Who we are

Two artists, one long arc

For over twenty years, Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Shepherd have made music that refuses to look away — GRAMMY-winners and 4x GRAMMY nominees, Emmy-winners, CBS Icon Award Winners for Public Service — rooted in intergenerational, cross-cultural collaboration. Find the Arc carries that practice into boardrooms, campuses, coalitions and conferences: the same rigor, the same joy, built for the people leading change.

Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Shepherd seated on stone steps, photographed by Kristin Chalmers
Kaitlin McGaw & Tommy Shepherd · Photo by Kristin Chalmers

Kaitlin McGaw

Artist · Producer · Facilitator

Kaitlin McGaw is a Harvard-trained researcher in African American Studies and a GRAMMY & Emmy-winning songwriter with two decades of practice turning what a room feels into what it can finally say. She leads with heart, staying present through the hardest, most unresolved moments until the real story surfaces. She thrives working with purpose-driven leaders in any kind of organization — whether they already have the words or are still searching for them — helping them find the melody that makes people feel it too.

Tommy Shepherd

Artist · Beatboxer · Percussionist

Tommy Soulati Shepherd is a GRAMMY & Emmy-winning composer, emcee, and Isadora Duncan Award recipient whose two-decade career spans hip-hop theater, film scoring, and beatboxing — a technical command of rhythm, voice, and production built for holding a room's hardest, most unresolved work. He leads with the instincts of someone who's spent a career learning which question actually opens a room, and the craft to shape what surfaces into something built to last. He thrives moving a group through real tension until what's true can finally be said — and set to a song.

What we believe

The room already knows

We don't arrive with your answer. We arrive with a process that lets what's already in the room surface, get named, and get shaped.

Craft is not decoration

Twenty years of professional songwriting means the thing you make in a Lab holds up outside the Lab — recorded, mixed, and worth pressing play on again.

Joy is a working method

Play lowers the defenses that keep groups stuck. Every Lab is built to be genuinely fun, which is exactly why it goes deep.

The process and the song grow from the same root — one is how you get there, the other is how you keep it close.

Bring us your room

Start a conversation