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  • Committee for Economic Development Graphic

    Member, Board of Trustees

    Committee for Economic Development

    - Present 1 year 7 months

    Politics

    Since its founders in 1942 developed the Marshall Plan for Europe, CED's mission has been to harness the power of business leadership to chart a path forward to a more prosperous economy with equal opportunity for all Americans.

  • American Ancestors Graphic

    Member, Board of Trustees

    American Ancestors

    - Present 3 years

    Arts and Culture

    Serve on the Board of Trustees for American Ancestors (New England Historic Genealogical Society), the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in year 1845. Previously served on the Board of Councillors.

  • Commitee on Heraldry Graphic

    Member

    Commitee on Heraldry

    - Present 1 year 7 months

    Arts and Culture

    Serve on the Committee on Heraldry at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the oldest non-governmental heraldic body in the world. We compiles arms of American colonists, or immigrants to the United States, who were rightfully armigerous according to the authorities and customs of their countries of origin.

  • College of Arms Foundation Graphic

    Member, Board of Directors

    College of Arms Foundation

    - Present 10 months

    Arts and Culture

    Serve on the board of directors of the College of Arms Foundation, which supports the College of Arms and English heraldry in the United States of America.

  • American Patrons of St George's and The Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Graphic

    Board Member and 1st Vice President

    American Patrons of St George's and The Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

    - Present 2 years

    Arts and Culture

    Serve on the board of the APSG, an organization whose mission is to “support the fabric” of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England.

  • 36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences Graphic

    Patron

    36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences

    - 1 year 9 months

    Arts and Culture

    Served as the Patron of the 36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences.

  • The Pipes of Christmas Graphic

    Founding Patron, Boston

    The Pipes of Christmas

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    Arts and Culture

    I am founding patron of The Pipes of Christmas in Boston, MA.

  • Cosmic Girls Foundation Graphic

    Board Member

    Cosmic Girls Foundation

    - 9 months

    Science and Technology

    Served as Board Member at Cosmic Girls Foundation helping to empower girls globally to become pioneers in the new space economy leading humanity into the cosmos.

  • Northport Village Corporation Graphic

    Overseer

    Northport Village Corporation

    - 3 years 1 month

    Served as a non-resident member of the Board of Overseers for Northport Village Corporation, including serving as Utility Trustee helping to oversee the water and sewer departments.

  • ArsonWatch Graphic

    Fire Patrol

    ArsonWatch

    - 4 years 5 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Served as a member of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's ArsonWatch patrol.

  • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Graphic

    Volunteer on Patrol

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

    - 4 years 5 months

    Social Services

  • Santa Monica Office of Emergency Management - CERT Graphic

    CERT Volunteer

    Santa Monica Office of Emergency Management - CERT

    - 6 years

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Served as a member of the Community Emergency response team for the City of Santa Monica.

  • International Academy of Web Television Graphic

    Board Member

    International Academy of Web Television

    - 1 year 8 months

    Arts and Culture

    Served as a founding member of the board, and interim Executive Director of the IAWTV.

  • GoSustainable Graphic

    Board Member

    GoSustainable

    - 7 years

    Economic Empowerment

    GoSustainable's mission is to connect the developing and developed world through adoption of the Global Farm labeling program. The label represents the unification of farmers and businesses in sustainable agriculture and business practices the world over, helping the people of the Global South to develop their communities, and better their lives through the fruit of their own labor.

  • Community Works Graphic

    Sexual Assault Victims Service Advocate

    Community Works

    - 1 year

    Social Services

Publications

  • Smaller is Better: Using Small Autonomous Teams to Drive the Future of Enterprise

    Micrometer Press

    When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that don’t actually serve the customer—products you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.

    After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small…

    When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that don’t actually serve the customer—products you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.

    After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!

    Smaller is Better uses real-world examples of companies who have saved billions and shaved years off their development cycles through small teams. Discover how to form nimble, autonomous teams, optimize them for mission, and scale across your organization.

    Improve both innovation and delivery while amping up customer satisfaction. Best of all, learn ways to get full buy-in from company leaders—and how you can “start small” today, with or without C-suite support.

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Honors & Awards

  • United States’s 100 Top CEOs in the Enterprise Space

    CEO Boardroom Media

    Selected by CEO Boardroom Media for inclusion on their list of Top 100 CEOs in the enterprise ecosystem because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories: Innovation, Growth, Management, and Societal impact.

  • Best CEOs - 2022

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  • Best CEOs for Diversity - 2022

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  • Officer

    The Most Venerable Order of St. John

    The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.

  • Best CEOs

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  • Best CEOs for Diversity - 2021

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  • Freeman, City of London

    City of London

  • Best CEOs - 2020

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  • Best CEOs for Diversity - 2019

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  • Best CEOs for Diversity - 2018

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  • Best CEOs in Los Angeles - 2018

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

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Organizations

  • Sidebar

    Founding Member

    - Present

    Sidebar is a private, highly vetted leadership program that accelerates your career. We have the people, the process, and the technology to drive your impact and growth.

  • Worshipful Company of Fletchers

    Liveryman

    - Present

    As the 39th Livery Company in the City of London, the Worshipful Company of Fletchers is one of the oldest of the City of London's 110 Livery Companies. But today very few of our members are involved in arrowmaking and so we exist to uphold the traditions of the City in ways that are appropriate to our heritage.

  • Royal Geographical Society

    Life Fellow

    - Present

    The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies and the professional body for geography worldwide, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.

  • Royal Asiatic Society

    Life Fellow

    - Present

    The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 ‘for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia‘. Many distinguished scholars have been fellows of the Society, including Sir Richard Burton (1821-90), the noted explorer and translator of…

    The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 ‘for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia‘. Many distinguished scholars have been fellows of the Society, including Sir Richard Burton (1821-90), the noted explorer and translator of One Thousand and One Nights and the Kama Sutra; Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943), the renowned archaeologist of the ‘Silk Road’ and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the famous Bengali writer and poet.

  • Royal Society of Arts

    Life Fellow

    - Present

    Life Fellow of the RSA. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

  • Royal Anthropological Institute

    Life Fellow

    - Present

    Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It…

    Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.

  • Archaeology Scotland

    Lifetime Member

    - Present

  • Incorporation of Maltmen in Glasgow

    Member

    - Present

  • International Napoleonic Society

    Fellow

    - Present

    Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society. The INS promotes the study of the Napoleonic Era in accordance with proper academic standards. To this end, the INS honors the leading minds in this field by making them Fellows of the INS (FINS), and brings them together to present their research and discuss the research of others. The INS is a nonprofit educational body, organized under the authority of the Government of Canada.

  • Royal Scottish Geographical Society

    Life Member

    - Present

    The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) has a distinguished history of supporting and promoting geographical education, research and exploration. For over 130 years, RSGS has been working to broaden public awareness of the breadth and depth of geography, and to promote greater understanding of contemporary issues which shape humanities future. The RSGS awards a number of high profile medals to some of the most outstanding explorers, scientists, academics, teachers and communicators.

  • Spalding Gentlemen’s Society

    Lifetime Member

    - Present

    Founded in 1710, the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society is Britain’s oldest surviving provincial learned society.

  • Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

    Fellow

    - Present

    Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The society is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The Society's aim is to promote the cultural heritage of Scotland.

  • Gerson Lehrman Group Council Member

    Council Member

    - Present

    When leaders need to make informed decisions, GLG Council provides meaningful connections through a network of experts, the world’s most varied and qualified source of first-hand expertise.

  • Saltire Society

    Lifetime Member

    - Present

    The Saltire Society is one of Scotland’s leading supporters of culture. For almost 90 years the society has been committed to Scottish innovation and creativity, from social housing design and literature to public art and emerging creatives.

  • Scottish Castles Association

    Lifetime Member

    - Present

    The stone walls of Scotland's ancient castles, towers and fortified houses have witnessed, first-hand, the fascinating and tumultuous history of the Scottish nation. The Scottish Castles Association aims to help facilitate the protection, conservation or restoration of these unique properties for future generations to study, research and appreciate.

  • World Archaeology Congress

    Lifetime Member

    - Present

  • Smart Capitalists for American Prosperity

    Member

    - Present

  • Patriotic Millionaires

    Member

    - Present

  • Open Web Foundation

    Secretary of the Board

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    The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies. Following the open source model similar to the Creative Commons, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specifications.

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