Social Artistry – Experience Design 

Social Artistry is the art of expanding human capacities in the face of complexity. It facilitates new ways of thinking, sensing and interacting so that necessary change can emerge with clarity and care. At its core, it is about Experience Design – intentionally shaping environments, interactions and moments in ways that enable people to do their best thinking and relating together.

Social Artists are leaders across disciplines who value leading-edge, co-creative learning, and understand that transformation is as much cultural as it is strategic. As a seasoned Experience Designer and Culture Creator, my medium is the human community. I design conditions for Inspired Togetherness – where people feel meaningfully connected to one another and to purpose.

At key moments, well-designed experiences can generate Collective Effervescence: heightened states of shared energy, insights, alignment that allow groups to access collective intelligence – bringing clarity, momentum and shared meaning to complex situations – unlocking innovative solutions, strengthening relationship, and creating new ways of thriving together.

Leadership Blindness 

Educated for a different time, few leaders are trained to deal with so total a game change as today. Institutions around the world are struggling to fulfill their purpose. Many problems stem from leadership styles that are disconnected and ill prepared to deal with complexity. The issues we face are rarely technical alone; they are rooted in leadership approaches that are fragmented, disconnected and shaped by outdated fields of awareness, resulting not only in ineffective action, but in a loss of resourcefulness and imagination.

Liberating Inventiveness 

As a Social Artist, I collaborate with leaders, educators, artists and scientists to exchange perspectives, generate insight, and design experiences that catalyze real change – ideally while sharing some irreverence, humor and beauty along the way. I do not simply produce events or deliver impressions. Everything is intentionally crafted, using just the just-right elements that gently – sometimes boldly – expand what feels possible.  

During times of change, there is tremendous creative power at the intersection of divergent disciplines, industries, technologies and communities. Mixing things up builds resilience and nourishes individual and collective breakthroughs. Cracking the code of a complex situation and witnessing the moment when clarity lands – when eyes light up and new possibilities appear – is what I live for.  Pure joy.  The best feeling ever!

Let’s Work Together

We can work together in service and celebration. I’ve owned an event coordination and media production business (7yrs.), co-owned an adult education seminar center (14 yrs.) and continue to design and steward one-of-a-kind transformative experiences with community-driven, progressive partners. Let’s partner together to evolve existing events, design a completely new experience, or co-create a meaningful series of events together in one city or across the world. Ready to open new futures, let’s begin!