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Leadership Legacy
A Manifesto to Create a Mindful Future and A Thriving Planet

Adah Parris (Author)

9781394304608, Wiley

Hardback, published 1 January 2026

256 pages
23.1 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.431 kg

An essential new vision for leaders of all stripes seeking to navigate their responsibility to the planet and their fellow global citizens.

In Leadership Legacy, renowned futurist, activist, and speaker, Adah Parris, delivers an eye-opening exploration of how digital technology interacts with our elemental connections to the world. The author discusses themes of natural connection—ether, air, fire, water, earth—and how they contribute to a "digital symbiosis" that shapes our present and our future.

Each chapter is an invitation to explore either an essay, letter, reflection on interviews or a personal journal-style self-reflective thought-piece sharing how the natural elements shape our digital presence and influence future innovations. Inside, you'll find advocacy for a mindful approach to navigating the complexity of power dynamics and paradoxes linked to technology and innovation that respects our individual and shared heritages and nurtures a regenerative future.

Inside the book:

  • An introduction to "Cyborg Shamanism" a philosophy embracing the fusion of technology and nature
  • Insightful discussions and perspectives of the contributions being made by people bringing traditional and Indigenous perspectives to creative, technological, innovative economic and environmental conversations
  • An original approach to the human relationship with the planet—one that focuses on its interconnected, interdependent, and symbiotic nature

Leadership Legacy will spark a valuable new dialogue on legacy and technology's power to uplift marginalised voices and create authentic connections.

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: What Type of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? xv

Part I ETHER— ‘Mother Earth is our first teacher. She has informed us that oneness does not equal sameness we must transcend our differences and embrace the integration of every individual aspect of humanity into the whole’ (Sherri Mitchell [Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset], Penobscot Nation, Wabanaki Confederacy, Northeastern Turtle Island, Maine, USA)

Chapter 1 Momentary Guardian 3

Chapter 2 Technology as Transcendence 19

Reflective Questions— What the Eyes Miss 39

Part II AIR— ‘The world is not a thing to be understood; it is a thing to be experienced’ (Malidoma Patrice Somé, Dagara elder and spiritual teacher, Burkina Faso)

Chapter 3 An Antidote to Fear 45

Chapter 4 Cultural Evolution: An Elemental Approach 65

Reflective Questions— Wind Reads the Land’s Secrets 91

Part III FIRE— ‘In the burning of old stories, new flames ignite— each spark a rebellion, a transformation, a call to rewrite the world’ (Prajakta Potnis, queer artist and storyteller rooted in Indian culture and oral traditions, Asia- Pacific region)

Chapter 5 The Paradox of Humanity 97

Chapter 6 Vocation and the Leadership Paradox 113

Reflective Questions— Fire Speaks Two Languages 131

Part IV WATER— ‘The Elders have said that, one day, water will cost more than a barrel of oil or more than the price of gold. We shouldn’t have to buy water or fight over it’ (Autumn Peltier, Anishinabek Nation)

Chapter 7 Earth Time Versus Ego Time 135

Chapter 8 Conscious Leadership: A Living Practice 153

Reflective Questions— Walk Gently, Listen Deeply 175

Part V EARTH— ‘A tree does not forget where its roots lie’ (Igbo proverb, Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria, West Africa)

Chapter 9 Genetic Code— our First Language 179

Chapter 10 The Paradox of Human Narratives 191

Reflective Questions— Where Intention was Planted 201

Closing Thoughts 205

Afterword 213

Appendix A— Theory of Change 219

Appendix B— Indigenous Protocols 223

Notes 229

Index 233

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
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