Dr. Paul Ray

Paul Ray, PhD, is CEO of Integral Partnerships, LLC, a consulting firm that helps those organizations whose constituencies or customers are Cultural Creatives to be more successful, by aligning their internal activities and values with the values and needs of their constituencies or customers.

He is co-author of The Cultural Creatives (Harmony Books, 2000). Over a 14 year period, while he was Executive Vice President of American LIVES, Inc., Dr. Ray studied over 100,000 Americans, showing how the subcultures of values permeate all aspects of American life, including consumer behavior, politics, media use, and altruism. His evolving analysis of the American political landscape, The New Political Compass, can be seen at www.culturalcreatives.org.

Dr. Ray's earlier positions include: Chief of Policy Research on Energy Conservation, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources of the Government of Canada; Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Vice President of Set Theoretic Information Systems Corp. He co-developed the world's largest, most complex, and realistic urban gaming simulation, METRO-APEX, used to train managers in over 100 universities and in governments in 5 countries. Dr. Ray has a BA in Anthropology from Yale University and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

For more information on Dr. Paul, please visit www.integralpartnerships.com