About Me

I've spent most of my career trying to answer a question: how can we shift the inner place from which we operate while engaging in the work of social change?

That question led me to the Presencing Institute, where I co-created u.lab, bringing Theory U to a quarter million people across 186 countries. Now in its 10th year, the program has become a model for blending online and offline elements to create transformative learning environments.

It also led me to Plum Village, where I co-designed and launched Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, the first online course from Thich Nhat Hanh's community—reaching over 3,000 climate leaders and activists with a mindfulness-based approach to systems change.

Along the way, I've brought this same lens to institutional settings: at Meta, developing strategies to mitigate harmful impacts of new technologies on the Responsible Innovation team; at the Center for Humane Technology, leading global challenges work; and at Commonweal, serving as Chief Strategy Officer for an organization whose 40+ programs span health, education, environment, and justice.

These days, I work independently with organizations like PolicyLink, The All We Can Save Project, and Greater Good Science Center—usually at moments of transition, when the old maps no longer fit the territory.

I live in the Bay Area with my dog Ollie. I surf as often as I can—which is its own kind of practice in presence.