Coda / January 2013
How can we not think about transitions at this time of year? We have just gone through the transitions of the Mayan calendar to a new era. And we have transitioned into the beginning of a new year according to the Gregorian calendar. In a week from writing this we have a full moon in the United States, foreshadowing the entry into a new lunar cycle. According to the Hijri or Muslim calendar, the new year …
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Carlotta S. Walker is a leadership and management consultant, specializing in quick-service restaurant (QSR) leader development, and has worked in various capacities in the quick-service industry for 12 years. She is currently employed as a franchise field consultant for Kumon North American. She earned a Master’s of Science in Administration Degree (HR Administration Concentration) from Central Michigan University, and is currently a doctoral student in Baker College’s Doctor of Business Administration program.…
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A Physician Scientist-Executive, Mark Harman, MD, MSc, is currently entering into the consulting field. His educational background is a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Masters of Counselling from Mercer University, two years of study at McAfee-Mercer School of Theology, a Medical Degree from St. George’s University, and he is currently completing an MBA in International Health Systems.
He has taught in university-level classes in over six different countries. He …
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Mundy Viar is a PhD candidate in the Transformative Inquiry Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is engaging participatory action research toward a redesigning of elementary instrumental music education using an assets-based community development model.
Professionally, Mundy Viar is an educator and special administrator in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, of Contra Costa County, California. He has taught elementary general music and secondary instrumental music since 1999, and he …
Fresh Perspective / October 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ: Welcome Michael. It’s a great pleasure to have a chance to talk with you. I first learned about your work with the formation of ILiA – the Integral Leadership in Action group – many years ago. And you were one of the very first contributors of articles to Integral Leadership Review in your report about the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Africa, Cambodia and the Caribbean. Weren’t you based in Philadelphia and …
Fresh Perspective / October 2012
Russ Volckmann
Russ: I want to welcome Jeff Klein who has been a light that’s been shining around the integral and the consciousness world for some time. I have had the chance to talk to Jeff a little bit before, but I have a lot to learn from him. I hope, Jeff, you will permit me to be naïve and find out more about your work around conscious capitalism, conscious leadership and the like.
Jeff: Thank …
Coda / October 2012
The New York Times published an article on September 20, 2012, by Sabrina Tavernise:
Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S.
The life expectancy for black women who had not graduated from high school surpassed white women of similar standing. As for the other sex, ”White men lacking a high school diploma lost three years of life. Life expectancy for both blacks and Hispanics of the same education level rose, the data showed. But …
Notes from the Field / October 2012
Russ Volckmann
It had been ten years since I attended SDi 1 and SDi 2 certifications in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Marilyn Hamilton was working with Don Beck to facilitate the sessions. If memory serves, there were about 50 people in attendance, almost all unknown to me. But these sessions were all Don. He served up his stories, accompanied by music that helped us connect to the vmemetic aspects of ourselves.
Perhaps the most valuable takeaways …
Leading Comments / October 2012
Russ Volckmann
These issues of ILR and of ilrParticles are late. This is the first time my memory will allow me to recognize that we are publishing late. What is late? I would be surprised if any of you know what our publication dates are, but this one IS late. Of course, I have an excuse. Truth be know there may be a whole set of excuses, but one major one: we migrated the ILR site …
Leading Comments / August 2012
Before looking at the material we are providing in this issue of ILR, I would like to thank our interns for 2011-2012.
If it were not for this team of interns there would be a lot more typos and questionable editing than there is. However, I must take full responsibility for any that you still …