ShelterZoom’s global partnerships put people at the heart of AI agenda

ShelterZoom Co-founder and CEO Chao Cheng-Shorland (centre) with CIQ Co-founders Kirby de Lanerolle (left) and Fiona de Lanerolle 

As boardrooms across Asia double down on AI investment, cybersecurity upgrades and digital transformation, a quieter but equally urgent question is gaining traction among forward- thinking leaders: Are we developing our people with the same ambition we apply to our platforms?

Miami-based cybersecurity innovator ShelterZoom, recognised by Gartner for three consecutive years, is betting the answer matters enormously. Through a new wave of strategic partnerships that include SB CandS, a core SoftBank Group technology company, UK-based critical infrastructure specialists The Kenton Group, and human potential intelligence platform Conscience IQ (CIQ), the company is advancing a compelling argument: organisational resilience in the AI age demands both trusted technology and empowered people.

ShelterZoom has built a global reputation for trusted digital infrastructure, cybersecurity and business continuity solutions. Its technologies and partnerships span healthcare, government, education, financial services and critical infrastructure sectors, with collaborations extending to organisations such as the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), the Pontifical Oriental Institute at the Vatican, leading healthcare institutions and enterprise partners.

ShelterZoom co-founder and CEO Chao Cheng-Shorland noted that organisations increasingly recognise “data lineage and trust” as a critical enterprise priority in the AI and cyber era. 

That vision extends beyond technology alone. As artificial intelligence reshapes organisations, questions of trust, resilience and governance increasingly involve both systems and people. ShelterZoom’s inclusion of partners spanning digital infrastructure, critical systems and human potential reflects a growing recognition that the future of organisational resilience will require both trusted technology and empowered people.

Developed by Kirby and Fiona de Lanerolle together with the AI innovation team at WOW Media Productions, CIQ emerged from years of exploration across neuroscience, positive psychology, ethics, theology and human development. Drawing on case studies of resilience, post-traumatic growth and leadership across diverse cultural and organisational contexts, the framework seeks to better understand why some individuals and organisations flourish under pressure while others remain constrained by unseen assumptions, limiting beliefs and inherited narratives.

“Artificial intelligence may amplify capability, but conscience determines how that capability is expressed. The organisations that thrive in the AI era will be those that understand not only what their people can do, but what they can become,” Conscience IQ founder Kirby de Lanerolle said.

At its core is a simple conviction: human potential cannot be fully understood through a single lens. Effective leadership, resilience and performance require an appreciation of the diverse experiences, knowledge systems and contexts that shape human decision-making.

Conscience IQ seeks to reveal what conventional metrics often miss: the unseen factors that shape human potential. By helping organisations identify hidden constraints and untapped strengths, it offers a new lens through which to understand growth, adaptability and transformation.