Live Your Best Life with Baryons
Baryons helps individuals, teams, enterprises, and universities flourish with accountability, confidence, clarity, and curiosity.
Our Mission
At Baryons, we believe the future belongs to those who flourish, who live with clarity, act with confidence, and grow into their future best selves.
Today, too many are overwhelmed by noise. Training feels fragmented. Tools feel transactional. Leadership gets stretched thin. That’s why we built Baryons: a Flourishing Partner in your corner that helps you reflect, realign, and move forward with curiosity and conviction.
Our mission is simple: to make flourishing accessible to everyone. Living well is a right, not a privilege. With Baryons, every person can design a life of clarity, confidence, and curiosity at work, at home, and in every season of change.
What We Do
We make growth practical. Your Flourishing Partner helps you reflect, realign, and move forward with clarity, confidence, and curiosity.
Personalized Flourishing Partner. One-to-one conversations that build clarity, confidence, and momentum over time.
Team Flourishing. A common practice for decision-making, alignment, and momentum.
Enterprise Flourishing. Organization-wide clarity without friction where insights remain anonymous, and patterns remain useful.
Real-Time Clarity. Timely reflection that turns decisions into confident action.
Meet the Team
Mike Hruska is a learning engineer, technologist, and CEO of BARYONS. With a deep background in experiential learning, human factors and AI enablement, Mike leads BARYONS with a focus on unlocking human agency through next-generation experiences. A former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), he brings decades of insight into adaptive systems, immersive technology, and enterprise transformation. At BARYONS, Mike is engineering the future of leadership—where personalized intelligence drives exponential impact.
Ryan Krinjeck is a futurist CTO and AI systems architect driving the core technology at BARYONS. With over 20 years in enterprise software, cloud, and product innovation, Ryan blends deep technical expertise with a visionary approach to architecting agentic systems. He is the mastermind behind BARYONS’ adaptive AI architecture and agent orchestration platform, creating scalable, secure, and deeply personalized AI experiences that amplify performance across people, teams, and enterprises.
Brooks Canavesi is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and the Chief Product Officer at BARYONS. With a career built at the intersection of AI, human potential, and high-growth ventures, Brooks leads product strategy and AI Research with a relentless focus on scaling human agency. As a pioneer in AI Experience Design, he’s helping organizations reimagine leadership, unlock growth, and activate augmented enterprise intelligence. At BARYONS, Brooks is not just driving product innovation, he’s architecting the future of flourishing.
Diane Weaver is an organizational transformation expert and the Chief Operating Officer at BARYONS. With extensive leadership in workforce strategy, learning ecosystems, and change enablement, Diane ensures BARYONS delivers both cutting-edge AI solutions and operational excellence. She’s passionate about aligning purpose with performance and creating cultures where talent thrives. At BARYONS, Diane operationalizes the unbound potential of people through scalable systems that turn insight into action.
Aaron Bare is a systems thinker, facilitator, and bestselling author who helps leaders and organizations practice the art of living and leading well. As the Chief Strategy Officer at Baryons, he guides long-term vision and strategy, shaping how the company designs flourishing into every level of enterprise growth.
Known for his work in exponential leadership and culture transformation, Aaron helps teams build the foundations of sustainable success: clarity, confidence, and curiosity. His mission is simple: to help people and organizations flourish together.
Forbes Shannon is a writer, comedian, and systems thinker who explores how storytelling shapes the way we grow. As Chief Content Officer at Baryons, he translates complex ideas about human and organizational flourishing into language people can feel. His work blends humor, reflection, and design to help leaders see themselves more clearly and lead with greater confidence and curiosity.
A bestselling writer and creative strategist, Forbes has helped founders, authors, and executives turn experience into impact. At Baryons, he builds the narrative architecture behind the flourishing movement, one story at a time.
