Our Noble Purpose

We help leaders navigate today and lean into tomorrow, helping them access more intelligence, from more sources, in service of creating more value, all accelerated through the adoption and use of AI.

At Hi™, we help leaders and professionals build a productive AI mindset and a practical toolkit to get the most from their Intelligence Ecosystem™. Our approach is built on a modular and customizable learning journey, tailored to each client's unique needs and strategic imperatives. Through discovery-based learning and immediate practical application, we ensure that AI adoption becomes a catalyst for human flourishing, not a threat to it.

Our Team

Richard Hodge

Co-Founder

Richard has spent more than five decades building companies that change how leaders learn, how sales forces sell, and how organizations adopt new technology.

His early career ran through enterprise software and energy, with stops at AT&T, Occidental Petroleum, and Execucom, where he helped shape the first wave of decision support systems. He was part of the Novell turnaround team, an experience that hardened his conviction that curiosity and experimentation beat mandated training every time.

In 1990 he co-founded Advantage Performance Group, and in 1994 he founded The Real Learning Company. Over the following dozen years, RLC built and delivered discovery-based sales and leadership programs for more than 300 Fortune 1000 companies, working alongside many of the field's best-known authors and researchers.

In 2006, both companies were acquired by BTS Group, where Richard served as Executive Vice President and Global Partner for 15 years. He helped steer the firm's global learning practice through the shift to virtual delivery and co-developed The Collective Intelligence Simulation, built on Harvard researcher Linda Hill's work on leading innovation.

Today Richard is Chairman of 1st90, a Senior Vice President at Advantage Performance Group, and co-founder of Harness Intelligence. He is the architect of the 3 Gs of Responsible AI Use (Guidance, Guardrails, and Governance), a practical framework that gives teams room to experiment with AI while keeping the organization safe.

Notable Work

Co-founded: Advantage Performance Group (1990), The Real Learning Company (1994)

Book: The Mind of the Customer (McGraw-Hill, 2006), with Lou Schachter

Simulations: The Collective Intelligence Simulation, built on Harvard researcher Linda Hill's work

Framework: The 3 Gs of Responsible AI Use (Guidance, Guardrails, Governance)

Recognition: Multiple industry honors for program excellence

Education: BBA Finance and MBA, University of Southern California

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Jim Perry

Co-Founder

Jim is a learning designer, facilitator, and builder. Over 25 years he has turned leadership and psychological research into hands-on simulations and programs that have reached tens of thousands of professionals across the Fortune 100.

He spent 17 years at Kinko's, rising from Operations Manager to Director of Training. He built the company's technical training curriculum for 20,000 field employees and managed a 300-person field training network through a decade of rapid national expansion. Afterward he ran Business Video Express, a mobile multimedia training company, where he first met and began collaborating with Richard.

He then spent 17 years at BTS Group, rising to Vice President and Head of Leadership Curricula. He led the team of instructional designers behind flagship simulations and learning maps used by more than half the Fortune 100.

He is best known as the lead designer of the Multipliers simulation, developed with Liz Wiseman and based on her New York Times bestseller of the same name. The simulation puts leaders in a controlled environment where they can feel, in real time, the difference between diminishing and multiplying their team's intelligence. Research done alongside the rollout found that leaders operating as multipliers access roughly twice the intelligence of their teams compared with leaders who diminish them, and tens of thousands of managers have now worked through it.

At Hi, Jim co-designed the Intelligence Ecosystem framework and the IntelliPRINT assessment system, developed the PGA prompting framework (Persona, Goal, Ask), and builds most of the technology behind the company's products. He is a long-time Advantage Performance Group thought leader partner and a master facilitator for The Multipliers Simulation, Symphony, The Collective Intelligence Simulation, and many other flagship leadership programs.