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Constellation Thinking
We've been sold a myth about purpose. That it's singular. Fixed. A North Star you find once and follow forever. That if you haven't found it, something is wrong with you. That if you have, everything else will fall into place.
None of that is true.
Seventeen years into building a company, it ended, and three words arrived: who am I? The book that came out of that question argues against the premise of the search itself. Purpose isn't a single point you find and follow. It's a constellation, many pursuits held in relationship, each contributing a different kind of meaning.
Drawing on systems thinking, narrative psychology, and contemplative practice, Constellation Thinking offers a process for mapping your own Purpose Constellation: a personal framework you can navigate by when life changes and certainty feels less certain. You'll identify the pursuits that matter most and see the shape your life's purpose has been taking all along.
What emerges is something the singular-purpose model could never offer. A way of moving through life with both direction and flexibility.
Whether you point this work at yourself or at a business, the methods are the same.
Authors Equity. January 5, 2027.
Prioritizing Purpose
A cohort program. October to December 2026.A three-month program for people who have arrived somewhere successful and found the map no longer useful. Small group, structured sessions, working through the whole purpose process from Constellation Thinking a year before the book reaches shelves.
Applied Empathy
The New Language of Leadership
A Business Insider Best Book.
The book that made the case: empathy is a discipline that can be taught and put to work against the hardest problems an organization has. Not a personality trait. Not something you either have or don't.
Built on the work at Sub Rosa and the course taught at Princeton, it introduced the Empathic Archetypes and the Whole Self framework, now used by leadership teams around the world. Its tools have been adopted by organizations from the ACLU and Google to the United Nations and the Obama Administration.
Arianna Huffington described it as showing how to "unlock our ability to design solutions and meet difficult challenges with empathy at the center."
Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 2018.
