Genership: Beyond Leadership Toward Liberating the Creative Soul. This item is unavailable.Genership: Beyond Leadership Toward Liberating the Creative Soul

This groundbreaking book by David M. Castro, President and CEO of the Institute for Leadership Education, promises to transform thinking within organizations and communities about the fundamental skills required for human progress. David explores the evolution of leadership skills within effective organizations, recognizing that leadership processes have been evolving into different and more promising practices. To capture this trend, David introduces a new concept and a new word, genership: the skill set required for the practice of creativity in groups.

David Castro is CEO of the Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement and Development (I-LEAD), a training program for community-leadership development that has served several thousand emerging leaders and led to the formation of an accredited associate's degree in leadership. In 1993, following a successful career both in private practice and as a Philadelphia assistant district attorney, David was awarded a Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Program Fellowship, for which he studied community leadership and its relation to improving quality of life. Based upon this work, together with his mentor and colleague Lynne Abraham, in 1995 David cofounded I-LEAD. In 2002, he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship, which he used to study leadership and its impact on economic and community development in Turkey. In 2009, in recognition of his work in community leadership and education, David was named an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Global Funds for Social Change, an international community of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. David is a widely engaged teacher, speaker and writer, and is a graduate of Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Rimm founded 88keys.com to connect people through three vibrant areas: creative communications, learning and the arts, serving nonprofit, educational and cultural clients in America, Asia, Europe and Russia. He is also cofounder and managing editor of the nonprofit Arch Street Press, and host of the biweekly Innovate podcast. His key interests include social entrepreneurship, education, the environment, creative arts and human rights. Fluent in French and Russian, Robert is a widely published author and professional member of the Authors Guild, PEN America and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He enjoys travel, running, tennis, reading and volunteering for crucial social causes.