“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”

“Creating new futures begins with creating a new conversation.”

“When you want to help people change, you’ve got to uncover their motivations, their drivers, then uncover the situation/impact, and figure out if it’s big enough, strong enough that they’re willing to change who they are to change the outcome.”

"The more experiences you have in life, your toolbox is going to be better and greater."

“Changing the future is all about having a purpose and just going for it.”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“From the human behavior side, I think my stance - especially seeing the work that we do - is that the vast majority of humans are caring, supportive and want what’s best for themselves and others.”

“The most challenging thing about analytical work is you need to not only understand how the systems work – but you need to make that analysis become useable and absorbable by an organization.”

"We've always gone to the wilderness and sought perspective in the less familiar places."