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 30+ years building companies that change how people learn at work.

In 1994, he founded The Real Learning Company, where he developed sales and leadership programs for more than 300 Fortune 1000 companies over 14 years. He's been a thought leader and researcher with Advantage Performance Group (APG) for over three decades, collaborating with top researchers, writers, and thinkers to deploy discovery-based learning systems globally.

Richard also served as Global Partner at BTS, Executive Vice President at Pramata Corporation (cloud-based contract management), and is Chairman of 1st90, a micro-learning platform that builds professional habits through thought leader content and learning in the flow of work.

He co-authored The Mind of the Customer: How the World's Leading Sales Forces Accelerate Their Customers' Success (McGraw-Hill, 2006) with Lou Schachter. He holds a BBA in Finance and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

At Hi, he brings that builder's instinct to AI adoption, grounded in his conviction that discovery-based learning and human curiosity are the real accelerants.

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Jim Perry

Co-Founder

Jim is a learning designer, facilitator, and builder.

He spent 17 years at BTS, rising to VP and Head of Leadership Curricula, where he led a team of instructional designers creating simulations, learning maps, and digital learning for 59 of the Fortune 100. He authored the Multipliers simulation and led flagship programs for clients including SAP, Teva, VMware, Chevron, and Bank of America.

Before BTS, Jim was Director of Training at Kinko's, where he built a complete technical training curriculum for 20,000 field employees and managed a 300-person field training network. He also ran Business Video Express, a custom multimedia training company. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Doane University.

At Hi, Jim co-designed the Intelligence Ecosystem framework and the IntelliPRINT assessment system, and he builds most of the technology behind the company's products. He's a long-time Advantage Performance Group thought leader partner and facilitates Collective Genius simulations for Paradox Strategies.

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