Hansa grew up in Concord, Massachusetts not far from the first battlefield of the American Revolution and the pond where Henry David Thoreau wrote “Walden.” His parents were daily meditators and taught him how to breathe and quiet the mind at an early age.

In work, Hansa flourished in entrepreneurship. He started several companies and helped other start-ups grow into national brands. His skills in communications, public relations and storytelling powered his career.

During that time he co-created the WeCroak app, a memento-mori style mindfulness app that has introduced over 300,000 people to using mortality salience as a tool to think clearer. The project came out of Hansa’s passion for practical philosophy and some of his favorite thinking tools from Stoicism and Buddhism. This project began to focus Hansa’s work life on the big questions and eventually led him to the field of leadership coaching. 

Hansa is an emerging leadership coach working toward his International Coaching Federation accreditation through a program at Georgetown University. He lives in Philadelphia.