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Wayfinding Leadership
The ancient navigation science applied to modern leadership. How position-fixing, signal synthesis, and continuous recalibration translate from ocean to boardroom.
Speaking
Keynotes, executive sessions, and advisory work by Dr. Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey, PhD in ethnonavigation, National Geographic Explorer, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the ancient Polynesian science of wayfinding.
Speaking Topics
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The ancient navigation science applied to modern leadership. How position-fixing, signal synthesis, and continuous recalibration translate from ocean to boardroom.
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Ancient intelligence for modern challenges. What the wayfinders knew about the unknown, and how their methods help leaders move when the maps no longer match the terrain.
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Amplifying the voices of humanity through technology. The story of building a digital living library of indigenous knowledge, recognized among Google's Top 200 Ideas.
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Finding your way through life's greatest transitions. A practice for individuals, drawn from thirty years studying with the last living masters of the wayfinding tradition.
Selected Credentials
Oxford University
Harvard University
Stanford University
YPO Global Summit
United Nations
Three TED Stages
National Geographic Society
Smithsonian Institution
BCG BrightHouse
About the Speaker
Dr. Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey is one of the world's foremost authorities on wayfinding, the ancient Polynesian navigation science she has spent thirty years studying and applying to modern leadership.
She holds a PhD in ethnonavigation and studied directly under Mau Piailug, the greatest non-instrument navigator in the world, for ten years. She has advised Google and BCG BrightHouse and keynoted Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, and three TED stages.
She is the first Polynesian Explorer and first female Fellow in the history of the National Geographic Society, a Smithsonian Institution Ambassador, and UN Visionary Award recipient.
A Top 10 LinkedIn creator with 226,000+ followers, she is the founder of The Luminous Life and EarthONE, a platform to map and preserve the voices of humanity, recognized among Google's Top 200 Ideas.
Her Hawaiian name, Kapuʻuwailani, means The Heart of Heaven.