The Human Entelechy Institute
for 21st Century Leadership
Entelechy
- En·tel·e·chy
- /ənˈteləkē/
- Realization of potential
- The vital principle that guides development of an organism
- Ex. The entelechy of an acorn is to become an oak tree
- The soul
“Ask not what the world needs.
Ask what brings you alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is more people brought alive.”
—Howard Thurman
When 21st Century Leadership creates from the entelechy of inner purpose, new worlds are born.
Entelechy meaning: The entelechy of an acorn is to become an oak tree.
Our work with hundreds of high-impact leaders has demonstrated a world-changing truth: When the OS of leadership elevates above the default setting of ego to the entelechy of inner purpose, leaders naturally harness the unprecedented power of business to better our world while bringing themselves alive. The Human Entelechy Institute is a guild of high-impact leaders excited to guide, through training programs, mentoring, and collaboration, the growing emergence of business leaders called toward this paradigm. As a result, this HEI guild of leaders is accelerating the realization of each other’s planet-positive endeavors into a world in need.
“CEOs are recognizing that barriers to boldness and speed are less about technical limits and more about mindsets toward what is possible.”
—Leadership for a New Era,
McKinsey Quarterly
The Human Entelechy Institute creates 21st Century leaders with Four Distinguishing Pillars
Liberation
Creation
Expertise
Network
Liberation
As different from the dogma of the day, there is nothing in today’s leaders, or any of us, in need of transformation. Inside each leader is already a limitless creator brimming with the embedded wisdom and compass to birth their entelechy into the world. This is not generated through transformation, this is generated through liberation. Through the process of working with them as they create their entelechy’s actualization in the real world, we help leaders liberate themselves from the tethers of limiting beliefs, thought, errant coding, and conditioning so that their aperture of possibility is expanded large enough to allow the yet unimagined to emerge.
Creation
What makes our programming novel, and ultimately of real impact, is a curriculum that is not about information accrual, but actual creation. The Basecamp Program is about the creation of the inner and outer foundations of life so leaders can hear the entelechy’s signal without noise, while Ascent then guides our leaders in converting their newly discovered entelechy into the creation of real-world endeavors of impact. These endeavors are accelerated and expanded through our learning system of highly curated, complimentary cohorts of four, where leaders deeply pull for each other, while individually making their own climbs.
Facilitated by Experienced High-Impact Business Leaders
Our facilitators, guest faculty and Advisory Cohort are all high-impact leaders in their own right, out in the world of business, using their own entelechy to make big dents in their universes. Their experience, often conveyed in real time, is consistently brought to the learning cohorts along with real-world and real-time coaching for the actualization of their etelechy’s endeavors.
The HEI Guild
This aspect of the Human Entelechy Institute is its true power source and what makes it invaluable to our students, members, and the world at large. All of our grads, our facilitators, our guest faculty, and the Advisory Cohort themselves, are all members of the HEI Guild and community. They provide deep experience, invaluable mentorship, and actual collaboration on real-world initiatives that emerge during the programs at HEI through our students.
“You can tell what’s informing a society by what the tallest building is. When you approach a medieval town, the cathedral is the tallest. When you approach an 18th century town, the political palace is the tallest. And when you approach a modern city, the tallest are the business buildings, the centers of economic life.”
—Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
The Advisory Cohort
Also serving as Guest Faculty
Cassandra Curtis
Cassandra is Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, “Once Upon a Farm,” the first baby and kid’s brand to use HPP technology to offer best in class fresh, organic cold-pressed meals and snacks for kids of all ages. Prior, Cassandra was the founder of Fortina Chocolate in the CPG space, as well as Rooted Transformation, in the health and wellness space.
Christopher Patnoe
Christopher is Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion, EMEA at Google, Chair of Immersive Captions Community Group with W3C, Co-chair Of Accessibility Working Group with XR Association.
Emilio Diez Barroso
Emilio is Partner, Bold Capital Partners, CEO of NALA Investments, a family office with operations across various industries including communications, transportation, consumer products, real estate, technology and media. His primary intention in life is to alleviate human suffering.
Rev Maya Jaguar
Transformation coach and thought leader, and author of Practical Genius.
Katy Kvalvik
Katy is the Creator of the Harmony Method®—a blueprint for work-life harmony. She specializes in creating, developing and advising on coaching programs and personal and professional curriculum focused on scaling businesses, advanced communication skills and holistic health. She also serves impact leaders and companies by being an executive coach, consultant and facilitator.
Nichol Bradford
Nichol is Founder/Executive Director, Transformational Technology Lab; Adjunct Professor, Stanford. After leading the gaming industry with top posts like Director of Operations, Blizzard APAC, Nichol now devotes her life to human wellbeing through the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, behavior, and technology. Her purpose is to accelerate human transformation by leveraging technology to heal, upskill, and enhance humanity.
Sarah Richardson Mehler
Sarah is Founder/CEO, Left Field Labs, a creative technology company dedicated to humanity’s profound relationship with technology, and using uncommon thinking to make meaningful impact.
Raj Kapoor
Raj is currently the Managing Director and co-founder of Climactic—a venture capital fund dedicated to solving our planetary challenges. He is the former CEO & Co-Founder of Snapfish (sold to HP) and fitmob (merged into Classpass), former Managing Director of Mayfield VC Fund, and Chief Strategy Officer of Lyft. Raj also serves on the board of Dosomething.org - the largest community of youth taking social action.
Will Weisman
Will is the Founder and Managing Director of KittyHawk Ventures, a frontier technology focused venture firm. He previously served for 7 years as Executive Director at Singularity University and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Peter Diamandis.
Founders
James Price, MA
Co-founder | Facilitator, The Human Entelechy Institute
Kirk Souder, MA
Co-founder | Facilitator, The Human Entelechy Institute
Our facilitators have coached leaders from many of the world’s visionary brands:
