Riane Eisler is the author of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking”  and the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, keynotes conferences worldwide, and speaks at universities, and consults to business and government on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work.