MAPlabs is taking on the largest questions and the latest science in order to help you find deeper meaning and more fulfilling life purpose.

Research finds that up to 75% of us (that’s 3 out of 4 people you know!) lack a well developed sense of life purpose based on personal meaning.  Our ability to find meaning and develop purpose in our ever-changing culture is being challenged as never before. The result:  stress, boredom, anxiety, and lives that lack fulfillment. 

But science is helping to identifying new approaches, like focusing not on the symptom of stress, but on its cause, which is often a less-noticed sense of meaninglessness. 

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Why Science?

When it comes to meaning and purpose, most of us rely on generalized or traditional concepts from our culture.  Scientists are now fleshing out and adding to these concepts with empirical data from rigorously constructed studies.   Our search for meaning and purpose can now benefit from statistically validated findings that remove some of the theoretical guesswork, and that ground our efforts in more efficient and effective practices.

This science is too empowering to remain primarily in the domains of academia and scholarly journals.  MAPlabs aggregates, distills, and synthesizes these powerful research findings into  programs that serve the world's searchers for meaning and purpose.  Our programs are designed to help you lead a more informed, empowered, and fulfilled life.  

The 5 Dimensions of Meaning

Research shows that there is no single sense of meaning in life. Meaning is multidimensional. Knowing the dimensions, and how they affect you, changes how you create and experience life meaning.

The 4 Elements of Purpose

 Scientists have defined the 4 elements of life purpose. Knowing these elements, and how they work together, empowers you to build toward purposefulness with intention and clarity.

The 2 Levels of a Meaning Matrix 

Like an ecosystem, your levels of meaning work together, each informing the others, to create a meaning matrix that uniquely defines you, your values and beliefs, and your personal and relational experience of life.

OUR TEAM

Sanford Keziah

Sanford Keziah is both a lifelong entrepreneur and student of human meaning-making and purpose.  He earned his BA at Duke, and studied human meaning-making and purpose at Harvard, where he earned his MTS. He co-founded his first company at 18, and had over 50 employees by 19. After working at several multinational advertising agencies in NYC in his 20's, he went on to co-found one of America's first, and leading, brand strategy firms, serving companies such as Coca-Cola, P&G, IBM, GM and many more in his 30's. After selling the firm in his early 40's, he became a co-founding partner of Lacuna, llc, which manages both a venture fund and a hedge fund. He has served on the boards of directors of 7 software companies, and in executive roles in several of them. He is a past treasurer, vice president, and president of the Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association, and a current member of the school's Dean's Council.

Austin Campbell

Austin Campbell earned an MTS and a PhD at Harvard, where his research focused on ethics and human flourishing. This passion initially led him to work in the nonprofit sector. As a member of the AmeriCorps VISTA domestic service program, he developed volunteer development strategies at Habitat for Humanity. And as an interfaith chaplain at Tufts Medical Center, he supported patients, their families, and care teams in their struggles with meaning-making amid medical crises. Currently he serves as a senior analyst on the corporate strategy team at DaVita, a Fortune-200 healthcare company, developing enterprise-level projects to shape the next era of patient care. Austin received multiple awards for his teaching, published articles in leading academic journals, and received fellowships through both the Presidential Scholars program and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

... (ahem) and don't forget to get your free Purpose Primer ebook!

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