Mentorship That Moves People Forward
Baryons brings AI into everyday leadership: helping individuals, teams, and enterprises grow with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
Our Mission
At Baryons, we believe the future belongs to those who think with clarity and lead with AI.
Too many teams are working harder without getting clearer. Training feels scattered. Tools feel transactional. Leadership gets stretched thin. That’s why we built Baryons. A phone-based personalized AI Mentor that helps people think better, lead stronger, and grow into the future version of themselves.
Our mission is to make AI mentorship feel natural, like a conversation, not a learning curve.
We help leaders not just understand AI, but internalize it. So they can make sharper decisions, build better systems, and scale their impact, one clear call at a time.
What We Do
We turn AI into a personal, daily guide for leadership. Your personalized AI Mentor is built to reflect, challenge, and support people as they grow.
Personalized AI Mentorship. One-to-one conversations that build clarity, momentum, and alignment over time.
AI for Teams. A shared language for decision-making, focus, and team rhythm guided by memory.
Enterprise AI Enablement. Organization-wide clarity, without the friction. Insights stay anonymous, patterns stay useful.
Real-Time Execution. The right reflection, at the right moment. Baryons helps people act on what matters most, now.
Meet the Team
Mike Hruska is a learning engineer, technologist, and CEO of BARYONS. With a deep background in experiential learning and AI enablement, Mike leads BARYONS with a focus on unlocking human agency through next-generation AI mentorship. A former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), he brings decades of insight into adaptive systems, immersive technology, and enterprise transformation. At BARYONS, Mike is engineering the future of leadership—where personalized intelligence drives exponential impact.
Ryan Krinjeck is a futurist CTO and AI systems architect driving the core technology at BARYONS. With over 20 years in enterprise software, cloud, and product innovation, Ryan blends deep technical expertise with a visionary approach to architecting agentic systems. He is the mastermind behind BARYONS’ adaptive AI architecture and agent orchestration platform, creating scalable, secure, and deeply personalized AI experiences that amplify performance across people, teams, and enterprises.
Brooks Canavesi is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and the Chief Revenue Officer at BARYONS. With a career built at the intersection of AI, human potential, and high-growth ventures, Brooks leads revenue strategy and product innovation with a relentless focus on scaling impact. As a pioneer in AI Experience Design, he’s helping organizations reimagine leadership, unlock 1000x growth, and activate agentic intelligence across every level. At BARYONS, Brooks is not just driving revenue—he’s architecting the future of performance.
Diane Weaver is an organizational transformation expert and the Chief Operating Officer at BARYONS. With extensive leadership in workforce strategy, learning ecosystems, and change enablement, Diane ensures BARYONS delivers both cutting-edge AI solutions and operational excellence. She’s passionate about aligning purpose with performance and creating cultures where talent thrives. At BARYONS, Diane operationalizes the unbound potential of people through scalable systems that turn insight into action.
Aaron Bare is a strategy mastermind, exponential facilitator, and the Chief Strategy Officer at BARYONS. As the originator of the Exponential Theory and a bestselling author, Aaron helps leaders break through limiting mindsets and build companies ready for radical growth. At BARYONS, he guides the long-term vision and strategy, connecting AI mentorship with high-performance leadership. His mission is to 1000x organizations by aligning clarity, culture, and exponential execution.
Forbes Shannon is a creative force and the Chief Storyteller at BARYONS. A bestselling ghostwriter, stand-up comic, X-Prize winner, and storytelling strategist, Forbes blends humor, heart, and systems thinking to unlock AI-powered leadership. As Editor-in-Chief of Extraordinary, he helps founders and executives design lives of impact and legacy through AI co-pilots. At BARYONS, Forbes is building the executive agentic workforce of the future—one conversation at a time.
