Khuyen (Kasper) is the author of the book “Not Being - the Art of Self-Transformation”, published Jan 2022. It is about the human’s journey from being an atomized, isolated, separate self to a wider, bolder, more intimately connected way of being in the world.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Management at Bayes Business School in London. He researches and works with 1) founders who care about developing themselves and their teams and wholesome human beings, 2) social impact leaders in transition phase and 3) community builders who are bringing together the many worlds they are in.
Graduated cum laude from Tufts University studying Computer Science and Philosophy, he thrives in bringing analytical rigor into his fascination with human messiness.
After Tufts, he lived in Vietnam, building communities of change-agents,
organizing festivals, teaching Movement Improvisation as a way to bring people more aligned with themselves, going beyond the rational intellect, into the passion of the heart and the aliveness of the body.
Khuyen enjoys writing & storytelling and has won several awards, notably Peter Drucker Challenge and The Moth Boston.
Khuyen was a Synaptic Scholar since 2013. He secretly wishes to have Sherman as his uncle.
His eyes lit up upon beautiful questions.
Here is one, embodying his lifelong pursuit:
“What is it like
to be together
and to work shoulder by shoulder
so that our fires
burn brighter,
our love
keeps on changing lives, shaping worlds,
and our self
becomes quieter inside?“
Find him at khuyenbui.com
I met Khuyen in his freshman year in 2016. He was one of the most introspective, inquisitive and searching of my former students.
He was chosen as a 2017 Synaptic Scholar in 2016.
Here he describes the Scholars program, that I initiated in 2009 as "such a sexy name for the action-oriented nerds like him!"
Despite my leaving Tufts, we kept in contact, and I always enjoyed his restless spirit and eclecticism
He will make an exceptional giving mentor, something I witnessed when he was such for the Compass Fellowship (see page 95), a group aimed at helping freshmen get more exposure to social entrepreneurship begun by my Institute’s Empower students.