Born in London, England, Lent received a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He initially pursued a career in business, founding an internet startup and taking it public.

Beginning around 2005, Lent began an inquiry into the various constructions of meaning formed by cultures around the world and throughout history. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, published in 2017, traces the deep historical foundations of our modern worldview.

Lent’s upcoming book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future. It will be published in Spring 2021 by New Society Publishers (North America) and Profile Books (UK & Commonwealth).

Lent writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as a master’s degree in Information Technology at the Golden Gate University of San Francisco. She then worked from 1991 to 1994 as an expert for wide area networks performance analyses at Dhl Systems of Burlingame, California. In 1994 she returned to the then-independent Slovenia, where she worked as the Manager of Institutional Traffic (until 1997) and then the Director of Carrier Business (till 1999) for Telekom Slovenia. From 1999 to 2000 she was the vice-president of Telemach Ltd, a major telecommunications provider, and from 2000 to 2014 the CEO of Vibacom Ltd, Sustainable Strategies and Innovation Ecosystems. She is a former European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 until 2019.

She has received 8 national awards for business innovations, as well as, together with her clients, 4 national FENIKS Awards for consulting projects (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010).

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator. She directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.

The IBI integrates the sciences, arts and professional knowledge to create a qualitative inquiry of the integration of life. As President, Nora directs research projects at the IBI that require multiple contexts of research and interdependent processes. Asking, “How can we create a context in which to study the contexts?”, an impressive team of international thinkers, scientists and artists have been brought together by the IBI to generate an innovative form of inquiry, which Nora coined “Transcontextual Research”.

Leveraging her multi-national corporate background and her consciousness training, she regularly addresses large audiences in prestigious global events – both on-ground and online. An active supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, she works effectively with top leaders and leadership teams, on their transformational change journeys.

Nilima’s vision is to empower 100,000 women change-makers by 2030, who create Peace, Prosperity and Beauty in the world, through the exchange of multiple forms of capital.

With this aim, she has created The Shakti Fellowship, a global 9-month advanced leadership & entrepreneurship program, that is jointly certified with University of San Diego and WIN Conference. Nilima is the co-author of ‘My Cancer Is Me’ and ‘Shakti Leadership’.

After successfully applying a Holistic & Integrated healing approach to himself, he is still cancer-free, and a better person than before. “Cancer healed me” he says. Vijay pioneered Cancer Coaching in India and he is currently scaling up with the global vision: “Many millions must survive; One million must thrive.” Since “prevention is better than cure”, he also leads a unique ‘Stress-to-Swaasthya’ program for Workplace Wellbeing, serving progressive organisations, for whom workplace stress and burnout are major concerns. Vijay is a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop/ retreat facilitator on the topics of Cancer, Stress-Wellbeing and Leadership Presence. Vijay is the co-author of ‘My Cancer Is Me’.

Her career went from various managing positions in Marketing and Communications, starting at IBM Slovenia and continuing to IBM Central and Eastern Europe. From 2016 to 2018 she was Lead of Integrated Communications at the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. She is a passionate developer of sustainable concepts in business. While taking over the section of Young Managers in Managers’ Association of Slovenia, she emphasized 4P business guidelines: People, Prosperity, Planet, and Purpose.

“The direction is sustainable. We will put environmental, social, and financial responsibility at the forefront. Purpose, not just profit, will become the new norm.”

Besides being Executive HR Director at BSH Adriatic East Regions and BSH Home Appliances in Nazarje, Slovenia, she also serves as a Chair of the Expert Council on Human Resources at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia and as the Member of the Management Board of the Slovenian HR Association. For her achievement in the HR field, she got the HR Manager award in 2013.
She is married, the mother of three adult children and the proud grandmother of four grandchildren.

Why would we not have sharing talents to be as normal as car sharing or open code systems?

The idea was born on a HR hackathon in 2018, it was brought to life in 2019 by successfully integrating 7 companies from different industries, solving 11 concrete challenges. The group plans to grow the platform in 2020, make it as well digital and more importantly, international! Imagine a world where you can grow your professional skills by sharing knowledge and find solutions even with your competitors.

Why? Because it will create better solutions, faster results and more human interaction.

Who is in the platform, that has been supported by AmCham Slovenia:
Mateja Panjan, Danfoss Trata
Gašper Hren, Danfoss Trata
Brina Tomovič Kandare, AmCham Slovenia
Ana Gabršček, Competo
Nataša Tovornik, Competo
Nataša Mithans, Vareo
Petra Vamberger, Agitavit Solutions
Ina Kukovič Borovnik, BELAVODA