Don Beck

Dr. Beck is founder and CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc. He is also the founder of the Global Centers for Human Emergence, a worldwide constellation of Value System Experts (VSEs) and Integral Design Architects (IDAs) who are helping facilitate the conscious emergence of the human species using a synthesis of profound breakthroughs in human knowledge and capacities. Dr. Beck was named Outstanding Professor at the University of North Texas in 1978. He has since co-authored two books: The Crucible; Forging South Africa’s Future and Spiral Dynamics; Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change. Over a 10-year period he worked with influential political and business leaders in South Africa during that country’s transition from Apartheid, from FW De Klerk to Nelson Mandela and John C. Hall, Chairman of South Africa’s National Peace Committee. Out of that experience came his book The Crucible. He has since worked with Tony Blair’s Policy Unit, the World Bank, and in Israel and Palestine through the CHE-Mideast and the Build Palestine Initiative. He remains the foremost authority on issues that deal with global value systems and large-scale change. For decades Dr. Beck has been teaching, developing, and implementing, the evolutionary theory of Spiral Dynamics. For most of the last twenty years, his focus has been on adapting the work of his mentor and colleague Clare W. Graves to the field of Large-Scale Psychology. He continues to develop multidimensional leadership models for understanding the evolutionary transformation of human values and cultures.