co-written over 200 technical and popular articles, as well as the bestselling books Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds. He has held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and University of Nevada, has delivered over one hundred invited lectures at universities around the world, and has appeared on numerous television programs including Larry King Live and Oprah.