CULTURE FUTURIST®
(who leads with WONDER)
I’m an Appalachian innovator living in the Rockies.
For thirty years, I have fused arts, science, and business to shape the future of arts+industry innovation.
I'm an award-winning future-of-work researcher and entrepreneur with unique skills in bridging creative industries, brain science, and innovation. I've built strategic, interdisciplinary partnerships across healthcare, academics, technology, and Fortune 100 corporations to unlock the human creative potential of organizational culture and strategy.
The science of how teams think, feel, and do is making big jumps. Creativity is currency in this next chapter of American exploration. While the mind conceives new ideas, the heart must believe to turn imagination into innovation. In an age of technology, the poet in me knows that we need a bigger language for innovation. Sustaining wonder, trust, freedom, and joy is essential.
From the Aspen Ideas Festival and U.S. State Department's Cities Summit of the Americas to the United Nations General Assembly Science Week and Brain Capital Week in Silicon Valley, I've guided some of America's most innovative leaders and teams in building their Creative Brain Capital™—the cognitive, emotional and social creativity skills needed to forge beyond the frontiers of the familiar.
Decades of Prototyping
All Leading to One Big Play
The Wonder Economy is the human side of technology and the future of work. Check out this short AI-generated deep dive trying to make sense of who I am and what’s driving me— tune in for a fun take on what’s next in innovation.
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