Joe Powers — Advisory & Consulting
Joe Powers has spent more than 25 years at the intersection of human suffering and human ingenuity — and the through-line of all of it has been a single conviction:
That the most transformative solutions don't start with data or frameworks. They start with a willingness to actually understand the world of the people you're trying to serve.
That conviction shapes Bearing Witness Design, and it shapes how Joe works as an advisor and consultant. Whether he's helping a healthtech startup find its market, guiding a pharmaceutical executive through ecosystem strategy, or working with a chief innovation officer to build the conditions for breakthrough thinking, he brings the same approach: get close, listen carefully, and help leaders see what the standard playbook misses.
Over 25 years, Joe has applied this approach across Fortune 100 companies, academic medical centers, venture-backed startups, nonprofits, and US government agencies, including the FDA, NIH, and collaborative work with the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. He works with a small number of organizations and leaders each year, by design. The engagements that matter most to him are the ones with a real mission, a hard challenge, and genuine openness to thinking differently.
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If something here resonates, he would welcome a conversation.
Explore Joe's full background on LinkedIn.