Stephen Ian McIntosh is an American author, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Now & Zen, Inc., and is a writer in the field of integral thought.
After becoming a member of the California Bar in 1987, he worked for the law firmPillsbury, Madison & Sutro. In 1990 he moved to Boulder, Colorado to become vice president of Earth Wise, Inc. In 1991 Earth Wise was acquired by the Celestial Seasonings tea company, where McIntosh served as an executive officer and general counsel. In 1995 he left that position to found Now & Zen, Inc., serving as the company's CEO until 2012. Now & Zen, Inc., is in Boulder, Colorado. All Now & Zen products were conceived and designed by McIntosh.
Integral movement
In the late 1990s McIntosh became interested in the integral movement. In 2000 he was invited to join Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, where he served as a member in consortiums on Integral Art and Integral Business. He left the Integral Institute in 2002. In 2007 Parragon published his first book: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview Is Transforming Politics, Culture and Spirituality. In 2012 Select Books published his second book, Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins. In 2015 Quest Books published McIntosh's book on spiritual experience: The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. McIntosh has also written numerous articles on integral philosophy and politics. He has been interviewed by New Dimensions Radio, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences and online at Beyond Awakening, The Daily Evolver, and What Is Enlightenment? Magazine. In 2012, McIntosh partnered with integral authors and former EnlightenNext editors Carter Phipps and Elizabeth Debold, and University of Colorado philosopher Michael E. Zimmerman, to found The Institute for Cultural Evolution. In 2015, the work of the Institute for Cultural Evolution received write ups in The National Journal. In November 2019, ICE launched an online character development exercise to foster the practice of virtues, inviting people to create a personalized “Portrait of the Good.” In 2020 McIntosh’s fourth book was published Developmental Politics: How American Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself. In May 2020, Areo Magazine published McIntosh’s article "Towards a Post-Progressive Political Perspective"
