Michael J. Menard

Founder and Chief Executive Officer. He did not set out to build this. He set out to understand what happened to his brothers.

MICHAEL J. MENARD • ARRINGTON, TENNESSEE

A Lifetime of Leadership & Purpose

Kankakee
One of fourteen children. The childhood that later became The Kite That Couldn't Fly.
Adam and Patrick
Two brothers, lost to addiction. For years that looked like a story about addiction. It was a story about what happened to them first.
Thirty years at Johnson & Johnson
Rising to Global Vice President of Worldwide Engineering. 232 international patents.
GenSight
Co-founder. A Gartner Cool Vendor, advising NASA, the UN and Fortune 100 companies.
Greater Than Gravity
The book that became a movement — and the source behind the figures on this site.
UACT
He left everything else to do this. He is seventy-five, and he intends to spend what he has left on it.

"I did not lose my brothers to addiction. I lost them to what happened to them first."

— MICHAEL J. MENARD