William C. Miller and Debra R. Miller

William C. Miller is a Co-founder/Director of Values Centered Innovation. For over 35 years, he has been an internationally recognized expert on values-based corporate innovation, starting with his tenure as head of the Innovation Management program at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute). He leads VCI’s client development, consulting, and IP development.

Leadership Excellence named William numerous times as among the top 30 thought-leaders worldwide on the subject of leadership. Two of William’s five innovation books – The Creative Edge and Flash of Brilliance – have been rated among the top 30 business books of the year in the USA by Executive Book Summaries. He has been a Guest Faculty member at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the University of Dallas.

Throughout his career, William has developed and applied breakthrough innovation tools and processes that show clients how to incorporate human values into their innovative work. His clients have spanned the globe, including corporations such as: AT&T, Charles Schwab, Chevron, Disney Institute, Dow Elanco, DuPont, Eli Lilly, HP, IBM, Infosys Technology, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss, Motorola, Philips Electronics, Pillsbury, P&G, Shell Canada, Taco Bell, and 3M.

Debra R. Miller is a Co-founder/Director of Values Centered Innovation. With 40 years of combined corporate management, consulting and coaching experience, Debra is a top professional in the field of innovation who heads up VCI\'s executive coaching, co-authors VCI’s intellectual property, delivers client work, and leads IT and operations.

In the early 1990s, Debra founded Masterful Mission, a business coaching organization serving executives and entrepreneurs. She helped to pioneer the now-popular concept of business coaching through her work, her public speaking, and her book Beyond Motivation: Waking up the Knowing Within. She has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles, and white papers on leadership, personal growth, innovation enablement, and human values at work.

As a Co-founder of the Global Dharma Center (GDC), she co-authored Leading with Wisdom, a book that condensed over 30 top executive interviews from GDC’s Spiritual-Based Leadership Research Program. Debra has also been a Guest Faculty member in the University of Dallas’ DBA program, and coached senior leaders in organizations such as: Aon Hewitt, Cognizant, General Dynamics, Human Resource Excellence Center (China), Infosys Technologies, Kiewit, Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Science, L&T Technology Services, Nestle Purina, Nokia, and United Launch Alliance.