the Belmont Institute isn’t a company. It’s a name. A placeholder. An Idea.

It began with a street. Belmont was the street where I grew up. Later it was a town I lived in. These were where I witnessed the power of people coming together — block parties, town meetings, birthday dinners, and crowded living rooms. 

These weren’t “events” in the way I came to understand them during my career, but they were gatherings in the truest sense. People showed up. They listened. They brought something of themselves.

the Belmont Institute is about what happens when people gather with purpose, with care, with the possibility of possibilities. And about the roles stakeholders (of all kinds) have in these moments. 

We're working on a book about these ideas. A way to explore why we meet, how we meet, and what it means to do it well in a world that often sees events as strictly creative and logistical challenges.

So no, there’s no office or staff. Just a name and the belief that how we come together matters. That events are an act of humanity that can change each of us, and the world.