Photographer: Larry Lawfer  
 PETER M. SENGE is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) (over 750,000 in circulation) and co-author of three field books, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994), and The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999), and Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education(2000). Harvard Business Review has identified The Fifth Discipline as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years. The Journal of Business Strategy named Dr. Senge as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.