Kathy Jourdain is a powerful practitioner of the Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter, a self-organizing, emergent global network living the principles and practices of shared responsibility and shared leadership. It demands that practitioners become increasingly self-aware and present and that they collaborate with others in tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time. As a global steward of these principles and practices, Kathy is invited into hosting teams and increasingly difficult consulting work, primarily in Canada, the United States, and Brazil. She shares what she is learning through her writing on her blog, Shape Shift. She was born in Nova Scotia, was raised there, and has lived there all her life. She currently resides in Bedford.