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The Founder of Soul Probe, Santosh, has given talks and keynotes on subjects as diverse as the future of democracy, education, economics and economic development, organizational design, trauma-informed community development and public policy architecture.

In addition, he facilitates conversations about the relevance of ancient and indigenous wisdom to modern life. Santosh also teaches Innovation in a multicultural context and VUCA environment. 

Breaking the Spell

Breaking the Spell

Soul Probe has provided thought leadership for the complex challenges that societies face in the present and the future.

Citizen Science for Tri-Sector Response – Participatory Citizen Sentiment Crowdsourcing Study in Geneva

Citizen Science for Tri-Sector Response…

Soul Probe partnered with Edgelands Institute, a pop-up institute incubated at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard university, to understand…

CNA on Race and Racism

CNA on Race and Racism

Soul Probe has facilitated conversations on divisive and complex social issues in several public forums and at scale with an…

NTU POWERS Forum 2022 – Empowering Women of the Future: Women in STEM

NTU POWERS Forum 2022 –…

Soul Probe partnered with POWERS of NTU to facilitate difficult conversations on the gender divide in STEM using Community-Based Participatory…

Universal digital access in Singapore

Universal digital access in Singapore

Soul Probe partnered AMKFSC and a coalition of 12 organisations to design and execute a nationwide opinion poll on the…

Social Mobility

Social Mobility

The Founder of Soul Probe, Santosh Kumar, facilitated the design, implementation and interpretation of results of the study on social…

Inequality and Poverty in Singapore – What more can we do for our Low-Income Communities?

Inequality and Poverty in Singapore…

To help nurture a more participatory and active citizenry in Singapore, Santosh, Founder of Soul Probe, partnered A Good Space…

Community Circles Singapore

Community Circles Singapore

Community Circles Singapore, a community care model developed in the UK, is an initiative funded by Institute of Policy Studies…

Community Forum 2020

Community Forum 2020

Organized by Community Development Network Singapore, Community Forum 2020 is an informal group made up of community workers, socially engaged…

Ideas That Matter on the Knife’s Edge of This Moment 

Ideas That Matter on the…

Santosh Kumar is passionate about helping society to listen to and surface the voices of the people at scale.

Can Civic Tech Reinvent Democracy? 

Can Civic Tech Reinvent Democracy? 

Today, more than ever, people desire to be heard on issues that are dear to them.

What is the future of Social Services? – A Civic Tech perspective

What is the future of…

Suring Covid-19, the community noticed that there were cracks in the ways we attended to the needs of marginalised community.

From Top-down Control to Ground-up Community Stewardship

From Top-down Control to Ground-up…

Most organizations and institutions of the "brick and mortar" era are the top-down and hierarchical in nature

What can Nature teach us about Economics and Economic Development?

What can Nature teach us…

Newton, Descartes, the industrial revolution's production line and classical have influenced us to view the economy as a well-oiled machine.

Conversations on Women Development, Singapore

Conversations on Women Development, Singapore

Soul Probe’s Founder, Santosh, worked with the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth to design a statistically representative survey of…

Vaccine Hesitancy during Covid-19 with Dr. Scott Wong

Vaccine Hesitancy during Covid-19 with…

Soul Probe’s Founder, Santosh, partnered with Dr. Scott Wong to design and launch a dipstick conversation to understand the evolving…

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at Singapore Poly Forum 2021

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at…

Soul Probe’s Founder, Santosh, partnered with A Good Space Co-operative to crowdsource feedback on the 60 ideas proposed by the…

Race and racism with The Straits Times, Singapore

Race and racism with The…

The Founder of Soul Probe, Santosh, helped facilitate an online conversation in collaboration with the Straits Times among 503 of…

Public Consultation 2021 on Mental Health

Public Consultation 2021 on Mental…

The Founder of Soul Probe, Santosh, designed a public consultation #AreWeOkay poll with SG Mental Health Matters from 26 March…

Global Degrowth Day – Paradigm or Ontological shifts for Economics

Global Degrowth Day – Paradigm…

Soul Probe discusses the problems associated with Mainstream (or Orthodox) Economics and Neoclassical Economics which are exploitative and extractive in…

How do you see the world in 2050?

How do you see the…

Soul Probe partnered Prof. Xavier Pavie of ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific to crowdsource student sentiments about the future of business,…