"To build productive human relationships, the essential ingredients are trust and fairness - supported by competence, authenticity, caring, compassion and kindness. We must inspire creativity, encourage risk-taking, and boost the cultivation of reciprocity."

Founder: Men's Wearhouse

Chairman, CEO and Founder: Generation Tux. 

George  also serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Oakland Zoo and is the father of four children.

George is a  lifelong advocate of servant leadership as the most effective business management model, in addition to being a spokesman for "conscious capitalism" to address income inequality and excessive CEO pay and a stakeholder as compared to a shareholder model.  He uses his intuition and passion for consciousness research and transpersonal psychology to guide his work.

However, it was an issue closer to home that brought George into contact with faculty at ITP when his mother was ravaged by cancer. It was then that George began to support research into the therapeutic use of MDMA. He has also supported fundamental research on medical marijuana.

Jiacuo Rinpoche was born in Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in 1980. He entered the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy at the age of 13, where he was ordained by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, under whom he carried out the contemplation and cultivation of the Esoteric teachings. 

He is one of the most influential Spiritual Mentors in China. His book "All is According to the Best of Plans" reached one million copies in a year. 

Jia Cuo Rinpoche is unable to join us for the commencement, but we leave you with his words. 

"In Buddhism, love is mercy. When we go to love the world with compassion, war and killing will stop, the families of war, children, their suffering will be lost, and our face will no longer be a world of unrest. When we love the environment, people will have a harmonious relationship with nature."

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