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Join IONS CEO Claire Lachance in the next installment of our Noetic Leadership series as she talks with Bonny Meyer, Napa Valley legend, passionate venture philanthropist, and author of Perfectly Paired: The Love Affair behind Silver Oak Cellars.
Noetic Leadership in Action
Friday, June 18, 2021
11:00 am – 12:00pm (Pacific)
Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive an email with a link to the recording.
Claire and Bonny will explore how a noetic approach to leadership has played a role in Bonny’s life and career, including how she and her late husband, Justin Meyer, established Silver Oak Cellars. Bonny’s candid and compelling stories illustrate how Bonny and Justin utilized inner wisdom and deep reverence for all interconnected beings to grow Silver Oak Cellars into one of Napa Valley’s most legendary and successful wineries.
We look forward to a lively conversation and opportunity for Q & A with our audience.
PRESENTERS
Claire Lachance serves as the CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, leading a team of world-renowned scientists and experiential program professionals.
Prior to joining IONS in 2016, Claire was founder and president of Inspiration Quest, Inc. where she led the delivery of comprehensive management consulting services to hundreds of nonprofit organizations, foundations, public agencies, and social entrepreneurs. Earlier in her career, Claire held executive positions at Pacific Bell and MetLife. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Tufts University.
With a deep passion for values-driven strategy, organizational sustainability, and servant leadership, Claire is a self-proclaimed spiritual explorer fascinated by how the mystical manifests in cultures and organizations around the world. Claire is leading the development of the Noetic Leadership Model for Professional and Organizational Success combining leading-edge business practices with valuable learnings from science and ancient wisdom traditions.
Bonny Meyer began thinking and writing about the nature of love when she was fifteen. She met Brother Justin shortly after she turned eighteen at his 29th birthday party. They spent that evening playing music together igniting the love affair that changed their lives and ultimately spawned Silver Oak Cellars.
After establishing and growing Silver Oak and the unexpected death of Justin, Bonny devoted her attention to addressing world environmental, social, and economic challenges by financially supporting social ventures. She has been acknowledged by Forbes Magazine and the financial industry as a pioneer of impact and regenerative investing.
After years of encouragement to write about their love affair, she decided to share the story of how she and Justin met, fell in love, and created a business and wines infused with their values and love for one another through her book Perfectly Paired.
Today, Bonny Meyer is the Principal of Meyer Family Enterprises, an investment company dedicated to the regeneration of the planet and society.
Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her research around — and noetic approach to — channeling.
Claudia Welss is a citizen scientist, Board Chairman of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and on the boards of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative and Space for Humanity (“to space for Earth”). She’s also Founding Chair of the Invest in Yourself Working Group at NEXUS Global Network, sharing practical consciousness research with NextGen social entrepreneurs, impact investors, philanthropists, activists and cultural influencers. She’s executive producer of IONS Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience (EMVRX) and the upcoming movie about Edgar Mitchell, The Space Less Traveled. Claudia’s essay, “Humanity’s Change of Heart” appears with those of other Evolutionary Leaders in the Gold Nautilus Award-winning book Our Moment of Choice.
Frank White is best-known for his book, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, which is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of exploration. In his latest book, The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Effect, he asks the fundamental question, “What is the purpose of human space exploration? Why has the evolutionary process brought humanity to the brink of becoming a space-faring species?” Frank is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Rhodes Scholar. He earned an M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University.
Garret Yount, PhD, is a Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Dr. Yount’s primary interest is bridging molecular neurobiology with aspects of consciousness and the nonmaterial mind. He began his formal studies in consciousness research with a small grant from the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1995, which allowed him to work with biofield practitioners and spiritual healers in the laboratory. Dr. Yount was among the first scientists to be awarded a Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health to study energy healing. He has spoken nationally and co-authored peer-reviewed papers on the topic of establishing rigorous guidelines for research into biofields and micro-psychokinesis.
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. He has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years and was “authorized to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by 
Mark Gober is an international speaker and author of An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), which was awarded the IPPY best science book of 2019. He is also the author of An End to Upside Down Living (2020) and host of the podcast Where Is My Mind? (2019). Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Gober’s background is in business as a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and previously as an investment banking analyst in New York. He has also been named one of the world’s 300 leading intellectual property strategists by IAM Magazine. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University where he was elected a captain of its Division I Tennis Team.
David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a writer, poet, lecturer and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about Beinsa Douno: Prophet for our Times (1991, 2015), The Circle of Sacred Dance, and Gems of Love, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. He is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia – Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment and a Churchill Fellow. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales, Radical Prince, has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, and French. He is the originator of the 
Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than 90 scientific papers and nine books, including The Presence of the Past. The third edition of A New Science of Life, fully revised and updated, is published in the UK by Icon Books, and in the US, retitled Morphic Resonance, by Park Street Press. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and of Schumacher College, in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London.
Nina Fry-Kizler, MA, is Senior Designer of Experiential Programs at IONS. She has worked for years with the Science team at IONS and continues to be a liaison between the Experience and Science departments, infusing cutting-edge research into our experiential programs. As a former professor at John F. Kennedy University in the Holistic Health Education Masters Program for a decade, Nina taught classes on the psychology and physiology of stress, the challenges of change/transformation, energy models of healing, and mind-body medicine. She was trained in the Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training program at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and as a Birth Doula through Doulas of North America.
