My work is grounded in my daily work within Sociocracy For All, a nonprofit I co-founded and built from 2 to 240 people as the Executive Director. I’ve trained thousands of people, been on dozens of podcasts and videos, my books have found 10,000 readers.
I’ve been called a “manifestor” more than once.
I am not so strong on how to be still. How to “just be.”
But I’m learning. In fact, actively because I know that I need to grow on the inside for this book to grow on the outside.
Born in 1979, I’ve worked in self-management. I’m author of three books on the topic – Many Voices One Song (2018), Who Decides Who Decides (2021), Collective Power (2023). Originally German, I’m transgender, I live in an intentional community in Massachusetts with 5 children. I have a PhD in linguistics and a masters in linguistic, literature and history. I live in an intentional community with 70 neighbors.
In 2023, I had a dream – one of those vivid dreams when one wakes up and knows, this was a message. The message was this: “Pack your stuff, Ted, and get ready to go. You will need everything you’ve ever learned to bring it all.”
After this dream, I was shaken up and walked around like a deer in the headlights for a few weeks. Where am I going? And what am I doing?
I didn’t answer the call back then. I was scared, I wasn’t ready, I was distracted, my organization was in crisis, and I wanted to finish writing my third book.
But mostly, I felt like I hadn’t grown yet into the person that could do whatever it was that I needed to do. I now feel ready.
I understand a little more what I need to do. In fact, I can already feel it in my hands.
Wiser organizations 