Ronke Lawal is the founder of Wolfe, a neuroadaptive AI platform engineering resilience at the synaptic level. From Bain & Company's social impact and private equity practices to leading finance at tech startups, her three-year journey revealed a $20 billion blind spot in digital mental health: cultural incompetence at scale. Now both building and coding Wolfe's AI architecture, Ronke combines her business acumen with self-taught engineering skills to tackle what she calls "algorithmic malpractice" in mental health care. Her work focuses on computational neuroscience applications that predict crises seventy-two hours before symptoms emerge and reverse trauma through precision-timed interventions. Currently an MBA candidate at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, Ronke writes on AI, neuroscience, and health care equity. Her insights on cultural intelligence in digital health have been featured in KevinMD and discussed on major health care platforms. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Her most recent publication is "The End of the Unmeasured Mind: How AI-Driven Outcome Tracking is Eradicating the Data Desert in Mental Healthcare."
As a founder in digital mental health, I’ve watched our industry celebrate reaching $8.34 billion in valuation while systematically failing 40 percent of the population. This isn’t just a moral failure, it’s a $20 billion market opportunity that’s being ignored because of cultural blindness. For physicians trying to refer diverse patients to digital mental health resources, the options are frustratingly inadequate. With the total U.S. behavioral health market valued …
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