About Justin
Bio
An experienced educator and creative leader specializing in organizational culture, Justin has led innovation work for Global 500 and other prominent organizations including Alphabet, Apple, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, JSOC, Walmart, The Aspen Institute, The United Nations, the U.S. Department of State and the World Economic Forum. He also teaches executives at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Center for Global Education, and globally with Duke Corporate Education and Emeritus.
Justin founded a professional fellowship program at the Institute of Design at Stanford (the d.school) in 2012 and has worked there in various capacities ever since. He now directs the d.school’s strategic partnerships with individuals and organizations poised for change. He also has taught graduate courses in creative leadership and organization design.
In addition to his role at Stanford, Justin is an executive at ACTUAL, a machine learning platform and co-development company for organizations to plan and implement sustainable infrastructure transformation. Actual’s technology has helped partners design more than $15 billion in physical asset transformation in domains including biofuels, supply chain decarbonization and transportation. Actual was named one of TIME’s best inventions of 2022 and won a Fast Company Innovation by Design award in 2023.
Justin also recently help cofound and is a partner in the infrastructure investment firm Foresight Capital Group. Previously, he was a journalist specializing in design and organizational change. He was the founding director of digital, mobile & new product design at The Washington Post, where he designed the investigative series “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, as well as four other Pulitzer finalists.
Justin serves on the board of Amplifier, a nonprofit that creates art to amplify grassroots social movements. He is also an honorary scout for the Tokomanawa Queens, a women's pro basketball team in Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa, and an evangelist for Streetcode Academy, a nonprofit that equips a generation of communities of color to address the diversity deficit in technology.