Maximizing The Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership
One of the greatest challenges facing leaders today is the need to develop new business models that accentuate employee well-being and social and environmental sustainability without sacrificing performance excellence. In effect, they are experimenting with and adopting strategies that emphasize the triple bottom line or “People, Planet, and Profit.”
The International Institute of Spiritual Leadership (IISL) serves leaders and organizations that seek new leadership models to remain competitive and succeed in today’s chaotic and global Internet Age, as well as those who are committed to co-creating a conscious, flourishing world that works for everyone.
How Workplace Spirituality Impacts The Triple Bottom Line
A short synopsis of Workplace Spirituality and its impact on organizational commitment, profit, and sustainability.
Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership
Spiritual Leadership is focused on satisfying two universal spiritual needs at work for all organizations. The first is the universal need for a sense of calling or purpose – that our life has meaning and makes a difference. The second is the need for a sense of membership or belonging in a loving community, whereby we feel understood and appreciated for who we are, just as we are.
The question then becomes, “what does this leadership look like, and how does it move organizations from an obsessive focus on profit to the detriment of the socially disenfranchised and the planet to leaders who are passionate about sustainability and maximizing the triple bottom line?”
We also offer the Global Leadership for Sustainability model (GLfS), which is built upon the spiritual leadership model, that is specifically focused on organizations dedicated to sustainable development and the triple bottom line. GLfS is inspired by the beliefs:
That leaders and their organizations should have a higher purpose beyond enriching themselves and financial stakeholders. That in addition to economic success, leaders have responsibility for the well-being of employees, their communities, the socially disenfranchised, and the earth we all inhabit – the triple bottom line or people, planet, and profit. That we should all leave, as part of our legacy, a sustainable, flourishing world for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to come.
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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 […] > Continue reading
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 […] > Continue reading
This video explores connections between leadership, spirituality & religion in the workplace. In it Dr. Fry explores the role of spiritual leadership and the spiritual leadership model within this context.
