HOW I KEEP IT TOGETHER with BEN LAMM

As CEO of Colossal Biosciences, Ben Lamm, 43, is booked every 15 minutes, handling the challenges of a company with major ambitions-including the "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth. "At my core, I'm a systems guy," he says. His framework for holding it all together looks like this.

- MARTY MUNSON

6A.M.

WAKE UP, WORK OUT

"I immediately spring up and I've got ideas, so I keep a notepad next to my bed," he says.

Workouts continue the flow: "I think my best ideas come to me when I'm at the gym or in the shower."

7:30A.M.

LIGHT UP

Lamm takes calls and gets ready in a room filled with red-light therapy panels. "On days I don't do red-light therapy, I feel like my batteries are starting at 60 percent," he says. Then he spends time with his 9-month-old son before heading to the office.

9A.M.

PRIORITIZE