About Rooted Insight
Rooted Insight LLC was founded in 2024 to help organizations, leaders, and individuals cut through complexity and stuckness and to transform into ways of working and being that are more wise and impactful.
Michael’s broad professional and personal experiences allow Rooted Insight’s work to create broad understanding, holistic solutions, and deep engagement with clients’ needs. These experiences include:
- Advising C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies
- Conducting extensive research on cutting-edge tech
- Founding and leading a 250-person community organization
- Earning an MBA and BA from top universities
- Studying mindfulness and meditation with renowned teachers
We strike a balance:
Strategic Vision
Everything we do is tied to a deep why. If there’s no good why, we find it
Detailed Execution
We meticulously consider and execute the important details





Our core values guide us
AUTHENTICITY
Acting in a manner that is true to who we are
HELPFULNESS
Being of help and service to others
MINDFULNESS
Living conscious and mindful of everything in the present moment
HUMOR
Seeing the humorous side of ourselves and the world
INTEGRITY
Behaving in constant alignment with a sense of duty and what’s right
What Is Insight?
01
RELIEF
Insight comes as release of tension of inquiry.
02
UNFORCED
Insight is a matter of understanding something that was not understood before rather than recalling previous understanding.
03
INTERNAL
Insight is the result of an internal mental process, an inward orientation, and has to do with the prior state of the mind.
04
HOLISTIC
Insight engages both the “particular and concrete data of the senses” and the “universal and abstract.”
05
STICKY
Insight passes into the habitual texture of the mind. “It becomes difficult to forget what has been understood.”
Source: Bernard Lonergan’s (1992) five characteristics of insight, as summarized by Renata-Maria Marroum (2004)
