About
Lozania Lifestyle began with a simple observation:
Some of life's most meaningful moments happen in motion.
On mountain trails, in unfamiliar countries, during periods of personal transition. Movement has repeatedly been my way back to nature, to purpose, and to other people.
My name is Ingo Steffgen.
For the first decade of my working life I managed IT and telecommunications projects, mostly for Deutsche Telekom in Germany and the United States. In 2011 I left that behind to study sport and peace at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. It was the best decision I have made.
What followed was fifteen years of work in places that taught me more than any classroom. I ran a school for 250 disadvantaged children in Addis Ababa, leading a team of fifty. I advised economic development programmes in Nepal and Sierra Leone. I built a new organisation for Fairtrade International across the Asia-Pacific region and guided twenty-five consultants through the change. I worked in Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, India, and Zambia.
The thread through all of it was the same question. What helps people and communities build resilience, meaning, and connection?
I am now studying that question formally, as a postgraduate student in Sport and Body Psychology at the University of East London. My research looks at endurance athletes, and at what happens psychologically when injury takes away the thing that holds a person together.
Lozania Lifestyle is where these interests meet.
This is not a platform about optimisation or performance for its own sake. It is about the relationship between movement, nature, and purpose, explored through research, fieldwork, lived experience, and the stories of other people.
THE SHORT VERSION
MBA, Purdue University. MA Sustainable Peace through Sport, UN University for Peace. MSc candidate, University of East London. Running Coach and Tactical Conditioning Specialist, ISSA. Twenty-five years across corporate, international development, and my own ventures, in fourteen countries.
If you want the research, start with Research. If you want the human side, start with Trail Voices. If you are looking for a coach, or want to work together, Work With Me is the place.