Ancestral Wisdom & Leadership
for a new era
We live in a time of unprecedented growth — in people, capital, data, and technological power. Yet this growth has been accompanied by rising inequality, systemic fragility, ecological degradation, and increasing social and health crises. The dominant economic and financial models of the past - rooted in extraction, short-term optimisation, and separation - are no longer sufficient for the complexity of the world we have created.
We are at a civilisational inflection point.
A moment that calls not for more power, but for greater wisdom.
An Age of Wisdom invites a fundamental shift: reconnecting leadership and capital with nature, long-term thinking, and deeper forms of intelligence - including Indigenous and ancestral wisdom — as a foundation for redesigning our systems. This shift is both an opportunity and a responsibility.
It requires new forms of leadership, stewardship, and conscious action.
At Global Impact Alliance, we support this transition through two complementary pathways:
The Path of Wisdom & the Path of Action.
Path of Wisdom
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Strategic leadership dialogues integrating Indigenous and ancestral wisdom with systems thinking, foresight, and long-term capital stewardship.
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Access to a Wisdom Council of Indigenous Elders, providing perspective on sustainability, long-term impacts, and the “voice of nature” in strategic and governance contexts.
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Trusted mediation and bridge-building between Indigenous communities and companies, investors, and institutions engaging in projects affecting land, culture, and ecosystems.
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Curated peer exchange within the Alliance, enabling members to learn from each other, share dilemmas, and reflect together on stewardship, responsibility, and systemic change.
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Leadership and legacy journeys — including retreats with Indigenous Elders — supporting senior leaders in navigating responsibility, complexity, and intergenerational value creation.
Path of Action
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Access to Indigenous-led, place-based projects, implemented through our strategic partner, the Wisdom Age Foundation, translating alliance wisdom into on-the-ground action.
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Collaboration on systemic investing and philanthropic deployment, aligning capital with long-term ecological, social, and cultural value creation.
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Due-diligence-aligned project development with trusted Indigenous partners and local ecosystems, ensuring integrity, legitimacy, and impact readiness.
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Collaborative capital alignment enabling co-investment, co-funding, and coordinated action in complex, place-based initiatives.
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Co-development of the Wisdom Age Index, advancing new frameworks to assess wisdom-based leadership, stewardship, and systemic impact beyond conventional metrics.
Join a Strategic Alliance
Shaping the Age of Wisdom
For Family Offices, Foundations, Companies, Banks, Pension Funds,
Impact Investors & Philanthropists
Alliance members are active stewards of our time.
They are forward-thinking leaders who choose to step into responsibility — contributing time, capital, expertise, and presence to a shared mission in service of Indigenous-led action, leadership development, and systemic change.
Our Strategic Partner
Conscious Action for an Age of Wisdom
Wisdom Age Foundation
Global Impact Alliance and the Wisdom Age Foundation collaborate as strategic partners within a shared ecosystem. While GIA focuses on cultivating wisdom and building alliances between Indigenous leadership and the financial world, the Wisdom Age Foundation acts as an implementation partner, translating this collective intelligence into concrete, on-the-ground projects for people and planet.
The Wisdom Age Charter
Principles that guide how we steward capital, collaborate with Indigenous partners, and act in service of life.
Inner Transformation
PARADIGM & CULTURE SHIFT
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We embrace the fact that we are an interdependent part of nature and that everything is connected.What we do to natural elements, to others, humans and other-than-humans, we ultimately do to ourselves.
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We learn about our home, the natural world, and dive deep into timeless wisdom. So that we may survive and thrive. By becoming stewards of the land and guardians of life.
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We take up a holistic perspective and learn to think, decide and act in systems. By bringing together ancient, indigenous and scientific knowledge, we build the base to redesign our systems, wisely apply financial means and technology.
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Starting from within, we adopt a lifestyle of “elegant simplicity”. We reconnect to our innate wisdom, find joy from within, heal the past and walk the talk of a new culture.
THE PATH OF WISDOM
WISDOM AGE CHARTER
The Age of Wisdom emerges from the here & now. Through everyone of us.
It starts with an inner paradigm & culture shift and shows up in aligned, joint action for impact and systemic change.
We consciously evolve, for the wellbeing of people & planet.
WE TRULY EMBODY BEING HOMO SAPIENS - WISE BEINGS.
Systemic Change
CONSCIOUS ACTION & COLLABORATION
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We redesign our economic and financial systems. We redefine the current definition of success, and shift from focusing on quantitative, monetary and endless growth to an approach and rules where the economy, business and the allocation of our time, money and talents is geared to serve the wellbeing of all life.
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We also question the underlying assumptions and mechanisms of other essential systems such as education, health, justice, pensions and governance. We co-create, invest in and implement new versions that embrace a holistic approach, foster consciousness, incentivise stewardship and favour holacratic decision making.
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We join hands as an Alliance for concrete action, local positive impact, and a global change of systems.
THE PATH OF ACTION
Our Advisors
Supporting us with their wisdom & experience
Co-Author of "The Nordic Secret"
Founder of the Ekskäret Foundation
Initiator of the Inner Development Goals
Entrepreneurial Impact Investor
Founder & CEO of Jäderberg & Cie
Impact Rebel
Speaker & Activist, Editor Emeritus of
the Resurgence & Ecology Magazine
Founder of the Schumacher College
Who this Alliance is for
Capital stewards & leaders committed to long-term responsibility
and systemic change
Global Impact Alliance brings together capital stewards and leaders committed to long-term responsibility and systemic change.
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Family offices stewarding intergenerational capital
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Foundations and philanthropists seeking Indigenous-led impact
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Banks and institutional investors engaging beyond ESG compliance
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Corporate leaders navigating transition, risk, and legacy
Engagement begins through dialogue, trust, and long-term relationships.
If this resonates, we welcome a conversation.
Contact
Global Impact Alliance e.V.
Co-Creation Loft
Schinkestrasse 9
12047 Berlin, Germany