What False Consensus is Doing to Your Giving Strategy

In this conversation, Stuart and Josh explore what it takes to move from reactive giving to root cause philanthropy, why false consensus is one of the most expensive problems in family governance and donor strategy, and how the coming generational wealth transfer (potentially $170 billion in new charitable capital over the next fifteen years) demands a more intentional approach to alignment, mission, and measurement. They also get into the fulfillment side of giving: the metric most foundations don't track, and the reason so many donors disengage from work they said mattered to them. Stuart McClure has built his career around a single discipline: finding the invisible gap between what people believe is working and what actually is. As the founder of Cylance, acquired by BlackBerry for $1.5 billion, and the author of the foundational Hacking Exposed series, Stuart spent decades applying prevention thinking to systems that everyone else assumed were protected. Now, through Wethos AI and the Clavis Foundation, he's bringing that same framework to philanthropy — asking not just where donors should give, but why so many well-resourced giving strategies quietly fail to produce what anyone actually intended.