About us
MettaEconomics is led by two global practitioners with lived experience across Africa, Asia, Europe and global systems fields bringing both systemic depth and spiritual stewardship to this time of transition.
We do not offer templates.
We offer thresholds and the courage to cross them. We are not here to engineer new systems. We are here to reweave them – with heart, with soul, with love, with life.
Mairi Mackay
System weaver. Sacred storyteller. Leader at the edge.
Rooted in faith and shaped by systems, Mairi has spent over twenty-five years working at the intersection of leadership and change. Her career has spanned diplomacy, impact finance, social innovation and spiritual inquiry — across the UK, East and South Asia, and global policy fields. She has held senior leadership roles inside major institutions and partnered with governments, funders, and communities to address challenges too complex for any one actor alone.
Alongside these formal roles, Mairi has walked her own path through exile and return, shame and grace — learning what it means to weave love, wisdom, and systemic insight back into wholeness. She holds a PhD in collaborative leadership, but her truest education has been life itself: finding the courage to follow her inner voice in a world obsessed with external performance.
MettaEconomics is her heart-offering: a remembering of what it means to lead and build with soul.
Kristine Vanderplas
Embodied seeker. Global practitioner. Bridge builder.
Kristine brings a deep commitment to inner work and embodied wisdom to her journey in systems change. An avid trail runner and lifelong lover of wild places, she draws strength and clarity from time in nature – finding movement, rhythm, and renewal in the earth's cycles.
Rooted in somatic practices and inspired by regenerative living, she holds a vision for leadership and social transformation grounded in wholeness, compassion, and connection.
For over two decades, Kristine has designed and led youth-centred and global programs focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainability – alongside emerging changemakers across the world.