AI & Technology
In May 2026, Chris Olah (co-founder of Anthropic) stood in the Vatican and said something that most AI companies still won’t say out loud.
Speaking in response to Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, Olah described what his research team has been finding inside AI systems: internal structures that mirror human neuroscience, evidence of introspection, and states that “functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease.”
Governance
Most governance failures are not failures of rules. They are failures of culture, accountability, and the structures that make accountability real. In nearly three decades of governance training and board development work, here's what we've learned about what actually changes organisations.
Technology Policy
A case study in long-game advocacy — and what it means to build infrastructure for a future others can't yet see. The dig-once legislation and public broadband coalition work from the early 2000s that the state eventually adopted.
Civic Tech
Engagement is not the same as participation. And participation is not the same as power. The distinction matters for every platform, tool, and process that claims to serve democracy. What we've learned building Convexus.
Leadership
Executive facilitation is not the same as meeting management. When rooms need to move — boards facing crises, coalitions facing fracture, leadership teams facing hard choices — the process is the intervention.
AI & Technology
Most organisations are either racing toward AI or avoiding it entirely. The more interesting question is how nonprofits, governments, and advocacy organisations can adopt AI in ways that align with — rather than undermine — their missions.