The work is serious

Dr. Best is the kind of person who walks into a room and makes it larger. An executive coach, organizational strategist, and higher education leader, he has spent his career at a simple but radical idea: that when people feel fully seen, everything changes.

He came up in New York City. That matters. It shaped the directness, the range, the ability to move between worlds without losing himself in any of them. From Chanel to college campuses to community centers, he has always asked the same question of every institution he enters: who here has not yet been given the chance to contribute? And then he gets to work.

Through ARC Group LLC and the HUMAN Conference, he builds the kind of spaces most organizations only talk about. Places where belonging is not a policy. Where accountability is not a punishment. Where dignity is not a reward for compliance but the foundation everything else is built on.

He holds a doctorate. He is also a musician, a drummer and guitarist, and if you know anything about what it takes to play well with other people, you understand why that is not a footnote. It is the whole story.