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Do We Really Need Chief Consciousness Officers?

Ayelet Baron
2 min readJun 16, 2023

We have an opportunity to wake ourselves up and create

We are woven together by a common thread — individual and collective consciousness. It guides our growth and sets our limits. Just like a body has different cells, our shared consciousness has many facets.

This growth of consciousness doesn’t just happen on a grand scale — it’s happening inside us, too. Every choice we make, every thought we have, helps our personal consciousness evolve. Even our technology experiences this, becoming increasingly useful with each new upgrade and improvement as we learn. It’s essential, however, that we remain the ones guiding this evolution.

The idea of a Chief Consciousness Officer in our organizations might sound interesting. This role would nurture our shared consciousness. Yet, consciousness isn’t something we can box and own. It’s more like a symphony — a beautiful, beneficial blend of hardware and software, always bringing harmony and balance.

Passing the baton of consciousness development to one role feels like we’re looking backward. It smacks of a leadership style that’s asleep at the wheel. Perhaps even unconscious? So, why not flip the script and focus on our own responsibility? Why do leaders keep delegating responsibility to functions or creating Ministers of Loneliness instead of…

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Ayelet Baron
Ayelet Baron

Written by Ayelet Baron

Pioneering Futurist. Author. Former Cisco strategist. Thinkers50 author. Forbes 50 Female Futurists #indieauthor

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