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TRUMP, HAMILTON, AND THE ZEN LEADER WALK INTO A BAR...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on messages and their ability to resonate or not with the listener. What can leaders do to help their messages hit the right chord?
The Energy of Agile Leadership: from Antenna to Arrow
Ginny Whitelaw explores how leadership energy flows through four FEBI energy patterns and how these patterns can help leaders become more agile.
Zen Leadership: Taking Away Fear
Kate Watters reflects on her transformative experience with Zen Leader training, describing how meditation, movement, and deep inquiry helped her confront fear, cultivate clarity, and implement practical strategies to enhance security and resilience within her organization.
Taking Ownership: How We Avoid It and How Zen Tackles Avoidance
Ginny Whitelaw explores how our ingrained tendencies to seek comfort, avoid pain, and conserve lead to unhealthy habits, ineffective leadership, and environmental neglect. She urges us to take true ownership by facing into that discomfort.
Summer In The City: If The Energy Patterns Were Cities...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on the transformative CitiZen program, where city leaders applied Zen principles to leadership, posture, and breathwork, deepening their ability to navigate urban challenges with presence, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Leading into the Six Perfections
Ginny Whitelaw connects Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism to leadership by exploring how the 4 energy patterns align with the 6 Perfections, offering a practical, embodied approach to developing more conscious, effective leaders.
The Zen Leader Goes Home
Theo Cade, Zen Leader participant, shares his experience working with a number of the Zen Leader flips.
Zen, Leadership, and the Fourth Turning of Buddhism
Ginny Whitelaw explores Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism through the concept of the U Turn, showing how leaders can transcend self-imagination to access deeper insight and transform vision into action.
How a Zen Leader Can Reinvent Organizations
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux, highlighting how its evolutionary approach to leadership and decision-making aligns with Zen principles to create more adaptive, purpose-driven, and engaged organizations.
How To Get Stuff Done
Ginny Whitelaw explores the concept of "driving rhythm" in leadership, emphasizing how aligning with natural cycles and leveraging the four FEBI energy patterns enables leaders to execute effectively with the right effort at the right time.
The Zen Leader Animated
With the artistic help of Diane Chencharick, Ginny Whitelaw shows us how (and why) to flip our sense of self.