2026 Summit

Clayton Alenik

Talent

Co-Founder, Wise Friend

Clayton Alenik is the co-founder of Wise Friend, a company revolutionizing behavioral health by using AI to make evidence-based tools more accessible and scalable. Wise Friend partners with the Inspiring Children Foundation to professionalize their renowned curriculum and mentorship program—distilling two decades of lived-experience wisdom and clinical best practices into an interactive, tech-enabled platform. Clayton was first introduced to mental health tools through the Inspiring Children Foundation as a teenager, where he began cultivating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness to navigate the grief of losing his father. That experience sparked a lifelong commitment to inner work and service. Before launching Wise Friend, Clayton joined SaksWorks, where he helped integrate mental, physical, and emotional well-being initiatives into professional environments—bridging the gap between corporate performance and personal fulfillment. Today, through Wise Friend, Clayton is at the forefront of a new wave of mental health innovation—combining human mentorship, behavioral science, and AI to help individuals reconnect with themselves, each other, and their potential.