Arts
Today we’re talking with Adah Parris, a strategist with a truly fascinating range of interests and insights. From a background in primary school education, she's gone on to work in marketing and advertising, design education, and more recently consults with organizations as a sort of professional storyteller, helping them sort out some of their internal alignment challenges. Adah also writes and speaks extensively on the role of technology in society, and is particularly interested in what she calls Cyborg Shamanism—the use of rituals around technology as a sort of substitute for religion in Western societies. So we discuss that, we hear about her own professional story, we talk about the Group of Humans as a kind of “human blockchain” for establishing mutual trust, and we get into the uses of story as a problem-solving tool.