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The Contemplative Leader is a roadmap to adopting leadership practices for bringing about meaningful change in your team, company, and community from a place of depth, compassion, and courage.
The Contemplative Leader is a roadmap to adopting leadership practices for bringing about meaningful change in your team, company, and community from a place of depth, compassion, and courage.
In a world ever-changing under unpredictable economic, political, and relational forces, leaders need to go inside—to their internal world—to uncover the why and how of their leadership and influence.
In The Contemplative Leader, leadership consultant, mindfulness trainer, psychotherapist, and executive coach Patrick Boland combines leadership anecdotes with reflective questions and practical contemplative practices to outline:
How to integrate your Whole Self into daily decision-making, influencing, and strategizing
A redefinition and re-envisioning of leadership as something that takes account of the breadth of human experience
How to lead from a place of non-attached, contemplative mindset
Operating from the premise that, “We can only lead others as far as we have first gone ourselves”, The Contemplative Leader asks us to examine the narratives we tell ourselves as leaders, to reflect on how we respond to challenges and to consider how our nervous system states (Polyvagal theory) impact the ways we influence others. As we deepen the exploration of our inner world, we consider the source of our values, the identities we inhabit (composed of our ego and shadow), and the fundamental sense of meaning and purpose we embody in leadership.
Whether you are a seasoned leader in need of a reset to connect with what’s most important, new to leadership and looking for some “soul” work to do in order to develop your influence, or just looking to integrate contemplative practices into your active roles in work, family, and religious life, The Contemplative Leader is an essential guide to practicing thoughtful leadership and contributing to meaningful change where it matters most to you.
Patrick Boland is an Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant and Psychotherapist. Since founding Conexus in 2013 Patrick has worked with senior teams and leaders in global organizations ranging from Google to Unilever, LEGO to Citi, Accenture to Salesforce to Deutsche Bank. He also consults and writes with Richard Rohr at the Centre for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico. He lives with his family near Dublin, Ireland.
