Jp King
Founding Coach @Maven
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WORK HISTORY
Founding Coach @Maven
San Francisco, CA, US
Maven is a new venture from Gagan Biyani (co-founder of Udemy) and Wes Kao (co-founder of Seth Godin\'s altMBA). The goal is to enable course creators to create and sell effective cohort-based courses, by providing a platform, a course marketplace and training in course creation.I\'m a founding coach, working with course creators to help them shape their courses - with a particular focus on designing learning sequences & experiences, course systems, and ownable frameworks.
EDUCATION
Gestalt Institute of Toronto
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Facilitation
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Curriculum & Pedagogy
OCAD University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design
Concordia University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, Print Media
SKILLS
ABOUT JP KING
I’m a strategic designer working at the intersection of learning systems, futures thinking, and organizational transformation. My work lives in the invisible layers—the tools, processes, relationships, and infrastructures that shape how we learn, collaborate, and navigate complexity together. At Dark Matter Labs, I help design the conditions for decentralized learning, distributed agency, and futures-driven change. I build sensemaking frameworks, learning architectures, and decision-support tools that enable teams and organizations to move through ambiguity, hold complexity, and act with clarity. My practice blends systems thinking, creative facilitation, and speculative design. I care about designing not just solutions—but the systems of learning, reflection, and adaptation that allow people and organizations to evolve over time. Much of my work revolves around questions like: — How do we turn organizations into learning organisms? — What tools and processes help us navigate uncertainty without defaulting to control? — How can we build futures-driven strategies that are experimental, relational, and regenerative? Beyond strategy and systems, I’m also an artist, educator, and musician. My creative practice informs how I think about patterns, emergence, and the relational dynamics of change. Whether designing a workshop, a book, a dashboard, or a learning framework, I approach it as an act of craft, care, and imagination. If you’re working on complex challenges—rethinking governance, learning, collaboration, or the invisible infrastructures of change—I’d love to connect.
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