From Digital Journeys to Real-World Summits: Agathe Daae-Qvale Featured in Bestselling Wanderlust Chronicles

Agathe Daae-Qvale, technology leader and author of Digitized Product Management, is a featured co-author in Wanderlust Chronicles: Transformative Travel Tales—a title that recently reached #1 on Amazon in Travel Biographies & Memoirs. The anthology gathers thirteen women’s firsthand accounts of challenge, perspective, and transformation through travel.

Author Agathe Daae-Qvale at The Livingroom Bookstore in Puerto Vallarta.

Agathe’s story follows a demanding ascent through Oman’s Al Jabal Akhdar mountains—a journey that tested endurance, patience, and perspective. At the summit, amid the celebration of Eid al-Adha, she discovered that gratitude often reveals itself at the peak of our hardest climbs—a truth that resonates as deeply in leadership and innovation as it does in travel.

“That day in Oman changed what I measure,” says Agathe Daae-Qvale. “On the ridge, endurance is the metric; in the village, it’s grace. The ascent demanded focus and resilience. The descent into Eid reminded me that gratitude can be the highest summit—in travel, leadership, and life.”

The anthology’s international launch included community events in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, among them a meet-and-greet and signing at The Living Room Bookstore & Café and the Women Who Travel celebration at Langostinos on Playa Los Muertos—gatherings that brought together authors, readers, and local entrepreneurs.

For Daae-Qvale, the Oman story is not a break from her work in technology—it’s a mirror of it. The same disciplines that guide complex product decisions—attention, iteration, constraint, and teamwork—were present on the mountain. Yet the day’s true inflection point was human: a quiet moment of being welcomed as an outsider on a sacred holiday, and recognizing how perspective reshapes progress.

The success of Wanderlust Chronicles underscores a simple truth at the intersection of innovation and experience: we grow by moving through uncertainty—and by noticing what matters when we arrive.

Wanderlust Chronicles: Transformative Travel Tales is available worldwide on Amazon.

Daae-Qvale continues to explore the intersection of innovation and human experience through her work in digital product management and thought leadership on emerging technologies.