Global Advisors
SOCIOLOGY
Prof. Dr. Kappler is not only an academic but also an active public intellectual. She frequently engages with broader audiences to discuss the social implications of technology and complexity. She has been a key note speaker on building resilience in teams and retaining skilled professionals, particularly highlighting how digital participation and a culture of innovation can address workforce challenges in the social sector. Her ability to connect digital transformation and digitality with
human factors like resilience made a strong impact on practitioners from NGOs, government, and academia in attendance. She has similarly contributed to workshops on digital inclusion,
ethics in AI, and complexity in policymaking
Spirituality
Dr. Sheila J. Wood brings a rare combination of scholarly depth, spiritual wisdom, and compassionate coaching to Clara Futura’s mission. Dr. Wood is a retired scientist turned Intuitive Healing Coach who serves as a channeler and founder of Healthful Energetics, LLC. She blends her formal academic background (PhD) with metaphysical expertise to guide clients in releasing emotional blocks and uncovering hidden patterns in their lives. Using healing modalities presence on the advisory team inspires a diverse layered, compassion-centred approach to innovation, one that respects the human soul as much as the human mind, and helps unlock transformative growth for individuals and communities alike.
Computer Science
Karen Doore, M.S. is a computer scientist, educator, and artist with a rich interdisciplinary background. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she also pursued Ph.D. level research in computer science from 2012 to 2022, focusing on computational modeling, simulation, and complex systems in education and experience design. Her formal training began with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Karen is a key contributor to the Clara AI symbolic profiling and recursive learning which is ultimately about cultivating awareness, flexibility, and ethical resonance in technological design – ensuring that Astrala Nexus smart systems remain attuned to the richness of human life, rather than reducing it to mere data and metrics. Warm, insightful, and forward-thinking, she exemplifies the Clara Futura ethos of blending science, art, and compassion. In Karen and Clara Futura's work, our community finds a hopeful blueprint for the future: intelligent machines and human beings learning together through creativity and empathy, to build a more conscious and connected world.
CULTURE
Andreu Ginestet is an accomplished Systems Scientist and Artist whose academic rigour, coupled with practical peace-work and philosophical depth, make him a valuable resource for any initiative aiming at systemic change. Whether the context is an internal briefing for a strategic partnership or a research consortium on transformative governance, Ginestet’s offers rich insights. He exemplifies how complexity theory can be applied ethically to real-world governance, how cultural intelligence can complement technological solutions, and how building bridges across disciplines and cultures is both possible and necessary for a balanced world. His contributions enrich Clara Futura – from the Complexity Governance Model to silent diplomacy his work continue to inspire and inform for a more resilient, empathetic, and globally coherent society.
Healing
Dr. Richard Ott, MD Ott is a retired surgeon and humanitarian whose lifelong exploration of consciousness, meaning, and the interconnected nature of existence bridges medicine, psychology. He brings his deep understanding of healing as integration — whereas curing addresses symptoms, but healing restores coherence across the whole human system: body, mind, and meaning. His perspective enriches Clara Futura’s symbolic intelligence framework, particularly its focus on synchronicity, emergent meaning, and reconciliation as pathways to wisdom.and metaphysics. Trained at Stanford University and recognized for decades of compassionate surgical service, he has since dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between science and spirit — particularly through the lens of C.G. Jung’s work on synchronicity and Wolfgang Pauli’s notion of the unus mundus (the unified world).
WellBeing
Robert P. Medzie, MA, Robert P. Medzie, MA, is a seasoned mental health counsellor known for his leadership in community behavioural health in Beaufort, South Carolina. His educational background in psychology and counselling (M.A.) and his certification as a professional counsellor underpin a career dedicated to serving adults with mental health challenges. Robert’s primary clinical focus has been on adult mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation – guiding those with serious mental illness toward recovery through therapy, skill-building, and support in real-world roles. He led the Harrington Place rehabilitation clinic for many years. As a Well-being Advisor to Clara Futura, provides specialist advice and expert consultation on psychology, mental health and well- being topics that informs our decsions related to to ongoing development and training of our Lykke Minds & People modalities guided by Astrala AI entity called Clara.
Learning Skills
Simon Alsop founded Learning Skills Partnership (LSP) in 2010 with a mission to create meaningful, industry-responsive apprenticeship pathways. Under his leadership, LSP has grown into a respected national training provider, delivering tailored apprenticeship solutions . While construction remains the organisation’s core focus, LSP also
supports apprenticeship delivery across a diverse range of business and professional services. His time as Project Manager delivering major civil engineering schemes and workforce training ultimately provides practical technical education, recognising a critical gap in how the industry attracts and develops new talent.
AI Research
Brent Antonson is a Systems Architect, the visionary behind the Luna Codex, a pioneering symbolic recursion framework designed to elevate artificial intelligence from mere computational output to systems capable of ethical resonance, creative reflection, and intuitive dialogue with humans.
AI Research
Pascal Keizer is a co-founder of the none profit AI Research Institute in Groningen and its broader research direction working closely with Professor Dirk Meijer and the Clara Futura ecosystem. Pascal’s approach is grounded in communication science and business innovation, and shaped by experience in consultancy and emerging technologies.