Writer. Editor.
AI Advisor. Coach.

This pivotal moment in history is compelling us to change our ways.

The stories we tell about the future feel hopeless.
Unpredictable forces demand that leaders transcend their limits.
Artificial intelligence can do practically anything — except care about the outcomes.
We are as gods, with our exponentially growing technologies, but nothing works as promised.

These aren't separate challenges—they're facets of the same large-scale historical transformation.

I've spent my career exploring this transformation. In The Age of Heretics, I described how business learned to rethink its practices. In The AI Dilemma, Juliette Powell and I dissected the hopes and biases of the new technology. In the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series, my coauthors and I conveyed the essence of organizational learning practice. At New York University, I teach scenario thinking, responsible AI design, and content strategy. I spend much of my time helping transformational authors find their voice.

The message is always the same: With the right kind of attention, we can maintain human wisdom and agency in systems that seem designed to diminish them.