Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government

Alex Bennet, a Professor at the Bangkok University Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia is internationally recognized as an expert in knowledge management and an agent for organizational change. She is co-founder of the Mountain Quest Institute, a research and retreat center situated in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia dedicated to three quests: the quest for knowledge, the quest for consciousness, and the quest for meaning. Prior to co-founding the Mountain Quest Institute, she served as the Chief Knowledge Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration for the U.S. Department of the Navy, and was co-chair of the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group. Prior to that she was the Acquisition Reform Executive and Standards Improvement Executive for the DON. Dr. Bennet is the recipient of the Distinguished and Superior Public Service Awards from the U.S. government for her work in the Federal Sector. Early in life she explored her passions as an Opera Singer, Voice Coach, Theatrical Director, Journalist, Newspaper Editor, and Public Relations Manager, and she has traveled around the world speaking and teaching. Alex is a Delta Epsilon Sigma and Golden Key National Honor Society graduate with a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems; degrees in Management for Organizational Effectiveness, Human Development, English and Marketing; certificates in Total Quality Management, System Dynamics and Defense Acquisition Management; and is—among other modalities—a Reiki Master, student of Ageless Wisdom, and a continuous seeker of higher truth. With her partner David, Alex has pursued a rigorous research agenda across multi-disciplines that have resulted in hundreds of papers, journal articles and book chapters, and dozens of books. In 2004 she and her partner David published a new theory of the firm based on the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System model for organizations. She also published the foundational books: The Course of Knowledge: a 21st Century Theory; Decision-Making in the New Reality: Complexity, Knowledge and Knowing; Knowledge Mobilization in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Moving from Research to Action; and Leading with the Future in Mind: Knowledge and Emergent Leadership. She is the primary author of The Profundity and Bifurcation of Change five-book series and follow-on 22-volume Conscious Look Book series Possibilities that are YOU! based on the human developmental journey of which we are all a part. Continuing her lifelong journey of learning, expanding and sharing, Alex believes in the multidimensionality and interconnectedness of humanity as we move out of infancy into full consciousness.