Leadership for Flourishing

Leadership for Flourishing seeks to demonstrate that a group's leadership impacts the group's flourishing and that flourishing impacts leadership. The contributors develop frameworks and practices that highlight the dynamic between leadership and flourishing. They identify the positive examples around the globe that are evolving what is possible around leadership for flourishing. Flourishing is a global goal (e.g., UN SDGs), a global right (e.g., UN human development report), and becoming a global rule (e.g., ESG standards). It is time to showcase leadership for flourishing. Divided into four parts, the book brings together leading scholars and reflective practitioners to describe the current state of what is known about leadership for flourishing; reframe what flourishing and leadership are, in this expanding context; explain how leadership affects flourishing within organizations and across ecosystems; and identify what is emerging in the practice fields of leadership for flourishing. To each chapter, the authors bring a strong understanding of the current, underlying philosophy of their field of inquiry, combined with many years of evolving their understanding through their fieldwork and practical experience, with a passionate drive towards leadership for flourishing. This work utilizes several empirical methods, including ethnographic observations, surveys, case studies, and archival data analysis within one organization or across multiple organizations.

James L. Ritchie-Dunham PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Texas at Austin in the Rosenthal Department of Management of the McCombs School of Business, Research Affiliate at Harvard, President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, and author/co-author of the books Agreements, Ecosynomics, Managing from Clarity, and many chapters and articles. Katy E. Granville-Chapman, DPhil (Oxon) is a former Research Fellow and current Associate Fellow of the Oxford Character Project, at the University of Oxford, Co-founder of Global Social Leaders, Deputy Head at Wellington College, Senior Fellow of the Flourishing Network hosted by the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. Matthew T. Lee, PhD is Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He is also a Research Associate and Director of the Flourishing Network hosted by the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. In addition, he is a member of the Global Flourishing Study research team, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology at Stony Brook Universitys Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management in the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, and a Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Clarity. He was designated as an inaugural "Lifetime Community Engaged Scholar" by the EXL Center for Community Engaged Learning at the University of Akron.