“Every single thing they did and said was with such purpose and intention, and they did an excellent job of calling attention to their practice in real-time.”
Commitment.
We are committed to your growth. We are committed to leaving your people co-creating with shifting context, making as a way of thinking, and relating as a way of growing ideas and each other.
We see the climate crisis, political polarity, inequity, the collapse of financial institutions, and the rise of failing corporations as rooted in our culture’s inability to change. Tilt is committed to increasing 1B people’s capacity to adapt to change in the next decade.
Aithan Shapira
Founder | Experience
Aithan (MFA PhD) is an internationally acclaimed artist and Lecturer at MIT Sloan. As facilitator and executive coach, he draws on 20+ years of experience helping individuals and organizations unlock their creative capacities in order to innovate at the speed of change.
Aithan speaks at global venues and advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 500s on strategies for how to "lead by seeing and listening differently". He serves on McKinsey's think tank for Advancing Adult Learning and Development and has pioneered progressive curricula at the edge of leadership and skills retraining for the future of work at MIT Sloan, Harvard iLab, Stanford d.school, and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship.
Aithan developed his research on the creative process at the Royal College of Art & Design, lived in an Australian Aboriginal community for three years to study art’s impact on cultures of survival, and continues to be a visiting critic at arts institutions internationally. He exhibits his artwork in museums and galleries in New York, London, and Miami.
Lauren Tenney
Transformation
Lauren is a Senior Consultant, Certified Presence Based Coach, Certified Integral Facilitator, and Exec Editor at Ten Directions. Directing new program development, she partners with faculty, trainers and thought leaders to design and produce trainings in adult learning, facilitative leadership and the future of work.
For over a decade, she has been immersed in the fields of human development and transformative learning. She is trained in innovative tools for transformation and collaboration, including: Immunity to Change, Sociocracy, Holacracy, The Natural Change Process, Evolving Worldviews, Way of Council, Cynefin Framework, and Permaculture Design.
Lauren’s passion is working with individuals, teams and small organizations who are confronting challenges at the intersection of interpersonal dynamics, vision & mission, and process design. Her writing appears at Integral Review, Emerging Edge, and she is the co-host of the Ten Directions podcast, Nuance.
Pete Strom
Partner | Culture
Pete is a Certified Integral Facilitator, licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and entrepreneur with an MA in Human Development.
A practitioner of culture design, facilitation, Deliberately Developmental Organizations, Meditation, psychotherapy, and EOS, he has elevated existing teams. events, and thought leaders through developmental learning, coaching, and facilitation from IDEO, NASA, Apple, Google, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Hasbro, Warner Bros, and other Fortune 500 companies.
As an entrepreneur, Pete has co-created seven restaurant concepts, co-founded an energy efficiency company and an angel investment firm, “Better Angels,” and is personally invested in the mentorship of multiple innovative start-ups. Pete is also an adjunct professor at MSU’s College of Business, and a TEDx speaker. He is passionate about his family, playing hockey, tennis, and music. And he loves a good pun.
Jessica Felts
People
Jess is a CPCC certified executive coach, start-up advisor, and operational leader. A connector at her core, she brings together her background in investment banking, strategy consulting, and People & Culture leadership to take an integrated approach to leadership and team effectiveness. Her north star is to create space and experiences for leaders, teams, and organizations to unlock their full potential.
Jess spent her early career in investment banking with Wells Fargo before attending the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business where she earned her MBA. She then joined McKinsey, focusing on strategy and organizational consulting before entering the tech industry with Medallia, a (then) pre-IPO customer experience SaaS company on the People & Culture team. Jess has built company-wide leadership development and team effectiveness and leverages her external (consulting) lens and internal (operational) lens to design programs and company cultures that are built to last.
Jess is the Head of People at Ampush, a digital marketing firm. She's a lifelong amateur dancer, escaping to Cuba to study salsa dancing whenever she has the opportunity.
Roshi Givechi
Strategy . Storytelling
At her core, Roshi Givechi is an optimistic designer and strategist who strives to enhance mindsets, experiences and outcomes. She gets energized by solving problems and generating ideas that are truly in service of people and society at large. She has a knack for connecting dots in new ways, loves crystalizing ideas into compelling, grounded narratives, and gravitates towards seeing and spotlighting the beauty and resilience in people – in part rooted in her upbringing as a Third Culture Kid.
After about 20 years of design innovation at IDEO, Roshi is channeling a Portfolio Career model and independently consulting with a range of people and organizations – in different capacities and contexts. She generously amplifies others' teams and ideas, while also shielding space to develop her own documentary film shorts.
Kim Dabbs
Strategy . Development
Kim Dabbs is a social entrepreneur, advocate and innovator who is leading Social Innovation for Steelcase. She has a passion for building a culture of opportunity and is leveraging that mindset as she partners with organizations leading transformational change projects around the world. She has scaled innovation and designed programs that showcased impact as she collaborated on the launch of the new Learning + Innovation Center that was built as a global hub in Munich.
Prior to joining Steelcase she served as executive director of the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology. Kim crafted a model for both adult career training and teen arts + tech engagement, leading to WMCAT’s inclusion in national learning networks as a best practice. Kim also led Michigan Youth Arts, where she built a coalition of 16 statewide organizations focused on public policy, philanthropy and advocacy for education.
Kim holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Art History from Kendall College of Art and Design. In 2015, she was chosen as one of four professionals globally to participate in a 3-month residency at Stanford’s d.school with leadership training in human centered design. She presents internationally on social innovation and design thinking at venues such as the Guggenheim, the Aspen Institute and TEDx.Cultures of innovation are lived, not performed.
They're about individuals, not installations. They can be cultivated but they can’t be controlled. They are emergent and evolving. They balance liberation with deliberation in the creative pursuit of brilliant and beautiful outcomes that are unbelievably impactful – on business, on society, on the lives we lead.