Kurt Schliemann
Founder
Intention

I graduated from Harvard in 1996 and spent the next two decades doing what I thought I was supposed to do.

Finance. Corporate roles. Start-ups. I chased success across industries and cities — Boston, New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles — and I caught enough of it to keep going.

The feeling that I was miscast had always been there. I became adept at ignoring it.

That all changed when my father died. On the same day my first child was born.

Something shifted that I couldn't unshift. The question I'd been outrunning finally caught me: Was I willing to spend the rest of my life in a career that had nothing to do with who I was on the inside?

It took me a few more years to find the answer. But that was the moment the old story stopped being enough.

The turning point wasn't dramatic. It happened slowly. A gradual recognition that the drive pushing me forward wasn't ambition — it was fear. Fear of not being enough. Fear of wasting my degree. A fear I'd inherited watching my father lose his career when I was sixteen.

That fear is a powerful engine. Left unexamined, it will bring you to a place you never intended to go.

Here's what I know: Adversity isn't the enemy. It's the teacher. And failure is the most profound opportunity for growth we have.

I bring all of this to my work with clients. Not theory. Experience. And what drives me most is helping people discover what I learned the hard way: that purpose, vision, belief, reflection and intention aren't just nice ideas—they're the foundation of meaning in our lives.

• 25 years of a career centered on relationships, connections, and developing a clear understanding of others’ needs 

• 5 years of clinical psychotherapy, working through my relationship with my alcoholic mother and the trauma of the sudden death of my father (and best friend)

• 2+ years of training and support under psychotherapist in 1:1 and group therapies

• Multiple years of relationship counseling

• Completion of 2 courses in Non-Violent Communication

• Certified Facilitator of the David Bayer Transformational Mindset Methodology

• Registered Life Planner®

• Multiple personal ayahuasca journeys, which were deeply impactful for my understanding of self, heritage, connection, and purpose

• Practiced with various somatic modalities like breathwork, Chi Nei Tsang, acupuncture, meditation

• Graduate of inaugural Council of Legends Mastermind group in Austin, TX

• Creator and host of Dinners With Depth – dinner series designed to promote connection through vulnerability, play, and shared experience