Introduction to DesignOS
About this experience
A LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE FOR EXECUTIVES NAVIGATING TURBULENT TIMES
A Living Operating System for Business – Introductory Course
In a time when there is a consistent stream of upheavals and changes at all levels, it takes a different level of energy to manage, direct and lead.
As leaders, we are:
- taking in a high complexity of information and learning at a new level of detail to be able to make the kinds of decisions we are facing;
- wearing many hats and tending to sometimes conflicting needs;
- rationally coming to solutions that don’t always fit the outcomes we are looking for.
“The more voices the better” doesn’t always help either. There’s still a sorting process once stakeholders have been heard from, often with power gradients to address.
Amidst all of this, there’s a natural way of being that brings out our authentic moves – a place that feels more easeful and generative. The push and pull of who we are asked to be as leaders can result in a covering of our naturalness, until we wonder who is making the decisions. Introspection and reflection are a key to opening the door to our aliveness.
Allowing the way we think to shift on an escalator that moves towards radical inclusivity and awareness, is a new kind of way to access our natural inclinations as leaders. From this place, we can incorporate complexity more expansively, rise above the push and pull of competing demands and step into a new level of leading.
The Invitation:
This 2-session experience is for leaders who are ready to rise to a new level of leading that comes with more space inside, upliftment and creativity.
We’ll give you a taste of upleveling the internal operating system that informs your leadership so you can be present with more awake awareness to your unique call as a leader.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This is an invitation-only experience for leaders who:
- Experience the intersection of contradiction: growth and exhaustion, innovation and risk, stakeholder demands and personal values.
- Know the old playbook on complex, wicked problems, no longer holds
- Are rebels at heart, crazy enough to think they can change the world, and are willing to uplevel themselves to do it
- Want to orient more to the emerging future and focus less on past rescue strategies
OUR CONDITIONED MIND ORIENTS US
The way we are present to today’s complexity shapes everything:
- what gets noticed (and gets ignored),
- what options are allowed as “possible,”
- range of flexibility and ability to adapt
This “orientation system” lives inside a conditioned mind that constantly tells us what’s real, important, and doable.
To address the unprecedented problems of our time, we need an unprecedented way of orienting—outside our conditioned mind. This is where a living operating system begins.
THE PROMISE: AWAKE AWARENESS IN BUSINESS
In this Introduction to a Living Operating System, you will begin to cultivate:
- New ways of knowing and relating to the hyper-acceleration of AI and other meta-crisis challenges.
- Awake awareness in business—the capacity to be lucid, grounded, and creative in the middle of turbulence.
- Design Awareness—a made-to-measure way of perceiving and acting that reflects your natural inclination, and is unique to your role, and your enterprise.
This isn’t about fixing your problems. It’s about:
Shifting into a new level of consciousness for how humans lead.
WHAT THIS EXPERIENCE IS
SESSION 1: ORIENTING TO LIFE MISSION AND THE GREAT UPLIFT
- Ask questions of ultimate meaning – open the door to skillful life mission practice
- Move past polarity thinking of the conditioned mind for your intention
- Articulate the Great Uplift for an intention that is important to you
SESSION 2: PRACTICING A LIVING OPERATING SYSTEM
- Expand awareness – drop the conditioned mind and move into a state of awareness, helpful for other aspects of the operating system
- Build skill with Intention – explore intention as something to be skillful with to support manifesting goals
- A new way of scanning information flows
This work prepares you to be present to what’s emerging and what wants to happen for the flourishing of all life.
WHAT YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH
- A new way of meeting complexity — less reactivity, more grounded responsiveness.
- An orientation to leadership that includes all of who you are and are becoming.
- Practices to uplift and uplevel your intelligence and perspective. This will put you on the escalator to move through stages of development.
- A new capacity to be in life you could apply to partnering with your colleagues, stakeholders, team, parenting and family, AI…
This is an introduction. A first opening into what a full Living Operating System (HuOS) can mean inside your company.
PROOF OF CONCEPT: WHERE THIS WORK COMES FROM
The HuPerson Project builds on decades of generative leadership and organizational transformation work with leaders and enterprises who chose to become the future of their domain, in million and multi-million dollar contexts. Past and current applications work includes leaders, teams and their companies.
Results include:
- Living company growth strategies and turnarounds
- Deeply vertical cultural realignments
- Leadership teams aligned at a higher integral level, able to achieve impossible outcomes.
- Leaders who discover the purpose of their life’s work—and build living companies aligned with it
PRACTICAL DETAILS
Format:
- 2 live, interactive sessions on Zoom
- Session 1: 5 hours, 9am – 2pm PST – Life Mission, Vertical View
- Session 2: 6 hours, 9am – 3pm PST – Practice, Design Awareness & Living OS Foundations
- Hourly breaks
When:
- Upcoming cohort: Friday, May 22 & Monday, May 25, 2026
Where:
- Delivered online via Zoom, designed for deep presence (not passive consumption).
Participation:
- This experience is currently by invitation only. We ask participants to be fully present for both sessions.
HOW TO JOIN
If you feel called to this work, here is how you can step in:
Book a 20-Minute Conversation with Jill Taylor
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- Share a bit about you, your role, and why this speaks to you in the application form
- Meet with Jill Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO, to explore where you are now in your leadership, where you would like to be, and whether the Intro is a good fit for you.
This is possibly the best time to be in business – especially if we are willing to go the distance to uplevel the intelligence from which we lead. If you’re sensing that the future is asking from you something bigger than “better strategy,” and you’re ready to explore a living operating system for your leadership and enterprise—
STEP IN. REQUEST AN INVITATION
"The real battle in the world today is not among civilizations or cultures, but among different evolutionary futures that are possible for us and our species right now. What is at stake is nothing less than the choice of who we are, who we want to be, and where we take the world we live in. The real question then, is "What are we here for?""
Otto Scharmer
Presencing Institute
Commonly Asked Questions
Leaders who are ready to meet the challenges of our time, from an entirely different place. A place just beyond good/bad, right/wrong, correct/incorrect to address our challenges, accessing an unprecedented level of awake aware wisdom.
Daniel Goodenough and Jill Taylor, co-founders of the HuPerson Project.
Life is ready-ing us to take a leap in our collective & individual evolution, as we now we face wicked and insidious challenges. Leading from a different place, from awake aware wisdom, is important to our success in navigating both growth and challenges. Awake aware wisdom is the same state we’re touching into when we have an epiphany. A eureka moment. We need legendary leaders in the world, leading from a place of epiphany to access what’s moving through and wants to happen, in new ways.