Leadership remains the task of inviting others into a shared story, an exercise best rooted in ethics and basic human decency. We saw clear themes, which offer a blueprint for future-ready leadership: one that sustains the individual, serves the mission, and meets the moment. Return to purposeFay Twersky, the president of the Arthur Blank Foundation, offers a basic mantra for social change work: start with purpose. Now that these assumptions are being openly rejected, many social change leaders find themselves at a loss. But the work of social change goes far beyond our daily to-do list or a plan for the next quarter.