Meet the Founders
We’re strong believers that the best solutions come from gathering new insights and pushing conventional boundaries.
Dr. Natalia Peart
Dr. Natalia Peart is a multi-hyphenate psychologist, business & career consultant, best-selling author, speaker & Forbes Contributor. Throughout her career, she has worked as a clinical psychologist, a leadership and performance consultant for large national Fortune 1000 companies to small businesses, and an executive and personal consultant. a Chief Officer of a foundation, and CEO of a nonprofit organization.
Whether she is working at the individual, organizational, or societal level, the common thread throughout her experiences is that she is driven by a desire to solve our big challenges involving how to grow and lead, particularly through disruptive change.
She is the author of the Amazon Bestseller in 5 categories, Future Proofed: The New Rules of Success in Work & Life for our Modern World. She is a SXSW 2021 presenter and a Forbes Contributor. She has been featured in various media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, NYT, FOX, Wall St. Journal, Barron’s, Yahoo Finance, Oprah Magazine, Black Enterprise, Glassdoor, Elite Daily, and Thrive Global, as well as a speaker at events ranging from small group workshops to three-thousand-person events.
She has served on the Federal Reserve Board, 10th District, and earned her B.A. with Honors in Psychology from Brown University, her Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of Maryland, and completed her Clinical Internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Christopher Burge
Christopher Burge has enjoyed a successful career in the financial services industry. As a former Wall St. executive, he began his career at the prestigious Salomon Brothers investment firm. He spent his career helping the country’s largest portfolio managers, including Prudential Insurance Company, manage their fixed-income portfolios. He was one of only six people in their competitive sales and trading class.
He was promoted to Vice-President at the age of 25 and was a millionaire before the age of 30.Chris is known as a gifted communicator who has always been motivated by helping people maximize their potential.
He has spoken in front of audiences ranging from thirty to three thousand and has been profiled in publications such as Businessweek.
He is a graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and African-American Studies. He is a lifelong athlete. At Brown, he was the captain of the Basketball team and is currently an avid golfer.
Together, they are visionaries, entrepreneurs, researchers, teachers, and innovators that have combined their backgrounds and deep expertise to create a new category and industry of solutions to holistically and innovatively respond to the challenges of our time.
What We Believe
- We believe in the power of purpose. Our purpose is to bring hope, help, and healing to a hurting world.
- We believe leadership is a choice, not a title that someone confers upon you. We believe we all must choose to display our leadership in the decisions, both big and small, we make each day.
- We believe that preparing for tomorrow is the business of today. This means not just preparing for our future but also preparing for future generations. We believe in paying it forward. We’re all here because someone stood in the gap on our behalf, so we believe it is our turn to stand in the gap for the next generation.
- We believe in the power of ideas and in transforming big thinking into reality. We believe ideas can help us create an inspired, hopeful, aspirational path to the future in response to the challenges we are facing today.
- We believe in the power of the human spirit for resilience, reinvention, renaissance, to never give up, for creating change, for hope, and for seeing beyond the dark to find the light, with courage, to evolve, and to see not just what is, but what can be.
- We believe in the power of defining moments. That is because whenever there are periods of major challenge like this one, a new generation of innovators always emerges to help break down old boundaries and ways of think ing and operating. We believe in the power of meeting the moment.
- We believe that no one can do everything, but everyone can do something. We believe in solutions that lift higher rather than exploit, and we believe in the power of partnerships to co-create a bright future for ourselves and future generations.
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