Leadership and the Art of Being Grounded

Featured, Inner Alchemy, Sacred Leadership

Many business leaders are in a quagmire today. Markets are shifting quickly, their families are under stress, and business is ‘not as usual’ with all the pressures for cost reduction or enhanced performance.  In these situations, I notice that business leaders have...

The 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings

Sacred Leadership

Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us. In his 2004 Ted Talk, Seligman describes three different kinds of happy lives: The...

3 Steps to Creating Your New Year’s Resolutions – Mindfully

Sacred Leadership

A man once asked the Dalai Lama, “I want to be happier, what should I do?” The Dalai Lama simply replied, “Write down what makes you happy, do more of those things; write down what makes you unhappy, do less of those things.” At the end of any...

What Nelson Mandela Taught Me About Empathy – my experience in Sierra Leone

Sacred Leadership

Years ago, in 2007, I visited Sierra Leone to work with an organization, iEARN, which was using technology to help youth recover from the gruesome war which had left millions of lives destroyed. As I listened to stories, and then some more, as part of a project that...

In Search of the Sacred Leader

Sacred Leadership

The hives have been angered, and bees everywhere are being massacred by our predatory lifestyle. We are facing a dire need for the cultivation of bee communities to ensure that all flowering plant life are not deprived of pollination, to continue the precious dance of...

Total Leadership – with Prof. Stew Friedman

Sacred Leadership

Recently, while at my five year Wharton reunion, I was having a conversation with a classmate on how I was exploring ways that we could live differently, sustainably– embodying our spiritual values and promoting a ‘gift’ and love-based economy. Luis looked into my...