The thinking behind the rooms.
Research, frameworks, talks and the book. Ways to work with me.
The right people are in the room. Something still doesn't land.
You have the frameworks. You have the data. You don't need another model.
You need someone who can sit with what's unresolved. Not explain it away.
Cartography Is Not Home.
How colonial mapping lives on inside AI systems, and the questions I have asked since 2018 as the technology changed.
Read the research →Watch. Then decide.
TEDxAmsterdam · What type of ancestor do you want to be?
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Change grows. It isn't forced.
When the work becomes a relationship.
“Corporates all need an artist in residence. Who sits on your board.”Ada Parris, Klosters Forum 2026
Some residencies grow into something longer. A thinking partner for your board or senior leadership team.
Not a consultant with answers. Someone in the room where decisions are made. Listening for what the organisation keeps not saying. Asking the question no one else can ask.
I hold one or two of these at a time.
Start a conversation →- Twelve months. A standing seat at leadership or board sessions.
- A monthly thinking session with your CEO or chair.
- A quarterly provocation. A question, a map, a sound.
- One work made with your organisation, shared at the end.
“Adah has helped me navigate complex personal and business challenges with her unique blend of creativity, foresight, and deep wisdom.”
Tanja Gihr · ex-Head of Sustainable Banking Group EMEA, Barclays
Leadership Legacy.
A Manifesto to Create a Mindful Future and a Thriving Planet. Wiley, 2026.
Five elements. Ether, air, fire, water, earth. How technology meets our oldest connections to the world. Essays, letters and reflections for leaders who build what others inherit.
“Attention is our oldest interface, the original technology of connection.”Buy the book →
Selected rooms.
I'm an artist and futurist. I work with four intelligences: body, soil, DNA and algorithms. Most organisations only listen to the last one.
Narrow intelligence produces narrow futures. I help leaders perceive more, so they can build what the world actually needs.
It all returns to one question: what type of ancestor do you want to be?
The Listening Report.
Four times a year, in the middle of each season, I publish what the last one said. Signals from boardrooms, research, the margins and the land.
Free. Short. Named at its source, nature included.
Get the summer edition, out 5 NovemberSimple. Three steps.
- Step 1Email me Tell me what's in the room. A few lines is enough.
- Step 2We talk A short call. No pitch. We see if it fits.
- Step 3A clear proposal What we'll do together, and when.