Our Team
A collective of visionaries, practitioners, and leaders aligned by purpose. The Leonardiuz team brings decades of experience across health, education, land stewardship, and innovation—working together to build living systems that serve humanity and the Earth.
Rhoda Barron
Co-founder of Leonardiuz, Rhoda Barron has a lifelong history of researching natural pharmacopoeia and integrates energetic mastery, deep detoxification, and emotional restoration in her work.
With decades of hands-on experience, she has refined powerful methods that support recovery from severe physical illness, trauma, and psychological distress. Her work is driven by a profound commitment to service and the upliftment of others.
In her early twenties, Rhoda undertook an intensive self-healing journey that led to the development of advanced detoxification and meditation-based practices. Over the following decades, she supported countless individuals through complex healing processes, and later went on to manage The Finishing Barron, a successful finishing company within the advertising industry. During this time, she personally funded counselling, skills training, and business development for more than 200 African staff members.
Since joining forces with Zelkhia, Rhoda has co-developed and continually refined a world-renowned detoxification protocol that has supported thousands of people globally, including those navigating extreme trauma, PTSD, addiction, cancer, autoimmune conditions, and severe psychological illness. Since 2012, her focus has been the ongoing refinement of this process, now widely regarded as one of the most effective and integrated systems for detoxification, introspection, and self-realisation.
Rhoda’s intuitive wisdom, compassionate presence, and unwavering dedication to human potential form the foundation of her and Zelkhia’s shared mission to cultivate new systems of healing, living, and leadership.
Zelkhia Jordan
Co Founder of Leonardiuz. An entrepreneur with strong business acumen, Zelkhia Jordan has founded and led multiple ventures within the health, empowerment and wellness space. She is dedicated to developing platforms to bring the genius within humanity together in the development of products, services, technologies and systems that replace extractive and harmful models with respectful materials, bio-resonant technologies, and regenerative earth-aligned solutions.
Beginning her professional journey in her early twenties, Zelkhia founded and independently financed the largest alternative healing outlet in the Southern Hemisphere starting in the year 2000. Within the first 5 years the centre operated as an hub for practitioner’s with different healing modalities, iterature and natural products frequently visited by clients from all over the world. During this period, she also owned and managed six rental properties and an antique furniture restoration business, using the proceeds to fund and expand her work in healing.
Following this phase, Zelkhia and Rhoda united their methodologies to develop a detoxification protocol that has since supported over a thousand people worldwide. As part of this work, Zelkhia travelled and experienced nature’s pharmacopoeia with indigenous peoples.
From 2012 onward, she and Rhoda co-founded, funded and operated a healing centre for eight years, hosting participants from around the world through referral and word of mouth. In 2017, Zelkhia was invited alongside Lawrence to present theirs and Rhodas foundational Leonardiuz vision at the Sky Ledger Conference in China, focusing on Leonardiuz.
Her ongoing mission centres on unlocking humanities intellectual potential through the observation of the genius of nature and fostering the emergence of innovative, life-affirming solutions, with a particular passion for mentorship, education, and the cultivation of future leaders. Zelkhia would love for us all to come together and leave a Grand Legacy for the future generations.
Lawrence Sharpley
Co-founder and designer of Leonardiuz in the making since 2016, Lawrence is a seasoned outdoorsman, wilderness guide, entrepreneur, homesteader, and regenerative agriculturalist.
He is well steeped in systems design, drawing from nature’s blueprints and applying the genius of nature to regenerative agricultural systems. His experience as a wilderness guide in numerous African countries honed his ability to transfer knowledge about nature and the wilderness to adults and children alike. Lawrence is a veteran of several enterprise-scale regenerative projects, including medical Cannabis cultivation trials for the Botswana Government, designing and implementing the largest medical Cannabis greenhouse in Africa for Morama Holdings in Lesotho, the establishment of a broadacre permaculture system in Byrne Valley, South Africa and in Oshoek on the Swaziland border. In Malawi, he designed a food production system integrated in the wastewater management system of a crocodile farm in Mangotchi, using nutrient-rich wastewater from the crocodile operation to irrigate food crops for the local community.
He currently co-owns and manages the only compliant living soil-based medical Cannabis operation in South Africa, which he designed and implemented.
Lawrence conceptualised the HIPS (Holonic Integrated Production Swarm) system as an entry to the Biomimicry Global Food Systems Design challenge, where it was one of 5 finalists.
Karin Robichon
Karin has been pursuing “there is more to reality than meets the eye” since her youth. This path wound through studying Philosophy, Psychology, NLP, Kinesiology and Biofield Tuning. After years of travelling and working in the performing arts in France, she returned to SA and focused on health and healing.
Work involved assisting at a clinic with modalities such as fasting and naturally cleansing the body. This was followed by living off-grid as a family, flirting with natural building and self-sustainability. Raising two daughters led to getting involved in their education and a five-year stint at a paradigm-shifting pre-and primary school. A significant turning point came with meeting Zelkhia and Rhoda. Assisting them in their space turned the “previously impossible into the obviously achievable”.
Currently, she is collaborating to activate children’s latent inner intelligence and Quantum speed reading and would like to see this empowering the youth to the point that they force a reinvention of what it is to get an education in our rapidly changing world.
Justine Carryer
Justine Carryer is a physicist, school designer, experiential education expert, and cleanse facilitator. Her education in Physics culminated with work at the Argonne National Lab particle accelerator and the University of Maryland, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP), where she contributed to a world-class microwave machine called a gyrotron under Dr John Rodgers. Rather than continuing her education for a PhD, she found herself teaching Native American children Physics and Mathematics in the remote canyon country of the Southwestern United States, where a desire to reimagine our antiquated education model blossomed.
For over a decade, she has facilitated over 500 students’ wilderness immersion experiences from the highlands of the Rocky Mountains to the meandering rivers of the Southwestern United States through her non-profit, Sunshine Studies (Surya Zoba Studies). In 2019, the desire to reimagine education resulted in the creation of Glen Canyon Outdoor Academy, a K-8 public charter school in Northern Arizona serving over 200 youth from Navajo Nation Indian Reservation communities.
Justine continues to work in education as an innovative school designer, curriculum writer, teacher trainer, school leadership coach, strategic planner, and youth wilderness immersion coordinator. For the past two years, she has worked on a state level as a start-up grant reviewer for new and expanding charter schools in the state of Arizona. In 2022, when she met Rhoda and Zelkhia, her orientation shifted to expanding her educational consulting to a global level to support indigenous and local communities in harnessing their local resources and landscape to provide custom place-based experiential learning opportunities. The result is a re-naturing of our children in ways that are authentic to their culture and the evolution of our species. As a cleanse facilitator, Justine and her partner Zane have co-created The New Octave, a holistic health practice that supports beings to arise into their innate genius through comprehensive detoxification of the body. The New Octave, in the Southwestern United States, is a local hub of the Leonardiuz vision for innovative solutions within health and wellness, education, technology, agriculture, and housing.
Zane Bridgers
Zane Bridgers is a systems designer, builder, videographer and animator, and founder of The New Octave Hub, a comprehensive systems redesign blueprint and incubator to reinspire Bell Labs-style innovation centres that drive localised, quality-driven, and easily trackable supply chains through the manufacturing and production process. Zane has hosted a series of community events in Taos, New Mexico, to connect key innovators and business holders in the local supply chain, bridging alternative medicine practitioners, building innovators, farmers and food system pioneers.
The projects currently unfolding seek not only to unify the greatest visionaries within the community towards a common goal, but also to match these brilliant minds with viable financial backers and critical resources to bring their innovations into production. Zane’s education took him from an early arts-focused path at the Waldorf School of Princeton to a world-renowned prep school, Lawrenceville, where he had the privilege to work with world-class educators and travel internationally studying world systems.
This culminated in a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Development, a self-created major in world systems studies at Colorado College. After a decade of running a videography, animation and graphic design business, Zola Video, with top-tier clients in the banking, technology and education space, Zane has shifted his focus to building innovation, integrated off-grid mechanical systems, heating and ventilation prototypes, control systems and user interfaces. Zane designed and built his own passive solar, high-performance house with integrated HVAC innovations, solar connectivity, and a fully customised, temperature-reactive heat recovery ventilation system (HRV).
Zane subsequently built two additional buildings and has applied this knowledge to the current prototype pumicecrete dome housing design. As of 2022, Zane has begun training a team of facilitators in the Leonardiuz project model in Taos, New Mexico and has made 4 trips to South Africa to further his own training.
Frank Barthen
Frank Barthen has advised German and international companies for over 25 years in the fields of brand leadership and corporate communication. His work bridges strategic clarity with a deep understanding of human emotion, perception, and behaviour.
In 2014, Frank integrated his self-developed neuromarketing methodology Emotrace into his consulting work — an innovative tool designed to decode emotional drivers and decision-making processes. He is the founder of the Private Institute for Neuromarketing “LIONS & DOVES” (est. 2017) and the brand agency “NARCISS & TAURUS” (est. 2003), through which he has guided the development and repositioning of numerous high-performing brands.
Frank’s core motivation is rooted in a simple principle:
“The highest good on Earth is to understand oneself and other human beings.”
His decades of experience in neuromarketing give him a nuanced understanding of how emotions and thought patterns shape reality — insight he brings into his contributions to Leonardiuz and The Grand Emergence. His focus lies in translating inner coherence into outward expression, ensuring that vision, message, and manifestation are aligned.
Alongside his strategic work, Frank is an accomplished film producer, creating both commercial brand films and independent productions. He has also served as a speaker for institutions including chambers of commerce, business associations, and international conferences, and held advisory and board roles within economic and academic organisations.
Zarah
Zarah’s work is rooted in a lifelong sensitivity to the misalignment between modern societal norms and the deeper truths of human nature. From an early age, she felt called to question prevailing values and search for a more authentic way of living — a search that ultimately led her to South Africa.
Through her immersion in the Grand Emergence process, Zarah internalised a unique method of purification and consciousness expansion that profoundly shaped both her personal life and her work. This process became the foundation for a life oriented toward self-love, health, trust, and the continual restoration of natural balance.
Through her project Traumbaum, Zarah shares her lived experience and embodied knowledge with others who feel called to heal, recalibrate, and expand their awareness. Her work centres on what she calls “Re-Nature” — a holistic approach that recognises the inseparable relationship between spirit, mind, and body.
Re-Nature is based on the understanding that physical symptoms often originate in emotional, mental, or spiritual imbalance. By addressing these root layers while simultaneously cleansing the physical body, Zarah supports a return to coherence and vitality. Her work is grounded, integrative, and deeply respectful of natural law — offering a pathway back to balance for individuals seeking genuine healing and reconnection with life.
Photo taken by Gabriela Slegrova https://gabrielaslegrova.com
Alex Roseman
Alex Roseman is a Co-Visionary and Architect of Coherence within Leonardiuz, a regenerative initiative focused on restoring balance across humanity, nature, and enterprise. His work centres on designing physical, organisational, and cultural conditions in which clarity, responsibility, and creative potential can naturally emerge.
He is the founder of TheNewEarth.com, which began as an experiential education platform and has since evolved into New Earth Productions — a creative and educational studio producing conscious, illuminating programs. These programs are designed to awaken individuals to their own innate genius and guide them toward embodied clarity, responsibility, and service, rather than prescribing fixed outcomes or belief systems.
Alex is the author of nine books on self-inquiry and transformation. His upcoming book, Bring Your Truth – Uncovering the New Earth Within, documents his lived journey of dismantling inherited identity structures and rediscovering values grounded in integrity, coherence, and service.
For over two decades, Alex has worked across leadership development, systems design, and regenerative enterprise. He has supported individuals and organisations through periods of deep transition by restoring coherence — aligning values, governance, and execution. His work has included guiding companies out of near-bankruptcy by addressing foundational structural and operational breakdowns, and supporting leadership teams in moving toward sustainable, self-regulated models.
Previously, Alex co-created the New Earth Café in Dubai, founded the Bring Your Truth events and podcast, and represented Success Resources on international stages. He has trained extensively across contemplative, therapeutic, and leadership-based disciplines.
Through Leonardiuz, Alex now focuses on building coherent frameworks that integrate human healing, enterprise regeneration, and planetary restoration — supporting initiatives aligned with long-term stewardship, education, and legacy.
To learn more about Alex and the journey that led to Leonardiuz, click here to watch a short video.
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