Creative adaptability is the key to successful community development policy and to population health innovation.
Creative adaptability is the key to successful community development policy and to population health innovation.
In delivering specialized in-depth, cultural insights and coaching for effectively managing culture-fit as a core component of all population health initiatives, I build bridges for communities, companies and governments to become trusted partners in the co-creation of a better life for all.
My main role as a cultural futurist is helping others fulfill our responsibility to future generations and to provide support for being a good ancestor.
Combines lessons I learned growing up in the Appalachian mountains and insights on where my team at IDEAS xLab finds HOPE in America's future at the intersection of arts, community development and health.
What a long strange trip it's been.
From being a champion clog dancer who performed on Grand Ole Opry as a kid to being named as one of Southern Living Magazine's 50 People Changing the Face of the South... from corporate healthcare leadership jobs to social justice work at the grass roots level... I have learned a lot about America and her people. I can help your organization navigate the always shifting cultural forces that impact us all.
As co-founder and Chief Imaginator at IDEAS xLab, I lead a team of artists shaping uncolonized culture, so that diverse American communities can reclaim stolen imagination, and unleash breakthrough cultural innovation toward... a more just, creative and healthy America, here communities shape change. The short video below highlights our current national demonstration pilot, HOPEBOX HEALTH.
