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Dear MSR Community,

One of the features at the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion (IAMSR) conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas (May 18-20) is our Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Track.  A PDW is a 60 or 90 minute interactive workshop focused on supporting professional development for faculty and practitioners.  You will walk away with tools, skills, or models that you can use in your classroom, your workplace, or with your clients.

I want to highlight one workshop in particular, because there is required reading, and because of the profound nature of the topic. This is a PDW titled "Inner challenges of leadership in the face of uncertainty and complexity: Transcending the crucible of anxiety."

This workshop is being facilitated by Dr. Ricardo Levy, a Silicon Valley executive and entrepreneur whose career spans more than three decades of founding and building successful businesses.  He was also a dear friend and colleague of our beloved Andre Delbecq.  Even if you are not attending the IAMSR, I encourage you to read his article. The link is below.

Here is the workshop description:

Inner Challenges of Leadership in the Face of Uncertainty and Complexity: Transcending the Crucible of Anxiety

What makes us entrepreneurs is our consuming drive to bring new products to market to fulfill perceived needs. What makes us entrepreneurial leaders is our capacity to embrace the unknown and guide our organizations in times of difficulty and uncertainty, times that are often fraught with many complex structural, operational, and most important human elements. The passage through these complexities and the ability to see the best outcomes "on the other side" determines our ability to lead. 

Nothing sharpens our awareness more than living through difficult times and examining what helped us succeed and where we failed. A recent experience has brought this into sharp focus for me.  I have come to appreciate the need for full immersion into the cauldron of the unknown, and the need to find paths through the complexity to provide clarity for our colleagues and ourselves. I have likened this to immersion into a crucible of anxiety and its transformation. It taps into our deepest intellectual and emotional resources, and requires a true awakening of the spirit.

In this workshop we are going to examine the deep inner emotional and spiritual resources needed to capture the leadership moment, and the essential harmony that is needed between our core values, our life purpose, and our commitments if we are to be true to our leadership calling.

In preparation, please read the article on this website: https://ricardolevy.com/2017/04/02/dealing-with-uncertainty-from-the-crucible-of-anxiety-to-the-chalice-of-change-lessons-in-leadership/

Please feel free to forward this article link to anyone who might be interested.

More Info on PDWs:

There are 28 PDWs on the schedule with a wide variety of topics.  You can see the entire list at www.eventmobi.com/iamsr2017info, as well as the lists of scholarly papers and the symposia.  The full schedule should be on this website by Friday.

Sample list of PDWs:

Educating for Character and Moral Clarity: Engaging in Moral Conversations about Sensitive Topics, with Susan Case and Edward Chavez, Case Western University

Mindfulness for Faculty Development (using crystal bowl meditation and other approaches), with Claudio Senna-Venzke, Unisinos University, Brazil

Face the Music: Songwriting as a Tool For Getting At The Unspoken In Corporate Training Sessions, with Paul Kwiecinski, CEO of Face The Music, and Metasystems

Nominal Group Technique and Other Transformative Classroom Activities, with Jim Stoner, Chair of the MSR Interest Group, Faculty at Fordham University

Working With Shadow in Developing Leadership, with Stacie Chappell, board member of MSR Interest Group, Faculty at Western New England University

Publishing Workshop, with Nick Philipson, Senior Editor, Springer Nature.  (Note: Springer will be offering a best paper award at the IAMSR conference and will also be publishing a monograph of the best papers and essays from the conference).

Creating Leadership through an EdgUcation Paradigm, with Judy Julin, CEO of Cosmic Kids, Marsha Tongel, founder of Legacy Wisdom School, and Judi Neal, CEO of Edgewalkers. (This workshop focuses on spiritual leadership development at the pre-college level).

Workshop on Fetzer Institute's Efforts To Build A Spiritually-Grounded Community, with Xiaoan Li and Kimberly Hillebrand, Fetzer Institute.  (Note:  Fetzer Institute is the largest foundation funding research on consciousness and spirituality.  They do not take grant applications).

To register for the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion (IAMSR) conference, go to www.eventmobi.com/iamsr2017info

Warm Regards,

Judi Neal, Ph.D.

Excellent!  Thank you, Judi!

Dear MSR Community,

One of the features at the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion (IAMSR) conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas (May 18-20) is our Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Track.  A PDW is a 60 or 90 minute interactive workshop focused on supporting professional development for faculty and practitioners.  You will walk away with tools, skills, or models that you can use in your classroom, your workplace, or with your clients.

I want to highlight one workshop in particular, because there is required reading, and because of the profound nature of the topic. This is a PDW titled "Inner challenges of leadership in the face of uncertainty and complexity: Transcending the crucible of anxiety."

This workshop is being facilitated by Dr. Ricardo Levy, a Silicon Valley executive and entrepreneur whose career spans more than three decades of founding and building successful businesses.  He was also a dear friend and colleague of our beloved Andre Delbecq.  Even if you are not attending the IAMSR, I encourage you to read his article. The link is below.

Here is the workshop description:

Inner Challenges of Leadership in the Face of Uncertainty and Complexity: Transcending the Crucible of Anxiety

What makes us entrepreneurs is our consuming drive to bring new products to market to fulfill perceived needs. What makes us entrepreneurial leaders is our capacity to embrace the unknown and guide our organizations in times of difficulty and uncertainty, times that are often fraught with many complex structural, operational, and most important human elements. The passage through these complexities and the ability to see the best outcomes "on the other side" determines our ability to lead. 

Nothing sharpens our awareness more than living through difficult times and examining what helped us succeed and where we failed. A recent experience has brought this into sharp focus for me.  I have come to appreciate the need for full immersion into the cauldron of the unknown, and the need to find paths through the complexity to provide clarity for our colleagues and ourselves. I have likened this to immersion into a crucible of anxiety and its transformation. It taps into our deepest intellectual and emotional resources, and requires a true awakening of the spirit.

In this workshop we are going to examine the deep inner emotional and spiritual resources needed to capture the leadership moment, and the essential harmony that is needed between our core values, our life purpose, and our commitments if we are to be true to our leadership calling.

In preparation, please read the article on this website: https://ricardolevy.com/2017/04/02/dealing-with-uncertainty-from-the-crucible-of-anxiety-to-the-chalice-of-change-lessons-in-leadership/

Please feel free to forward this article link to anyone who might be interested.

More Info on PDWs:

There are 28 PDWs on the schedule with a wide variety of topics.  You can see the entire list at www.eventmobi.com/iamsr2017info, as well as the lists of scholarly papers and the symposia.  The full schedule should be on this website by Friday.

Sample list of PDWs:

Educating for Character and Moral Clarity: Engaging in Moral Conversations about Sensitive Topics, with Susan Case and Edward Chavez, Case Western University

Mindfulness for Faculty Development (using crystal bowl meditation and other approaches), with Claudio Senna-Venzke, Unisinos University, Brazil

Face the Music: Songwriting as a Tool For Getting At The Unspoken In Corporate Training Sessions, with Paul Kwiecinski, CEO of Face The Music, and Metasystems

Nominal Group Technique and Other Transformative Classroom Activities, with Jim Stoner, Chair of the MSR Interest Group, Faculty at Fordham University

Working With Shadow in Developing Leadership, with Stacie Chappell, board member of MSR Interest Group, Faculty at Western New England University

Publishing Workshop, with Nick Philipson, Senior Editor, Springer Nature.  (Note: Springer will be offering a best paper award at the IAMSR conference and will also be publishing a monograph of the best papers and essays from the conference).

Creating Leadership through an EdgUcation Paradigm, with Judy Julin, CEO of Cosmic Kids, Marsha Tongel, founder of Legacy Wisdom School, and Judi Neal, CEO of Edgewalkers. (This workshop focuses on spiritual leadership development at the pre-college level).

Workshop on Fetzer Institute's Efforts To Build A Spiritually-Grounded Community, with Xiaoan Li and Kimberly Hillebrand, Fetzer Institute.  (Note:  Fetzer Institute is the largest foundation funding research on consciousness and spirituality.  They do not take grant applications).

To register for the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion (IAMSR) conference, go to www.eventmobi.com/iamsr2017info

Warm Regards,

Judi Neal, Ph.D.