I help founders & changemakers Live, work, & create with greater wisdom
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AI is making it trivially easy to build. The hard problems are no longer technical or operational. They are personal, relational, & cultural.
About
Vision Guide
Most visionaries skip the space between receiving the vision and acting on it. They collapse the insight into the first familiar form, fail to integrate major lessons from past projects, and wind up repeating cycles of burnout. Even when they know better.
As co-founder and CEO of Siempo, I led a pioneering Public Benefit Corporation that developed an award-winning, open-source, humane smartphone interface in the pre-COVID years. We were early to the conversation that became the responsible innovation movement.
After leading education at Center for Humane Technology, I started School of Wise Innovation as a home for these inquiries at the intersection of early stage entrepreneurship and inner development.
Alongside courses, retreats, a yearlong cultivator program, a growing community of practice, and supporting early stage visionary initiatives like Spirit Tech Collective, I'm currently writing The Visionary’s Ways integration workbook.
Work With Me
I work with people at the delicate Vision Stage, where everything that happens has an outsized influence on what unfolds. As a pollinator, I bring deep and diverse experience and network, with special focus in the SF, LA, and NY areas across consumer tech, education, retreat centers, wealth management, and spiritual innovation.
For Visionaries
Vision Advisory For founders and creators in the first year of a new vision. Bi-weekly sessions across a season, working with the questions and practices that matter most in the beginning, through a holistic lens customized for each person. $6k/season · Bi-weekly · Virtual or in-nature sessions in the Bay Area
Organizations
Threshold Intensive For visionaries at the very start, before the first irreversible decisions. Several days together in person to cultivate healthy soil for you and your work to flourish, followed by a season of integration support as you begin to build. $24k · Multi-day immersion + a season of follow-on · IRL, location TBD
Workshops & Speaking Interactive sessions for conferences, gatherings, retreats, and orgs on wise innovation, vision literacy, humane tech. Past venues include Mozilla, Edge Esmeralda, Frontier Tower, Nexus, Berkeley, Wharton, NYU, Manna. Inquire for Rates · IRL preferred
This work is for people at the beginning of something, who sense that how they begin will shape everything that follows. If you're holding a vision for something new and want to bring it to life in ways that are better for all involved, I'd love to chat. If fees are the only barrier, reach out anyway.
Writing
Selected essays
On AI, discernment, and what the next era of building actually demands May 10,000 Wisdom Schools Bloom
The case for reimagining innovation education from the root Accelerator —> Cultivator
Change the language, change the culture Autobiography of a Silicon Valley Savior
The confession that started this work The Ethical Startup Playbook
A practical framework for founders who want to build without reproducing what they're trying to fix
