Lorca Smetana Information

Restoring human ecosystems, raising people up. Lorca Smetana is a wayfinder, educator, and creative consultant in the development of resilient leaders, helping them design for high levels of energy, innovation, compassion, and recovery. A survivor of the 1986 school mountaineering tragedy on Mt. Hood, Lorca has been teaching and learning for over thirty years about risk, personal sustainability, recovery from tragedy, and joy. She holds an MA in diplomacy and is on the faculty in Human Leadership Development at Montana State University. A TEDx and keynote speaker, a celebrant, a writer, and a farmer, she has helped leaders better understand what it is to be a resilient ecosystem. Lorca teaches people how to have more courage, feel less anxious, make better choices and cope with tensions in our everyday lives. Lorca resides in Montana and provides virtual coaching and workshops from her sustainable farm. "I pull resilience to the surface of your life, teaching you to hone and tend it until it is a force that fills you, letting you meet each next thing with presence and capacity and generosity. We tend compassion and embodiment, explore boundaries and blind spots, embrace unknowns and time, and engage in an abundance of resilience games that keep us awake, alive, and growing in grace, fluidity, and power. With me, you design for ease, grow in wholeness, and become a beautifully vibrant human ecosystem. This is resilient leadership.” - Lorca