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Teacher education being multidisciplinary, my research areas vary from non-verbal communication to conscious pedagogical practices. I have contributed chapters in e-books like ‘Reducing Complexity in Strategic Policy Design Process for Universalization of Primary Education System in India’, ‘Role of Non-verbal Communication in Improving Quality of Teaching & Learning’, ‘Effect of Non-Verbal Communication on Classroom Management’.

I started my journey of research in consciousness studies through the Centre for Consciousness Studies, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (CCS-DEI), India. I attended various workshops and conferences in this area. While looking for a psychological measurement of consciousness, I came across CQ-i. I had a rigorous discussion over this topic in the ‘Basic Course on Neuro-Sciences and Cognitive Sciences’ organized by CCS-DEI. Though initially, researchers at the center were cynical to accept CQ-i, presently, numerous researches are conducted in India relating consciousness with other factors using CQ-i. I have conducted various experimental studies at CCS-DEI, Agra, and presented the results at ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness’ conference series held annually. CQ-i has given me a new perspective in studying consciousness and conducting research in this area. Using CQ-i, I wish to continue seeking answers to unexplored research questions in the science of consciousness.

E-mail: sona@consciousness-quotient.com

The beta version of the CQ-i was developed through 14 studies on a population of 6,800 individuals. It was released in 2008, and presented the next year at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference.

In 2016 I decided to quit my formal academic career at the Ecological University in Bucharest, after 14 years of teaching research methodology and other topics, to focus on the CQ-i development and to manage some entrepreneurial tough times. The standardized version of the CQ-i was released in 2020, using a normative sample that included 2,266 participants from 96 countries. Our researches revealed that collective conscious experiences, as explored with the CQ-i test, appear to have 15 patterns common to all of us, comprising the Consciousness Quotient model.

Now, the research objective is to gather a more diverse and large enough sample, to re-check the CQ-i patterning model, and to see the results of the experiment with the 15^th scale, the “Awakening Skills”, for which we added 31 items that explore the depths of the awakening journeys.

E-mail: ovidiu@consciousness-quotient.com

An analytic advocate for the voice of the customer (VOC), Keith has led call center solution teams at MCI, BT, AT&T and the pioneering $1 billion global venture, Concert, where he developed end-to-end, multinational contact center solutions for Fortune 1000 clients.

As Managing Director of a technology (dot.com) start-up CosmoCom, he played an essential role in migrating its cloud IP/ SIP based technology into British Telecom’s NGCC global platform.

In 2001 Keith founded IT Enabled Services Alliance, Inc., or ITESA, a global contact center/BPO social customer care consultancy. Advising on on-shore, near-shore and offshore outsourcing, expansion optimization of employee/customer/community/social contact. Keith has worked with a variety of clients, including Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, BT, CUNA, Apple, Etisalat, McGraw-Hill, Time Warner, General Electric, Autism Speaks, Groupo Carso and many more. A recognized thought leader in an evolving industry, for the past four years, Keith has co-chaired the Global Contact Forum, a global trade event, attended by over 1,800 industry professionals. He has been a frequent keynote, moderator and panelist in India, China, Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, United States, Canada, Panama and many other locations. He connects with people, is personal, funny and has a lot of energy to give. He is also sensitive to audiences and gets them engaged with questions, games and experiential elements​.

Keith has been on a consciousness raising journey during his life. In the corporate sector, in his personal life. He is a two time cancer survivor, that asks the tough questions, around values, vision, principles, why, where, how, faith, hope, inspiration. As a yoga practitioner, meditator and interfaith minister, he is service focused and helps others who are in need of perspective, guidance and direction.

I hold an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, an M.A. in Postsecondary Educational Leadership, and BA degrees in both Psychology and Africana Studies. Additionally, I have several certificates in Management and Leadership, Community College Teaching, both from San Diego State University, and a certificate from the University of Oklahoma, College of Continuing Education, and Institute on Crisis of Young Black Males. While in my doctoral program, I developed a new leadership framework, that is focused on what I call Conscious Leadership.

Conscious leadership is grounded in being purposeful and intentional, incorporates the sociocultural knowledge of reciprocity, allows for shared accountability and responsibility and is highly functional within organizations, which are networked and interconnected. I believe leadership is a natural state of being, however, it must be shared and built on reciprocity. I think we have to begin re-educating and re-teaching what it looks like to be a conscious human being, therefore a conscious leader.

I regard myself as highly knowledgeable about the functionality of higher education systems and organizations. I have worked in community colleges, private and public universities, which has provided me with the opportunity to gain valuable insight, while shaping me as a conscious systems thinker. As an adjunct professor I have taught courses in the following areas: Cultural Competency, Educational Leadership in a Diversity Society, Introduction to Psychology and Cooperative Work Experience. I have an extensive background in qualitative research, leadership, student affairs and human development and functioning. I believe consciousness is universal, however, sometimes its best explained from a familiar worldview, one that may be grounded in cultural ways of being and traditions. I enjoy facilitating the human development process for people, especially from a conscious cultural lens/paradigm. My formal self-imposed title/role is Sakhu Sheti. This is an ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) term meaning one who is an illuminator of the soul/ healer.

Currently, I work as a Director of Recruitment and Outreach at California State University San Marcos, San Diego, USA. However, I consider myself a cultural custodian and spiritual librarian. I believe it is my “purpose” to assist human beings in awakening and becoming conscious. I want to do that through a process of education, research, and coaching, so that we create a different world that is purposeful. My primary goal is to fulfill my “purpose” and practice being a universal citizen of the world, who is focused on being a practitioner of enlightenment, using the message of oneness, vibrational love, awareness and consciousness. Using the principles of balance (Maat)… truth… justice… order… love… harmony… peace… reciprocity, thereby growing a more conscious and informed world citizen!

It was during that period when I realized that education needs something more than the mechanical methods and trends which were being used in the modern education system. As a result, I had my Master’s degree in education (M.Ed.) which helped me to explore the practices prevalent in the field of education. I discovered that it was educational psychology and particularly the field of consciousness, which can help in the development of learner centered approaches in teaching.

I have completed my doctoral research in the field of contemplative pedagogy. The research involved exploration and testing of the techniques and methods for adolescents which can be employed in the mainstream classrooms to evolve conscious learners. For this purpose, my interest developed in the readings and practices of Yoga and meditation, consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Philosophy.

During my Ph.D. research, I also tried to explore how much adolescents understand and comprehend the CQ-i. The research paper based on the study is entitled as ‘Consciousness Quotient Inventory administration on adolescents: difficulty level assessment’. Some of the other research papers upon which I have worked include: “Consciousness Quotient as a predictor of executive functioning”, “Blend of phenomenology and scientific approaches in yoga and meditation researches” and “Leadership Approach in relation to level of consciousness: a correlational analysis”.

Presently, all my endeavors are aimed at the development of a component in the curriculum which can help the learners in the realization of the witnessing awareness or the conscious being.