June’s Unify Toronto dialogue hosted leadership educator, facilitator and Juno-nominated pianist Michael Jones, inspired by his forthcoming book: The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through Arts, Nature, and Community. The book is expected shortly, and will be available for August’s Design with Dialogue (8/13) as Michael returns to OCADU with a second session for the book […]
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Nonviolent Communication: Moving from Stuckness to Possibility
What If You Had the Answer All Along? Henry Wai of the Center for Nonviolent Communication conducted the March 2012 DwD with Patricia Kambitsch of Playthink . THE WORKSHOP The session engaged people in interpersonal interactions that revealed the principles of nonviolent communication (NVC). NVC is a technique for opening possibility in areas of life […]
Authentic Leadership in Action
The ALIA (Authentic Leadership In Action) Institute, based in Halifax, gathers a global network of systems-change agents for programs that explore how we can act as more powerful leaders in our communities and organizations. ALIA’s approach integrates experiential skill-building with mindfulness, creative process, and dialogue. The recent annual Summer Institute, held in Columbus, Ohio, was […]
Designing our Minds for Leadership
March 2011 DwD was hosted by Fernando Lopez, executive coach and president of Bridgespace Consulting. THE WORKSHOP Just as the designer of a ship’s structure exerts more influence on its performance than does the captain or the crew, the structure of our thinking is the primary determinant of our actions and thereby the pattern of […]
Imagining the Future of Leadership
A six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future on Harvard Business Review.