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Lorca Smetana is a resilience expert with decades of original work around truly resilient leadership. She has been a vibrant resource for those curious about the inner relations of burnout, compassion, creativity, and deep connectedness.  

At the age of 16, Lorca was a survivor of the 1986 school mountaineering tragedy on Mount Hood.  Today she is an expert in the human capacity to recover and sustain life and health from crisis, change and burnout, and is a vibrant explorer of designed resilience. She founded a medical aviation non-profit, holds a master’s degree in international diplomacy, and served on the Leadership Development faculty at Montana State University. Designing resilient leadership development within teams across a broad spectrum of fields, she is a passionate speaker and educator as well as a regenerative farmer, a celebrant, and a writer.  She architects resilience and wholeness in leadership, helping individuals, teams, and communities better understand what it is to be powerfully resilient ecosystems for themselves and for our world.

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"Lorca Smetana is an innovative and beloved educator and consultant in the development of resilient leaders, helping with their organizations and lives in designing for high levels of energy, innovation, and compassion." 
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"calm centeredness"

Lorca’s combination of storytelling, quiet passion and commitment, and calm centeredness made us all rethink our life choices: are we doing all we can to make this a better place? Lorca leads by example: she does not tell, she shows; her style is engaging, carefully thoughtful and compelling. The few moments she was able to spend with us have lingered on through conversation, thoughtful gestures and deep reflection.”

Mo Copeland, Head of School, Oregon Episcopal School

"generous, positive, and transformative"

I have been through more than twenty years of soul searching and counseling and have spent eight years struggling with exhaustion without much reprieve.  By helping me view life through a new and vibrant lens, and heightened curiosity, what I once thought would take years of hard labor to gain momentum transformed into moments, then minutes, then hours of whispering possibility. I didn’t think it was possible and now I wish every person I love could taste such sweetness in their lives. What Lorca offers is more generous, positive, and transformative than any other avenue of self-repair or self-love I have sought out in all these years. Not only does she offer this with the curriculum she has crafted but in her innate way of being. I now eagerly look forward to the sunrise and lie in bed grateful at night. There is no greater value. 

Kerensa Robinson