Who We Are
We both began in the world of suits, strategy, and corporate success, only to find ourselves pulled toward a deeper calling. What started as careers in innovation and leadership became initiations into a more mythopoetic way of living: one rooted in soul, community, and reverence for what’s unseen.
Voices of Emergence is born from that arc — from boardrooms to circles, from analysis to story, from performance to presence. We hold this space as fellow travelers on the path of becoming, listening for what wants to emerge when we bring our full selves forward: the polished and the raw, the human and the more-than-human.
Along the way, we discovered that the path to meaning wasn’t about leaving one world for another, it was about weaving them together.
That’s what Voices of Emergence is about. We’re not here as experts with all the answers. We’re here as two people who’ve gone through our own transitions, creating a space for real conversation about what it means to live with depth, honesty, and imagination in times of change.
Rudy de Waele
I’ve spent most of my life looking toward the future — through tech, through culture, through the big shifts happening in our world. For years I advised companies and brands on how to navigate change, and I loved being in that space of innovation. But eventually I realized: strategy and tech only get you so far. If we don’t do the inner work, none of it really sticks.
These days I’m more interested in what happens when we slow down, when we get honest with ourselves, and when we learn to lead from a place of presence instead of pressure. my focus is on creating spaces where people can reconnect to themselves, to each other, and to the living systems we’re part of.
I bring in whatever’s been meaningful on my own path — somatic practices, ancestral wisdom, systems thinking — and use it to help leaders and communities find their ground in the middle of complexity.
On Voices of Emergence, I show up the same way I try to live: curious, open, and willing to sit with what’s hard. I care about real dialogue, not performance. For me, it’s about listening for what wants to emerge between us, and giving it enough space to breathe.
Alex de Carvalho
I’ve always lived between worlds — born in Europe, raised across continents, moving between corporate life, community building, and deep spiritual practice. For a long time I thought those were separate tracks. Now I see they’re all part of the same story: how we bring our inner lives and outer work into alignment.
I’ve sat in boardrooms and I’ve sat in ceremony. I’ve worked in marketing and I’ve fasted alone in a forest. What ties it all together for me is the search for integrity: how to live in a way that feels real, even when the world around us feels like it’s breaking apart.
On Voices of Emergence, I hold space for the questions that keep me up at night: How do we live with soul in times like these? How do we stay rooted without shutting down? How do we keep imagining futures worth moving toward? I don’t pretend to have the answers, but I believe in asking the questions together.
At the end of the day, my work is about helping people remember their own compass — what I call metasovereignty — so they can move through uncertainty without losing themselves.
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