# Ada Parris

> Ada Parris is a strategic futurist, artist, and author of Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026). She is the founder of The Presence Lab™ and creator of Cyborg Shamanism™ — a practice that combines ancestral wisdom, living systems, and digital technology.

Ada's central question — what if intelligence is not something we possess, but something that arises through relationship? — has shaped nine years of public work across leadership, technology, ecology, and the arts. She is Chair of Mental Health First Aid England, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the IEEE Global AI Systems Flourishing Initiative.

## Pages

- [Home](/): Overview of Ada's work, the central question, and ways of working.
- [About](/about): Ada's biography, roles, and lineage of practice.
- [Work](/work): The full landscape of Ada's offerings.
- [Speaking](/speaking): Five signature keynotes on ancestral intelligence, AI ethics, leadership, and presence. Fees from £8,000.
- [Threshold Coaching](/threshold): A bounded, high-trust 3 to 6 month engagement for senior leaders at a defining inflection point.
- [Source](/source): Pattern intelligence reading, a practice from Source Patterns Intelligence™.
- [Practice](/practice): Cartography Is Not Home — an artistic body of work at the intersection of ancestral intelligence, material science, and living systems.
- [SOIL Salons](/soil): Intimate dinner salons — eight to ten seats, one table, one question.
- [Leadership Legacy](/book): Ada's book, published by Wiley in January 2026.
- [Information for Bookers](/bookers): Biographies, introduction script, and event-booking details.
- [Contact](/contact): How to begin a conversation with Ada.