Synopsis
Does leadership really spring from within?
True stories of sheroes and heroes from around the world demonstrate how leadership from within brings about real social change. If you are passionate about creating social impact read the stories, reflect on the questions, and act.
This book makes the invisible visible by looking behind the actions of leaders to expose the principles that made them successful. These are leadership principles for the 21st century.
Barbara and Linda spent decades working with leaders in industry, academia, and civil society guiding them to live up to their full leadership potential. Through that process, these activists created extraordinary results by letting leadership spring from within. Find out for yourself what is possible when you learn to shift context.
About the Authors
Linda Alepin is a retired female executive and has served in leadership roles in large corporations, startups, consulting enterprises, academia, and the international nonprofit sector. She spent her early career breaking through the glass ceiling in the business world, went on to teach at the university level, and then pursued social justice globally through leadership education.Linda's accomplishments include heading the team for a $2 billion corporate turnaround, raising $5 million for an early Internet startup that released its first product in eighteen months, consulting to high-tech companies about leadership, founding a global not-for-profit, creating a unique international experience for undergraduates, and rejuvenating a local social impact organization.She has been featured in Maslow on Management, and Gutsy Women Win, and has written a chapter for Leading Organizational Learning: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge. She was the cover story of Business Strategy Magazine "Life Beyond the Mainframe" in 1995. Linda is a graduate of Stanford University and several state-of-the-art leadership curricula. She has spoken at numerous national conferences about leadership. Linda's vision is a world alive with love, peace, and justice. She believes that every person has the innate capability to be a leader in family, community, and the world.
Barbara E. Key is a teacher, consultant, and coach in Canada and the United States. She is passionate about facilitating leaders to achieve their vision for social change. She wants to shine her light so that others experience and express their own freedom. Coaching programs that she has designed and led have laid the foundation for the success of hundreds of social change projects benefitting thousands of community members.Barbara coauthored You as a Global Leader (YAGL), a series of transformational leadership programs that educate people around the world to be more innovative, entrepreneurial, and team oriented. Even before the global pandemic, these curricula had been adapted for delivery asynchronously and synchronously over the Internet.In 2017, twenty accomplished leaders attended Barbara's program. They have gone on to lead their organizations to new levels of accomplishment. The stories of six people from that course included in this book (Ashlie Bryant, Erin Montgomery, Philile Mkhize, Phionah Musumba, Florence Temu, and Priya Thakoor) illustrate their improved leadership competencies. Barbara's commitment is to a world in which each individual experiences freedom.
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