Grant Lichtman is an educator, author, speaker, and thought leader focused on civic engagement, community building, and the future of American culture.  He is the author of Wisdom Road, Thrive, Moving the Rock, #EdJourney, and The Falconer.  For more than two decades, he was a senior administrator in a large K-12 school, and an international consultant on the future of K-12 education, and how we can prepare students for the challenges of a rapidly changing world. His most recent work involved spending more than 30 weeks driving solo, covering 20,000 miles on mostly backroads of America, interviewing and listening to a remarkable diversity of strangers, recording without judgement their core values, perspectives, and their ideas about why America is so divided, and what we can do about it.

Before working in education, Grant directed business ventures in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet Union, South America, and the U.S. Gulf Coast.  He worked close to center stage in the economic and political transformation of the USSR, the end of the Cold War, and the historic transformation of that communist-dominated economy to the outside world.

Grant graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in geology in 1980 and studied the deep ocean basins of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Bering Sea. He and his wife, Julie, live in Poway, California.