Professional Bio for Maya Frost

Maya Frost is a creative disruptor, adaptation activist, and multi-disciplinary change strategist who has turned a lifetime of personal and systemic upheaval into transformational work with others. With experience spanning entrepreneurship, global education, art, and community development, she helps individuals convert despair about the world’s colliding crises into grounded gratitude, imaginative possibility, and bold action.

In the early 2000s, her playful approach to mindfulness influenced people in over 100 countries. Her book, The New Global Student, was published by Crown/Random House in 2009. Born and raised in Oregon and now based in Amsterdam after decades of life abroad, she leads her initiative, Collapse Forward, guiding collapse-aware individuals from waiting and worrying to dreaming, daring, and doing.

Contact: maya@mayafrost.com 

Photo: Maya Frost, fall foliage background, 2025. (Click to enlarge.)