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 technology executives at Fortune 500 companies on strategy and organizational priorities
  • Founding and leading a 250-person grassroots community organization
  • Studying mindfulness and meditation with renowned teachers
  • WashU MBA in Leadership, University of Chicago BA in Biology

We strike a balance:

Strategic Vision

Everything we do is tied to a deep why. If there isn’t one, we find it — even if that reframes the problem entirely. We always anchor in what’s most important for your organization.

Detailed Execution

We think through the full arc of every engagement. Not just what we’ll deliver, but what it will take for you to actually use it

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)

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