ABOUT
Credentials, philosophy, and resources for working together
The Presence Lab™
A living methodology rooted in presence and paradox. Everything, keynotes, circles, coaching, frameworks, art, emerges from this practice.
My Approach
I help leaders: stay awake under pressure; hold paradox without collapse; build authority others trust; turn disruption into creativity; lead with resilience and vulnerability.
Recognition & Roles
Founder, The Presence Lab™ · Recognised by Forbes · Chair, Mental Health First Aid England · Fellow, Arts University Plymouth · Fellow, The RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) · Brain Trust Advisor, Frontier Realms · Music Committe Member, Earth/Percent · Member, 1% for the Planet ·
For Event Organisers
Your audience doesn’t need complexity simplified; they need it made navigable.
Immersive storytelling that lands in the body · Frameworks people can use immediately · Questions that spark new conversations
Biography Suite
25 words:
Adah Parris is a futurist, artist, and cultural strategist bridging ancestral wisdom with modern innovation. She helps leaders and organisations navigate complexity through presence, paradox, and legacy.
50 words:
Adah Parris is a London-based futurist, artist, and cultural strategist recognised by Forbes Brazil. Through The Presence Lab™ and her frameworks, she bridges ancestral wisdom with innovation, helping leaders navigate complexity with courage and presence, guided by the question: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
75 words (Speaker Bio):
Adah Parris is a futurist, artist and cultural strategist whose work weaves ancestral wisdom with modern innovation. Founder of The Presence Lab™ and creator of Power | Paradox | Presence™, she helps leaders and organisations move from reacting to designing in complexity. Named by Forbes Brazil as one of the world’s most influential futurists, she invites every audience to ask: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
100 words:
Adah Parris is a futurist, artist and cultural strategist recognised by Forbes Brazil as one of the leading voices reimagining leadership and innovation. As Founder of The Presence Lab™, she translates complexity into conscious strategy through Power | Paradox | Presence™, The TERRA Method™, and Threshold Coaching™.
Her practice moves like nature:
Seed (curiosity) → Root (insight) → Bloom (embodiment) → Canopy (legacy).
150 words:
Adah Parris is a London-based futurist, artist and cultural strategist exploring how we cultivate leadership in times of transformation. Named by Forbes Brazil as one of the world’s most influential futurists, she works with global institutions and creative communities to reimagine leadership and innovation. Through The Presence Lab™ and her elemental frameworks, Power | Paradox | Presence™, The TERRA Method™, and Threshold Coaching™, she bridges ancestral wisdom with systems thinking.
300 words (Press Kit Bio):
Adah Parris is a futurist, artist and cultural strategist whose work weaves ecology, technology and human transformation into living systems of change. Recognised by Forbes Brazil as one of the world’s most influential futurists, she is the founder of The Presence Lab™, an elemental ecosystem for leadership transformation. Her practice is grounded in Power | Paradox | Presence™ and expanded through The TERRA Method™, which aligns Technology, Ecology, Ritual, Relationship, and Awareness. Through Threshold Coaching™, she supports leaders as they cross identity thresholds between who they have been and who the future requires them to be. Her work unfolds like nature: Seed (awareness), Root (insight), Bloom (embodiment), Canopy (legacy).
