The Founder Talks about the Wiser Wilder Approach
The Wiser Wilder approach to learning and growth for experienced leaders is based on my original research as well as that of others.
For a quarter century, I have worked with leaders across settings, including as part of leadership training in their organizations, working with individuals and groups. Much of my experience involves working with executives and senior leaders when they come back to business school. I have had a 25+ year career as an academic studying and teaching leadership and what makes work meaningful, fulfilling, more fun, and more inclusive. Senior leaders and executives I work with, and those who have hired me to work with their leaders, kept asking me when Wiser Wilder Leadership would be more widely available, and now it is!
My academic colleagues have also honored me by recognizing my approach as creative and visionary in the field of leadership development in executive and higher education. This is because my approach to shifting leadership uses psychological and spiritual wisdom to cultivate your capacity to lead amid complexity, builds character, and leverages your human virtues of humility and courage. This results in you even more successfully leading, while positively impacting the environmental and social conditions that are essential to our future.
One example of this recognition was when my 2019 research article, “Meaning-based job-related well-being: Exploring a meaningful work conceptualizations of job satisfaction,” on meaning and well-being in work, was named a Journal of Business and Psychology top-12 contribution from over 800 articles submitted.
Another example is the recognition from leaders I work with. Once leaders dig down into the soil where their deepest roots reside, they change in ways that make their leadership feel more authentic and fulfilling as well as more effective, and that allow them to have a much bigger leadership footprint.
Every innovative idea, every disruption, every revolutionary change came from someone digging deep within, and growing a vision for what was possible. My approach leverages this too-often untapped potential, freeing leaders to root their impact in their “wildest dreams,” which supports their growth in wisdom. This is why I love what I do!
