Rachel Malek is a Canadian-born facilitator, strategist, and systems thinker now living in Ripacandida, a small hilltop village in Southern Italy. Her work is rooted in a lived tension between tradition and transformation: raising her daughter in a place where the rhythms of the Agrarian Age still echo, even as she helps shape the contours of the Intelligent one.

Rachel has walked alongside leaders, teams, and communities navigating complexity, innovation, and change. Balancing her deep expertise in AI and emerging technologies, her practice is animated by belief in our shared capacity to co-create a more regenerative and human future. With ten years of unfinished academic wandering spanning sociology, economics, labour studies, anthropology, law, philosophy, and more, Rachel has long been driven by curiosity over credentials. 

She brings not only a transdisciplinary lens, but a grounded wisdom shaped by her work across sectors and continents, from grassroots to governance, from boardrooms to town squares. She explores questions that resist easy answers: What kind of world is coming into being? What kind of humans are we becoming within it? What is our responsibility as stewards of the past, present, and future?

Her life is a weave of vocations: thinker and doer, strategist and mother, writer and wanderer. She believes the future belongs to those willing to inhabit its contradictions with courage, creativity, and care.