Sara Delpasand is an author, speaker, and behavioral strategist focused on one question: what happens when identity breaks, and how can it be rebuilt stronger? Her work began long before AI, in direct conversations with at-risk youth and gang members, where she learned how deeply people can lose themselves — and how they can reclaim who they are.

 

Born in Shiraz, Iran, and raised in Sweden, Sara grew up between cultures, which taught her early that identity is not fixed. It is built, tested, and sometimes rebuilt. Her background in intercultural pedagogy, sociology, psychology, and human behavior shaped the foundation of her work.

 

In her twenties, she worked with youth facing violence, instability, and disconnection, developing the principles that would become her i-Dentity model. In her thirties, she brought those same principles into corporate environments in Los Angeles, working with executives and leadership teams under pressure.

 

Across both worlds, she saw the same human need: belonging, stability, and a sense of self that can withstand change. Sara argues that we are all at risk — not because of AI itself, but because of what it exposes. The loss of meaning, disorientation, and identity fragility she once witnessed in at-risk environments is now happening at scale.

 

In The i in Life: Your Identity vs AI, she makes the case that this is not just a technological shift, but an identity crisis. Her message is simple: identity resilience is the ability to stay grounded in your “i” no matter what changes around you.

 

Sara is also a mother of two, and her work is deeply personal. She is not just writing about the future — she is living it.