Speaking
Dr. Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey has spent three decades translating oceanic wayfinding into a discipline for leading when there's no precedent for what comes next. She brings wayfinding leadership to TED, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, and Fortune 500 boardrooms.
Signature Talks
01
Every leader today occupies the same space: somewhere between the world that was and the world that has not yet arrived. There's no map for this crossing. There's no instrument that can chart it. Pacific navigators have had a name for this space and a discipline for moving through it. This talk introduces wayfinding leadership: three thousand years of practice for the crossing we're making now.
02
We're leading in turbulence. The assumptions we once relied on no longer hold. Pacific navigators never had the luxury of predictability. This talk offers wayfinding not as a metaphor but as an applied science for navigating without certainty.
03
Long before algorithms and dashboards, navigators made life-and-death decisions in open ocean using a form of intelligence modern leadership has nearly abandoned: the trained ability to read what is present when nothing is certain. It was never lost. This talk is about retrieving it.
04
There's a moment on every voyage when the landmarks disappear and there's nothing ahead but open ocean. Pacific wayfinders trained their entire lives for that threshold, the point where knowledge alone is not enough and something deeper must take over. This talk is about what it takes to lead beyond the edge of what you already know.
Past Engagements
Oxford University
Harvard University
Stanford University
YPO Global Summit
United Nations
Three TED Stages
National Geographic Society
Smithsonian Institution
