ian rhett

I help the mission-driven find possibility and make it real.

The world needs change, and I'm here to help. Across technology, marketing, advertising, event production, music, and nonprofits, one pattern holds: observe deeply, notice the gaps, see what could be. Then help bring it to life. That experience, failures included, built more than a toolkit: the wisdom to know which tool, and when. I've sat on every side of the table I'm inviting you to. It always starts the same way: a conversation, an idea worth hearing, a thread pulled together. Chasing something big, or still searching for what it is? Let's talk.

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Ian Rhett

Offers

Ways to work together

Facilitation

Groups that lead themselves. I build the container.

Coaching

A thinking partner who's been in the chair.

Speaking

Talks that leave a practice behind, not just notes.

Collaboration

A right hand for a funded idea. Special projects, built.

Receipts

MTV News 1995 report from Web Central at the New York Music Festival

MTV News finds me in “Web Central.”

The web's first live, multi-venue music festival.

Remote CEO before remote was a thing.

Joined CivicActions in 2006, CEO 2008 to 2014, fully distributed through the Great Recession.

The 24 Hour Design-a-thon.

A cause, a room of talent, finished work by morning. Four events delivered.

The mission is live, and it's current.

The Design-a-thon, civic infrastructure, a forest, a kindness campaign.

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If something here speaks to you, the next step is a conversation.

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