Routledge Expansive Leadership: Cultivating Mindfulness to Lead Self and Others in a Changing World – A 28-Day Program

The structured 28-day mindfulness and contemplative journey presented in this book will help aspiring and current leaders to clarify their identities, and identify and reflect on their mental models to become more expansive leaders. The present moment demands new ways of being, doing, and relating with the world. To meet this moment, we need fresh, collective, inclusive, and interdependent models of leadership and new approaches to leadership development. This book goes beyond the ‘McMindfulness’ often seen in mindful leadership books, to offer a multi-faceted approach to develop a more interconnected sense of self and interdependence-centric mindsets needed for expansive leadership, through mindfulness practice. Through this practice, leaders can cultivate the ability to make deliberate choices using slow thinking and overcome any unconscious and implicit biases that are the result of fast-thinking processes. Anchored in insights from over ten years of teaching mindfulness-based leadership development courses, this book is an invitation to explore how to be a leader in an expansive, inclusive, robust, and resilient way. The reader will have an opportunity to define and refine their identity, uncover their personal mental models, and conclude by developing their own leadership philosophy. Leadership development professionals and teachers can adopt this for their students, coaching, and consulting clients. Review "How do you wish to be as a leader? How can you build the mindsets and capacities to become a socially mindful, just, collective, and inclusive leader in this complex world ? This is a demanding yet achievable aspiration through a multi-faceted mindfulness approach. Latha Poonamallee offers a 28 day guide to becoming an expansive leader through a carefully curated set of reflections and meditations that "allows us to own our greatness while being brave enough to face our ignorant and ignoble impulses". This is a book that meets today’s critical leadership challenge to be mindfully complex, adaptable and expansive while being personally grounded and aware. It is a book of practices that is a real treasure for current and future leaders." Jane Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology and cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business   "Dr. Poonamallee puts forth a new model of leadership for the 21st century leader who is committed to serving a world that is diverse, complex, divided and polarized. Grounded in research, she offers a powerful model for cultivating mindfulness through identity examinations and generative reflections about how build effective, inclusive, and just organizations. This book has the potential to change our individual and collective well being." Shauna Shapiro, PhD, author of Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain "We feel confused and even scared in these troubled times. A common tendency is to ignore our feelings and binge watch another series on TV or drink more martinis. Dr. Poonamallee offers hope in this marvelous book about meditation. She shows how kindness and curiosity are antidotes to self-centered self-righteousness that plague our lives. The practices and exercises she gently leads you into trying may offer more inner peace, harmony with others, and a sense of awe at the beauty in life and love of others." Richard Boyatzis, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change.   "Dr. Poonamallee's work on leadership has been the single most valuable tool in my professional work in HR and organization development. For developing both established and new leaders in fast-moving technology companies, it's nothing short of revolutionary. Dr. Poonamallee’s synthesis of mind