HEARTHEADED™ IS A DAO-ALIGNED LEADERSHIP PARADIGM FOR COHERENT DECISION-ACTION
I’M JING, 贺敬.
I help people and organizations decide with clarity and move with strategy and coherence. HeartHeaded™ is the language I speak.
Leadership & Systems Strategist
w. Human Insight
I work at the intersection of strategy and human dynamics, helping leaders and organizations navigate complexity by shaping the conditions that drive coherence.
Solid Partner through Change
Visionaries and everyday leaders alike work with me during periods of shift, growth, realignment and recalibration, when clarity, strategic direction, trust, and culture are stress-tested and come into focus.
Wisdom Activator
I bring ancient wisdom into the present, offering practices simple to begin yet powerful at scale.
Chief Detangler
I work to change perspectives and mindsets. I live for the spark in the eyes when a shift happens.
FROM SELF TO SYSTEM
INDIVIDUAL
Change begins with the individual leader. This Paradigm cultivates alignment and restores inner orientation at the point of decision, shifting leaders away from reaction toward grounded, coherent action.
Impact: Leaders build trust and inspire followership through consistent, coherent decision-action patterns, with authentic presence and confidence carried by inner alignment.
Clarity before Strategy
NUCLEUS
When leaders practice and align with the decision–action principles of this Paradigm, shared confidence grows and friction becomes fuel for change rather than constraining politics that fracture the system.
Impact: Leadership team operates as a well-run engine, with deep trust, coherent decision–action flow, and productive tension driving growth and innovation.
Alignment at the Core
COLLECTIVE
The aligned core organically ripples throughout the system, shaping culture by design, self-reinforcing rather than fragile. As coherence propagates, trust stabilizes and becomes both outcome and catalyst, enabling small shifts to generate collective impact.
Impact: Fractal win. Organizations evolve into self-sustaining ecosystems consciously architected for coherence at scale.
Culture by Design
FROM SYMPTOM-LEVEL FIX TO SYSTEM-LEVEL CHANGE
PAIN
Perform leadership instead of inhabit it
Lead from role, urgency, or expectation with little joy.
Hesitation before deciding; second-guessing after
Paralyzed by a breakdown of trust and confidence. Decisions made solve one problem while creating three others.
Deep-seated fear of change
Leaders guard their own domains. Silos, friction, quiet resistance, team breakdowns across functions.
Stress and burnout as the norm
Things get done but in a costly, draining, and unsustainable way.
Strategies and processes aim to help, but can’t seem to land
Plans stall, execution lags, outcomes fall short of intent.
New tools, new frameworks, same problems
Repeated cycles of new initiatives without lasting change.
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PROBLEM
A chronic split at the point of decision
An inner civil war that turns every important choice into a lose-lose battle with self.
Solve problems of wholeness with tools of separation
Fix roles, processes, or departments w/o addressing alignment. Scale action without scaling coherence. In turn, trust erodes, culture fractures, and growth amplifies fragmentation.
No reliable decision–action sequence
Decisions are treated as isolated problem-solving events, not as practices that orient priorities and action. Trust and culture are treated as outcomes, not as system design grounded in alignment.
Tyranny of the operational urgency
Without a solid internal reference point, priorities wobble and shift under external pressure. Whatever is loudest or most immediate gets the time, capacity, and attention, while clarity work is sidelined or rushed, losing momentum before it can take hold.
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“I used to walk into meetings braced for impact. Now I walk in grounded and confident. Meetings became more intentional and structured. Tension that used to turn into office politics began to settle. For the first time, I felt we had a steady center again. This work isn’t cosmetic. It’s foundational. The change was immediate and visible. I notice myself listening differently and responding differently now. When the shift happened inside me, it changed how I lead my team and how I live my life. I feel lighter, more joyful, and more connected to what I do.”
CEO, Regional Nonprofit
“We were functioning, but really stuck; our mission felt vague, and departments were operating in silos. Now we’re moving, and everyone finally feels like we have solid footing. After cycling through consultants and tools that only added to the stress, it’s refreshing to work with someone who went straight to the root cause: not just what we were deciding, but how we were deciding. That shift changed our culture and we feel it every day.”
President, Social Impact Organization
CLARITY. STRATEGY. ALIGNMENT