We Are Awakening Individuals to Achieve Their Full Potential.
Our Vision is to empower a global network of evolutionary change agents through media, education, and resources featuring leading wisdom keepers and visionaries.
We empower people on a journey of personal growth over time, and provide a platform for an emerging culture to connect, collaborate, and co-create.
We aim to accelerate the shift to a world where each and every one of us has the opportunity to liberate our full creative potential.
We call ourselves The Shift Network because we believe it will take millions of awake, connected, and inspired individuals to activate their full potential and collaborate on the changes that are needed for our world to truly shift. People from every race, creed, color, and national origin have their essential role to play.
Our ultimate aim? Upgrade our human operating system in order to co-create a healthy, peaceful, sustainable, just, and prosperous world.
We have already served over 3,200,000 people, with customers in 180 countries. We have featured over 3,100 thought leaders in domains as diverse as spirituality, holistic health, psychology, Qigong, somatics, Indigenous wisdom, enlightened business, yoga, herbalism, and peacebuilding.
And we’re just getting started, with a goal of empowering 100 million people in the next five years.
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On the personal level, our programs support you to:
7 values that embody our commitments:
We Focus on Empowering People to:
We have specific Societal Impact commitments in the following four areas:
In our annual Shift Summit & Music Festival, we feature 12 tracks with more than 100 speakers that take a holistic view on how we can shift our society to the next level.
We aim to “be the change” by having our organization reflect the world we want to create. We’ve created a loving culture with strong values, united by our vision and our commitment to shifting the world in a positive direction.
We value employee wellness, growth, and community service.
Our commitment is to be the most trusted brand in transformation, which is why we adopted the Association for Spiritual Integrity's Honor Code of Ethics for our organization and our teachers.
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We’ve given hundreds of thousands of dollars directly to non-profits, offered millions of dollars worth of scholarships to our programs for people who couldn’t otherwise afford them, and created specific programs that address societal issues from racism to sexual violence to political polarization.
Shifting the paradigm in business also means that for-profit companies like us need to consider social and environmental impact as part of what we do.
To that end, we give a significant percentage of our profits to charitable organizations, and allocate 20% of the founding shares of our company toward philanthropic works and organizations.
The vision for The Shift Network came to Stephen while on a meditation retreat: “I got a powerful sense that we needed a global network connecting people who are activating more conscious lives in order to create a world that works for alI.” Many years later, what began as a flash of insight has transformed into a thriving organization and global leader in online transformational education, media, and events.
Stephen is a graduate of Stanford University (Human Biology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (East-West Psychology). He co-created and directed the Esalen Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers, and also served as the Director of Membership and Marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
He is the author of Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfilling our Mission in Service to All. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders, and has been a featured speaker at many international conferences, including the World Cultural Forum in China, the Alliance for a New Humanity in Costa Rica, and Renovemos Mexico in Mexico City. He lives in Northern California with his beloved wife Devaa and their two daughters.
Cyd’s mission is simply to ‘do good’ and make a positive impact wherever she goes. Prior to joining The Shift Network, she founded the Meditation Studio app, which was named one of Apple’s Top 10 Apps of the Year, which she sold to Interaxon (makers of Muse, the brain sensing headband). At Muse she served as the Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to that she was the Chief Operating Officer at Gaiam and held various leadership roles at Whole Foods Market.
Passionate about the awakening of humanity and the evolution of consciousness in business, Sylvia has devoted her career to working in the transformational education field. With a solid background in management and customer service, she believes the only way to truly succeed is by treating others how we ourselves wish to be treated, while living in a state of sacred reciprocity with the Earth. In her teens she became certified as an Empathy Counselor, was the youngest member of her city’s Crisis Intervention Task Force, and during college co-created a soup kitchen serving the homeless.
Touran has more than a decade of experience in the edtech space — leading online marketing strategy, lead acquisition, branding, and digital content development for global companies and startups. Since joining The Shift Network in 2019, she has led the branding and marketing strategy of live courses, contributing to substantial customer and revenue growth. As VP, Touran is focused on optimizing the marketing strategy across different product lines to enhance and improve the customer journey. Her efforts have played a significant role in Shift’s continued exponential growth and advancing the company’s goal of empowering 100 million people in five years.
Tina has held leadership roles in the finance and accounting field for three decades, working internationally at companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 corporations and public accounting firms to family-owned businesses including Converse, Analog Devices, Chiron, and KPMG. Tina has vast experience in enhancing processes and implementing systems that have allowed companies to grow sustainably, as well as in building out finance, accounting, and office services teams and setting them up for success.
Passionate about cooking and the healing power of foods, Tina received her chef’s certification from the Natural Gourmet Institute in 2015 while working in a full-time executive position for a luxury brand in New York City. It brings her great joy to nurture friends and family with delicious plant-based dishes prepared with love, and to inspire people to do the same for themselves.
Before joining Shift and after taking a break from her fast-paced career, Tina embarked on a purposeful walkabout aimed at exploring various healing modalities and belief systems. Having studied the works of many of the faculty at The Shift Network, Tina is thrilled to be part of the Shift team and contribute her talents to further Shift’s mission to create a kinder, more peaceful, and liveable planet for all.
Tina holds a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and is proud to be a citizen of Chickasaw Nation.
Imran has made it his focus to institutionalize a more conscious approach to marketing and branding. Prior to joining Shift, he headed up digital marketing departments for several ad agencies, working with Fortune 500 brands including ConAgra, Spectrum, Fujifilm, Progressive Insurance and Bowflex. He also successfully launched two digital startups, HooplaHa (now OnlyGood.TV) and Vidoozi, the latter for which he was nominated for an Appy Award.
Debra’s expertise and success is built on the belief that everyone arrives on this Earth with a purpose, and when we honor our deepest values and goals, we discover this purpose and contribute joyfully and effectively to the healing and evolution of others and our world.
Debra has over 30 years of experience in human resources. She has a valuable understanding of the professional skills and personal attributes required to support a business throughout its evolution, from conception to going public to being acquisitioned. She has been instrumental in helping build the success of Fortune 500 corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups, family businesses, and several socially conscious companies.
Debra’s client list has included the Neutrogena Corporation, Pitney Bowes Management Services, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the University of Chicago, Evolving Wisdom, Inner Science, and many others.
Her vision for the success of today’s business communities focuses on matching people with the work they’re meant to do in careers that serve their highest purpose. Debra believes this is what inspires hard work, creativity, commitment, loyalty, and brilliance. It’s also what creates business relationships that vibrate with the highest expression of respect, communication, collaboration, deep connection, and love.