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Our Story

iConscious was born from a simple but profound question: What if human growth could be direct, measurable, and integrated—not slow, random, or fragmented? Over years of research, coaching, and experimentation, we discovered that existing developmental models often leave gaps—they focus on the mind or body but ignore emotions, uniqueness, or consciousness. Or they focus on subjective experience, omitting what’s happening in relationships or larger systems. And most lack details about further stages of development that would clarify where we’re going.

With those insights, we designed iConscious as a framework that brings together the full spectrum of human development—Consciousness, Uniqueness, Mind, Emotions, and Body—plus the 4 Views (Subjective, Observable, Relational, Systemic) and the 14 Stages of development. Today, iConscious is used by coaches, leaders, and individuals worldwide to accelerate growth in a whole-being way.

Vision for the iConscious Movement

We envision a world where accelerating human potential is not a luxury but a norm. A world where individuals, teams, and organizations operate from clarity, coherence, and purpose—where transformation is accessible, measurable, and aligned with the needs of individuals, organizations, and the planet. Through iConscious, we are cultivating a movement of conscious practitioners, leaders, and change-makers who carry forward the energy of awakened growth into communities, businesses, and cultural systems.

Carole Griggs, Ph.D

Co-Founder

Carole Griggs is an Executive Coach, Conscious AI Advisor, transformative systems designer, professor, and author. She has guided hundreds of leaders at high-impact organizations and taught in university programs in consciousness, development, and transformation. Carole co-created iConscious to bring rigor, accessibility, and coherence to the field of human development. Carole played a key role in the Loving AI project, which used iConscious as a dialog framework for the famous robot, Sophia

Ted Strauss

Co-Founder

Ted Strauss has more than 50 years of experience in contemplative practice, awakening, coaching for personal transformation, and technology. He integrates spiritual insight with modern tools, and played a key role in the Loving AI project, which used iConscious as a dialog framework for the famous robot Sophia. Ted is known for bringing his clients radical, permanent shifts and for combining deep inner wisdom with technical innovation.

Team & Advisors

Susanne Cook-Greuter

we need a psychology that reflects recent advances in science and a shifting focus ... to health.

Mikey Siegel

We all have the potential to live easeful, peaceful, and balanced lives. But to get there we need to cut through a bunch of noise.

Karen Jaenke

By aligning with our destiny, the sense of alienation and meaninglessness that stalks [us] at the edges of awareness is quelled.

Loch Kelly

When, as … formless awareness we realize we are also physical form, we begin to lose the fear of life

Jonathan Robinson

Alot of people know what to do. But very few people do what they know."