In the face of seemingly intractable environmental and cultural calamities besetting the planet, it’s reasonable to wonder if new leadership could make a difference; new ideas, passion, and courage; a vision for a truly transformed and better future.
The best way to find out what emerging leaders might be thinking and sensing is to ask. So Portals brought together an international group of next generation leaders who are actively engaged in their personal and professional lives in imagining and creating a better future for humanity.
There is a deep shared sense of new intelligence and possibility emerging in this time of traumatic change, along with the recognition the world needs a different kind of leadership. Not the continuing echo of past patterns and archetypes — warrior, conqueror, king — that shaped the planet’s current crises. A new mindset and vision that embodies the creative power of foundational, universal love; in a sense, the archetype of the lover.
The ’lover’ leader would have the vision and courage to see love as a raw material in the creation of new institutions, from finance to technology and education, that would form a regenerative ecology that could support human wellbeing and creative possibility. Institutions not designed solely for efficiency and consumption, but for humanity’s greater good.
There were many insights and ponders in the conversation with Aviv Shahar and the next gen leaders, including:
- The media shares the 1% - 2% of things on the planet that are not so great, but we often miss the positive and see the world through fear versus love.
- Leadership is not pushing frontiers further West or East, but to the last unliberated continent, inside the human; we put lights all around the planet but left the inside dark.
- Leadership is integrating impossible paradoxes and polarities; it's leadership from the inside-out that lifts people up.
- Whenever we talk about something new trying to emerge, something also is falling away, which can be painful, but there is ‘clean’ pain, something we stay with in an ongoing way.
- Every time we leave part of ourselves out, and we leave others out, the larger cosmology that is seeking to engage us is frozen out of the possibility of its emergence.
- Leadership integrates the two energies, the masculine and the feminine; I believe strongly one of the most important trends in recent decades has been the integration of feminine leaders.
This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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Forrest Wilson
Forrest facilitates and holds space for bodies, beings, and collectives to come into coherence through practicing presence, deepening into our essential wholeness, and sourcing our emerging future.
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Nousha Behbahanian
Nousha is a leader in shifting the paradigm many health professionals are trained in from a focus solely on disease diagnosis to disease prevention and health maintenance. On the journey towards realizing this vision, she discovered that ultimate health is consciousness and is now passionate about bringing to life the vision of a school of consciousness that is easily accessible, self-directed and integrates elevating one’s physical, emotional and mental health while offering a unique way to learn about oneself in relation to life and in the process expanding one’s consciousness. This paradigm shift in health and education empowers individuals from all generations to develop self-awareness and self-mastery.
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Landon Khau
Explorer, student, healer, connector. Especially interested in movement and emotions. Chiropractor and movement coach by trade, artist at heart.
Loves to play and study human movement and believes in movement as medicine. Plays as many different sports as possible, building a foundation of common denominators, learning, sharing, and developing ways to optimize and heal the body.
Aims to bridge gaps between multiple areas of knowledge, between seemingly unrelated concepts, and between people who wouldn’t find much in common.
Diego Garcia Schober
What if we could transform all into “love”? I believe that we can. I find deep pleasure in working with individuals, and groups, to support them to unblock the natural Flow of Life. Having studied a "Global Challenges" program (essentially the SDGs seen from a governance and development perspective), I care deeply about today's big issues like environmental destruction and inequality. And my passion lies particularly in how we can facilitate local transformation that addresses these challenges: starting from deep personal development and continuing with relational practices and organizational transformation. Three qualities I strongly resonate with are: Curious. Loving. Driven.
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Sushant Shrestha
Sushant Shrestha is a venture capital investor with a track record of successful exits in the artificial intelligence, smart materials, and blockchain space. He is a Founding Partner at Conscious Full-Spectrum Finance Institute, bringing whole system transformation to social finance. He is a Founder and Managing Partner at Humanitas Smart Planet Systems, a venture capital firm investing in climate tech and social tech. He is passionate about scaling transformative technologies globally to meet the challenges of the United Nations sustainable development goals.
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Jakob Possert
Jakob practices understanding for how things have been so far, and pioneers high-standards of how much more beautiful things could be. He envisions a world in which everyone completes the education-centered time of their life with the capacities of a Bodhisattva, a Polymath and a World-Creator - to be able to knowledgeably (co-)create one's own sovereign worlds in compassionate love. Jakob practices 1on1 actionable inter-being (coaching), creating pathways for needs to be met (marketing consulting) and conscious venture support (business partnering).
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Stéphane Segatori
Stéphane is the Director of the We-Flow Lab in Amsterdam, where he develops practices and spaces where individuals and teams can grow. With a background in Business Intelligence & MBTI Coaching, Stéphane studies the hidden links between organizations, human potential and states of consciousness.
Stéphane is a sportsman and team player at the core. He trained and facilitated within integral communities in the U.S., Paris, and finally Amsterdam.
Utilizing collective intelligence in his community, he distilled a unique transformative modality called We-Flow. It is a next-generation conscious technology to give each person access to their unique genius and support them to apply it in the world, in real-time.
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Aviv Shahar
Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.
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