ACADEMIC PAPERS

Sourced from leading thinkers in the fields of conscious leadership and ontological learning, these articles reflect the exciting research emerging from the new sciences. They reveal what it means to “be” a leader in a VUCA World when you need to tap into your innate wisdom.
Tell me More
by Brenda Ueland
This article explores the power of empathetic listening to feel valued and interesting to others.
You are What You Say
by Matthew Budd & Larry Rothstein
Words play a critical role in determining your moods, health and happiness. Understand how to use them effectively.
Leading Yourself
by Wiley Souba
What do you do when the status quo isn’t working. You need a way to see, feel and act differently.
Ontological Foundations
by Chris Chittenden
Establishes the foundations of an ontological approach. Reflect on how the distinctions in this paper relate to your experience of life and leadership.
Accountability
by Chris Chittenden
Get to the heart of three key areas of life and leadership – our sense of self, our relationships and the coordination of action with others
Ontological Coaching
by Prof Alan Sieler
Demonstrates the applicability of the ontological approach to leadership and life.
Ways of Leading
by Werner Erhard & Michael Jensen
The effective exercise of leadership is the foundation for an extraordinary foundation for extraordinary personal life.
Language and Action
by Chris Chittenden
Draws on the philosophy of language to presents a more powerful way for human beings to understand and use language to generate action.
Rethinking Leadership
by Tony Zampella
How is the Information Age, with its
perpetual saturation of information, reshaping what we mean by leadership itself?
The Power of Presence
by Christopher von Baeyer
Our ability to focus authentically on the people with whom we work, to pay real attention to them.
Transformational Leadership
by John Hinchcliff
This is a vast topic. It covers everything you can imagine that needs to be changed for the better. Dream new dreams and see different visions.
The Integral Approach
by Ken Wilber
This article explores the integral thinking behind the four-quadrant model. It is a comprehensive map of human capacities.
Accomplishment in Language
by Peter Denning
Language-action philosophy uncovers the truth about effective coordination and accomplishment. Includes Speech Acts and types of conversation.
Find Your Strength
by Kevin Fong
Offers perspectives on leadership development that combines the East Asian theory of the Five Elements with Western concepts of leadership.
The Observer Effect
Video by Jerry Banfield
How do we know any of what we see or hear is real? Do we construct our world from our observation and interpreation of it? This means we all live in different realties shared through a common language.
The Being of Leadership
by Wiley W Souba
This article exolores the four ontological pillars of leadership, namely awareness, commitment, integrity, and authenticity. It adopts an ontological approach that distinguishes how to “be” a leader by understanding what it is you actualy need to know, have and do when you are leading effectively.
Action Logics
by David Rooke & William Torbert
This is a powerful well researched methodology that has discovered a strong link between individual performance and “Action Logics”. It offers a powerful framework for considering leadership styles and outcomes.
The New Language of Leadership
by S Kano Kogod
Language brings your world into existence. Without language you cannot think to make sense of what you are observing. You use language to connect with others who live in a different world that they have created.
Commitment of Listening
by Tony Zampella
Listening consists of an openness of mind, heart, and will that expands awareness of self, focuses attention on others, and generates meaning from deeper intention. It is a commitment that shapes the context for perceiving, understanding, and acting in a context.
Leadership for a Good Life
by Bob Dunham
What’s the point of our leadership? Is it to achieve the “more” that is never enough? And what do we sacrifice to our responsibility to lead? What sacrifices do we demand of others? And what moods do we fall into in the exercise of leadership? Vitality or burden? I hold that leadership should be for the sake of a Good Life.
Regenerative Economics
by Dan Wahl
Accountability
By Chris Chittenden
Accountability lies near the heart of three key areas of life – our sense of self, our relationships and coordinating action with others. Therefore when it comes to being accountable we are holding ourselves to be responsible for our actions.