THE QUEST-GIVER
Hey. I'm the guy
behind all of this.
BACKSTORY
The short version.
I spent years inside organizations watching the same pattern repeat: good people, bad systems, hollow results. Leaders who cared deeply but were trapped in an operating system that rewarded performance over presence, extraction over formation, and competency over character.
I watched the leadership industry pour $366 billion into fixing the symptoms while ignoring the disease. More models, more assessments, more "leadership development" that developed everything except the actual human being doing the leading.
So I started asking different questions. Not "how do we make better leaders?" but "what kind of environment grows a whole human being?" Not "what skills do leaders need?" but "who is this work turning us into?"
Those questions led me to McGilchrist's divided brain, Rohr's True Self, Greenleaf's servant leadership, Frankl's logotherapy, Maté's trauma work, the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics, and a hundred conversations with leaders who were quietly dying inside their roles. Out of all of that came the Rebel OS — an operating system for leadership that treats work as spiritual formation.
CLASS & ABILITIES
What I actually do.
I write, I teach, I make videos, and I walk alongside leaders who are ready to do the inner work. I'm not a guru. I'm a fellow traveler who happens to have spent a lot of time studying the map.
Writing & Teaching
Essays, lenses, and video content that translate ancient wisdom into modern leadership language.
The Residency
1:1 leadership formation for leaders who are ready to go deeper than techniques.
The Rebel OS
Building an open-source operating system for human flourishing in organizations.
Community
Creating spaces where rebel leaders can find each other and not feel crazy anymore.
SKILL TREE
The thinkers who shaped this work.
Ancient wisdom recovered. Modern science confirmed. The answers were always there — scattered across centuries, cultures, and disciplines. The mystics and the neuroscientists are saying the same thing.
ANCIENT WISDOM
Lao Tzu
The Tao — leading by not-forcing, the power of emptiness
Aristotle
Eudaimonia & phronesis — flourishing through practical wisdom
The Stoics
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus — inner freedom as the foundation of outer leadership
The Desert Fathers
Kenosis — self-emptying as the path to fullness
MYSTICS & POETS
Rumi
The wound is where the light enters — transformation through surrender
Meister Eckhart
Detachment & the God beyond God — the inward work that makes the outward work great
Howard Thurman
The deep ocean within — the inner life as the wellspring of justice
Richard Rohr
True Self / False Self — the inner work of leadership
PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY
Martin Buber
I/Thou — the sacred encounter that transforms both parties
Paul Tillich
The Ground of Being — the God beyond God, reality that precedes all things
Viktor Frankl
Logotherapy — meaning as the primary human drive
Václav Havel
Living in truth — hope as an orientation of the spirit
Robert Greenleaf
Servant leadership — the original rebel lens
NEUROSCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY
Iain McGilchrist
The divided brain — why attention shapes reality
Gabor Maté
Trauma and disconnection — why our systems make us sick
Richard Boyatzis
Resonant leadership — the neuroscience of renewal
Beck & Cowan
Spiral Dynamics — mapping consciousness development
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & CULTURE
Rory Sutherland
Behavioral economics — why the irrational is often more powerful than the rational
Robert Putnam
Social capital — the data behind The Great Transfer
Nassim Taleb
Antifragility — systems that grow stronger under stress
J.R.R. Tolkien
Story — the deepest truths are always told, never explained
CONTACT
Say hello.
Whether you want to talk about the work, explore the Residency, collaborate on something, or just tell me I'm wrong about everything — I'd love to hear from you.