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His Work, Not His Resume

About the Founder

The best way to learn about the founder is to learn about his ongoing work. Here are four live projects he's currently leading — each one a real platform people can use today.

Learn About Him Through His Work

The founder believes that the truest measure of a person is what they're building right now — not what they've built before. So instead of a resume, this page features his premier project and four more live platforms he's currently leading. Each one is a real platform people can use today. Together, they tell you who he is and what he cares about.

Applied Purpose Science Research Lab

Studying purpose as it is lived

A research lab studying how purpose develops over time — not through snapshots, but through longitudinal, mixed-methods research. Home to the Global Purpose Cohort, a multi-wave study with preregistered hypotheses and frozen baselines. The lab also houses doctoral research on behavioral health literacy and the Naming Gap, with a dataset from 2,100+ participants across 42 countries.

Who It Supports

Provides researchers, students, and institutions with access to a rigorous, ethically governed purpose-science dataset — plus a five-year research agenda, transparency practices, and downloadable documentation for doctoral-level study.

appliedpurpose.life

BH Pathways

Behavioral health literacy and career pathways

A platform helping people recognize the experience they already carry, understand behavioral health terminology, and connect to real career pathways. Features 100+ career profiles with salary ranges and education requirements, interactive learning modules, an 8-week LCSW licensure prep course, scholarships, and community forums.

Who It Supports

Supports high school students, college students, and working adults exploring behavioral health careers — with learning modules, a career explorer, scholarships, peer support rooms, and a dedicated high school section for early career awareness.

perceptionswithimpact.com

Medicaid Changes 2027

Know. Check. Act.

A free tool helping people understand major Medicaid changes starting in 2027. Built on a simple Know-Check-Act framework: know what's changing, check whether it applies to you, and act before your deadline. Includes an eligibility checker, zip-code search for nearby help, downloadable guides, and role-based dashboards for nine community roles.

Who It Supports

Supports Medicaid members, families, faith leaders, educators, healthcare providers, nonprofit leaders, and students — with multilingual resources in eight languages, role-specific action steps, and a dedicated internship program for students leading awareness in their communities.

ForThePeople.work

Lived Writing

AI-assisted writing development

An AI-assisted writing platform that combines structured workshop sessions, adaptive prompts, AI scoring, and human instructor feedback. Offers five writing focus areas — General Public, Academic, Peer-Reviewed Research, Clinical Social Work, and Public Health & Policy — with eight progressive sessions from observing lived experience to delivering a polished final piece.

Who It Supports

Supports writers across disciplines — students, researchers, social workers, and policy advocates — with a 6-category rubric scoring system, peer feedback, revision tracking, and instructor annotation tools to help them develop their authentic voice and craft.

purposedriven.health

Read the Background Story

My First 100 Hours as a Global AI Consultant

If you'd like to read the background story behind why the founder built all of this — the 100 hours that changed everything and the decision to give that time back.

Read the story

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