Where I Work (and Play)

Senior Advisor

I’m part of the founding team and I do. This work has deeply informed my beliefs around the possibility for America and for philanthropy as a creative act. We work in three areas: shared democracy, more honest and generative narratives, and a culture of accompaniment. My global work with pro-democracy activists has deepened my commitment to democracy in

Invitas Faculty

I serve as faculty with my partner, David Whyte, for his Institute for Conversational Leadership

Consultant, Cultivator (what we call our leadership team members)

I believe in the power of networks, and it’s my privilege to serve on the leadership team for the global consulting firm Cultivating Leadership. We are a B Corp committed to human flourishing and supporting leaders on working with inordinate complexity.

My clients through Cultivating Leadership have included folks like Google, Nike, Novartis, the Wellbeing Project, UCLA School of Medicine, in addition to 1:1 coaching work.

You can find out more about what we do at our website.

More Play and More Passion

  • Current work:

    • Human Rights Foundation’s Freedom Fellowship Program

    Fellowships I have mentored for include:

    • The TED Fellowship Program

    • Roddenberry Fellows

    • Thiel Fellowship Program

    • Unreasonable Institute Fellows

    • Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Women in Management Program

  • I care deeply for a few things.

    Governance work has always meant a lot to me because healthy governance is so critical to healthy systems. I’ve had an active hand in board development and taking on non-profit board roles for the past 25+ years.

    Currently, I serve on these boards:

    I additionally advise for:

    • The Wellbeing Project

  • I care deeply for a few things.

    Governance work has always meant a lot to me because healthy governance is so critical to healthy systems. I’ve had an active hand in board development and taking on non-profit board roles for the past 25+ years.

    Currently, I serve on these boards:

    I additionally advise for:

    • The Wellbeing Project

  • We must risk delight. To make injustice the only measure of your attention is to praise the devil.

    Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense”

  • Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.

    Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness”

  • Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

    Václav Havel