Will’s experience includes serving as Chief People Officer of Visa Europe (where he helped lead the second-largest technology merger in history, growing Visa’s market capitalization from $180B to $460B in just four years), the public marketplace company Poshmark, and two late-stage fintech startups during periods of rapid growth and change. He has also advised multiple startup companies in the HR and workplace space, helping refine product direction while driving organizational transformation.
Last year, Will chose to pause this trajectory to travel through Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe, reflect deeply, and delve into the frontier of artificial intelligence.
He immersed himself in communities that value connection and took the time to rebuild himself physically, mentally, and spiritually. Along the way, he earned MIT’s certification in AI & Strategy, explored the insights of futurists like Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil, and Nick Bostrom, and began writing his forthcoming book, Culture: The Asses and The Alchemists.
During these months of stepping back, Will realized we are living through one of the greatest leadership and organizational turning points in modern history.
Many futurists believe we have reached singularity – a point in time when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible. They indicate we reached that through recursive self-improvement (RSI). This is the mechanism by which singularity is expected to occur: an AI system analyzes its own code, identifies improvements, rewrites itself to become smarter, and repeats this cycle in an accelerating loop.
RSI will solve problems in math, science, medicine, physics, and biology—and extend into economics, climate, law, creativity, governance, and every domain where complexity exceeds human cognition.
But while technology accelerates, humanity risks falling behind. People are more isolated, leaders are unprepared, and organizations are not designed for the speed of change. The greatest challenge of our time is not technical—it is human.
Organizations must focus on Human Risk and Culture Evolution in this period of dramatic change.
