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Grounded In Presence And Absence: Zen Leadership For A World In Chaos
Grounding in presence helps leaders face a world of chaos. Further grounding in absence enables them to be a resilient, compassionate and wise presence in its whirl.
How To Face A Mess – The First Flip of Zen Leadership
The world is a messy place. How do you face messes like these and still authentically add your value? Make the flip from Coping To Transforming.
How Resilience Deepens Depending On Who Is Resilient
These times are calling for a deep level of resilience. Relationships are an important factor in the level of resilience we are able to cultivate. How are your relationships helping your resilience?
The Key To Transformation Is Not Hacking The Form
The key to effective and enduring transformation lies beneath the surface in shifting the energies, including relationships and perceptions, that hold current forms in place.
The Hidden Side of Deep Resilience in Leadership
Flipping around our sense of self fosters a deep resilience in leadership, as well as a joyful, purposeful life and a more joyful, resilient world. Here’s a practice for making this flip.
Growing Up In A Time Of Divisions - Schismogenesis
Dr. Whitelaw explores schismogenesis, the creation of divisions. She also offers ways to bridge those gaps.
How Joy Guides Us In Facing Climate And Other Messes
Dr. Whitelaw explores how are can use joy to face into any challenge.
Bread and Circuses: Leading Beyond Distractions
Dr. Whitelaw reflects on all of the catastrophes that are happening around the world. She reminds us that flipping from coping to transforming can help everyone face into any challenge they encounter.
The Active Leadership Ingredients That Turn Food Into Medicine
Dr. Whitelaw shares a story from IZL instructor Dr. Kristi Crymes. Dr. Crymes is helping to hold space for circle gathering that are changing lives and building community.
Leading In The Age Of Resilience
Dr. Whitelaw reminds us that in this Age of Resilience, we need to remember our one-withness.
We Won’t Be Smarter Or Faster Than AI, But Here’s A Way To Be Wiser
Dr. Whitelaw explores the connection between AI and climate change. She offers 3 internal and external practices for leaders in these times.
How To Use AI In Service Of Life: 3 Practices For Leaders
Dr. Whitelaw explores the connection between AI and climate change. She offers 3 internal and external practices for leaders in these times.
What AI Can’t Do And What Great Leaders Will Do
Dr. Whitelaw explores artificial intelligence and how leaders can move with this new technology. She also shows leaders how they can move beyond AI.
Leaders: How Do We Tell The Story Of The Future We Want And Invite Others Into It?
Dr. Whitelaw invites leaders to pay attention to the stories they tell and put their energy into, and ways to invite others into those stories.
The Leadership Superpower For Positive Change In The Climate Crisis
Dr. Whitelaw explores the steps companies can take to do purposeful work to go green while remaining profitable.
Try On A New Relationship With Time
Dr. Whitelaw explores our relationship to time. Technology is helping time "speed up" while Dr. Whitelaw invites us to slow down.
Greenbacks Versus Going Green—What’s A Leader To Do?
Dr. Whitelaw explores the steps companies can take to do purposeful work to go green while remaining profitable.
What New Year Do You Want To Bring Into Being?
Dr. Whitelaw discusses how synchronicity is not coincidence but science. She also explains how leaders can tune their antenna to sense what is coming next.
The Best Leadership Strategy For Our Time—It’s Simpler Than You Think
Imagine you had a child who was entrusted with the family fortune—generations upon generations of good investments and stewardship amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars—and this child managed to blow through it in one year.
The Flip In Leadership Needed To Save (Ourselves On) The Planet
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw explores the climate crisis through the lens of biodiversity loss. There are many steps to take and the first starts with leadership.
Recharging Yourself As A Leader—3 Laws Of Managing Energy
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
5 Degrees Of Connection: Which Support You As A Leader?
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. There are 5 stages of connection. Which stage are you in?
Facing An Inconvenient Truth Or Inconvenient Consequences
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about the 4 energy patterns we all have access too. How can they help support you?
Leadership Development 3.0—Energy Included
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
What is Self-Transcendence?
But, for those singular moments when my legs would gain speed and every part of my body would move further and further forward, gaining momentum – I knew what it was to feel connected to all, connected to my true self, connected to nature, connected to something bigger than what I thought of as me.
Saturated With Loss
On my kitchen windowsill is one of my grandmother’s orchids. I brought it home after she passed away earlier this year as it wasn’t faring so well without her particular care and attention - I understood how it felt. Although I’m still a newbie gardener and have zero experience with orchids, it started to revive and I felt the joy of her presence again.
Becoming The Future We Want
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
What Globalization Taught Leaders—And What They Need To Learn Now
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
Leading As A Land Grab Versus Leading As The Land
Dr. Ginny writes about two kinds of leadership, one that takes and one that recognizes the give and take.
