Category Archives: Fresh Perspective

Fresh Perspective: Entrepreneurship and Self-Development: A Conversation with Brian Johnson of PhilosophersNotes

Fresh Perspective / March 2009

Russ: Brian Johnson, I welcome you to the Integral Leadership Review. I’m really excited about our talk today.

Brian: Likewise. I appreciate the invitation.

Russ: I discovered in hunting you down that you’re no longer on the mainland US; you’re on Bali. What are you doing there?

Brian: I like to say I left my iPhone and my personal history in Los Angeles. I came out here for what I intended to be a sabbatical for a few months, and …

Fresh Perspectives: Exploring the World of Integral Leadership: A Conversation with Jay Davies

Fresh Perspective / January 2009

Russ: Jay Davies, you’re with Integral Development in Perth, Western Australia and the company is led by Ron Cacioppe and works in government, business and NGOs.

Jay: Yes, that’s right. Not for profit organizations, as well as top end businesses here in Perth, and also government organizations.

Russ: What is your role?

Jay: My role is in three parts. The most important is as the coordinator and research assistant for the Global Integral Leadership Study. The second part is facilitating …

Fresh Perspectives: Integral Futures: A Conversation with Christopher Cooke

Fresh Perspective / October 2008

Russ: Great to have the chance to talk with you, Chris. Where are you this week?

Chris: I’m literally 200 meters from Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. It is a country that’s having the courage to ask the hard questions about how to lead through a significant transition. I’m in a very aware and heightened state.

Russ: Other than Don Beck, I don’t know anyone who seems to be traversing the world in the name of integral and Spiral Dynamics Integral …

Fresh Perspectives: Developing Integral Leadership Down Under: An Interview with Ron Cacioppe

Fresh Perspective / August 2008

Russ: I’m very much aware that you’ve been interested in the idea of Integral Leadership for a number of years. I first became aware of your work in publications in the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal and then later in the Journal of Change Management. Your interest at that time seemed to be very much oriented to the subject of organization change from an integral point of view. I’m curious—what brought you to integral theory in the first place?…

Fresh Perspectives: The Energy Industry and Integrative Leadership, Interviews with Rick and Lillas Hatala

Fresh Perspective / June 2008

The work of Rick and Lillas Hatala is a source of fascination for all who are interested in more integral, developmental and transdisciplinary approaches to leadership. Their focus is on the development of the individual leader, yet their work in applying their approaches addresses whole organizations and industries. Theirs is a dual approach to company building and training and development.

Rick Hatala has, as you will read, three decades of experience in the energy industry, including being CEO of three …

Fresh Perspectives: Leadership and Integral Consciousness: An Interview with Steve McIntosh

Fresh Perspective / March 2008

Steve McIntosh is CEO of Now & Zen, Inc., and author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview is Transforming Politics, Culture and Spirituality (Paragon House, 2007).

Russ: Steve, it is a wonderful opportunity to have the chance to talk with you. I’ve read your book and have been impressed by its clarity and its ability to integrate a variety of streams of thinking from philosophy and integral theory to developmental theory and the worlds …

Fresh Perspectives: Leadership as a System Phenomenon, An Interview with Wessel Ganzevoort

Fresh Perspective / January 2008

Wessel Ganzevoort is past Chairman of KPMG Europe and is Professor of Organizational Dynamics and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Integral Leadership Review’s Integral Leadership Council and you can read more about him at http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/contributor/bio-ganzevoort-wessel.html.

Russ: I know that you spent many years with KPMG in Europe. Your role evolved from consultant to the number one guy in Europe for KPMG—is that correct?

Wessel: Yes, that is correct.

Russ: What was the …

Fresh Perspectives: The Leadership Challenge and an Integral Lens: An Interview with Jim Kouzes

Fresh Perspective / November 2007

Q: Jim, it’s been a while since we talked. One of the things I’ve noticed in your work with Barry Posner is since you published The Leadership Challenge you’ve been creating some additional material that seems to be both building upon your existing works and a shift in perspective. This has been in two books called Encouraging the Heart and A Leader’s Legacy . Am I picking up on something that is really there, or am I just adding

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Fresh Perspective: Leadership and Archetypes: A Conversation with Carol S. Pearson

Fresh Perspective / August 2007

Q: Carol, it’s a great pleasure to talk to you. I know of you primarily as the Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland and have discovered that you have a very rich background in a wide variety of areas that I think are highly relevant to the study of leadership. I look forward to talking to you about that. Your Ph.D. is in what field?

A: My Ph.D. is in English.

Q:…

A Fresh Perspective: Integral Business and Integral Leadership Interviews with Fritzi Woods, CEO, and Wes Blair, COO, PrimeSource, with an Introduction to the Stagen Leadership Program by Brett Thomas

Fresh Perspective / June 2007

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Increasingly, we are looking for material—articles, interviews—that will assist us all in learning about integral and developmental approaches to leadership that work. That is why you are seeing an increase in the number of articles and interviews by and with people who are actively engaged in bringing Integral Leadership to the worlds of business, development and governance. The set of materials included here are an experiment. We turned to one of our sponsors, the Stagen Leadership Institute, to …