MARK PIMENTEL, MD, FRCPC, is the Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Program and Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and also serves as an Assistant Professor in Residence for the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Pimentel s primary research interests include irritable bowel syndrome and its relationship to small intestinal motility and bacterial overgrowth, others being gastric motility in diabetes. He is a member of several professional organizations like the Medical Council of Canada, American Gastroenterological Association and American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Pimentel has been awarded various investigator-driven grants related to gastrointestinal motility. He has written articles for peer-reviewed publications such as "Archives of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Gastroenterology", etc. He has also authored the book "A New IBS Solution".

Jeffrey Conklin is a lifelong student of organizational communication and collaboration, and the tools that support them. As Director of CogNexus Institute he remains active as a practitioner of dialogue mapping, although his main joy is teaching dialogue mapping as the art and science of creating shared understanding.