Place
The physical layer
Adaptive reuse, experiential hospitality, thematic co-working, cultural institutions, eVTOL infrastructure.
Coach · Strategist · Speaker
:::LISTEN:::
We can hear the FUTURE approaching.
I help leaders, teams, and cities TUNE their contributions to our Optimal Future.
The Thesis
Everything is an instrument.
A being. A team. A family. A company. A city. Each can drift out of tune. Each can be brought back.
Tune the self.
Coherence starts in the being. Lose contact with it, and every signal you send and receive is distorted.
Tune relationships.
Families and teams are ensembles. Each voice stays distinct. The goal is resonance, not sameness.
Tune contribution.
In tune, you notice the rooms, the work, and the places where you are the gift.
Tune everything.
Why This Work
I learned this founding and leading ventures—HostHome, Suyana Technologies, Permanence Capital, Urth Capital, CampUS Holdings Group, and now KyberKapital and the Resilience Fund—building each revealed keys to the journey. I kept meeting people in the wrong rooms: the wrong community, the wrong work, the wrong home. I knew the feeling. When I lost coherence with my own body, the signals that sort life scrambled.
Tuning is how I found my way back. It is also how I help leaders, teams, and cultures do the same.
Teams I Have Served
A decade in the room.
The title changed with every engagement. What I brought did not: my being, and the gifts that come with it.
- Summit Series
- Flow Genome Project
- COVID Alliance
- Cobalt Tech Ventures
- EcoMap Technologies
- Circles of Voices
The Work
I read people and markets.
The same perception runs through all of it: sensing what a person, a team, or a market is ready for, and tuning the path to get there. I work only with ventures that add signal, not noise.
01 · Coaching
Personal leadership coaching
For founders and leaders carrying something bigger than themselves. We tune the being first: body, attention, relationships. The decisions get clearer from there.
Book a discovery call →02 · Strategy
Market insight for innovators
For founders bringing new technology to market. I read cultural sentiment, consumer behavior, supply chains and regulation to show where an innovation stands, and whether the market is ready for it. Fund readiness and strategic introductions where they fit.
Start a conversation →03 · Speaking and Convenings
Keynotes and gatherings
Opening addresses, keynotes and leadership gatherings on technology, the self and coherence. ACTIV8 and SJP produce the experience around the talk.
Start with Ignition: a half-day leadership experience, designed and opened by Kodah.
Speaking topics →Signature Keynote
Technology
you can feel.
Intelligence is moving beyond the screen. It is entering our clothes, our homes, our vehicles, and our bodies.
I have lived that shift from the inside. Frontier medicine rewrote my body and my sense of self, and I came back with a clear view of what innovation does to people. This talk gives leaders a way to build technology people can feel, and live with.
- Where computing goes after the screen
- What frontier technology does to identity, and the ethical lines that matter
- How to design products, places, and experiences that bring people into coherence
General Partner: Kyber Kapital
Place, Movement, and Signal.
How humans interface with the frontier.
Placemaking, transportation and communication are being reinvented at the same time, through AI, robotics and the end of the smartphone era. Kyber Kapital is built around the places, vehicles and devices of what comes next.
Movement
The mobility layer
Autonomous vehicles, eVTOLs, AI fleet orchestration, human-centric mobility systems.
Signal
The interface layer
Post-screen interfaces, ambient compute, wearable AI, empathic communication.
Guiding principle
Nervous-system coherence as infrastructure.
Technology that makes people calmer, clearer and more capable compounds differently than technology that extracts attention.
Kyber Kapital is in formation. This is a point of view, not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security.
Strategic Advisor: Cobalt X
Hedging the frontier.
Built on Real Production
Ideas made inhabitable.
I am a partner in ACTIV8, a creative experience agency powered by SJP: twelve years of live production across Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Through ACTIV8
Festival and event design and production
From Burning Man to festivals in the hardest places to build. Power, sound, lighting, stages, kitchens and common spaces, designed and run as one system, so the experience holds when the conditions don't.
Through ACTIV8
Immersive brand activations and product launches
Live experiences wrapped in digital marketing and UGC content pipelines, so the moment keeps working after the doors close.
- Camp UBU, Burning Man65-person camp with full commercial power, kitchen and common-area infrastructure
- InterblockShowroom and G2E experience
- IPMEOutdoor video wall booth
- Google Ads at CESProduction, through NVE
- Pop Up BookImmersive theatrical installation In development
- “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”Touring walkthrough experience In development
Selected production experience from the SJP archive, by the ACTIV8 and SJP teams and their production partners. Inclusion does not imply sole creative authorship or ownership of client brands.
The challenge is not strategy.
The challenge is coherence.
Writing
Notes from the frontier
September 2026
Tune Everything
Everything is an instrument. The work is to bring the whole ensemble into coherence.
December 2025
Fathering the Future
Family Structure within Global Lifestyle
September 2025
Courage: The Legend of Robots - A Memoir of Tech, Gender, and the Return to Truth
I was raised on a horse farm in Maryland, where I learned to stay silent, disappear into other people’s moods, and bury my desires beneath obedience and performance.…
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What are you bringing into tune?
A keynote, a gathering of leaders, a launch that needs to be felt. Tell me what you're planning and when. I reply within two business days.
Or write directly: Kodah@kyberkollective.com
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