About

'Our words have the power to transform our lives'

'It is my life's work to bring light to all places that hurt, that are dark, that seek breath. To do this I chose to myself dive deep into the dark valleys and forests to emerge with gifts to share - some call me a wounded healer, but I am neither - just a woman listening to and following soul's calling with a passion to help the world see more of and all the magic on offer'

Vivian Warby is a media and transformation leader working across digital systems, audience behaviour and organisational change in environments shaped by rapid technological and social disruption. She writes a weekly column where she tracks weak signals in the tech/AI world that show early patterns forming related to upcoming changes and human behaviour.

With over 4 decades of experience in journalism, news mediam editorial leadership and digital publishing, she has led digital/AI transformation across content-driven platforms, audience growth strategies and organisational capability building in news media, corporate and public sector environments.

Her work has consistently focused on periods of disruption, innovation and reinvention — helping people, teams and organisations adapt to changing technologies, evolving audience behaviours and shifting media and communication ecosystems.

Alongside her work in media and digital strategy, Vivian's WordWarrior work facilitates cutting-edge psychological and human behavioural practice as a way of supporting individuals and groups in making sense of change, experience and transition. She has a growing community having started this work under the label WordWarrior over 23 years ago

This work sits alongside her systems-level thinking and explores the human dimension of transformation.

She has also lectured journalism at the University of Cape Town and has trained over 1000 journalists, writers and corporate executives in writing and transformation through her WordWarrior series.

Vivian is particularly interested in how artificial intelligence, synthetic creation and emerging technologies are reshaping humans, human behaviour, communication, leadership, decision-making and the future of work, not only in technical terms, but in how people and organisations adapt in practice. in her WordWarrior practise she keeps the human at the centre.

Her approach:

* Heart-centred

* Human-first

Systems thinking - when one thing changes (the domino effect) how it affects the systems around it.
Preparing humans for what's coming next
Organisational and personal transformation
Audience intelligence and behavioural insight
Digital and AI-enabled innovation
Reflection and narrative practice as tools for clarity during change