The contemporary world is undergoing a global transformation. The near future is conceived by governments of technologically developed countries as a transition to a new social order, to Super Smart Society. Determining the
parameters of sociocultural changes associated with this structure and identifying relevant leadership strategies is the main goal of this article. The study of this concept methodologically is based on cultural philosophical analysis. In addition to the relevant analytics, materials from official resources of the government of Japan, Russia, and other countries involved in the study of Society 5.0, the plans of which, despite the specifics, are very representative. This is especially true for Japanese plans since according to the developers’ plans, they are aimed at solving problems facing not
only the country of the Rising Sun but all progressive humanity. The author focuses on studies of the post-industrial, network, and information society. Comparing such distant disciplines as neurophysiology, psychology, and artificial intelligence programming (with which the prospects of Society 5.0 are inextricably linked), some semantic lacunae that underlie the transformation of life in the near future are revealed, that is, the virtualization of reality, semantic depletion of signs and increased value uncertainty. The author pays special attention to the problems of the development of human
capital, the restructuring of knowledge, the skills used to meet human and social needs. The paper shows that the digitalization and clustering approach set a particular mode of motivated activity of leaders today. Three leadership
strategies remain relevant: functional, based on resource hubs and bridges as places of power for leaders of the Culture 5.0, marketing, and strategy of conceptual and thesaurus myth design. Each of them can be implemented in a wide applied and predilection range: from administrative-technocratic and expert to the objective or artistically intricate.