Launchpad
Declare success for your venture.
Develop the character of the co-founders,
unify individual superpowers into a cohesive team and
align venture mission and personal mission
to increase your venture’s rate of success
What if you could…
avoid a 65% failure rate due to interpersonal tensions between co-founders by investing in yourself and your founding team?
create a distinctive organizational culture
that leads to venture success and a flourishing team as opposed to a tradeoff?
design products & services that shape culture toward God’s original design?
Program Goals
Through a multi-week cohort experience, founders will:
Establish a firm foundation of identity individually and interpersonally
Break through old mindsets and limitations to pursue the venture from a place of strength.
Activate unique superpowers to accelerate team structure and
collaboration.
Align and unify personal missions of co-founders with venture mission.
Effectively communicate and pitch the unique distinctives of their team and mission.
Get exposed to practical Kingdom business practices to lead a Kingdom-centered venture.
Format
Accelerator with a syncopated rhythm of:
Interactive facilitated cohort sessions
Generative peer coaching sessions in a duo or trio (co-founders separate to enable cross-pollination).
Reflective 360-style feedback interviews from partners, mentors, and trusted friends.
One-on-one session per founding team to unify personal learnings into a cohesive whole.
Outcomes
God-given gifts are activated in founders and they’re operating in a state of flow.
Team roles are established and aligned to the superpowers of each co-founder.
Team clarity and alignment on venture mission.
Increased investor confidence and rate of backing “Declared” ventures.
What Declare alumni are saying…
“Everybody should go through something like this. It crystallizes and brings it all together -- what has the Lord created you for and to be.
Declare is helping people understand what their mission is from God’s perspective.”
- Rich Farrell, CEO + Founder,
FullArmor Corp., Silicon Valley
“It answered the question: ‘What am I here to do? What is unique about me?’”
“I now see new ways to design my venture and social ambassadorship around my strengths, fueling me with the drive I need to move forward.”
- Amalia Rothschild-Keita, Design Researcher, Entrepreneur & IDEO alum, East Bay
“The biggest takeaway was clarity and added meaning of spiritual intelligence and who I am in God. Before I go into meetings, I can see the [gift visualization of the] “tuning fork” being really meaningful to remind me who I am and what I am here to do.”
- Peter Mayrick, Partners in Ministry & Board Member, Sydney, Australia
Meet the Team
Bart Munro
Bart is a technology, product, and experience design leader with a passion for envisioning and building Kingdom-reflecting products. He co-founded mobile wellness platform, Fig.com, as well as a social impact travel experience, Fathom.org.
Bart is a founding member of rēp, a non-profit organization transforming developing societies through Kingdom business, including South Africa, Israel, and India. He holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton University.
Bart is a native Texan, currently residing in San Jose, CA with wife Jess, 2 sons Wils & Quin, and new daughter, Ziva.
Jess Munro
Jess loves working with entrepreneurial leaders to discover their calling and pioneer new territory through their ventures. She coaches executives and teaches at Stanford's design school (“d.school”) through immersive learning experiences. She’s led design and innovation work for nearly two decades with clients like Genentech, eBay, Kaiser Permanente and Gates Foundation.
Jess has been leading people to integrate faith + innovation for over a decade, coaching business owners to repurpose their businesses to impact society, acting as mentor and speaker for Praxis, and developing courses for Silicon Valley professionals to impact their spheres of influence.
Jess can often be found with skilsaw in hand, building things in her backyard with her two sons and daughter.