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Grant Hunter
Title: Boundary Spanner
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Sun Sign: Leo
Chinese Sign: Earth Rooster
Location: San Jose, California 
About Me:
Who am I?
- Passionate
- Optimistic
- Grateful
I've been consumed by the big questions of life..who am ? what is the meaning of life?…ever since I've had the formal operational thinking capacity to wrestle with such questions in my early teens.
The thrust of a life-time of grappling with these questions has moved from an internal focus on developing my Self, to a turning outward to care for others and the world. More on this on my blog post here: http://boundaryspanner.zaadz.com/blog.
I feel like a man with my feet in two worlds—one in the pragmatic and one in the idealistic. Thus, I've chosen the boundary spanner monikor here on Zaadz.
What does this mean in practice? My background is in corporate training and marketing, with a strong emphasis on online work. I worked on the e-business team of a large Fortune 500 company here in the Silicon Valley before helping co-found a 15-person e-marketing start-up in San Francisco. Informally, I have been interested in supporting a vision of business that was not at odds with things we all really care about deep down—a healthy environment, clean air, food, water and something resembling an equitable distribution of wealth in the world. Our company was acquired in January and now I am turning my sites to unique and novel ways to make a difference.
As the boundary spanner name probably indicates, I am interested in getting involved with what is happening at the margins. It seems that where the real energy and potential for change exists are at the edges–the boundaries between traditional for-profit/nonprofit; public/private and inner/outer.
What do I mean you ask? Consider some interesting trends:
- Nonprofits adopt earned-income strategies and start their own social enterprises to become more self-reliant.
- Governments outsource traditionally public services to the private sector.
- Meditators decide to get off the mat, get involved and become social or environmental activists.
This is fantastic! It seems to me to be the sine qua non of a truly integral approach to life and improving the human situation. I'm ready to dig in!
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Goals
- Discover an expression of integral awareness in the world.
- Develop a circle of spiritually-nurturing friends.
- Franchise the good. Find, capture, replicate and share equitably.
