Heath Arensen

Heath is the founder of TenTogether.

He works beside creators as they find, begin, and grow what is theirs to make — founders, artists, those building outside the usual categories. He starts with the person, trusting that the creation flows from who they are. From there the work moves between things often kept apart: the business and the inner life, the model and the meaning, the plan and the person living it. He holds purpose and impact as the ground a creation grows from, not a feature added later, and he tends to what tends to go unspoken — the doubts, the relationships, the quiet places where a project stalls or comes alive.

Understanding that people are at the heart of every system, he gives much of his time to the slower work of developing leaders from the inside. For more than ten years he has held retreats and offered close mentoring — spaces for the part of creation that the spreadsheets never quite reach. It is here, he has come to believe, that most of the real story lives.

From this same conviction grows a larger curiosity. With a curious spirit, Heath is designing the money systems, technologies, governance structures, and physical spaces that can help communities create and sustain a shared and more just future. He believes that by looking back at our earliest ways of organizing, and reimagining them with the tools we now have, we can find new ways to create and steward what matters, together. It is a return to the village.

None of this is theory for him. Heath is a global nomad with an itch for entrepreneurship. Over more than fifteen years he has founded and scaled technology-driven startups across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia — several of them as CEO — and later, as a venture partner and board member, helped many more find their footing. He thrives where technology meets social good, with experience that runs through founding, impact investing, and product incubation, and he counsels governments, the UN, venture funds, and accelerators. He was trained across business, psychology, international development, and technology, and draws on all of them, though rarely in straight lines.

He brings a steadiness that is gentle without being soft, and a way of working that makes room for the whole of a person. As often as he can, you will find him welcoming guests and hosting retreats at his home in Kenya.