How can organizations and communities listen to people’s experiences without reducing those experiences to a survey result or an expert’s conclusion?   In this new episode of Epistemic Alchemy, I speak with Cynthia Kurtz, an independent consultant, researcher, author, coach, and software developer with more than 25 years of experience in...

What happens between the production of specialist knowledge and the decisions that affect communities, landscapes, and futures?   In this episode of Epistemic Alchemy, I speak with Canadian geoscientist, author, and adjunct professor Brian Gregory about information ecology: an approach that treats information as more than data to be stored, managed,...

What would it take for educational research to serve both truth and welfare?   In this episode of Epistemic Alchemy, Dr. Mohammed Raei speaks with Jean-Luc Patry, Professor Emeritus of Educational Research at the University of Salzburg, about the intellectual foundations of sound educational inquiry. Patry argues that statistical sophistication alone...

In this episode of Epistemic Alchemy, I speak with neuroscientist Dr. Björn Brembs about the limits of journal prestige, impact factors, and conventional peer review. Brembs explains why high-status publication venues may not reliably signal higher-quality research, how editorial selection can privilege novelty and perceived interest over methodological rigor,...

I will present an interactive webinar for the International Organization Development Association (IODA) titled “When Good Interventions Meet Adaptive Walls: A Five-Dimensional Metatheoretical Audit of OD Practice Across Global Contexts.” Organization development interventions are often built on sound principles and implemented with good intentions. Yet even well-designed interventions may encounter...

I am pleased to announce that I will be facilitating an interactive workshop at the International Leadership Association Conference in Toronto. Leadership theories and leadership development initiatives often fail for the same underlying reason: they operate with partial or implicit assumptions about reality, knowledge, values, practice, and purpose. This session...

On September 11, 2026, I will lead an interactive webinar workshop for the Humanistic Management Network titled “Diagnosing and Reimagining the Business School.” Despite more than three decades of calls for reform, business schools continue to face fundamental questions about their purpose, values, assumptions, forms of knowledge, and relationship to...

I have created two new explainer videos introducing key ideas from my recent work on economic measurement and human flourishing.   The first video introduces Beyond GDP: A Balanced Economic Dashboard for Human Flourishing, which proposes a more comprehensive way to assess economic and social progress. Rather than treating GDP as...