Two conceptual competencies, Poet and Prophet, are critical to leading change in times of social fragmentation, cultural displacement, and organizational or systemic challenge. In contexts marked by loss, disorientation, and complexity—what may be described as exilic conditions—technical expertise and conventional leadership skills are insufficient. Instead, leaders must cultivate deeper interpretive and transformational capacities. The Poet functions as a listener and meaning-maker, articulating the unspoken pain and aspiration of the community through metaphor, story, and symbolic imagination. This competency fosters coherence, restores identity, and nurtures hope. The Prophet, in turn, speaks truth to power, naming dislocation and injustice while calling the community toward kenotic change—an intentional emptying of entitlement and privilege to make space for mutual flourishing. Together, these roles enable leaders to hold space for paradox, engage conflict constructively, and inspire collective reimagining. Rather than reinforcing dominant norms, Poet and Prophet leadership cultivates new worldviews grounded in justice, interdependence, and the flourishing of people and planet.