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Ada speaks to audiences navigating profound transformation, when the tools that got you here won’t take you forward, and when the future refuses to be predicted.
Her talks explore Power, Paradox and Presence: how influence moves through systems, where transformation actually happens, and the awareness required to stay in relationship with complexity.
She doesn't offer predictions. She offers new questions.
Signature talks
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The question beneath every decision. This talk reframes strategy, creativity, and leadership as legacy work, asking what lives beyond quarterly targets or personal achievement.
Legacy · Ancestral thinking · Ethical leadership · Long-term responsibility
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What if we remembered that technology is nature expressing itself through us?
Every organisation scrambles for an AI strategy. Most offer implementation frameworks. You're asking: what relationship are you in with your machines?
This talk meets the world’s most urgent question and transmutes it into something deeper, technology not as separate from nature, but as one of nature’s children. Digital systems are as natural as mycelium, and neural networks are as organic as rivers.
The separation was never real. We just forgot.
AI & consciousness · Human-machine relationship · Tech ethics · Conscious innovation
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Coherence, not control. When everything you were taught about leadership stops working, this talk names the shift: from control to presence, from performing certainty to practicing curiosity.
Executive presence · Systems leadership · Leading through uncertainty · Power, Paradox & Presence
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What you’ve been calling anxiety might be intelligence. This talk legitimises the sensitivity conscious leaders have been told to suppress, your nervous system is giving you data others can’t access.
Somatic intelligence · Sensitivity as capacity · Embodied awareness · Nervous system wisdom
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What your work is still digesting. Drawing from Ada's art-science work translating soil, DNA, and quantum fields into sound, this talk explores how memory lives in systems, and what it means to work with what's been inherited.
Organisational memory · Culture patterns · Legacy integration · Systemic inheritance
All keynotes can be tailored to your organisation’s context, combined into transformative experiences, or woven into leadership programmes.
Formats
Keynotes (45–90 minutes)
Panels and fireside conversations
Interactive workshops (half-day or full-day)
Immersive experiences combining sound, ritual and reflection
Leadership offsites with TERRA Framework integration
Artist in residence programmes (3–12 months)
Notable Engagements
TEDx Talks:
TEDxAmsterdam · TEDxSoho · TEDxGreekStreetWomen
Technology & Innovation:
Google · Meta · IAB UK · IAB Italia · Word Trade Center Amsterdam · Tech Hub Amsterdam · STEP Conference Dubai
Finance & Corporate Leadership:
Lloyds Banking Group · NatWest Group · National Grid · Unilever · VCCP · UBS· KES Brazil
Cultural, Public & Social Impact:
Oxford University · World Indigenous Forum · Mental Health First Aid England · KES Amsterdam · TransPride Conference São Paulo · The House of Beautiful Business · Afrofuturism Festival · Tate Lates
Biographies
25 words:
Futurist, artist and relational ecologist exploring how nature’s intelligence transforms technology, leadership and culture.
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Ada Parris is a futurist, artist, and relational ecologist, recognised by Forbes Brazil as one of the world’s most influential futurists.
Through The Presence Lab™ and her frameworks, she bridges ancestral wisdom with innovation, helping leaders navigate complexity with integrity and presence.
She asks one essential question: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
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Ada Parris is a futurist, artist and relational ecologist whose work explores how technology, ecology and consciousness co-evolve.
Recognised by Forbes Brazil as one of the world's most influential futurists, she is the Founder of The Presence Lab™ and the creator of Source Patterns Intelligence™ and the TERRA Framework™.
Her practice spans keynote speaking, leadership development and immersive experiences, translating embodied intelligence into strategy for regenerative futures.
Ada chairs Mental Health First Aid England and is a Fellow of the RSA and Arts University Plymouth. Her book Leadership Legacy: A Manifesto for a Mindful Future and a Thriving Planet (Wiley, January 2026) explores digital symbiosis and conscious evolution.
She asks one essential question: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
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Ada Parris is a futurist, artist and relational ecologist who works at the intersection of technology, nature and consciousness. She studies how organisations, technologies and cultures behave as living ecosystems, not machines to control, but relationships to tend.
Through The Presence Lab™, Source Patterns Intelligence™ and the TERRA Framework™, Ada translates foresight, embodiment and ancestral wisdom into practical guidance for leaders navigating irreversible change. Her creative practice spans immersive sound installations, community ritual and ceremonial art, exploring how we sense futures before they arrive.
Recognised by Forbes Brazil among the world's most influential futurists, Ada chairs Mental Health First Aid England and is a Fellow of the RSA and Arts University Plymouth. She's a Brain Trust Advisor to Frontier Realms, a Music Committee Member for Earth/Per cent, and a member of 1% for the Planet.
Her book Leadership Legacy: A Manifesto for a Mindful Future and a Thriving Planet (Wiley, January 2026) explores digital symbiosis and regenerative leadership.
Ada asks one essential question: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
Introduction Script (for event hosts)
“Our next speaker asks a question that cuts through strategy and quarterly reviews: What type of ancestor do you want to be?
Ada Parris is a futurist, artist, and relational ecologist recognised by Forbes Brazil as one of the world's most influential futurists. She chairs Mental Health First Aid England, and her book Leadership Legacy will be published with Wiley in January 2026.
Ada helps leaders navigate irreversible change by treating organisations as living ecosystems, not machines to control.
Please welcome Ada Parris.”
If these questions are alive in your organisation, let's talk.