MJ specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities. A cyborg anthropologist (!), MJ helps us see not just how we shape technologies but how they are re-shaping us. 

They help organizations increase their Digital Fluency in preparation for future technologies, attending not just to tools but also the thinking, skills, data, and business models which comprise new value creation. 

The author of the Causeit digitalfluency.guide, MJ's work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Since founding Causeit, Inc. in 2006, MJ has shifted thinking for hundreds of global enterprises, including NTT, Accenture, Volkswagen, the Gates Foundation, SWIFT, and several major financial and media companies, raising Digital Fluency among hundreds of thousands of professionals. 

MJ is an Accenture Tech Vision Advisory board member and Lewis & Clark College alum.

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As Chief Empowerment Officer, Jessica is at the head of Causeit’s curriculum design and leads client experiences with an emphasis on collaboration, communication and applied learning.

Jessica works to bring the practice and culture of networked leadership to teams working on  exponential projects. Specializing in multicultural, interdisciplinary environments, Jessica has worked extensively in strategic partnerships with global companies, startups and innovation teams since joining Causeit in 2009. Her background in education theory and practice, anthropology, history and futurism uniquely informs her work as a coach, thought partner, facilitator and guide for leaders and organizations who need to upgrade their thinking for the Digital Age.

Jessica’s portfolio includes past projects with Daimler China, Volkswagen, NTT and Credit Suisse. She has been a speaker at RSA and a guest faculty with Singularity University, is a repeat invitee to the Accenture TechVision Advisory Board and participated in the 2016 White House Cancer Moonshot. She studied anthropology, history and education at Smith College and Portland State University.

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Matthew heads Causeit's Business Development efforts. Drawing on years of working in the AI, Robotics, and Speaking industries, Matthew co-develops curated experiences that explore and demystify the challenges and possibilities of the digital age.

Matthew firmly believes that the journey to Digital Fluency can be a genuinely enriching experience for employers and employees alike, with the guidance of Causeit-designed programs providing a digital understanding that can be used throughout the entirety of one's professional career.

Matthew has worked with leaders in nearly every industry regarding the principles central to their digital future. His past projects include arranging actor Will Smith’s ‘date’ with Hanson Robotics’s robot Sophia which amassed 36M views, facilitating meetings with several world leaders, and placing speakers at some of the world's most prestigious live events.

An extrovert by nature, after the expense and strain of gaiety he enjoys reading books containing antique wisdom from long-dead writers. He makes collaborative work fun.

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As Causeit’s Operations Manager, Kelly Pierce facilitates the flow of energy and resources to where they are most useful. Kelly interacts with clients from contracts through invoicing and is the go-to person for administrative troubleshooting.

Kelly joined Causeit in 2014, when she quickly became an indispensable asset to team productivity through her superpowers of navigating bureaucracy and whipping unruly financial books into shape. Her passions include planning, optimizing and Quickbooks forensics.

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Jay Bauer is a systems-whisperer, bringing together human and machine coworkers to track exponential details and interdependencies. Drawing from extensive practical IT experience and training in computational thinking, he translates complex projects into manageable bits and bytes from his home base of San Francisco, California. A technology generalist, he borrows from the best of startup mindsets and enterprise tools to co-design Causeit’s Field Guide Database and co-author content in the Digital Fluency Guide. He helps humans develop their own empowering relationships to advanced business technologies through Digital Fluency coaching.

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As an award-winning content creator with more than 15 years of experience at various industry-leading digital agencies, River balances tech terminology, business buzzwords, and crafty communication to build engaging and accessible narratives.

Their ability to explain complex concepts in simple language aligns them perfectly with Causeit’s mission to make technology human, and their allergy to words like ‘synergy’ and ‘paradigm’ helps keep jargon to a minimum.

A digital nomad, River works between their home in London, various Causeit locations in the US, and anywhere else with strong enough coffee and a wifi connection.

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As a Creative Generalist at Causeit, Garrett balances the roles of Designer, Project Facilitator, and Data Wrangler. They enhance communication and productivity by designing presentations, conceptualizing and editing videos, supporting the development of web pages, and assisting operations by caretaking data in different states of motion.

Garrett joined the team in 2018 as an Operations Assistant and, over time, has expanded their responsibilities, integrating a lifelong passion for art, creativity, and digital media into this role.

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JR does a ton of stuff that might easily be taken for granted. His solution-oriented perspective and ability to deftly navigate problem-spaces are essential to the many successes Causeit and our clients enjoy.

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