Resume
Weston Mossman
Founder, Strategist, Executive Coach & Facilitator
Regenerative Systems + Gamified Collaboration
Santa Cruz, CA
Summary
I build regenerative human experiences, strategies, and systems that serve all stakeholders, human and non-human. Staff engineer, musician, game designer, and sustainability advocate turned founder, strategist, executive coach, and facilitator.
I help leaders and teams align, innovate with intention, and grow communities of practice that make change take root. I co-create projects from vision and strategy down to details and collateral, making the full scope legible and actionable.
My work blends strategy, business development, governance, aesthetics, technology, game design, neuroscience, and regenerative system design to help people, organizations, and bioregions thrive.
What I do
- Coach leaders, founders, and creatives, unlocking clarity, flow, and follow-through
- Advise mission-driven orgs on partnerships, funding pathways, and mission-aligned revenue
- Design and facilitate workshops, cohorts, action labs, and conferences for alignment and action
- Build playful, science-backed collaborations and simulations that mobilize cross-sector change
- Consult on strategy, programs, culture, governance, and process gamification for resilience
Experience
Founder, Principal
Convergence Courses
- Design and deliver playful, science-backed workshops that turn complex challenges into shared clarity and coordinated action.
- Facilitate convergent sessions for teams, coalitions, and community networks, improving alignment, decision quality, and momentum.
- Build gamified experiences and collaboration toolkits that help groups navigate tradeoffs, roles, incentives, and accountability without burnout.
- Blend strategy, systems thinking, facilitation craft, and interaction design to make plans legible, executable, and relationally sustainable.
Strategy, Bizdev, Creative Consultant & Coach
Freelance
- Advise leaders and teams on strategy, go-to-market, governance, and collaboration design to ship meaningful work.
- Run workshops and action labs for alignment, innovation, humane AI adoption, and change rollout across org functions.
- Design facilitation systems and artifacts: decision frameworks, program maps, partnership pathways, and story-driven plans.
- When useful, build technical prototypes and automation to support systems adoption and reduce operational friction.
Head of Business Development & Programs
Bloom.pm (Contract)
- Engaged impact investors and catalytic funds to structure values-aligned financing with multi-dimensional ROI.
- Built strategic collaborations across climate and social impact partners to expand the ecosystem and pipeline.
- Designed and facilitated workshops, action labs, accelerators, and summits to elevate client growth and resilience.
- Managed contract execution and post-signing support to protect outcomes and deepen relationships.
Founder, Producer - Executive Director
Liminal Space Collective
- Launched and scaled a creative producer co-op delivering immersive art-tech experiences with 200+ creators.
- Secured sales, grants, and partnerships to enable interactive productions and innovation incubators.
- Built the operating model for a sustainable multidisciplinary venue concept: immersive experiences, workshops, exhibitions, and leadership cultivation.
- Led cross-functional production teams (strategy, operations, design, build, programming, comms), shaping a culture of experimentation, learning, and communal creation.
Partnerships & Growth Lead
SwellCycle Inc. (Contract)
- Led sales and marketing strategy plus web design for a waste-negative manufacturing startup vertical.
- Mobilized network into 100+ leads, an exhibit sale, and museum partnerships supporting sustainability goals.
- Designed Autodesk PaaS integration for web prototyping, genAI toolchains, and automated complexity / eco analysis.
Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Guild Lead
Hippo Insurance
- Led FE engineering guild, mentoring junior to senior engineers on technical plans, balance, and growth.
- Modernized Angular monolith into React/TypeScript/GraphQL micro-FE and BFF architecture, reducing TTI by 90%.
- Built PM-controlled policy sales flow config and rendering system, improving product agility and reducing regressions.
- Owned UI architecture, components, conventions, hiring, and BDD practices through major scale and IPO.
Full Stack Software Engineer
eBay Inc.
- Worked on eBay Search UX and platform modernization, including Java to Node.js migration workstreams.
- Built accessible, responsive UI with test discipline and cross-browser support at high traffic scale.
Front End Software Engineer
Yahoo
- Developed reusable React components, instrumentation, and performance practices for finance products.
- Worked within Fluxible patterns, test workflows, and cross-device UI constraints.
Software Development Intern
SurveyMonkey + Administrative Software Applications
- Built internal tools and search workflows, shipping production features with tests and maintainable UI.
- Worked across HTML/CSS/JS, Python web frameworks, and SQL-backed systems.
Civic, Community, Volunteering
Arts Commissioner
City of Santa Cruz
Reviewing and supporting public art, promoting local arts and culture.
Strategy and Adaptation Mentor
California Doughnut Economics Coalition - Regenerate the Bay Accelerator
Mentored teams on strategy, adaptation, and doughnut economics outcomes across climate and community work.
Strategy Volunteer
Santa Cruz Rights of Nature Movement
Strategy support for enacting a Rights of Nature ordinance in Santa Cruz County.
Skills
Strategy, Facilitation, Change
Core:Strategy, Strategic Planning, Program Design, Change Management, Systems Thinking, Governance Support
Facilitation:Workshops, Cohorts, Action Labs, Convenings, Conflict Navigation, Group Decision-Making
Coaching:Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Team Coaching, Habits and Follow-Through, Flow Practices
Bizdev:Partnerships, Fundraising Support, Ecosystem Mapping, Sales Enablement, Proposal and Grant Writing
Play:Gamification, Simulation Design, Role-Play Facilitation, Interaction Design, Collaborative Storycraft
Technical + Creative
Product / Web:React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Storybook, Jest
Systems:Architecture, Documentation, BDD, Accessibility, Performance
Creative:Experience Design, Figma, Adobe Suite, Creative Direction, Audio Production, 3D Modeling
Interactive:Three.js, TouchDesigner, Installation Art, Rapid Prototyping, Live Visual Systems
Leadership:Cross-functional Leadership, Mentorship, Hiring, Team Systems, Operational Clarity
Education
BS in Computer Science: Game Design - Magna Cum Laude
University of California, Santa Cruz
Minor in Electronic Music - Core: Rachel Carson College Sustainability Studies