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Developing inner wisdom as a leadership strength

Leading with Spirit, Presence, and Authenticity presents the perspectives of leaders, social scientists, and educators from around the world on the topic of developing inner wisdom. Structured around the notions of spirit, presence, and authenticity, the book encourages readers to reflect on their own lives as they read about their colleagues' diverse experiences, all in an effort to address difficult global systems challenges with a foundation of various wisdom lineages and practices.

Each chapter is introduced by an editor with deep background experience in the topic at hand, and the book includes an examination of research on the essential nature of authenticity among leaders. Stories of leadership initiative from across nations illustrate the truly global nature of leadership inspiration, and accounts of teaching mindfulness, guiding leaders, and leading in the arts and humanities integrate critical theory with authentic leadership development. Topics include:

• Subtle interdependencies involved in modern leadership
• The contribution of sociological mindfulness to leadership education
• Authentic leadership as communicated through technology
• The role of spirit, and what the world needs from leaders

A diverse mix of contributors, including a Sufi teacher, a social science journal editor, and a CEO, provide a truly inclusive examination of the ways a leader is defined by self and others. Leading with Spirit, Presence, and Authenticity, a volume in the International Leadership Series Building Leadership Bridges from the International Leadership Association, helps connect ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, PhD, sociologist, organizational consultant, and educator, supports leaders in moving with awareness through challenging change. She has helped hundreds of executives to cultivate healthy organizations and creates learning about organizational health, ethics, sustainability, research, and consulting skills for graduate students at Alliant International University. Dr. Goldman Schuyler has published widely on leadership and change and is the author of INNER PEACE--GLOBAL IMPACT: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work (IAP-2012).

John Eric Baugher, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His recent research and teaching activities concern emotional and spiritual dimensions of transformational learning, bereavement, and end-of-life care. Dr. Baugher is a member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the social science editor for the Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. He provides training in spiritual care to hospice and other organizations.

Karin Jironet, PhD, theologian, Sufi murshida, and Jungian psychoanalyst, is dedicated to leadership development in times of transition. Specializing in applying psychospiritual principles to boardroom dynamics for more than a decade, she counts as her clients the major international banks. Her latest book, Female Leadership, was nominated for best book of the year by the Gradiva Award, New York 2012. She is a board member of the Dutch Association of Analytical Psychology.

Lena Lid-Falkman, PhD, focuses on value-based, authentic leadership and on leadership as communicative and rhetorical. Her PhD thesis was elected the best in business administration in Europe 2010 by the European Doctoral Programme Association in Management and Business Administration network. She was a Marie Curie Scholar at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain for three years and is now back on the faculty of the Stockholm School of Economics.