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Innovation is for everyone.

Our research is focused on how to arrange our minds, our environments and our cultures to generate new, feasible and useful things. The result is innovation.

Our heritage as humans is our culture. From our culture, we learn what is possible. Innovation and culture, I believe, go together. In many ways, culture is the store of past innovations, and an active catalog of innovations being tested against reality.

I believe everyone can innovate. You do not need a lot of money, and you do not need to become famous. If you can improve your condition, or the condition of others by trying something new to you, then you are an innovator.

Share with us, and we will improve the human condition together by growing and sharing culture through innovation.

Research

My research focuses on cross-cultural studies because I think the most effective way to innovate is to first learn what we already know. Many human cultures exist and have existed, and we mostly have not shared with each other. A focus on translation in language and meaning is needed to catch us all up. My particular focus is on the interaction of American and Chinese cultures — two large and growing cultures. One very new, one very old. We have much to learn!

I also study leadership and well-being. These features are core to human culture, across time and across location. One can have a dramatic impact on the other. I think this is a very interesting observation and points to an important clue about what is culture and how best to utilize culture for good.