I have a varied background from Philosophy & French Literature to Human Systems Behaviour and Global Leadership to Physics, Math, Art and Neuroscience. I also studied negotiation, mindfulness based stress reduction techniques and global facilitation.

As a 'generalist' with a focus on human behaviour, development and relationships, I believe it imperative to start with the conceptual architecture of how we think, move and perceive the world. Creativity and imagination are the genesis of every discipline and philosophy helps us understand the premise of our logical patterning... fuzzy or not. Most of what we think we know, we do not know. In the space field, this is a moral imperative as theoretical physicists use their capacity of their imaginations to envision worlds and laws of physics beyond our current understandings. We are also changing as a species with the advent of new civilizations from agrarian to industrial to post industrial. This means our engagement with each other and with technology will also change as we engage in interplanetary travel and cutting edge scientific explorations of our universe. The fascinating thing for me is to look at how our ancients knew so much about astronomy, cosmology and the precise positioning of heavenly bodies -- without the science or technology that we have access to today. It is marvelously fascinating, mind-boggling and awe-inspiring.

At first, it was challenging as people didn't really value the role of generalists and artists. Now, it has become more obvious the connection between seemingly disparate dots. Recently, I had the privilege of being invited to a panel with senior NASA scientists to speak about Quantum Realities. What was really humbling was the air time I was given and how some ideas I shared were echoed and quoted by those present. This to me indicates we need more transdisciplinary (different than multidisciplinary) voices at the table in our private public and space industries. The value of what different perspectives can bring and how very close the fields of science, technology and humanities are to each other is what education needs to move toward. For without this, we will create an infinitude of specialist bubbles that will have blind spots and black swan events that will derail costly space exploration efforts.

The most fun in my job is building relationships with people from all over the world. To connect and learn with perspectives and ways of thinking that are vastly different than mine and to engage in dialogue and ideas exchanges to augment collective human intelligence. It's also profoundly satisfying to dream up worlds and then be able to bring them to life. The most fun is engaging with people who are 'free' -- namely, children and people who have shed the shackles of externally imposed parameters to be able to imagine without boundaries in 'fields of colour' as Rumi purports.