Jesse McKay has a bachelor degree with majors in Business Administration and Psychology, as well as an MBA with an emphasis on Corporate Strategy and Organizational Development. His master's dissertation focused on fostering deep communication within business organizations. Jesse's professional experience includes business and entrepreneurial coaching and corporate recruitment and selection. He also served as a business analyst on a large scale engineering project for the Canadian government, and as a software engineer with a company designing and building Business Intelligence software. While teaching university courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Corporate Strategy at Simon Fraser University, Jesse earned the top student feedback evaluation scores in the Faculty of Business two semesters in a row.

Jesse's passion for cutting edge educational practices saw him join the international team at Holma College of Integral Studies in the south of Sweden in 2001 as a dialogue facilitator and organizational leader. He spent most of 2004 studying and working for the Universal Responsibility Institute on a school based on leading research in collective intelligence.

In addition to his work with Pacific Integral, Jesse is currently part of a team of engineers and scientists at the European Space Agency who are responsible for designing and building information systems for 'Columbus' - the European portion of the International Space Station.