Eric Meade

I help people think through what they've never faced before.

I've been a naval submarine officer, an INSEAD MBA, a sourcing executive in China, a nonprofit leader in Washington, D.C., the Board Chair of the World Future Society, a book author, and a father of two. For nearly 20 years I've helped health, nonprofit, and public-sector organizations navigate complexity and change.

What I Believe

For 20 years, I've been the person organizations call when nobody in the room has the answer. Strategic planning retreats where the old strategy no longer works. Leadership summits where the sector is shifting underneath everyone's feet. Board retreats where people need to think together in ways they've never had to before.

I believe that to be effective, any strategic or organizational process must engage all three domains of the human mind: thought, emotion, and intuition. Groups must start with what they know, but then peel away the feelings that keep them attached to their particular ways of knowing. Only then can they enter a space of genuine creativity to find solutions they may never have considered before.

Today, organizations face a convergence of forces — technological disruption, political polarization, ecological crisis — that makes the old strategic playbook obsolete. The uncertainty is enormous, but so are the opportunities for those willing to think expansively about the future.

My job is to help organizations step into that uncertainty, see possibilities they hadn't considered, and build strategies they can commit to fully.

Why "Whole Mind"?

Whole Mind used to refer to the three domains of the human mind — thought, emotion, and intuition — and the journey between them that makes real change possible. It still does. But now it means something bigger: my mind, other people's minds, and AI. That's a new "whole mind," engaging all available intelligence — human and artificial — to navigate what we've never faced before.

20+

Years facilitating high-stakes workshops

100+

Organizations worked with

Apps built with AI

Books published

The Book

Whole Mind Facilitation: How to Lead Workshops That Change People, Organizations, and the World

The book presents a workshop design that any facilitator can use to take participants on a journey through all three domains of the "whole mind": thought, emotion, and intuition. It covers an overall philosophy of facilitation, how to plan an agenda, how to choose a venue and set up the room, how to facilitate discussion and mediate disagreement, and what to do when you don't know what to do.

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In Their Words

“What you've been able to do here in Memphis is to help people think not just 'outside the box' but 'outside the building.' With the way you first of all listen and second of all encourage openness, you have the capacity for people to trust you almost instantly. I'm not sure that's something you've acquired or something you were born with. I just think you have an innate ability to listen and to have people feel comfortable in your presence and to know they can say whatever they want to say and you won't use it inappropriately.”

Robert R. Waller, MD

Former CEO, The Mayo Clinic

Ready to think differently about what comes next?

I'm always up for a conversation — especially with people who are ready to think differently about what comes next.

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