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.

Our Team

Mingzhu He

Mingzhu He

Founder & Executive Director

Lauren Hebert

Lauren Hebert

Founder & Board Member

Judy Zhou

Judy Zhou

Zan Lowe-Skillern

Zan Lowe-Skillern

Dmitriy Lyan

Dmitriy Lyan

Brian Spears

Brian Spears

Ben Simon-Thomas

Ben Simon-Thomas

Patrick Deegan

Patrick Deegan

Hank Holiday

Hank Holiday

Advisor

Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist

Founder: Pachamama Alliance & Soul of Money Institute

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Human Flourishing Floor

Frontier Tower

1 Sansome St

San Francisco, CA 94104