The word Chora (pronounced kor-ah) comes from ancient Greek philosophy, most notably used by Plato in the dialogue Timaeus. It refers to a receptive space—a field of becoming where forms take shape before they manifest in the visible world.
Not quite a place, not quite a thing, chora is the invisible matrix where potential meets pattern.
At ChoraRisk, we invoke this concept to remind ourselves that beneath every strategy, signal, or system lies a field of unseen forces. It's this symbolic field that we map, helping leaders feel what’s emerging, not just what’s measurable.
Jarred Taylor (BPhil, BIR) is a strategic systems thinker and the architect of ChoraRisk. ChoraRisk is a private proprietary novel intelligence framework for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and collective risk. The underlying ChoraRisk intellectual property represents a paradigm shift in local, national, and international risk analysis.
With over two decades of experience spanning technology, banking, insurance, education, and the arts, Jarred’s career reflects a rare synthesis of project and risk management expertise with emergent cultural and technological fluency.
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Educated in philosophy and global politics at the University of Sydney, Jarred’s early academic grounding laid the foundation for a lifelong inquiry into how systems evolve—and how decisions ripple through them. This inquiry found form through leadership roles in project and enterprise risk governance for major institutions.
Simultaneously, Jarred cultivated deep engagement in the creative and immersive tech landscape, helping artists, educators, and technologists prototype future-facing practices.
Their consultancy work and production roles with innovative grassroots organizations and Burning Man further reflect their ability to integrate emerging technologies, such as AI and VR, into meaningful human experiences. This ethos permeates ChoraRisk’s approach to intelligence design.
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The Chorus Risk Model, developed under Jarred’s leadership, is a culmination of this journey: a resonance-based framework that surfaces narrative dynamics, systemic blind spots, and symbolic indicators often missed by traditional analytics. It draws equally from governance, philosophy, and immersive storytelling, inviting organizations to sense not just what is measurable but what is meaningful.
Whether guiding startups through strategic uncertainty or co-creating forecasting of cultural futures, Jarred helps leaders attune to the deeper forces shaping our worlds—and offers practical pathways to move with coherence, clarity, and courage.
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