Jim Rough is a long-time business consultant, author, seminar leader and principal of Jim Rough and Associates, Inc. He has been teaching "Dynamic Facilitation," a new appraoch to helping people be intelligent together , to rave reviews for fifteen years (www.ToBE.net). He is author of Society's Breakthrough! Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People (www.SocietysBreakthrough.com), which describes a new large-system transformation process based in Dynamic Facilitation. This new process, known as the "Wisdom Council" is beginning to be implemented in organizations around the world -- banks, government agencies, production facilities and cities and counties. Jim is also a long-time faculty member of annual Creative Problem Solving Institutes and four years host of The Jim Rough Show on community-access television.