Norie Huddle is a bestselling author, public speaker, coach & consultant, psychologist and systems thinker committed to fostering global transformation. She has written seven books, including her NYTimes bestseller Surviving: The Best Game on Earth and her beautiful book Butterfly, which introduced a metaphor for the transformation of humanity now embraced by millions of people around the world.
As the founder and President of the Center for New National Security (CNNS), Norie has spent decades researching and promoting innovative approaches to national and global security and how to create a peaceful world that works for everyone. Her expertise spans environmental advocacy, citizen diplomacy, and holistic problem-solving. With over 50 years of global experience, she has worked across the U.S., Italy, Colombia, Japan, Russia and Ecuador, designing solutions for a peaceful and regenerative world.
Norie’s international experience includes a year in Italy as an American Field Service exchange student, two years serving in the Peace Corps in Colombia, South America, four years in Japan researching and writing a best-selling book on Japan’s environmental crisis, and during the decade of the 1980s, participating in high-level citizen diplomacy initiatives in the former Soviet Union. sSince 2007, she and her husband have been creating a legacy project in Ecuador. A multilingual speaker, Norie has addressed live audiences up to 10,000 and reached many tens of millions through TV, radio and print media. Her 2017 TEDx talk on creating peace by 2030 has resonated worldwide. Watch here.
An Advanced Practitioner of a powerful form of Jungian-based holistic therapy, Norie integrates deep listening, storytelling, meditation & prayer, a unique process of video feedback, creative homework & fieldwork and artistic expression into her transformational work with individuals and groups. Her “new life game,” The Best Game on Earth, has been introduced on four contents over the last 45 years. The Game is a creative and fun way for Players to consciously collaborate in creating a thriving, mutually supportive world.
Since 2007, Norie and her husband, Richard Wheeler, have been developing The Garden of Paradise in Ecuador where, in 2011, they won the first lawsuit in Ecuador and in the world defending the Rights of Nature - considered a landmark case on a global level. Their beautiful 350-acre Healing and Retreat Center is being developed by Norie and Richard as an innovative and sustainable rural development model, which is part of their legacy. Here, they host transformational VIP retreats. Norie remains a passionate advocate for human rights, environmental stewardship, and global transformation, inspiring global change-makers across generations.
The surprising launch of my journey: learn how Norie retired, at age 25, to find and fulfill her life’s purpose.
