Charles Kerchner is Professor Emeritus in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He specializes in studying institutional change, learning systems, leadership, education and society, and teacher organizations. Through his 40-year academic career, he is the author, editor or contributor to 28 books, more than 30 articles in juried academic journals, and more than 300 articles in newspapers and other media. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of London, the University of Melbourne, and the University of California. His current work extends his academic research and links it to a dream that people of goodwill would create a new language linking what they deeply care about to action to sustain humanity on this planet, bring peace, and spread prosperity.