About Us
Global Wisdom Foundation
A foundation created for this moment — bringing together music, wisdom, and transformational leadership in service of collective healing.
Who We Are
About the Foundation
The Global Wisdom Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to catalyzing healing, unity, and conscious evolution through the transformative power of music, wisdom traditions, and purpose-driven leadership.
We gather and amplify the voices, experiences, and insights of remarkable people whose work speaks to what is most essential in the human spirit — and we make those gifts accessible to communities everywhere.
Founded by Emmy Award-winning composer and visionary Gary Malkin, the Foundation serves as a living bridge between ancient wisdom and contemporary possibility.
Wisdom.
Resonance.
Unity.
Our Origin
Why the Foundation Was Created
We live in a time of unprecedented challenge and extraordinary possibility. Our communities are fragmented. Our conversations are shallow. And yet, beneath the noise, something deeper is stirring.
The Global Wisdom Foundation was born from the conviction that the antidote to our collective fragmentation is not more information — it is more resonance. More depth. More encounters with the beauty and truth that remind us who we really are.
"We are not creating something new. We are remembering something ancient — and making it available for the world we actually live in."
The Foundation exists to make these encounters possible — through concerts, gatherings, dialogues, and the steady, patient work of building a culture of wisdom.
Our Foundation
Mission, Vision & Purpose
Mission
To catalyze healing, unity, and conscious evolution by bringing humanity's deepest wisdom into living, resonant forms that inspire collective transformation.
Vision
A world in which wisdom, music, and authentic dialogue are recognized as essential to human flourishing — and are available to all people, everywhere.
Purpose
To create the conditions — through art, leadership, and purposeful gathering — in which people can remember their interconnection and rise together.
Highlights
- ✦Emmy Award-winning composer
- ✦Author, Graceful Passages
- ✦Founder, Global Wisdom Foundation
- ✦Creator, We Rise As One
- ✦International keynote speaker
- ✦Faculty, transformational retreats
About Gary
Gary Malkin
Gary Malkin is a multiple Emmy Award-winning composer, producer, and creator of transformational media whose work has touched millions of lives around the world.
For more than forty years, Gary has explored how music, presence, and story can awaken the deepest human capacities: empathy, compassion, courage, wisdom, trust, and belonging. His acclaimed project Graceful Passages, created with Michael and Doris Stillwater, helped redefine how music can support people through life's most profound transitions.
At a time when artificial intelligence is reshaping the future, Gary's work invites us to ask a deeper question: not whether machines will become more intelligent, but whether we will become more fully human.
Through immersive experiences, Living Legacies, transformational media, resilience trainings, and the We Rise As One initiative, Gary helps leaders, families, organizations, and movements reconnect with what technology cannot manufacture: a coherent heart, a grounded nervous system, meaningful connection, and a future worth creating.
Our Approach
Wisdom-Centered Leadership
Healing Through Resonance
True leadership is not a technique. It is an expression of wholeness — of deep listening, authentic presence, and the willingness to be moved by what is most important.
The Global Wisdom Foundation works at the frontier where music, contemplative wisdom, and conscious leadership meet. We call this "healing through resonance" — the experience of being returned to one's own depth through encounter with beauty, truth, and authentic human connection.
This is the foundation of everything we do: concerts, dialogues, workshops, films, and the We Rise As One movement. Each form is a different expression of the same essential inquiry — what does it mean to live and lead from our deepest wisdom?