“Sean is phenomenal manager and I feel truly fortunate I had the opportunity to work for him at Trace3. He is a selfless leader and mentor who empowers his employees. Sean has the ability to align an employee's sense of purpose with the company mission. Any organization would be lucky to have Sean and any employee who works for him will be spoiled for future bosses. ”
About
Product, strategy, and innovation leader, skilled at uncovering actionable customer/user…
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Last week I wrapped up 12 amazing, meaningful years at Penn Medicine. I'm so grateful for the privilege of working with brilliant, mission driven…
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Experience
Education
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Boston College
Activities and Societies: President and Co-Founder of the Boston College Entrepreneur Society
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Strategic Foresight: "The ability to create and maintain a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view, and to use the insights arising in useful organizational ways. For example to detect adverse conditions, guide policy, shape strategy, and explore new markets, products, and services" (Richard Slaughter).
Starting point: As the result of irreducible complexity, emerging behavior in certain classes of complex systems, structural/systemic opacity, etc., accurate, specific…Strategic Foresight: "The ability to create and maintain a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view, and to use the insights arising in useful organizational ways. For example to detect adverse conditions, guide policy, shape strategy, and explore new markets, products, and services" (Richard Slaughter).
Starting point: As the result of irreducible complexity, emerging behavior in certain classes of complex systems, structural/systemic opacity, etc., accurate, specific predictions related to human and natural systems are simply not possible (with very few exceptions). History is shaped by significant discontinuous events (aka *wildcards* or "black swans") that are only predictable in hindsight. The point isn't to know those in advance, but to be robust [ideally, "antifragile" (Nassim Taleb)] to multiple futures.
Coursework: technological forecasting, system dynamics, global change, scenario development. -
Graduate coursework in System Dynamics, a structural approach to modeling dynamic, nonlinear behaviour in complex systems.
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Course focused on:
- Risk education to develop real-life competence
- Understanding model error before using a model
- Going from reality to models rather than from models to reality
- Taking risks that are understood rather than trying to understanding the risks of a given action
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Executive Advisor
Teach the Future
- Present 3 years 1 month
Education
Teach the Future believes that students of any age can learn to think critically and creatively about the future and develop the agency to influence it. Offerings include:
- Free teaching materials and support for educators who want to Teach the Future
- Professional development for educators and student workshops
- The Futures Thinking Playbook, a guided workbook for students to introduce them to futures thinking
- Support for administrators and leaders ready to incorporate…Teach the Future believes that students of any age can learn to think critically and creatively about the future and develop the agency to influence it. Offerings include:
- Free teaching materials and support for educators who want to Teach the Future
- Professional development for educators and student workshops
- The Futures Thinking Playbook, a guided workbook for students to introduce them to futures thinking
- Support for administrators and leaders ready to incorporate futures thinking into their districts and schools
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Advisor
Foresight Education and Research Network
- Present 14 years
Education
FERN is a global community of foresight students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of graduate foresight education, employment, and research.
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Board Member
BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD, INC.
- 1 year 1 month
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Boulder Emergency Squad (BES) is a volunteer technical search and rescue team serving the people of Boulder County. BES is dedicated to the preservation of life and property.
Founded in 1963, BES is a Colorado member-owned 501(c)3 non-profit entity. BES is 100% volunteer. The primary source of funding is the Boulder County Commissioners.
BES is the primary dive rescue agency for Boulder County and works closely with the Sheriff's department, EMS, and fire-rescue agencies…Boulder Emergency Squad (BES) is a volunteer technical search and rescue team serving the people of Boulder County. BES is dedicated to the preservation of life and property.
Founded in 1963, BES is a Colorado member-owned 501(c)3 non-profit entity. BES is 100% volunteer. The primary source of funding is the Boulder County Commissioners.
BES is the primary dive rescue agency for Boulder County and works closely with the Sheriff's department, EMS, and fire-rescue agencies providing mutual-aid support for a variety of technical rescue incidents and emergency situations.
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Advisor
Accelerating Studies Foundation
- Present 16 years
Education
ASF is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit engaged in outreach, education, research, and selective advocacy with respect to issues of accelerating change.
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Mentor
Watson U
- 11 months
Education
Watson University brings in the most promising young leaders from around the world, and puts them through a degree bearing incubator, where they start businesses or organizations aimed at alleviating some of the world's most urgent social and environmental challenges.
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Advisor
Lifeboat Foundation
- 4 years
The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks.
Patents
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USERS WITH RELEVANTLY QUALIFIED ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONALS
Issued US 8799124
An accounting professional database is created that includes, but is not limited to, accounting professional profile data for one or more accounting professionals representing detailed information associated with the accounting professionals. A user of one or more financial management systems who may need the assistance of an accounting professional is identified and user need data indicating the detailed and specific accounting professional needs of the user is obtained. One or more matching…
An accounting professional database is created that includes, but is not limited to, accounting professional profile data for one or more accounting professionals representing detailed information associated with the accounting professionals. A user of one or more financial management systems who may need the assistance of an accounting professional is identified and user need data indicating the detailed and specific accounting professional needs of the user is obtained. One or more matching criteria for the user are then determined/identified using the user need data and the one or more matching criteria for the user is used to search the accounting professional profile data in the accounting professional database to find one or more accounting professionals that match, or most closely match, the one or more matching criteria for the user.
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TECHNIQUE FOR PERFORMING TRIPLE BOTTOM-LINE ASSESSMENTS
Filed US 20090254387
Embodiments of a computer system for determining a social responsibility metric are described. During operation, the computer system aggregates information associated with financial transactions of a user to determine the social responsibility metric. Note that the financial transactions may be included in a data structure associated with financial software, and the data structure may be stored in a computer-readable medium. Next, the computer system may provide the social responsibility metric…
Embodiments of a computer system for determining a social responsibility metric are described. During operation, the computer system aggregates information associated with financial transactions of a user to determine the social responsibility metric. Note that the financial transactions may be included in a data structure associated with financial software, and the data structure may be stored in a computer-readable medium. Next, the computer system may provide the social responsibility metric to the user.
Other inventorsSee patent
Languages
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
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Hindi
Elementary proficiency
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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