Kathryn Sforcina is a visionary strategist, initiated shaman, and architect of future-ready systems who works at the intersection of innovation, leadership, and consciousness. With over 28 years of global experience, she blends deep systems thinking, frontier technologies, Indigenous wisdom, and regenerative leadership to guide organizations, teams, and leaders through complexity into coherence.
Kathryn is a global faculty member of SingularityU, a serial entrepreneur, and Non-Executive Director at Farmbot, where she supports the scaling of AgTech innovations aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She has advised United Nations agencies on digital sustainability, environmental data governance, and resilience-building across sectors and has scaled ventures across 30+ countries.
She is the author of Digitalizing Sustainability: The Five Forces of Digital Transformation (Taylor & Francis, 2023), with additional works forthcoming that explore the evolving architecture of human potential—spanning transformational leadership, psychological safety, systemic evolution, and how we reclaim the lost intelligence within ourselves to lead with integrity and impact.
Kathryn is the founder of Wild Tribes, a company dedicated to soul-led transformation through nature-based experiences, energy medicine, and rites of passage. She is also the founder of Transforming Tribes, which delivers executive, enterprise, and systems-level programs that activate regenerative leadership, high-trust cultures, and future-fit strategy through deep listening, self-mastery, and embodied wisdom.
Initiated in the Andean Inkan Lineage of the Q'ero ancient shamanic energy medicine tradition and The Stalking Wolf, Lipan Apache Lineage as a Protector & Vision Quest Guide, Kathryn’s frameworks integrate psychosocial safety, energetic intelligence, and somatic recalibration to support personal, organizational, and planetary evolution.
She believes the future of life, leadership, innovation & impact begins with self-awareness and self-mastery—and is brought to life through presence, intuition, trust, and the courage to truly listen.
Talking Points
The Sixth Layer: Leading at the Interface of Inner and Outer Systems
Session Description: In this powerful session, participants will explore the Sixth Layer—the interface where personal transformation meets external systems, and where true resilience and leadership are forged. The Sixth Layer: Leading at the Interface of Inner and Outer Systems
Kathryn Sforcina introduces this groundbreaking concept, drawn from decades of experience at the crossroads of innovation, Indigenous wisdom, systems strategy, and digital transformation. The Sixth Layer reveals how we translate our inner growth into systemic impact—and why this often-overlooked threshold is the key to meaningful, future-ready leadership.
Participants will be guided through a diagnostic to map their personal leadership interface. They will engage in storytelling, systems diagramming, and somatic reflection to craft a leadership strategy that is regenerative, embodied, and aligned with both their values and the world’s needs.
Ideal for executives, policymakers, impact-driven founders, and systems leaders, this session bridges personal wholeness with professional impact—offering a transformational lens for thriving in complexity.
Notes on delivery: 75–90 minutes. Includes reflection prompts, interactive systems mapping, and a take-home integration toolkit. Can be contracted to as little as a 30min talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
The Deep Mind Revolution: The Alchemy of Impact
Session Description: In this paradigm-shifting session, participants will be guided into the Deep Mind Revolution—a movement that positions self-awareness and self-mastery as the most vital technologies of our time. The Deep Mind Revolution: The Alchemy of Impact
In a world accelerated by AI, climate disruption, and socio-political instability, Kathryn Sforcina reveals that the greatest breakthroughs in leadership and innovation no longer stem from external advancement alone, but from the internal capacity to meet complexity with presence, purpose, and coherence.
Drawing from neuroscience, ancient wisdom, systems theory, and lived leadership experience across sectors and cultures, Kathryn will unpack the anatomy of self-mastery—exploring how internal states drive external impact, and how the most aligned leaders create the most transformative change.
Participants will engage in guided reflection, inner mapping, and visionary inquiry to awaken their deep mind: the part of themselves capable of clarity under chaos, truth amid noise, and innovation through intuition.
Ideal for visionary executives, conscious entrepreneurs, policymakers, and systems leaders, this session will ignite a revolution from within—offering a compass for navigating uncertainty, building resilience, and leading humanity forward.
Notes on delivery: 60–90 minutes. Includes somatic inquiry, guided visualization, optional breathwork and journaling. Can be contracted to as little as a 30min talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
The Deep Mind Revolution: Leadership at the Edge of Chaos, Soul & System
Session Description: In this era of disruption, we don’t need more leadership—we need alchemy. The Deep Mind Revolution invites participants to step beyond strategy and into mastery, where self-awareness becomes a superpower, presence becomes precision, and leadership becomes a living transmission. The Deep Mind Revolution: Leadership at the Edge of Chaos, Soul & System
Drawing on 28+ years of experience as a systems thinker, visionary entrepreneur, root cause therapist, and initiated shaman, Kathryn Sforcina will guide participants through a transformative journey into the deep mind—the part of us capable of holding paradox, reading unseen patterns, and leading from intuition, integrity, and soul.
This is not a talk. It is an activation. Through guided inquiry, somatic reflection, and visionary frameworks, participants will explore how to turn burnout into breakthroughs, complexity into coherence, and ambition into impact. They’ll learn to read the subtle signals of change, recalibrate energy, and lead teams and organizations in a way that is sustainable, soulful, and system-aware.
Perfect for high-impact founders, C-suite leaders, investors, and system architects ready to build the next era of humanity—not from control, but from flow. Not from power, but from presence.
Because the future doesn’t belong to the most strategic. It belongs to the most self-aware.
Notes on delivery: 60–90 minute keynote or 3-hour immersive. Includes deep listening, breathwork, reflective prompts, and recalibration tools. Optional: nature-based integration or ceremony. Can be contracted to as little as a 30-minute talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
The Deep Mind Revolution: Listening, Trust & Leadership in the Age of Complexity
Session Description: In a world shaped by acceleration, polarization, and burnout, the next revolution in leadership isn’t about moving faster. It’s about listening deeper. The Deep Mind Revolution: Listening, Trust & Leadership in the Age of Complexity
In this powerful keynote, Kathryn Sforcina—visionary systems thinker, ceremonialist, and global advisor—guides participants into the Deep Mind Revolution: a radical invitation to lead from the inside out. This is where deep listening becomes the master key to trust, resilience, and intelligent action in chaotic systems.
Participants will explore how to cultivate the inner stillness required to hear what most leaders miss—the signals beneath the noise, the unspoken tensions within teams, the subtle intelligence of change itself. From Indigenous wisdom to modern neuroscience, Kathryn weaves together 28+ years of experience helping leaders, founders, and enterprises transform from reactive to resonant.
Expect to learn how to:
- Build high-trust cultures through embodied presence and authentic communication
- Decode emotional and energetic dynamics using deep listening and somatic attunement
- Rewire leadership to respond with clarity, precision, and coherence in the face of uncertainty
Perfect for visionary leaders, culture shapers, and innovation catalysts who are ready to lead not just with brilliance—but with deep, soul-rooted awareness.
Because in the future of leadership, your nervous system is your strategy. And listening is your edge.
Notes on delivery: 75–90 minute keynote or half-day immersive. Includes guided inquiry, energetic attunement, and a Deep Trust Mapping tool. Optional ritual or ceremony for team offsites and retreats. Can be contracted to as little as a 30min talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
Digitalizing Sustainability: Building Impact-Ready Innovation Strategies
Session Description: This keynote will empower participants to build sustainability-first innovation strategies using Kathryn Sforcina’s globally recognized Five Forces framework from her book Digitalizing Sustainability. Digitalizing Sustainability: Building Impact-Ready Innovation Strategies
In a rapidly digitizing world, the convergence of ESG demands, emergent technologies, and systems instability requires a new blueprint. Kathryn will break down how to future-proof your business model, activate digital public goods, and mobilize capital for climate-aligned innovation—drawing from her work with UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers, IV.AI, and high-growth tech ventures.
Participants will learn how to move from compliance to contribution using case studies from agriculture, education, wellness, and finance. They'll engage in scenario thinking and impact modelling to architect innovations that deliver measurable results across all layers of value creation: financial, environmental, and human.
Ideal for mid- to senior-level innovation leads, ESG strategists, impact investors, and tech founders who want to move beyond buzzwords and into blueprinting future-fit organizations.
Notes on delivery: 60 minutes. Available as keynote, boardroom strategy session, or half-day executive immersion. Can also be contracted to as little as a 30min talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
The Interface of Innovation: Designing Regenerative Systems for the 21st Century
Session Description: In this session, participants will be invited into the emerging frontier of regenerative innovation, where exponential technologies, human-centered systems, and Indigenous wisdom converge to address our most urgent planetary and societal challenges. The Interface of Innovation: Designing Regenerative Systems for the 21st Century
From climate resilience to capital raising, participants will explore how to align technological advancement with sustainability, governance, and social impact. Kathryn Sforcina will guide the group through case studies from her global experience scaling startups, advising the UN on digital sustainability policy, and building transformative leadership programs that bridge the boardroom and the biosphere.
Through storytelling, systems mapping, and foresight tools, participants will engage in co-creative exercises to build a regenerative innovation roadmap tailored to their organization or venture. This interactive session is as much about mindset as it is about methodology.
Ideal for visionary leaders, policy advisors, investors, technologists, and founders navigating disruption, this session will inspire participants to design not just for growth—but for meaningful, multi-generational impact.
Notes on delivery: 90 minutes. Includes breakout group dialogue and systems-thinking canvas. Can be delivered in-person or virtually. Can be contracted to as little as a 30min talk or expanded into a half-day, full-day and/or multi-day immersive.
Video
Kathryn Sforcina discussed the future of geospacial science
As the rate of technological advancements gets exponentially faster, how do we think about business success? What are the roles of 'experts' and generalists? What role does diversity - of ways of thinking as well as other forms - play in fast-tracking collaboration and convergence for global real-world solutions? Join Kathryn Sforcina, Commercial Director at Palo IT, to find out more!It's time to engage our community of business leaders to harness technology for people and planet.
Powered by volunteers including some of the senior leadership team from Palo IT, #fillthegap aims to engage the private sector to close gaps in resource, skill set, capital, data and technology required to achieve the UN 17 Sustainable Developments Goals. Some of the initiatives we are presently exploring solutions for include: 1. Solving the 68% SDG Data Gap 2. Addressing the use of frontier technologies to support the prevention, early detection, response to and recovery of wildfire prone/impacted areas /communities 3. Utilising smart city and geospatial technologies to reinvigorate (and /or rebuild) existing infrastructure for maximum environment impact. To find out more about how you can get involved, you can attend one of our 'Harnessing Technology for People and Planet' roundtable events (please contact us if you are interested in attending as they are invitation only events). To stay in the know about the progress of the initiatives born from these events please follow us at:Kathryn Sforcina | Keynote Speaker
