We are at a tipping point. We are all evolving in consciousness, as individuals, and consequently as societies. Ken Wilber stated that for the first time in history we know this and not only are watching it happen, we are consciously co-creating the new consciousness. As a result, we are creating new and innovative processes, systems, education, organizations and leadership to facilitate the conscious evolvement of the planet. What is the leadership process to facilitate this? I call it Transcendent Leadership and define it as: a relationship dynamic among collaborative groups of people who co-create the future together, raise one another to higher levels of consciousness in the essence of spiritual humanism with the understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. I developed a meta-model that overlays the conscious evolution of our planet with leadership theories. I believe that the transcendent leadership process can provide the opportunity in which individual and therefore society will realize its evolution and its transcendence to transform our planet. The process of transcendent leadership will be an intrinsic part of the tipping point. Quoting from a Work Economic Forum article “central to a shared culture is an emphasis on transcendent leadership — the idea that standing above all other values is the ideal of a joint commitment to bettering the plant.”

I feel that there’s magic in our connections with each other. I feel that if we collaborate, more than that, if we co-create our existence together, there’s nothing we cannot do, nothing that we cannot accomplish…. together. This is the true nature of leadership.

I developed different beliefs over the years that actually kept me separate from people. I’ve been participating in a lot of self transformational workshops, I’ve cleared so much emotional issues, or baggage as some of us say, that I have realized that the most important thing is our connections to each other and to help each other evolve in consciousness, in service to humanity. Josiah Royce, an engineer turned philosopher (sort of like me, an engineer turned leadership “philosopher”), said “But individuals are not isolated beings; we can know ourselves only in relation to others”. I think that’s partially true. I use to think that was completely true, but I believe there is a fundamental element of self, of ourselves that we need to truly understand at not only a physical, emotional, and intellectual level, but at a spiritual level. Through this awareness, our beliefs “self liberate” as Ken Wilber says into the vastness of the infinite. When this happens, we truly understand that we are not our bodies, not the object, we are the observer, the spiritual being, the soul energy that is currently occupying this body to experience life, experience what we are currently creating. When we realize this, the game of manifesting, co-creating shifts perspective, and changes view point, a paradigm shift happens.
Can we do leadership if we are not “evolved” or at this level of consciousness? The answer is not only a profound yes, but I believe the leadership process raises each other to these levels of consciousness. I believe that when we share and “do leadership”, or engage in the leadership process from our authentic selves, we co-create our reality.
We can only do this together, one does not do leadership without others…

Let’s “engage our passion” using the transcendent leadership process to undertake great and difficult tasks and co-create the future together.

Lisa Aldon