Stewardship for a Changing World
EcoTheos™ | Stewardship, Human Values, Ecology, and Emerging Technology
Stewardship for a Changing World
EcoTheos™ | Stewardship, Human Values, Ecology, and Emerging Technology
Meet Heidi (Birdie) Karlsson
Led by Heidi Karlsson, international strategic advisor and social scientist.
- 20+ years of international experience across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Caribbean
- Six years directing a global multi-stakeholder forum
- M.A. in Dispute Resolution, Southern Methodist University
- Joint Diploma in Integral Ecology (2026), Laudato Si' Alliance with the Pontifical Gregorian University and other Pontifical Universities of Rome
- Executive education in AI and business strategy, MIT
Who We Work With
Faith communities, schools, and nonprofits. Workshops, educational series, retreats, and adult formation on care for the living world, shaped by your community's own texts, practices, and teachings. Teaching and Workshops
Landowners and equestrian communities. Stewardship initiatives that connect pasture, water, animals, people, and a property's long-term legacy. Land, Horse & Human Stewardship
AI developers and institutions. Advisory on religious and cultural pluralism, interfaith dialogue, and human-centered governance, plus executive briefings and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogue. AI & Human Values Advisory
What we offer
- Research and public scholarship on stewardship, culture, religion, ecology, and technology
- Strategic advisory and research partnerships
- Workshops, educational programs, and curriculum development
- Lectures, executive briefings, and public conversations
- Facilitated dialogue and cross-cultural, interfaith, and multi-stakeholder engagement
- Retreats and nature-based experiences
What EcoTheos™ Is — and Is Not
EcoTheos™ is an interdisciplinary research, advisory, education, and stewardship practice. We are not an environmental engineering firm, a regulatory or legal consultancy, a veterinary practice, a field-science provider, a software company, or a technical AI laboratory.
Where specialized scientific, veterinary, legal, regulatory, or technical expertise is needed, we work alongside qualified partners. Our contribution is different: we help people examine the relationships, values, and human consequences that surround complex systems, and we translate between disciplines that don't always share a language.
What is Ecotheology?
Ecotheology explores how religious and spiritual traditions understand the natural world and our responsibilities within it.
Traditions speak of creation, sacred land, kinship, interdependence, or trust, each in its own language. Secular and philosophical traditions speak of obligation, intrinsic value, and care.
EcoTheos holds these conversations side by side.