Human Design Solutions

Early on, I relied on my left brain way too much. I didn't know myself, and I let conditioning, fear, and over-sensitivity rule my life.

This led to choosing a wrong degree, starting in a wrong career, and being who I wasn't for many years.

I kept showing up in a certain way, and then blamed others for not really seeing me!
I kept feeling frustrated and angry, and didn't know why.

Gradually, I came to see that expression, creativity, empathy, inspiration, and intuition are all a big part of me, too.

I've embraced my left and right brain strengths, and worked through much of the pain, struggles, and resistance I had built up over the years.

Now, I bring everything I've learned to help others bring out their full potential and the parts of themselves they have ignored for too long.

Working with me, you'll get:
- My experience from working in different roles in four different countries
- My mindful, empathic, and intuitive attention to what's going on for you and what you need
- My analytical skills interpreting your BG5 Unique Design Blueprint (Human Design for business)

Originally from the UK, I worked in accounting before heading abroad at 26. I spent a year in Australia and then taught Business English in Japan, where I also wrote test items for their national English test company.

I moved to Canada in 2009 to live at a meditation center. Now I support the center virtually and run local classes here in Calgary. You're welcome to join the online meditation circle I co-founded in 2020 for people who want a regular meditation practice.

By living and working in mindful communities for 15 years, I've learned so much about myself and others, how teams interact, and how the shadow can wreak havoc. Human Design and BG5 came to me from a chance encounter when I challenged myself to meet a group of new people - the kind of thing I'm designed to do. It's given me a framework that brings all my skills together to help others.

Get in touch to see if we're a fit.

Chief Catalyst

Meditation Groundwork

Meditation Groundwork offers live guided meditations three nights a week. https://www.meditationgroundwork.org

Co-Founder

TCC Japan

Writing original English language test items for practice papers or private clients, to variety of English and vocabulary levels. Editing other writers' work

Writer and Editor

Clear Sky Retreat Center

Creating and editing content for website, blogs, mailings, programming, internal communications, advertising. Managing Google Ads Grant account.

Content Writer and Marketing Team Member

Attending board meetings, submitting monthly reports and annual report, heading pricing committee, producing budgets, presenting at AGM's, answering bookkeeper inquiries, providing management information and recommendations.

Treasurer

Phoenix Words

I help people build confidence in writing for their business. In particular, I encourage people to write in their authentic voice for their website and mailing list.
I am also available to write for your business including rewrites of current content, new websites, and regular blogs or bulk emails.

Blog Writing Coach, Content Writer

Society for Testing English Proficiency - Tokyo, Japan

Researching or creating appropriate topics/scenarios.
Writing to exact specifications of examiners, including articles, dialogues, 'gap' passages, questions and distracting/correct answers.
Writing articles from 70-700 words at different levels of English.
Editing other writers' work.
Extracting questions and answers from completed articles.
Proofreading completed test pamphlets.
Work involved national examinations, national radio program dialogues, and recently university entrance tests.

Content Writer

ALC Education, Inc. Global Leadership and Talent Development (GLTD)

Training adults in appropriate spoken and written English, both in groups and one-one.
Conducting intensive residential programs and weekly classes.
Training in technical writing.
Designing curriculums, choosing appropriate materials.
Detailed reporting per class, monthly, and per student at the end of each course.

Business English Instructor

Jenbro Limited, UK

Assisting Financial Director in creating annual budget.
Preparing monthly management accounts.
Reconcilations of bank accounts and cash book, supervising sales and purchase ledgers.
Transferred from paper accounts to computerised nominal ledger.
Managed, administered, and troubleshooted computer network.
Interviewing, hiring, dismissal of staff.
Created HR training induction manual.

Management Accountant

"Hey! Where's the operating manual for this bag of skin and flesh I inherited?" 🤣.

Have you ever thought, 
"What's wrong with me?"
"Why do I keep doing this to myself?"

Worse still, has part of you given up? 

Well, I'm here to tell you:
There's nothing wrong with you, and you're not broken.

🙄 Take a moment, and reread that if you need to hear it again.

You never know where the next insight, shift, or that thing you needed to hear will come.

It's a big world, ripe with insights and different perspectives, so long as we're open to them 🤯.

If any of this resonates, you may be in the right place. 



As a mindful BG5 consultant, I can offer you a view of things you've likely not experienced before.

*** In even 3 sessions, you'll almost certainly get a-ha! moments. You'll have practical insights and experience validation and healing around situations or people that may have nagged at you for years.
You'll have a strategy you can experiment with at work and at home, that will open up new ways to make decisions and interact with people and even groups of people.

****** If we go deeper, we can shed light on the places where you likely get distracted, defensive, or uncommunicative. Where you create resistance.  ✅ All important things for a leader to know.
We can analyze the dynamics with a partner and even a team of people to improve communication and productivity.


Awareness of BG5 is growing. Since 2022, the Institute's courses are now accredited with IACET for Continuing Education Units (see my Linktree), and Human Resource Professionals are joining. 

🥇 Get ahead of the curve now and learn the basics of your BG5 Design.

** Intrigued? **

Visit my Linktree below to get your FREE personal Career Design and links for courses and more.

Or just message me here with, "I want to solve my inner Wordle!"
I'll know what you mean. And I'll be impressed you read this far.

https://linktr.ee/humandesignsolutions

Andrew Rogers ☸️

Lucia Kanter St. Amour

Under the Sisterhood

UTS is a social impact company that addresses the critical gaps in women’s health education, diagnosis, and treatment. As CLO, I'm responsible for: legal guidance on general business operations, partnerships, and organizational practices; contract review and negotiation with vendors and partners; policy development ensuring legal, ethical, and privacy compliance; risk awareness and mitigation; recommending practical strategies that project the organization’s integrity and vision; addressing potential legal issues related to employment and board members; liaising and supervising outside counsel; partnering with cross-functional teams to effectively communicate the organization’s mission, support its programs, and amplify its social justice initiatives.

Chief Legal Officer

Pactum Factum

Chief Legal/Negotiation Officer for various corporations, NCAA athletes, and organizations; U.S. mediation liaison to Supreme Court of India 2022-2023; have mediated/negotiated 1000+ cases; host of "Forces of Good" podcast. Seasoned employment law and negotiation expert. Pactum Factum Press publishing.

Attorney | CLO | Publisher

UN Women

VP, San Francisco  - the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. UN Women USA is the official, membership-based non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for UN Women, the United Nations agency that advances gender equality and female empowerment globally.  Events and projects include: Cities for CEDAW a nationwide, grassroots effort to encourage local governments to become more gender equitable; EVAW - an effort to End Violence Against Women; The Gender Equal Pay coalition; HeForShe, a social movement campaign providing a systematic approach and targeted platform through which men and boys become agents of change for the achievement of gender equality; Women In Climate Change Gender Action Plan; Bi-annual Global Voices Film Festival

Vice President - UN Women USA

Spectrum Strategies for Autism

501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing sibling programming; and rescue dog matching, placement and training to families with children with Autism and other special needs.

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)

Teaching:  Negotiation / Mediation Clinic / Mediation Certification for Professionals / Special Education  Law. 2003-2012 taught regular course(s) on-site each semester. I tried to retire, but noooooo. They wouldn't let me 😂 2013-present continue on faculty as hybrid (remote and on-site) coach and instructor

Law Professor (Adj.)

International Chamber of Commerce

Serving as judge and mediator for ICC mediation competition in Paris, France

Mediator and Judge

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Teaching Negotiation practical skills course and supervising independent studies

Lecturer

EEOC

One of the small team of original designers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s pilot mediation program in 1996 for the San Francisco Regional Office, and later mediated EEOC cases from San Jose to Sacramento

Mediator

Judicial Council of California

In-house employment law attorney for the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), the policymaking body for the entire California court system for 58 counties and the Supreme Court of California. I advised the Judicial Council, the Chief Justice of California, and trial and appellate court judges and court officers, contributing to major policy and legal decisions on employment and labor issues that affect the entire judicial branch of California. During that time, I was also selected by the California Division for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) as a representative attorney for the judicial branch to conduct ongoing discrimination and harassment training through live, televised, satellite broadcast programming to court employees statewide. The target 20,000-member audience consisted of judges, human resources professionals, court directors and court staff. Broadcasting live with a studio audience, I also co-hosted CJER’s production of “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Celebration of Justice,” as part of the Division’s Continuing The Dialogue television series. The content of many of the broadcasts drew upon expertise in the field of Civil Rights and various discrimination and fair employment laws.

Attorney - Office of the General Counsel

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Upon dissolution of boutique labor & employment firm in San Francisco, joined Orrick's Employment Law group and handled all aspects of litigation and client counseling. Closest clients I worked with included Gap, Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts

Employment Litigation Attorney

VP Emerita UN Women | Attorney Action Figure 🦸🏻‍♀️ | Arresting Author | Chief Negotiation Officer | Plucky Podcast Host | Irreverent Int'l Keynote | "What Box?" Bellwether

📚 World domination through literary seduction. Elegant. Defiant. Irresistibly true. Are you ready for what's next (October 13, 2025)? MY WRITING IS ORGANIC USING REAL INTELLIGENCE (AI wishes it could write like me)

I'm not bossy. I'm BOSS. A UN Women VP, provocatrice, attorney/law professor turned negotiation GOAT . . .

(Buckle up. This is ..."a lot")

🦸🏻‍♀️ I help women harness the power of everyday negotiation—from conning a toddler into eating peas to running the boardroom. I authored the Little Black Dress of negotiation books. Why?

Because negotiation isn’t just for business. It’s everybody’s business 🧐

(But you don’t need me to “empower” you. Nor do I sell a “masterclass” or certification from my own “institute”)

🌍 World Mediation Peace Activist. Benevolent & incurable explorer (dubbed “creative savant”—you know who you are). A bit wild at ❤️‍🔥, I struggle with purpose and disrupt with goodwill—through advocacy, teaching, writing, broadcasting, philanthropy, art & sports.

🗣️ Polyglot. Passionate about people & social progress. JEDI agent (not a Star Wars ref). I’ve practiced law in private, public & non-profit sectors; have taught internationally, including over two decades as faculty at two University of California law schools.

I get that people are messy multitudes—and how they actually behave in conflict & decision-making.
What makes me next-level? Decades of deep experience in negotiation, behavioral economics, game theory, plus dope training in:

✔️ Emotional micro-expressions
✔️ Lie detection
✔️ Neuroscience & decision analysis

Oh, and I know the #1 most stealth negotiation skill. 😎

(Kinda like x-ray vision. Hint: it’s NOT “speaking your truth.”)

WHAT I’M NOT:

❌ A sales/marketing bro who built my expertise off a “masterclass”
❌ A brand
❌ Your income stream
❌ After your 💰 or approval
❌ One to trademark words. Ahem™ 🙄 (you know the type)

Special needs parent & dog whisperer—chaos doesn’t faze me, and persistence is my default setting. CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing dogs & sibling support for families with special needs kids.

🫶 Turn-ons: Cake, shoes, pour-over coffee, decent literature
🤢 Turn-offs: NIMBYism, vapid buzzwords, elitism, posers

💡 Meyers-Briggs type? ENFJ-A (same 2% club as Obama & Oprah).

🕸️See more on pactumfactum.com, but TLDR: 
I’m 95% human Labrador (begs the question: what’s the other 5%?). Find it endearing or annoying. That's on you. Either way, I’ll be me because, as Oscar Wilde said, “Everyone else is taken.”

P.S.
❌ I don’t do casual Zoom coffee chats
✅ I’ve already overpaid it forward

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Andrew Rogers ☸️

S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

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