Employees in Thai organizations that offer mindfulness meditation courses report higher levels of workplace spirituality and work engagement compared to those in organizations without such courses. Mindfulness meditation is significantly related to both workplace spirituality and work engagement, and workplace spirituality fully mediates the relationship between meditation and work engagement.
Leaders can use different states of consciousness as inner levers to experience greater connectedness and unity, holistic knowing through intuition and wisdom, and compassionate care for the whole. Drawing on Eastern Inner Science's Unity in Duality view, the paper argues that such inner transformation can help leaders shift their organization's structures and underlying paradigms. These theoretical insights add new aspects to consciousness-based leadership discourse, potentially contributing to a paradigm shift in how leadership addresses existential challenges.