Maria Scarzella Thorpe

Maria Scarzella Thorpe is a Workplace Culture Strategist, Experience Designer, and Mental Fitness Coach with 10+ years of international work experience at the intersection of culture strategy, community-building, and experience design, with a focus on distributed and hybrid teams. As Founder of Nomad Pass, she helps scaling companies build high-performing cultures: designing and leading team retreats, shaping culture strategy as a fractional Culture & People Experience lead, and creating the rituals and moments that turn distributed teams into connected ones.

She brings deep experience in community-building and human connection to every group she works with, along with expertise in integrated meditation and mental fitness, grounded in Positive Intelligence® (PQ), a science-backed framework that strengthens resilience and focus. After spending 15+ years in California, where she co-founded Startup Basecamp, an international community and co-living network for entrepreneurs, she is now based in Italy.