The public work of Ihsan Beezer. Everything starts as a question.
Make an inquiryEach one grows from the same question.
Planned and in progress. Each one starts as a question.
One umbrella for the public work: what gets made, what gets studied, what gets given away, and what gets built next. ThinkerBuilder Works is the umbrella institution for the public work of Ihsan Beezer. An institution in formation.
The organizing home for the public work: media, research, initiatives and ventures. Most of it is in formation, published when it is ready.
In formationSee the four armsIndependent counsel for consequential decisions.
Liveihsanadvisory.comA digital advantage for Black entrepreneurs. The email launch list is open.
Opens Jan 22, 2027blacklaptops.comA hybrid sport. A modern test of human athleticism and capacity.
Coming June 2027ThinkerBuilder Works is the organizing home for the public work of Ihsan Beezer. It is not a holding company and not a claim of operating divisions. It is a way to see the whole body of work in one place: the shows and books, the research, the public-good initiatives and the ventures that follow. IHSAN Advisory, Fortalen and Black Laptops are separate institutions, not arms of ThinkerBuilder Works.
The work inside it is described honestly. Most of what you will find here is in formation: projects being written, recorded, tested and built, published when they are ready.
A works is a body of work, everything a thinker leaves behind. A works is also a place, like an ironworks or a waterworks, where things get built. ThinkerBuilder Works holds both.
The name carries the whole idea in one word. An author's works are everything they made. A works, like Bell Works or an ironworks, is a place where raw material becomes something finished.
Thinker plus Builder: the institution exists for people who do both, and it is organized around what gets finished and left behind, not only what gets talked about.
Four categories hold the work. Each arm is presented as it is: in formation, published when ready.
Everything made for an audience: shows, podcasts, books and film. The media work is presented through ThinkerBuilder Media, the editorial home for the institution's shows.
The study of how people and organizations make decisions: academic research, long-form writing and frameworks that come out of it. Research here informs the books, the advisory practice and the initiatives.
Public-good projects built to be useful at scale. The flagship initiative is The Self-Audit Project: free, repeatable online self-audits that help entrepreneurs, employees and parents examine their own decisions.
New builds that start inside the institution and stand on their own when they are ready. Ventures are announced when there is real activity and a reason to announce them.
ThinkerBuilder Works is led by Ihsan Beezer, a thinker who builds: writer, researcher and entrepreneur, a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, and the founder of several institutions across media, advisory and sport.
One inbox, routed by arm. Choose the arm your inquiry belongs to; the button opens a pre-addressed email to the founder's office.
Shows, podcasts, books and film: guest requests, collaborations, rights and press about the media work.
Write to MediaDecision research, academic work and long-form writing: questions, citations, speaking about the research.
Write to ResearchThe Self-Audit Project and other public-good work: partnerships, pilots and questions about the initiatives.
Write to InitiativesNew builds and venture ideas that belong under the institution.
Write to VenturesAnything that does not fit an arm, including press about the institution itself.
Write generallyThe questions behind the work. Tap one to see which arm it grows into.
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Last updated: October 2026.