Our StoryWe're beginning a new chapter of U.S. History, one where we surrender the old for the new, the righteous, divisive and exploitative for the curious, unifying and empowering. Communities are the heart of the American experience.
It hurts us when we don't feel like we belong in our communities. It hurts us when we are deprived of respect, dignity, connection, and prosperity. It feels good when we transcend our differences, embrace shared values and practices and work together towards a common cause. Politicians play a role in unifying us, but they cannot do it all. Communities are needed. These two videos show us that building connections across differences is indeed possible.
Just The Facts Unity Lab launched in October of 2020 to heal the great divides in our nation. Leveraging the latest research and best practices in social learning, psychology and neuroscience, we serve communities and organizations by bringing their diverse members together, to learn, develop empathy and trust, transcend perceived boundaries, build friendships and find common cause. Unity for the World Although, Unity Lab is focused only on the United States, we support all people, organizations and nations who would like to engage in this work. This is why the method, approach and learning journeys are all open source, available in the public domain under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please reach out to us if you would like help setting up a Unity Lab or related endeavor in your country or organization. |
About Us
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Brandon Peele (he/him), Founder
Brandon is a Midwesterner, best-selling author, impact entrepreneur and an expert in purpose, leadership + culture change. Prior to founding Unity Lab, he worked at two leading social learning companies, ion and Imperative, to activate empathy, trust, belonging, purpose and leadership at scale. He's trusted as a keynote speaker, consultant and program leader by organizations such as Google, Johnson & Johnson, Stanford University, JDRF, Morgan Stanley, U.S. Marine Corps, University of California - Berkeley, LinkedIn, the U.S. Navy, Slalom Consulting, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the University of Minnesota. He has written / co-written four books on purpose and leadership and his work has been featured by news organizations such as USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes. Brandon holds an MBA in Leadership from Columbia Business School, is an Imperative Certified Purpose Leader (TM), a PGI Certified Purpose Guide (TM) and has completed over 3,000 hours of leadership, coaching and facilitation training with organizations such as Landmark and the ManKind Project. |
Advisors
Unity Lab is guided by leaders in psychology, learning, facilitation, inclusion, and community building.
B. Maurice Ward
Head of Diversity & Inclusion Pemco Insurance Seattle, WA |
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Arezou Ghane, PhD
Professor of Psychology SCCD San Diego, CA |
Charles Vogl, MA Divinity
Author The Art of Community Oakland, CA |
Monica Cost
President The Core Value Company Boston, MA |
Pat Sandone
President Digital Balance Scranton, PA |
Join our team!
It takes a village to raise a child. The same can be said of a nation. If you feel called to join this mission, and heal the soul of our nation, please reach out to us.
We need diverse co-founders, advisors, and interns to help with operations, marketing, finance and legal. We're open to your ideas about how to fulfill on our mission. Women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA are especially encouraged to send us a note.
COO / Co-founder
You are really, really, really into personal development. You strive to live your purpose and exhibit integrity, healthy boundaries and great communication. You inherently treasure being in community with others and want all Americans to feel a sense of safety, belonging and dignity.
You are organized, friendly, fun, outspoken, coachable and are inspired by our vision and mission.
You like creating systems and structures. You're good at operations and strategy. You have a working knowledge of marketing, IT, finance, legal and HR. We don't care where or if you went to college.
You are both cool with entrepreneurial risk and want to create a mature, flourishing and lucrative for-benefit business.
You have a full / part-time job and initially have 5-15 hours a week to contribute. This is an equity-only position until Q2/3 of 2021 when we expect to have substantial revenue.
BONUS: 1. You have experience working in the transformation space, or with social enterprises. 2. You live in San Diego.
People who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and are under 35 or over 50 years of age are especially encouraged to reach out.
If you are interested in this position please send Brandon a note (b at ensouled dot life), indicating your interest, sharing your resume, LinkedIn profile and experience with personal development.
Impact Associate (unpaid internship)
You are an undergraduate or graduate student committed to a career in social enterprise.
You are interested in personal development, community and healing the United States. You aspire to live your purpose and exhibit integrity, healthy boundaries and great communication.
You are organized, friendly, fun, outspoken, coachable and are inspired by our vision and mission.
You will be working directly with the Founder, Brandon Peele, to expand Unity Lab's impact, working on research, marketing, curriculum development, and community engagement projects.
BONUS: 1. You have experience working in the transformation space, or with social enterprises. 2. You live in San Diego.
People who identify as women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA are especially encouraged to reach out.
If you are interested in this position please send Brandon a note (b at ensouled dot life), indicating your interest, sharing your resume, LinkedIn profile and experience with personal development.
It takes a village to raise a child. The same can be said of a nation. If you feel called to join this mission, and heal the soul of our nation, please reach out to us.
We need diverse co-founders, advisors, and interns to help with operations, marketing, finance and legal. We're open to your ideas about how to fulfill on our mission. Women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA are especially encouraged to send us a note.
COO / Co-founder
You are really, really, really into personal development. You strive to live your purpose and exhibit integrity, healthy boundaries and great communication. You inherently treasure being in community with others and want all Americans to feel a sense of safety, belonging and dignity.
You are organized, friendly, fun, outspoken, coachable and are inspired by our vision and mission.
You like creating systems and structures. You're good at operations and strategy. You have a working knowledge of marketing, IT, finance, legal and HR. We don't care where or if you went to college.
You are both cool with entrepreneurial risk and want to create a mature, flourishing and lucrative for-benefit business.
You have a full / part-time job and initially have 5-15 hours a week to contribute. This is an equity-only position until Q2/3 of 2021 when we expect to have substantial revenue.
BONUS: 1. You have experience working in the transformation space, or with social enterprises. 2. You live in San Diego.
People who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and are under 35 or over 50 years of age are especially encouraged to reach out.
If you are interested in this position please send Brandon a note (b at ensouled dot life), indicating your interest, sharing your resume, LinkedIn profile and experience with personal development.
Impact Associate (unpaid internship)
You are an undergraduate or graduate student committed to a career in social enterprise.
You are interested in personal development, community and healing the United States. You aspire to live your purpose and exhibit integrity, healthy boundaries and great communication.
You are organized, friendly, fun, outspoken, coachable and are inspired by our vision and mission.
You will be working directly with the Founder, Brandon Peele, to expand Unity Lab's impact, working on research, marketing, curriculum development, and community engagement projects.
BONUS: 1. You have experience working in the transformation space, or with social enterprises. 2. You live in San Diego.
People who identify as women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA are especially encouraged to reach out.
If you are interested in this position please send Brandon a note (b at ensouled dot life), indicating your interest, sharing your resume, LinkedIn profile and experience with personal development.
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Bison Medicine
The medicine (or energy) of the bison elicits something deep in the human soul. It connects us to the frontier, the open range, rushing rivers, majestic peaks, the rising sun and a starry sky. It calls us into relationship with wild nature, play, community and adventure. It beckons us to be grateful for natural beauty and summons us to care for all that is sacred. Like citizenship, bison medicine is active and fierce:
- Unlike cattle, bison run straight into an approaching storm to move through it quickly - an apt metaphor for the hard truths we must swallow as a nation and the necessary conversations we must have to move through this storm.
- Bison care for the most vulnerable, by placing them in the center of the herd.
- Through their play, wallowing and grazing, they play a vital role in ecological resilience and diversity.
- Bison are fiercely protective of themselves and their community, leveraging their incredible strength, acceleration and speed (up to 40 mph) to ward off threats.
- Some first nations people believe that bison only give themselves up to hunters with a good heart, suggesting that it is important to center ourselves in our intention and who we are being, as we live our purpose and values and rebuild our communities.
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The United States is a country of immigrants and their offspring. Diversity isn't an idea or an aspiration, its a fact. It's genesis and manna. It's who we are, so we celebrate and include everyone who calls the United States of America, or Turtle Island, home. All shapes, sizes, and colors are welcome here. |
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