Something shifted in me as I listened to the “Ways of Knowing” panel hosted by the Academy of Management’s Management, Spirituality, and Religion. This was no ordinary webinar. It felt like a circle of elders—truth-keepers and seekers—gathered not to inform but to awaken. Their voices held more than ideas; they carried memory, metaphor, and song. Between Ella Henry’s whakapapa and Naida’s tea bag metaphor, a truth broke through the surface: the dominant idea that only scientific, empirical, and measurable knowledge is valid has deeply colonised our minds.I had been trained to revere that paradigm. And yet, I found myself grieving the wisdom we have long kept at the margins—wisdom that lives in stories, in ritual, in silence.
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