As with most projects, many people helped to shape this work. We would like to acknowledge their contribution here. As this project started from a question posed to the authors almost 1 decade ago, there were many people who shaped our thinking on this subject along the way. As such, we would like to thank Tammy Roberts for allowing us to clarify our concepts out loud and Laura Iturbide with IDEA at Anahuac University in Mexico and Dori Maynard at the Maynard Institute, who allowed us the space to deliver early versions of this book to live audiences. We would like to say thank you to the thought leaders of the Performance Center and Transformational Systems International for their listening skills and contributions.
We also thank Mike Mahon, Dru Marshall, Dan Syrotuik at the University of Alberta, and Kim Boal at Texas Tech, as well as Oregon State University, Virginia Tech, and Portland State University for providing research and teaching opportunities to investigate and form the concepts contained in the text.
Last, we thank our family members—Erika, Miles, Marvin, Jessica, and Mark—who gave us the nurture, support, and space to do what we love: examine and understand transformation change.