AOM-MSR Can't Miss PDW Session!
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I hope you will plan to join me for my PDW that explores the impact of individuation on leadership performance. This Jungian-inspired session will introduce "Shadow Dialogue" as framework for facilitating Shadow integration and Self-Actualization. Session details follow below, including a link (please see below) to the program materials that have been uploaded. I hope to see you there!
Will Sparks
Shadow Dialogue: The Impact of Inner Transformation on Human Performance
ID:11902
SAT, 1 Aug: 3:45 - 5:15pm
William Sparks
Queens University of Charlotte
Abstract
The purpose of this proposed PDW is to provide participants with an opportunity to examine and experience "Leadership Shadow Dialogue" as a process for both spiritual growth and enhanced self-awareness. Leadership scholarship has increasingly acknowledged the importance of meaning, spirituality, and inner life in organizational contexts (Dent, 2005), yet much of this work remains conceptually abstract or normatively framed. There is limited attention given to the psychological mechanisms through which inner development shapes leadership behavior and human performance. This PDW addresses this gap by introducing "Leadership Shadow Dialogue," a psychologically grounded and spiritually informed approach to leadership development that emphasizes self-awareness, self-acceptance, and inner integration and contains the following learning objectives: 1. Introduce "Leadership Shadow Dialogue" as a developmentally grounded, non-dogmatic approach to spiritually informed leadership development. 2. Explore the relationship between self-awareness, inner integration, and human performance in leadership contexts. 3. Provide participants with reflective tools and conceptual language applicable to research, teaching, coaching, and organizational practice. 4. Foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars and practitioners interested in leadership, spirituality, and inner life at work. Specifically, the PDW contributes to MSR scholarship by offering a psychologically rigorous definition of spirituality grounded in integration rather than transcendence or doctrine. By positioning shadow work within a scholarly framework that integrates psychology and spirituality, this PDW supports MSR's ongoing effort to legitimize inner-life research within management studies.
https://events.aom.org/events/aom-2026/session/geTIJ5nqIpe1sB4leamkR
Shadow Dialogue Session Materials