DR RUSSWIN

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RUSSWIN FRANCISCO

Most leadership advice avoids the forces that actually govern human behavior: power, shame, desire, identity, and the need to belong.

My work begins there.

I am an educator, entrepreneur, and scholar of human subjectivity. I hold a Ph.D. in Epistemological Sciences, with research focused on how culture shapes identity, perception, and truth. For more than a decade, I have written and spoken about sexual wellness—not as a narrow clinical topic, but as a window into the deeper structures that govern human relationships, leadership, and institutional life.

I am the founder of Bite the Fruit, a sexual wellness business that became an unlikely laboratory for observing human vulnerability, courage, secrecy, and transformation. In that space, I witnessed firsthand that the primary barrier to human growth is rarely information, but permission: permission to see oneself clearly, confront internal contradictions, and live without unnecessary shame.

This work revealed something larger. The same invisible forces shaping intimacy also shape leadership, culture, and institutional behavior.

My writing explores those forces. I examine power, identity, sexuality, leadership, and culture—not to provoke, but to clarify. My goal is to help readers and leaders see what culture often obscures, and to operate with greater self-knowledge, psychological freedom, and ethical authority.

My background spans academia, business, public policy, and the arts—not as separate careers, but as a continuous inquiry into human behavior and institutional life. I spent 15 years teaching business and information systems at the college level, and later taught classical mythology, exploring the enduring psychological patterns embedded in cultural narratives. I also served for a decade as a university administrator, including as Chair of the Registrars’ Committee of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, where I led collaborative initiatives across twelve institutions.

In the public sector, I co-founded a public policy and legal research consultancy whose work supported public-interest litigation and contributed to transportation safety legislation cited in Congressional hearings.

The arts have remained a parallel path of inquiry into human truth. I am an actor, singer, and producer with more than 30 years of performance experience. I produced and appeared in The Girl Who Left Home, a musical film that won Best Picture at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, and was an accredited investor in the Broadway production Here Lies Love. I also previously co-owned Black Fox Lounge, a jazz venue recognized for its artistic programming.

Across all of these domains, my work has remained consistent: helping people see what is difficult to see, name what is difficult to name, and move toward greater clarity, integrity, and freedom.

I create environments where difficult conversations become not only possible, but transformative. My workshops and writing help leaders develop the psychological insight necessary to lead with congruence, build trust, and foster cultures grounded in dignity rather than performance.

Because the most powerful forces governing our lives are often the ones we have never been taught to recognize.

RUSSWIN FRANCISCO

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.