About Us
The International Institute for Spiritual Leadership (IISL) is a professional corporation headquartered in Georgetown, Texas. Our services include a wide range of executive and organizational transformation and development programs delivered online as well as on-site throughout the U.S. and other international locations. The implementation of IISL’s vision to co-create a conscious, sustainable world that works for everyone is centered around maximizing the triple bottom line through the application of the spiritual leadership paradigm, personal spiritual leadership coaching, planned retreats, consulting, and keynote presentations. We offer books, assessments, consulting, personal coaching, and training services to help you implement the spiritual leadership organizational paradigm and business model.
Who We Are
Louis W. (Jody) Fry
Louis W. (Jody) Fry, Ph.D. is Regents Professor of Management and Leadership at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, where he is program director of the MS Leadership for Sustainability Program. Jody has consulted with public and private organizations and published in numerous scholarly journals with his body of work receiving over 14,000 citations from articles and books. Presently, he is a member of the editorial review board of Sustainability, an Associate Editor for Leadership and Spirituality for the Journal of Management, Spirituality& Religion, and the editor for Information Age Publishing of a book series, Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application. The author of two books, Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership and Spiritual Leadership on Action: The CEL Story, he is the founder of the International Institute for Spiritual Leadership and a commissioned spiritual director. His present research, consulting, and executive development interests are focused on maximizing the triple bottom line through Global Leadership for Sustainability to co-create a conscious, flourishing world that works for everyone.
Eleftheria (Ella) Egel
Eleftheria Egel, DBA, PhD is a leadership scholar, consultant and entrepreneur. With her company NT Navigating 
Transformation) she works with female entrepreneurs and assists them through all stages of their entrepreneurship journey. Main areas of her research are: spiritual, female, global, Islamic leadership and sustainability. Previous to working with IISL Eleftheria worked in the financial industry, as an entrepreneur in the education industry, and served as a project leader for various projects in the areas of education and culture co-financed by private firms and the European Union. She is a fluent speaker of English, French, German, Italian and Greek. With her versatile educational and professional profile, Eleftheria brings to IISL a practical understanding of cross-cultural issues within international and multi-cultural organisational environments. Close to her heart lies girls’ education in developing countries. She supports with entrepreneurial training the organization AKAWI in Nigeria in their mission to empower women as well as various global initiatives that focus on educating girls in developing countries.
Our Vision
Co-creating a conscious, flourishing world that works for everyone
Our Purpose
To enable individuals, teams, and organizations.
- To facilitate and support employee development of mindfulness though an inner life practice.
- To create hope/faith in a vision of serving key stakeholders through a culture based on the values of altruistic love.
- To foster spiritual well-being.
- To have a sense of calling or purpose in making a difference in the lives of others and key stakeholders.
- To have a sense of membership in establishing a community whose members feel they belong and are understood and appreciated.
- To attain high levels of organizational commitment, productivity, and life satisfaction.
- To create and establish organization-wide a “do what it takes” attitude in the pursuit of a vision that includes high levels of employee well-being, sustainability, and performance excellence – The triple bottom line.
Our Mission
IISL draws on a global network of highly qualified scholars, consultants and practitioners to further the theory, research, and practice of personal and organizational spiritual leadership. As part of this broader mission IISL works on a selective basis, with the meaningful involvement of our clients, to empower stakeholder focused, intrinsically motivated, leaders and organizations that seek to maximize the triple bottom line through spiritual leadership.
Our Values Based in Altruistic Love
These values define altruistic love provide the foundation for the Spiritual Leadership Model and IISL’s culture as we work to exceed the expectations of our key stakeholders.
Honesty – we seek the truth, rejoice in it, and base our actions on it.
Integrity – we walk the walk as well as talk the talk. We say what we do and do what we say and, if for some reason we can’t do this, we let you know as soon as possible
Humility – we are modest, courteous, and without false pride. We are not jealous, rude or arrogant and do not brag.
Courage – we have the firmness of mind and will as well as the mental and moral strength to maintain our morale and prevail in the face of extreme difficulty, opposition, threat, danger, hardship, and fear.
Kindness – we are considerate, humane and sympathetic to the feelings and needs of others.
Empathy/Compassion – we read and understand the feelings of others. When others are suffering we understand and want to do something about it.
Patience/Meekness/Endurance – we bear trials and/or pain calmly and without complaint. We persist in or remain constant to any purpose, idea, or task in the face of obstacles or discouragement. We pursue steadily any project or course we begin and never quit in spite of counter influences, opposition, discouragement or suffering.
Trust/Loyalty – in our chosen relationships, we are faithful and have faith in and rely on the character, ability, strength and truth of others. We recognize, rejoice in, and celebrate the noble efforts of others.
Forgiveness/Acceptance/Gratitude – we suffer not the burden of failed expectations, gossip, jealousy, hatred, or revenge. Instead, we choose the power of forgiveness through acceptance and gratitude. This frees us from the evils of self-will, judging others, resentment, self-pity, and anger and gives us serenity, joy and peace.
Excellence – we “do what it takes” to get the job done in meeting the needs and striving to exceed the expectations of those we serve through continuous innovation and improvement. We know that it takes 10% more effort to do a job right the first time and 90% more effort to do it over. We recognize, rejoice in, and celebrate the noble efforts of our colleagues and clients.
Fun – enjoyment, fun, and playful activity must exist in order to stimulate minds, foster creativity and bring happiness and a sense of well-being to one’s place of work. We therefore view our daily activities and work as not to be dreaded yet as reasons for smiling and having a terrific day in serving others.
