2025
luminary.
About
We represent rare and distinguished leaders - luminaries whose wisdom, experience, and insight are unparalleled. We connect them to executives and innovators doing the most important work of their lives.
T A L E N T
Luminaries
Our Luminaries are extraordinary individuals who provoke fresh thinking, inspire transformative action, and build genuine connections that transcend conventional advisory.
C O R E T H E M E
Activated
Wisdom
Historically, the most successful leaders—from Roosevelt guided by Hopkins to Alexander advised by Rasputin—have leveraged trusted counsel to navigate complexity and uncertainty. Today, Luminary continues this tradition, bringing together exceptional leaders and forward-thinking executives who seek transformative impact.
F O R O R G S
Challenge Convention, Find Clarity, and Act
At Luminary, we partner exclusively with ambitious leaders and organizations committed to transformative change.
Each Luminary offers a distinctive, personal, and meticulously tailored to your organization's unique ambitions, strategic priorities, and culture.
F O U N D E R
David Beath
David is Founder and CEO
of Luminary. He is based in Richmond, Virginia.
M U S I C
Echoes of Wisdom
Pause for thought, tune in, and listen with us.
L U M I N A R Y
Tim Brown
During more than thirty years leading IDEO and guiding designers, executives and world leaders as they shape new futures, Tim Brown has been at the center of the development of some of the most influential innovations and strategies of our time.
L U M I N A R Y
San Rahi
San helps global leaders unlock growth by reframing complexity through a transdisciplinary lens of design thinking, market strategy, and commercial acumen.
With 25+ years advising brands like Samsung, Apple, and the UN, he builds systems that deliver measurable value—driving innovation, societal impact, and sustained business performance.
C L I E N T S
It Starts With A Conversation
Successful partnerships between a luminary and their clients are as much about chemistry and shared values as they are about shared wisdom and action.
Each engagement starts with an in depth, confidential conversation to learn about your goals and
their context.
Together we establish a fit. When there is one, we move to crafting a proposal with you and the luminary who can best help you.
T A L E N T
Are You a Luminary?
Luminaries are rare, distinguished, recognized leaders with hard earned experience helping companies grow and leaders transform. If this sounds like you, or someone you know and trust, we would love to hear from you.
L U M I N A R I E S
Brave New Earth
San Rahi and Frank Meehan build on-mission, resilient climate brands and businesses, helping founders and boards to address the investor and corporate pullback that is an existential threat to businesses delivering the solutions our planet needs.
P A R T N E R S
Partner With Us
We are open to enquiries from partners who can accelerate our mission of bringing the wisdom of our luminaries to ambitious leaders. Specifically, we’d love to hear from event organizers, sponsorship experts, established speakers bureaus and networks of executive coaches serving the Global 1000.
L U M I N A R Y
Kate Lydon
Kate Lydon works at the intersection of design, strategy, and systems change. She guided Nextdoor through strategic transformation, building the design organization that became foundation for their successful IPO.
At IDEO, she pioneered citizen-centered digital services and co-created scalable education models. Her work translates systemic opportunities into practical, scalable solutions.
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Gregg Schoenberg
Gregg synthesizes insights across finance, politics, and technology to guide transformational challenges. As embedded advisor to a global macro hedge fund and former fintech entrepreneur, he bridges traditional finance with emerging technology.
His investment banking and Capitol Hill experience enables him to decode how policy, politics, and business intersect—helping executives understand how to think about challenges in continuous disruption.
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Burton Rast
Burton Rast is passionate about solving unmet human needs with emerging technologies. As Design Partner at Strange Ventures, he collaborates with early-stage creative AI startups as ideas progress from strange to transformative.
His journey from "starving artist punk kid" to design leader drives his commitment to mentoring the next generation. At Google, he led design systems across flagship products while fostering collaborative, design-driven culture through company-wide teaching.
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Robert Suarez
Robert combines biomimicry science with design innovation to address pressing challenges through waste-to-value models. His Science Fiction Design Intelligence workshops help Fortune 500 companies, NASA, and the UN envision future scenarios and retroact to actionable steps.
He translates nature's 3.8 billion years of R&D into human-centered solutions proving purpose and profit combine for impact.