Tom Atlee

Tom Atlee is founder and research director of the nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute, author of four books including the Tao of Democracy and Empowering Public Wisdom, and creator of the Wise Democracy Pattern Language. He researches how to scale citizen and stakeholder dialogues and deliberations on public issues, both in-person and virtually, in ways that generate energy and guidance for longterm broad benefit. His co-intelligence work emerged from his experiences on the 9-month 400 person “leaderful" (self-organizing) Great Peace March across the US in 1986. He currently lives in a cooperative house in Eugene, Oregon.