
About Flourishing
Systems Foundation
We catalyze the emergence of life-aligned systems through translational research, transformative education, venture incubation, and community co-creation.
Why Flourishing?
We focus on flourishing because it names what lies beyond survival, beyond extraction, and beyond optimization. In a world shaped by entangled crises and accelerating complexity, flourishing offers a generative horizon—a way of orienting toward life, not just managing its breakdown.
Unlike traditional metrics of progress, flourishing invites us to ask deeper questions: What sustains vitality across time and scale? What kinds of systems allow people, communities, and ecologies to co-evolve in mutual support?
Our work explores these questions through research, education, and incubation—helping to reveal, seed, and support the living systems that make lasting wellbeing possible. In a time when so much is unraveling, flourishing offers a field of possibility worth moving toward.
Core Team

Mingzhu He
Founder & Executive Director

Carson Kelly
Board Member

Lauren Hebert
Founder & Board Member

Arlene Pineda
Advisor
