Cultivating Transformations: A Leader's Guide to Connecting the Soulful and the Practical - E-book - ePub

Transformational Leadership is a soulful practice, a practical job, and everything in between. You are breathing new life into an organization, and that energy comes from the spirit of the people. Transformations are usually designed to improve business results, but what's the point if it doesn't make our lives better? Why should you read this book?The nature of transformation is that it's about uncharted territory, and that means that the answers are unknown.
This book will offer you tools to get oriented, identify patterns, and work through the challenges without feeling lost and overwhelmed. If you've ever felt like you could help but no one was listening, or people were resistant to your help, this book will help you stay grounded and supported in your work. When it starts to feel like it's you against the world, this book and this community are here for solace and support.
This book will be your partner while you dance between the soulful and practical. About Jardena LondonJardena is a consultant (the good kind), blogger, and speaker. She has spent the last 25 years finding ways to transform organizations that can nourish our souls while producing practical outcomes. Jardena started out as a programmer who thought technology could eliminate people's problems. She learned quickly that she was dead wrong about technology solving organizational problems.
At age 27, she was CEO and co-founder of her first successful business. She then moved into project management and finally Organizational Agility Transformations. Her experiences in technology, entrepreneurship, and management have created a dynamic lens through which she views the challenges that organizations face. Jardena lives in NJ and loves making her 3 teenage kids laugh just as they take a sip of water.
Reviews"Jardena has combined a deep understanding of agility, the lessons learned from every organization she's ever been a part of, and her strong, inherent business sense to create a powerful guidebook for pursuing the sometimes nebulous concept of transformational leadership. Jardena's soul-baring vulnerability and authentic point of view give us an inside-out look at what an agile leader does, and how she shows up in the world.
Straight-forward and simple, yet deep and inspiring, I recommend this book for anyone interested in growing into their own Transformational Leadership. "- Laurie Reuben, PCC, Executive Leadership Coach, Cheshire Consulting Group, LLC. "Cultivating Leadership: Connecting the Soulful and the Practical is rich in insight, humor, and hope. From techie to soul guide, London shares lessons from her own journey of discovery, laying out essential elements of soulful transformation in a grounded and pragmatic path.
Straight forward yet provocative, this book is packed with wisdom. It is an invitation to act and reflect - so we can transform ourselves and our world. After all, leadership without transformation isn't really leadership, is it?"- Sally Parker, TimeZero Enterprises