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Hark! Our Better Angels Sing: The Greatest Gift A Leader Can Give
In Lincoln’s first inaugural address, he appealed to the nation’s “better angels,” meaning the better aspects of our character, such as good sense and virtue. Seven score and sixteen years later, in the thick of the Trump presidency, historian Jon Meacham spoke to the battle for our better angels in The Soul of America. He recounts the disparities and triumphs of a nation founded on the declaration that all people are created equal and its unequal efforts to live up to that mighty truth.
How Leaders Can Do the Essential Work of Our Time
As we face into the growing climate crisis, we recognize that there is still work to do. What internal shifts can we make that will radiate into the world?
What an Interconnected Universe Means for You as a Leader
In our interconnect universe, leaders are bring possible futures into the present moment. Here are 3 principles that will help turn those futures into reality.
The Most Essential Leadership Skills And How Zen Reframes A Way To Master Them
Agility, creativity and other essential leadership skills are better cultivated through the mind-body unification of Zen practices.
If You Build It, Will They Come?
As leaders reimagine post-pandemic businesses and ways of working, resonance replaces wishful thinking in bringing vital honesty to: Build it and they will come.
Embodied Leadership: A Cure For What Ails Us?
Emboded leadership is showing the way to do the inner work that enables more successful, systemic outer work.
The Zen Of Leadership – And How It Can Save You In These Wild Times
Three waves of resilience and how to start building them for these wild times.
How Are You? And 3 Truths Behind Your Answer
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on these times and the 3 facts of resonance that shape how are are - both in how we feel and how we act.
Three “Downs” to be Up for These Times
Ginny Whitelaw talks about the revelations of our tumultuous times and shares ways to be "up" for the tasks at hand.
The Heart of a New Social Contract
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on the injustice of our current social contract and the urgent need for a new one.
Brand, Leadership, and Spirituality
Ginny Whitelaw explores the intersection of spirituality and leadership, finds that the spiritual Way naturally becomes leadership when it serves others, and leadership becomes the Way when it is rooted in deep practice that transcends ego.
Zen, Leadership, and Transformative Technologies
Ginny Whitelaw explores the intersection of Zen training and transformative technology.
Forget Democrats and Republicans – What Kind of Convention are YOU Hosting?
Ginny Whitelaw draws a parallel between political conventions and our internal conventions. My engaging our whole mind-body, we can become more whole and balanced.
TRUMP, HAMILTON, AND THE ZEN LEADER WALK INTO A BAR...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on messages and their ability to resonate or not with the listener. What can leaders do to help their messages hit the right chord?
The Energy of Agile Leadership: from Antenna to Arrow
Ginny Whitelaw explores how leadership energy flows through four FEBI energy patterns and how these patterns can help leaders become more agile.
Taking Ownership: How We Avoid It and How Zen Tackles Avoidance
Ginny Whitelaw explores how our ingrained tendencies to seek comfort, avoid pain, and conserve lead to unhealthy habits, ineffective leadership, and environmental neglect. She urges us to take true ownership by facing into that discomfort.
Leading into the Six Perfections
Ginny Whitelaw connects Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism to leadership by exploring how the 4 energy patterns align with the 6 Perfections, offering a practical, embodied approach to developing more conscious, effective leaders.
Zen, Leadership, and the Fourth Turning of Buddhism
Ginny Whitelaw explores Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism through the concept of the U Turn, showing how leaders can transcend self-imagination to access deeper insight and transform vision into action.
Change Requires Management, Transition Requires Leadership
Ginny Whitelaw explores how leaders can navigate change and transition by integrating William Bridges' transition model, John Kotter's change framework, and the FEBI energy patterns to align leadership responses with the needs of the situation.