Leadership guide, co-founder of Leadership Focus, and author of the transformational and leadership strengthening book The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly, Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. describes why leaders feel so much stress, and why they are unable to cope with the accompanying pressures. Ginny Whitelaw points out that simply working harder or faster, and trying various stress relief exercises is not enough to meet the challenges of the modern, ever faster world. Ginny proposes an entirely different approach of using the pressure as a force to propel the leader to ever higher levels of understanding. These new breakthroughs harness the power of the pressures and stop them from controlling the leader. Ginny Whitelaw calls these fresh insights flips as they re-frame and invert the standard ways of viewing the world and its obstacles. Ginny shares her ten ways to flip and mover forward on the journey to becoming an effective and fearless Zen Leader.
Ginny Whitelaw is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, September 20, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Leadership guide, co-founder of Leadership Focus, and author of the transformational and leadership strengthening book The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly, Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. describes why leaders feel so much stress, and why they are unable to cope with the accompanying pressures. You will learn:
* What Zen leadership really means
* Why leaders are facing so many challenges and stresses to today
* Why the standard responses to these pressures no longer are effective
* How to transform the pressures into a force for strength
Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. (photo left) is the co-founder of Focus Leadership, LLC, focusing on the development of the whole leader. A biophysicist by training, she combines a rich scientific background with senior leadership experience, and 30 years of training in Zen and martial arts. For many years she has been an executive coach, faculty member and program director with Oliver Wyman's Delta Executive Learning Center. She has also served as adjunct faculty to Columbia University's senior executive program. A seasoned program manager in telecommunications and aerospace, she has more than 20 years of experience leading multifunctional teams and complex change efforts.
Dr. Whitelaw spent 10 of those years at NASA, where she became the Deputy Manager for integration of the International Space Station Program. She led a large-scale change effort to re-align the management of the Space Station program. Her work using cross-functional teams became a model for other NASA programs, and she was awarded NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for her efforts. She also has small and non-profit organization leadership experience, having founded and run 4 companies, including two major training centers for Zen and Aikido. A Rinzai Zen priest, she holds a 5th degree black belt in Aikido, and teaches Zen meditation alongside her work as a management educator and executive coach.
Dr. Whitelaw is the author of BodyLearning and (with Betsy Wetzig) Move to Greatness: The 4 Essential Energies of the Whole and Balanced Leader. Together with Mark Kiefaber, she has developed the FEBI® (Focus Energy Balance Indicator), a powerful assessment identifying one's preferences for four energy patterns linking mind and body. She holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Philosophy from Michigan State University.
My book review of The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly by Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D.
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Let's talk with leadership guide, co-founder of Leadership Focus, and author of the transformational and leadership strengthening book The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly, Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D., as she describes why leaders feel so much stress, and why they are unable to cope with the accompanying pressures. Ginny Whitelaw points out that simply working harder or faster, and trying various stress relief exercises is not enough to meet the challenges of the modern, ever faster world. Ginny proposes an entirely different approach of using the pressure as a force to propel the leader to ever higher levels of understanding. These new breakthroughs harness the power of the pressures and stop them from controlling the leader. Ginny Whitelaw calls these fresh insights flips as they re-frame and invert the standard ways of viewing the world and its obstacles. Ginny shares her ten ways to flip and mover forward on the journey to becoming an effective and fearless Zen Leader. on Blog Business Success Radio.
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