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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.
Together In Loneliness
Andy Robins Roshi explores the connection between loneliness and leadership. He also shares why it does not have to be that way.
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.
Our bodies told us to co-write a book, and the process showed us the power of embodied collaboration
Courtney Amo and her co-authors came together by the power of embodied collaboration to write a book.
Being What is Needed: A Message From kate
Kate Watters, president of the Board of Directors for IZL, explores different ways to be what is needed.
Being What is Needed: Listening With My Body And Senses
Cris Nakano, a member of the Board of Directors for IZL, shares her journey of listening and sensing.
Being What is Needed: How IZL Can Help you Get There
Dave Stahlberg, a Zen practitioner, shares his experience at a Zen Leader program and how it has impacted his life.
Zen and Crowd Control
Jo Ann Preston compares tips to protect oneself in a crowd to the foundation s of Zen Leadership.
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.
Being What is Needed: What is the Zen in Zen Leadership
Dr. Gordon Greene Roshi writes about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, and his ego.
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.
The Messy Middle
Jen Ayres writes about her zen training and how it helps with the "bleeding from the eyes" problem.
Being Bodhisattvas
Jeff Nytes invites us all to become bodhisattvas. This way of being could have a great impact on us all.
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.
Service-Filled Life
Here in the UK, the past ten days have seen an extraordinary outpouring of grief and sadness following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. During my own life, I have promised to serve the Queen on two occasions.
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?
The Gift of Time
Our days are usually filled with so much doing that stopping is difficult and must be intentional. Sometimes, however, pauses are thrust upon us often through no fault of our own, but through an accident or illness, the pause comes. For some of us COVID was this pause, but for others, we only got busier.
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.