WHAT TYPE OF ANCESTOR DO YOU WANT TO BE?
Strategic Futurist · Board Chair · Artist · Author Founder, The Presence Lab™ · Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026)
There is more intelligence in your organisation than you can currently see.
It lives in the decisions made under pressure. In the people who stayed. In the relationships that held. In the patterns that repeat across generations before anyone names them.
Ada has spent two decades learning to read that intelligence. She works with leaders and institutions who sense that what they need is already present, but not yet visible.
Her question is always the same.
WAYS OF WORKING
Keynote Speaking For rooms where the conversation needs to move — not faster, but deeper. Where one well-asked question changes what becomes possible.
The Presence Lab™ is a consultancy, methodology studio, and artistic research practice working at the intersection of ancestral intelligence, emerging technology, and living systems.
Threshold Coaching™ is for individuals at the edge of what they currently know. The transitions that don't respond to strategy, but do respond to presence, pattern-reading, and the willingness to be fully seen.
Interim and Fractional. Available for senior interim and fractional roles across AI ethics, foresight, health, arts and culture, and financial services.
RECENT WORK
The Portman Estate — London, 2026 Keynote on augmented intelligence for an institution approaching its 500th year. A pattern intelligence framework mapping five centuries of inherited organisational code against the strategic decisions facing leadership now.
Private advisory practice — 2023 to 2025. During two years of concentrated research and writing, Ada continued working privately with senior leaders across financial services, creative industries, and institutional organisations.
“Adah helped me navigate complex personal and business challenges with her unique blend of creativity, foresight, and deep wisdom. Through our regular accountability sessions, I gained clarity and breakthroughs that transformed my approach to decision-making, leaving a lasting impact on how I tackle obstacles.”
THE BOOK
Leadership Legacy · Wiley · 2026
A manifesto for leaders who understand that the future is not optimised — it is inherited.