The Spiritual Leadership Blog

Oxford Bibliography Review of Spiritual Leadership

Our Review of the literature on Spiritual Leadership in the Workplace, originally published in 2018, has been revised and published by Oxford Bibliographies. While spiritual leadership has been a subject of interest in the major spiritual and religious wisdom traditions for eons, it was the mid-1990s that spiritual leadership of individuals, teams, and organizations became […]

IISL’s Publication on Global Leadership for Sustainability is now available.

After five years of hard work, our Global Leadership for Sustainability (GLfS) paper is now available online. It is IISL’s response, given the social and environmental challenges facing all organizations, to the need for new leadership models, methods, and tools for implementing organizational change for sustainable development. Toward that end, we review current approaches to […]

SUSTEX2021 Conference Call For Submissions

As you may know, I am now championing Spiritual Leadership as a foundational paradigm for Global Leadership for Sustainability, which embeds spirituality into sustainability and sustainable development.   After having to cancel last year, we’re coming back better and stronger with SUSTEX2021, which will be virtual with some local presence. We’ve also expanded the scope of […]

Spiritual Leadership as Necessary for Sustainability and Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line

Dr. Ella Egel and I are working in the area of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership as necessary for sustainability. Here is our latest article, ” Spiritual Leadership: Embedding Sustainability in the Triple Bottom Line,” that was recently published in the Graziadio Business Review. Here we draw from the emerging field of workplace spirituality and […]

Global Leadership in Dubai

Recently, Dr. Ella Egel, President of IISL, and I traveled to Dubai, UAE to participate in the International Conference on Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as driving forces of the Global Economy  (ICLIE). The conference was organized by the Canadian University of Dubai (http://www.cud.ac.ae/).  Our presentation was  on Global Leadership. The main questions we tried to […]

How to Thwart ISIS Recruiting

A recent article in Business Insider , “Leaked ISIS Documents: The Majority of Recruits Know Nothing About Islam,” examined thousands of documents which revealed that 70% of ISIS recruits had just a “basic” knowledge of Shariah (the Islamic law), while 24% had “intermediate” knowledge, and 5% advanced. This seems to indicate that these recruits did not […]

Don’t Let Your Company Culture Just Happen

A recent HBR article, “Don’t Let Your Company Culture Just Happen,” could not be more relevant given today’s chaotic, hyper-connected business environment. In fact this may the most important task leader’s face for strategy implementation. The article’s focus is on systematizing culture design through a conversation about three key elements of organizational culture: Outcomes, Behaviors, […]

IISL Goes to Nigeria

I recently was invited to be a keynote speaker and conference participant at the 2016 Audit Committee Institute Conference in Lagos Nigeria. What I discovered during my visit is that Nigeria is a paradoxical nation of contrasts. It has the highest percentage intellectual class in Africa and, as evidenced by several of the attendees, an […]

Improve Your Team by Developing the HERO Inside You

A recent article on how to “Improve Your Team by Developing the HERO Inside You” defines HERO as any ordinary person that wants to succeed and has strong values and great ideas so that when you wake up it is your best self that is energized and bold and determined. A hero has to wage a battle […]