Abstract
As research findings have indicated that firms operations require sustainable strategies in a variety of areas to be productive. In recent times intelligence has become one of such strategies, and even more topical is the spiritual intelligence (SI) strategy since experts are recognising its importance and viability in business operations. Therefore, this study investigates SI as a strategy that impacts and avails businesses particularly small and medium scaled enterprises their quest for productivity. In doing so, it adopted the descriptive survey research method, with a population made up of 5648 SMEs duly registered within the Southeastern region of Nigeria. Data collection and analysed reveal a statistically significant impact of SI on productivity of SMEs in Southeast, Nigeria. It thus concluded that spiritual intelligence has a positive connection to SMEs' productivity in Southeast , Nigeria.