Krizna Gomez is that rare animal in the social change field: a strategy geek and a process wizard rolled into one. She can zoom out to map bold visions and zoom in to fuss over the tiniest details of how people experience a space — because she knows transformation often hides in the details. She dreamed up Rogue Union with her work wife Ishtar Lakhani during a forest walk (while Ishtar was multitasking on a daycare run).

A foresight practitioner, systems strategist, and process artist, Krizna helps organizations tackle their most complex questions with clarity, creativity, and courage. She can crack open the toughest intellectual frameworks in the social change field — but her true gift is turning them into accessible, unforgettable ideas (see this). People leave her sessions with concepts they chat about over coffee, dream about at night, and gleefully paste into their own slide decks. Working closely with graphic designers, she transforms messy ideas into visuals that cut through the noise and make strategy stick.

She is also an expert facilitator of high-stakes leadership retreats — the kind where futures are decided, emotions and difficult conversations are on the table, and the work doesn’t begin until 10 a.m. (because rest is part of the transformation process). In her hands, facilitation is not a soft skill — it’s a superpower. She creates spaces where leaders show up fully as themselves, find clarity, and leave renewed, connected, and inspired, including on Zoom.

Her path has spanned continents and disciplines: from human rights lawyer and grassroots organizer to leading the international program at Dejusticia in Bogotá, to running JustLabs, a global sandbox for NGO disruption. Along the way she has coached activists, accompanied organizations of all shapes and sizes, and advised foundations through futures and systems change processes.

Krizna is a certified Foresight Practitioner with the Institute for the Future and the winner of Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award (Humanitarian Special Award). In 2021, she authored the Guide on Foresight for the Social Change Field as part of her mission to make foresight part of the DNA of the social change field — a mission she’s still stubbornly chasing, years later, because some revolutions take time.

After years inside NGOs, she struck out on her own so she could say no a lot — and save her yes for the wild experiments and meaningful work that make her come alive. 

She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, a Juris Doctor, and a B.A. in Political Science from Ateneo de Manila University, and currently serves on the Board of the Center for Justice & Accountability.