Conscious Systemic
Leadership
Evening Dialogue at House of Pioneers
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20:30 – 21:30, Jan 19 2026 (CET)
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Pischa, Davos
House of Pioneers hosts an evening exploration of the evolution of leadership, guided by Dr. Naresh Singh, tracing humanity’s movement from mechanical systems to conscious systems — and what this shift means for the future of corporate and public leadership.

As House of Pioneers continues to explore humanity’s evolution through science, energy, and intelligent systems, this session turns toward the inner architecture of leadership itself. Dr. Singh will guide participants through three major paradigms:  

• The Age of Matter — rooted in Newtonian, mechanical thinking, where leadership was transactional, hierarchical, and built on command and control.
• The Age of Information — shaped by networks, complexity, and quantum-like thinking, where leadership became more transformational while still carrying transactional elements.
• The Age of Consciousness — where leadership must integrate the subjective nature of the human being and draw from the successes and failures of previous eras.

Through this progression, participants are invited to consider what effective leadership now requires—structurally and consciously — and how organizations can evolve toward systems that reflect human depth, awareness, and relational intelligence.

The session will close with a proposal for House of Pioneers to convene a pilot group of volunteer corporations experimenting with conscious systemic leadership, with the intention to share their findings at the next Davos gathering.
About the Facilitator
Dr. Naresh Singh
Dr. Naresh Singh is Professor and Executive Dean at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (India), and Director of the Centre for Complexity Economics, Applied Spirituality and Public Policy. He previously served as a senior leader at the Canadian International Development Agency and at UNDP, advising governments and global institutions on sustainable livelihoods, poverty reduction, and the legal empowerment of the poor.  With a PhD in Environmental Science, he is recognized globally for advancing frameworks in complexity economics, applied spirituality, and regenerative public policy.