No idea grows alone. These are the leaders, thinkers and projects whose work and influence helped us build this site. Some we are affiliated with. Some we are not. All of them planted seeds.
A forest is not one tree. It is a network of roots, fungi and neighbours sharing what they have. Our thinking grew the same way: from psychologists, technologists, authors, builders of new economies and families of faith.
Featuring a name or link here is not an endorsement of everything they say, and does not mean they endorse us. It means their ideas helped.
We stand on the shoulders of those who asked better questions.
Cards marked Ambassador are organizations we work with. Cards marked Influence are people and projects whose ideas shaped us, with no formal affiliation.
A clinical psychologist and author whose work asks people to take responsibility, tell the truth and find meaning in the middle of chaos. A voice for the idea that a healthy society starts with a healthy, purposeful person.
Visit jordanbpeterson.com →Leader of Canada Family Action, which equips churches and citizens to protect families and religious freedom. One of our founding ambassadors.
Visit familyaction.ca →Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and a leading voice on how attention-driven technology and AI shape our minds, families and democracy. He asks that technology be built around human wellbeing.
Visit tristanharris.com →Media theorist and author who argues that people, not markets or machines, come first, and who questions economic systems built only for growth and extraction.
Visit rushkoff.com →An author and speaker who aims to inspire, motivate and uplift, with a positive outlook on life, health, love and spirituality.
Visit lauraaboli.com →A book by Paul Ekins (Routledge), first published in 1986 and reissued in 2017, on building an economy that works for people, communities and the planet.
View the book on Amazon →An open framework for building distributed applications where every person holds their own data and agency, with no central owner in the middle.
Visit holochain.org →CEO of RedBalloon and a leading voice on the value of work in Human Enterprise: work as dignity, purpose and service, and workplaces where people can live their convictions. One of our ambassadors.
Visit redballoon.work →Former U.S. congressman and physician, and a lifelong voice for individual liberty, sound money and limited government. Through the Ron Paul Liberty Report he keeps asking who really holds power over our money and our lives.
Visit ronpaullibertyreport.com →Many more writers, builders and neighbours have shaped this work. Know someone whose ideas belong here? Tell us.
Suggest a thought leader →Descriptions are brief summaries based on each person's or project's own public website. Their views are their own.
Systems exist to serve human beings, not the other way round.
Tools should strengthen minds, families and communities.
Power and ownership spread out to many hands, not one centre.
Responsibility, faith, family and purpose give an economy its soul.
Learn about our affiliates through our Ambassadors page.
Some of the leaders on this page are affiliated with us. Learn more about our affiliates, and how you can join them, on the Ambassadors page.