Hi. I'm Kai.

My journey to found Inspiration Unscripted began with a question I’ve carried since childhood. When my mother, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, shared her regrets about the ideas she never brought to life, it sparked a lifelong fascination: Why do some people write new music in their lives and work while others just play the notes they’ve been handed?That question led me to study human-centered design and ethnographic research at Stanford University, where I trained under Dr. BJ Fogg in the Behavior Design Lab. After Stanford, I spent over a decade working with companies like PWC, Google and Disney — and hundreds of organizations across nearly every major industry — studying how people respond when facing uncertainty, transition, and pressure.Along the way, I identified more than thirty recurring paradigms that quietly but predictably shape what professionals dare to do in high-stakes moments of change. Drawing on my background as a violinist and composer, I developed a method for transforming these internal blocks through metaphor and experiential learning.In 2023, after my mother passed away, I set out to design a form of thought leadership that could offer others the kind of support I wish I could have given her. I envisioned inspiration built not around the speaker’s external brand, but around the internal experience of the people inside the organization.Over the next two years, I worked with a licensed therapist and a small team of collaborators to build Inspiration Unscripted — a service that blends behavioral science and entertainment to help leaders shift culture from the inside out.