I’m glad you’ve found your way to my home on the wild, wild web.  I hope this site will increase the joy, hope, and inspiration in your life.

A little about me: I have had the great privilege of working with many of the most inspiring people on the planet, from Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama to Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall to Nelson Mandela and Christiana Figueres.  I have asked them the world’s most pressing questions:  How should we spend this one precious life?  How can we experience more joy, love, and success?  How can we together create a wiser, healthier, and more just world?

This quest to find answers–including how great spiritual masters drive in traffic–has taken me to six continents in search of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science.  

Labors of love: You may have come to this site after reading one of my books.  I co-wrote The Book of Joy and The Book of Hope as part of the Global Icons series as well as several other books, including two novels.  I’ve gotten to support some brilliant filmmakers on a number of Film/TV projects.  Finally, as a midwife to the zeitgeist, I have worked with many visionaries at Idea Architects, the book and media agency I founded over two decades ago.  While I’m still involved in growing Idea Architects, I’m also focusing on some new initiatives that I hope will contribute to creating a wiser, healthier, and more just world.

Current passions: I want to invite you to join me as we create some bold new projects: The Adventure of Life Podcast and Book Series, new Global Icons books, a Curriculum for us to thrive individually and collectively, a Gathering of visionaries committed to personal and global transformation, and a New Human Story to help us move beyond doom and despair and create a protopian future worthy of our children and grandchildren.  Throughout all these wide-ranging projects, my goal is to help contribute to creating thriving people on a thriving planet during this most decisive decade in human history.

I hope you will join me in finding answers to the big questions in our life by sharing your name and email so we can stay in touch.  As a thank you, I will send you “Two Truths & Three Lies About Hope & Humanity” (a five-minute read of wisdom distilled from Arch Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and Jane Goodall about our collective future).

in friendship,
DOUG

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