Brian is an innovative institutional leader whose work has spanned media and research, data and AI, systems design and spiritual development. He serves as executive director at Harmony Labs, a non-profit media research lab on a mission to research and reshape society’s relationship with media. For more than a decade, Harmony Labs’ work has helped storytellers and strategists, decision makers and dreamers, harness the immense power of media to shape a positive, pluralistic future and support human flourishing.

Before Harmony Labs, Brian was managing director at Institute of Play, a design studio for experiences that make learning irresistible. Brian helped establish Quest to Learn, a New York City public school that leverages game design to make school engaging and culturally relevant for young people, and GlassLab Games, transforming digital games, like SimCity, into classroom learning environments with real-time formative assessments built in.

Brian was trained as a poet and spends a portion of each year meditating. He serves as president and as a trustee for Threefold Educational Foundation and on several other non-profit boards. Earlier in his career, Brian worked as a cook, a gardener, a professor, a speechwriter, a marketing consultant, and built by hand a timber-frame cabin in the woods. He divides his time between New York, Lima, and Rio de Janeiro.