Charles M. Johnston, MD, is a psychiatrist and futurist. He is best known for founding and directing the Institute for Creative Development, a Seattle-based think tank and center for advanced leadership training, and as the originator of Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding purpose and change in human systems with particular pertinence to understanding the times in which we live. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles on the future and how we can best prepare to meet it.