Keynote addresses and presentations include those given at the Gorbachev Foundation State of the World Forum, Wharton Business School, International Women’s Forum, Leadership Institute of Seattle, International Global Learning, American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley, Kellogg Foundation, Motorola Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bob Barkley Foundation, Professional Business Women's Conference, California Judicial Court Family Services, National Organizational Development Network Conference, U.S. Journal Training, Inc., Odwalla, International Association of Public Practitioners, Grupo Femsa / Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezume and Grupo Pulsar (Mexico), and the International Peacemaking Conference with three Nobel Prize winners. Within the medical community, Angeles has consulted with Kaiser Permanente Group, Pride Institute of Colorado, California Pacific Medical Center, Sutter Community Hospitals, Planetree Foundation, Columbia Rose Medical Center, and American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Dr. Arrien has taught in the University of California system at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine, Davis, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco. She is an associate professor at two Bay Area graduate schools, the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She co-designed and implemented the Social and Cultural Anthropology Program at CIIS and received their Distinguished Teaching award.
She is the founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Dr. Arrien’s research and teaching have focused on values and beliefs shared by humanity cross-culturally, and on the integration and application of multi-cultural wisdoms in contemporary settings. She teaches universal components of leadership skills, communication, health care, and education. Her work reveals how indigenous wisdoms are relevant in our families, professional lives, and our relationship with the Earth.
She is the author of The Four-Fold Way™: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary, published by HarperCollins, San Francisco and Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them, winner of the 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award. In addition, she has written numerous articles and teaching modules on a variety of topics and has received three honorary doctorate.

Ms. Curtis has mediated approximately 1,000 matters. In her mediation practice in Sausalito, California she mediates a broad range of disputes, including business and commercial, employment, public policy, environmental, insurance, products liability and personal injury matters. Prior to becoming a mediator, Ms. Curtis served as law clerk to Associate Justice Edward A. Panelli of the California Supreme Court and practiced commercial and employment litigation with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco and San Jose, California.Since 1996, Ms. Curtis has taught mediation to law students at Stanford Law School. Also at Stanford Law School, she is creating a continuing education program in mediation for lawyers, which she will teach with Daniel Weinstein, a Bay Area mediator with JAMS, in 2002 and 2003. She is Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, a charter member of its ADR Section Executive Committee.Dana Curtis is a Lecturer at the Stanford law School Gould Center for Dispute Resolution Programs, where she has taught mediation since 1996. From 1988 to 1997, she taught mediation as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. For the past fifteen years, she has developed mediation and negotiation training programs for businesses, courts, governmental organizations and bar associations. A full-time mediator since 1991, including service as a staff Circuit Mediator with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, Ms. Curtis has mediated approximately 1,000 matters in all substantive areas.

Berkeley Montessori School, Asian Health Services Clinic, EBALDC affordable housing, retail space, children's museum, and co-housing a school for the Center for the Education of the Infant Deaf and permanent housing for Building Futures for Women and Children.