A Time for Reflection: What Lent Can Teach Us About Leadership and Integrity This Easter Season

This season of Great Lent invites us to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters. It’s not just a spiritual period: it’s an opportunity to reexamine our inner compass, both as human beings and as leaders.

In today’s fast-paced business world, growth, performance, and profit dominate our vocabulary. But as global crises deepen with wars, inequality, burnout, depression and stress, we are called to ask more profound questions:

Where are we heading, and at what cost? What kind of life have we chosen, and how do our choices shape not only the world, but our very soul?

Saint Nektarios of Aegina Church, Aegina Island, Greece

Ultimately, we all share the same destination. As one ancient truth reminds us, the poorest child and the wealthiest tycoon leave this world the same way: empty-handed. What we carry with us is the weight of our actions, our decisions, our legacy.

This is not a call for pessimism, but for awakening.

The world does not need more power games or blind accumulation of wealth. What it needs urgently is a new kind of leadership. One that is conscious, values-driven, and grounded in integrity.

As Saint Paisios beautifully put it:

Saint Paisios

“Ask a fly what it sees in nature, and it will tell you about dirt. Ask a bee, and it will speak of flowers.”

Every day, we get to choose: What do we focus on? What do we feed our mind and soul: with noise or meaning, fear or beauty?

As professionals, as leaders, and above all, as people, we are each responsible for the spiritual climate we create around us.

As Saint Nectarios of Aegina once said:

“Strive to leave holy footprints on the earth. That’s your purpose.”

And perhaps, in the stillness of these Lenten days, as we prepare for Easter, we are being called to remember just that: Not to rush toward the next goal. Not to numb ourselves with noise. But to return quietly, sincerely to the deeper work:

The work of becoming whole.

The work of becoming human.

The work of becoming light, even in the face of uncertainty.