Our Philosophy |
We believe that growing your people and growing your business are one and the same. People don’t want a job, they want a journey. They want to pursue a meaningful challenge that will stretch their abilities and grow their character. Our mission is to be the most powerful ally in the world for individual and collective self-actualization. And that starts by helping individuals and organizations flourish by turning their everyday work into a platform for self-development
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Our Values |
Always be curious and never stop learning.
Opportunity is present in all things; stay open to it. Be proudly authentic in all that you do. Operate with transparency. Care for others because we are all connected. |
The CultivateMe Team
Doug Weitz, Co-founder
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Gabe Gloege, Co-founder
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Nikita Rokotyan, Co-founder
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Whether as a teacher, coach, camp director, or dad, Doug has spent his career helping others to find and pursue their unique talents. It was Doug’s frustration with inauthentic learning experiences in the classroom that drove him to co-found CultivateMe. As a proponent of constructivism, Doug believes true growth doesn’t come from cramming your brain with information, but instead reflecting on our experiences to make meaning from them. He specializes in helping our clients to get the best out of their people.
Doug's Superpower: Putting others at ease and getting them talking, which he uses most often in coaching clients and facilitating workshops. Doug is a master at unlocking people’s awareness, seeing their work and themselves with fresh eyes, and charting a course for their development.
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Trained as a jazz musician, Gabe has spent 17 years in education technology working with startups and global corporations. Starting in the business world, he had to learn new skills on the job, but discovered what he learned as a musician was just as valuable. Later, he had to understand the individual learning needs of a 700-person sales team while managing their development program. Learning on the job, making transferable skills visible, and easily mapping people’s learning needs are what drove Gabe to create the iris concept and co-found CultivateMe.
Gabe’s Superpower: Connecting the dots and bringing order out of chaos, which he puts to use designing irises for clients, collaborating on growth culture systems, and developing user stories that Nikita turns into working code.
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Nikita is about as well-rounded as they come: a PhD in atmospheric data science, an in-demand software engineer specializing in data visualization, a digital artist and composer. Nikita co-founded CultivateMe to help make learning visible and give individuals and organizations a clear path towards mastery, making work more meaningful and rewarding.
Nikita’s Superpower: Making data meaningful and elegant, which you’ll notice in the iris itself as well as the way you can measure the psychological safety of your teams, the self-awareness of an individual, or the growth culture of an entire organization.
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