Director
Michael Strong is focused on entrepreneurial solutions to world problems. The two biggest categories of such solutions are governance innovation and the creation of healthy subcultures. In governance innovation, Michael has previously served on the Seasteading board and has been active in the broader Startup City/Charter City space for more than twenty years. With respect to the creation of healthy subcultures, Michael has been creating innovative schools for more than thirty years. His current project is The Socratic Experience, a virtual school serving grades 3-12. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Adolescent Flourishing Initiative at the University of Austin. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems, which outlines the impact of both governance innovation and subculture creation.