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 begin with data or frameworks, but with a willingness to truly inhabit the world of the people you are trying to serve.
That conviction is the foundation of Bearing Witness Design — and it is equally the foundation of how Joe works as an adviser and consultant. Whether he is helping a healthtech startup find its market, guiding a pharmaceutical executive through a complex ecosystem strategy, or working with a chief innovation officer to build the organizational conditions for breakthrough thinking, he brings the same quality of presence and depth. He doesn't diagnose from a distance. He gets close, listens at a different level, and helps leaders see what the conventional playbook cannot show them.
Over 25 years, that approach has been tested across Fortune 100 companies, elite academic medical centers, venture-backed startups, nonprofits, and agencies of the US Government — including the FDA, NIH, and through collaborative initiatives with the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. Joe works with a small number of organizations and leaders each year, by design. The engagements that matter most to him are the ones where the mission is real, the challenge is hard, and there is a 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.