About

The problem:

• Exponentially increasing amounts of knowledge and information. The explosion of economic development brought about by technology, financial systems, and an infusion of resources has led to rapid changes never before experienced in the history of humankind. This means that we not only need to learn, we also have to learn how to learn.
• Over-reliance on specialists, experts, and institutions for our learning. Unfortunately our education system has eroded our capacity to learn at systemic levels. Narrow specialization allows us to dissociate business from ethics or environment from technology. With ever greater dependency on institutions, we need to become more self-authorized in our learning.
• Complexity of systemic issues we face everyday. The most pressing issues we face today are systemic and cannot be solved by oversimplifying them. Developing sustainable businesses, vibrant communities, or healthy economies require facing the complexity.

The solution:

• Learn how to integrate multiple fields of study
• Draw lessons from everyday life, current events, and the recorded history of humanity
• Face the complexity.

U Venture is your partner in making meaning out of the complex to help you find better ways forward in your venture.

About Chris Hsiung, President
Business consultant or software engineer, video storyteller or student of the human venture, Chris Hsiung refuses to be defined by titles. Instead, he prefers to be guided by a spirit of learning about the world around him.

The break from tradition began with a fateful encounter with Romeo Dallaire and the horrors of the Rwandan genocide. It led Chris to re-think his nine-year career in telecommunications software design. Consequently, he left the industry to pursue his own consulting business (U Venture) and has not looked back since.

Today Chris spends much of his time presenting and researching curriculum through Leadership Calgary, a program studying the successes and failures of human civilization. His concern for the human condition led him also to start Hidden Story Productions, a small video company that seeks to capture and share stories which deepen our understanding the life situation.

Chris recently took on the role of Creative Director for TEDxCalgary. Chris also consults extensively with entrepreneurs and small business owners both privately and through Momentum, a non-profit community economic development agency.

You can contact Chris at chris@uventure.net.