A thought laboratory, not a consultancy.
Why we exist
We exist to strengthen our human communities, locally and globally, so more people have opportunities to grow, prosper, and enjoy life.
Organizations shape livelihoods, opportunity, and much of our daily experience. As intelligent technology expands what they can do, the choices they make will shape more than business performance. They will shape what people have the freedom and opportunity to become. That is where GenThink focuses its work.
The question underneath “Now what, humans?” is not just what work is left for us, but what becomes possible for us? We investigate the assumptions that narrow that possibility, with the human sciences, dialogue, and accountability to measurable business outcomes and financial reality. Human opportunity and organizational viability belong in the same conversation.
The human operating model
Every organization has an organizational structure, and every organization has a human operating model. The human operating model describes how people actually relate, decide, communicate context, and distribute judgment. For generations, this layer remained implicit, and people simply adapted to whatever rules they inherited.
Intelligent technology is forcing us to examine that model intentionally for the first time in a long time. We study these dynamics, convene people wrestling with them, and teach cohorts how to interrogate their own assumptions. We do not come in to tell you what your answer should be.
People may discover possibilities they have stopped giving themselves permission to explore. Our role is to create conditions for that discovery, not prescribe what someone should discover or promise to reveal a “true self.” This is disciplined inquiry, not therapy or motivational coaching.
An organization's obligation cannot end with sending someone to a cohort. If people discover capacities their workplace will not let them exercise, we have awakened possibility without creating opportunity. GenThink helps people question those conditions; organizations remain responsible for changing them.
A note from the founder
I want to strengthen my human community, whether it is the people around me in Philadelphia or people whose lives unfold far from mine. I want more of us to have opportunities to grow, prosper, and enjoy life. That is the purpose I want GenThink, as a corporation, to serve.
Intelligent technology is how we enter the question, not where the purpose ends. I am interested in what people might discover they can contribute, pursue, or become when inherited assumptions no longer decide for them. As a researcher in the human sciences, I want us to explore that honestly, with evidence rather than promises. My ambition is to help people become more active authors of what comes next, and help organizations understand their responsibility to make room for it.
Riv Bolotovsky, founder, GenThink Labs
Ways to engage
- Read the lab notes
- Bring us in for a keynote or mini lab
- Certify as a Catalyst
- Join a GenThink Intensive cohort
Getting in touch
Tell us what you are curious about: a cohort, a keynote, an on-site lab, or simply an argument you would like to have. Leave a few thoughts here and we will come back to you.