Have travelled the world. Lived its cultures. Met its people.

We are all hungry for peace, respect, belonging and the freedom to create. And, we desire positive, egoless leaders that can inspire and move humanity forward in innovative ways.

We love. We sing. We laugh. We all want a better world.

I choose to see a world that feels complete and balanced with interacting “designs” driving the human experience. Nature is a design. Humans are a design, cars, cities, etc. They are all designs. And it is up to us to interact with these designs in better ways, with less friction but also with respect and reverence.

We engage with the world via our senses, primarily via our vision. Positive emotions result from beautiful designs and interactions with beauty in the bigger sense.

We vacation where we feel beauty. We drive cars that look beautiful. We marry due to the perceived beauty of our partners. We walk into a Starbucks and we feel the warmth, familiarity, with wonderful coffee fragrances and open spaces full of light complemented by friendly staff. Successful designs (be them product/services) are all about developing positive emotions for your customers. Anywhere and Everywhere.

Like the beautiful design that nature is, we humans are also powerfully designed to invent and create.

The more of us that can awaken to the fact that we can all participate in the creation of new solutions, the sooner we can get to solving the big challenges that are upon us.

Being a design thinker and having participated in its application and teachings, I have seen the extraordinary power it has to awaken new mindsets, grow empathy, increase engagement and launch new entrepreneurs.  Innovation mindsets can be developed when empowered and inspired. I do it by being a collaborator, team player, mentor, advisor, teacher, change agent.

Lastly, we are multi-dimensional beings, loaded with unparalleled creative powers and ideas to inspire others to action. I am a car guy. A designer. A lover of nature - the greatest design ever. I am also a writer, photographer, mentor, cyclist, a father. Through my photography, for example, I aim to inspire others to be creative and believe in their own creativity to drive change and solve problems.

Do creative. Solve problems. Inspire others.

My mission is to mentor and empower creative and innovation mindsets to drive positive change and accelerate solutions to vexing challenges.

I teach people and organizations how to be more responsive to emerging trends via design thinking and innovation labs. By combining both. we create forward momentum and enable solutions-driven cultures that will grow creativity and accelerate change. Everything I do is in pursuit of my mission, including being an adjunct professor teaching design thinking and innovation management to business school seniors.

Our institutions are run by people and every single creative thought and innovation has come from a human mind. The next solution to solve climate change, or to help people get better faster, or to invent the next source of clean energy, will come from one of us. Let us then put our stuff out there. Let us create and share our creative energy in positive ways so that we can enable our collective power to solve problems for all.