# Ada Parris

> Ada Parris is an artist, futurist, 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, whether intelligence is something we possess or 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, co-deputy chair of the IEEE AI Systems Global Flourishing Initiative, and an Honorary Fellow of Arts University Plymouth.

## Pages

- [Home](/): The listening crisis, and SOIL, a practice of deep listening in four movements.
- [SOIL Salons](/soil): Intimate dinner salons. Eight to ten seats, one table, one question.
- [Keynotes](/speaking): Four keynotes for technology, arts, regenerative, and AI ethics audiences, with formats and speaker pack.
- [Booking a futurist speaker](/speaking/bookers): What a futurist speaker does, when to book one, and what to ask before signing.
- [Speaker & Press Kit](/speaker-kit): Approved biography, keynote themes, testimonials, photo and downloadable media kit.
- [Threshold Sittings](/threshold): Online two-hour Sittings for leaders, founders and artists at a turning point.
- [Research](/research): Maps, DNA, star charts and soil. The artistic research underneath the work.
- [Futurist in Residence](/futurist-in-residence): A fractional futurist inside your team.
- [Book](/book): Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026) and the research project Cartography Is Not Home.
- [About](/about): Ada's biography, roles, and lineage of practice.
- [Contact](/contact): How to begin a conversation with Ada.