FREE Webinar

A Whole New Way ~ Leadership and Engagement for the 21st Century

February 12, 2013:  12 - 1 pm

Online Registration (required)

A workshop filled with new thinking and interaction about where we are as a global society in terms of our thinking about leadership and what is needed to bring about the changes you care most about.  We will engage with questions such as:

• what does engagement mean for you and your organization?
• how do you communicate your vision and values?
• how do you listen to people's stories in a way that relate to their values?
• what's the best way to design strategies that get people to make commitments?
• how do I follow-up on activities in a way that inspires them to continue and expand their involvement?

The workshop will be lead by two faculty from the MA in Leadership program at Saint Mary’s College.  Doug Paxton, educator and values coach, and Maura Wolf, leadership coach and non-profit consultant.  Both bring a depth and breath of background to this topic.  Look forward to a reflective and engaging dialogue that is sure to have you thinking in new ways about your own leadership and the development of those around you.

Maura Wolf

For the past 20 years Maura has supported people to make better decisions through coaching and leadership training.  Author of the book, Exploring Realities: Stories of Young Women Making Decisions and Finding Meaning, she has listened extensively to people as they have talked about the significant decisions they have made, and the things they have learned from those decisions.  Currently a teacher in the Leadership Studies Department at Saint Mary’s College, she has helped to develop leadership programs for dozens of higher education and non-profit organizations.  A presenter of hundreds of workshops and author of dozens of articles, her focus has been on what she calls, Everyday Leadership: making the choices that reflect our deepest values.  She is a yoga instructor, a graduate of the MA in Leadership at Saint Mary’s College and a mother of two.  In addition to teaching, she is a coach with in-balance coaching (www.in-balancecoaching.com).

Doug Paxton

Doug Paxton is Co-Director for the Leadership Center at Saint Mary’s College.  He currently focuses his teaching in the area of Values, Leadership and Sustainable Organizational Change at Saint Mary’s.  He brings to his teaching and facilitation over twenty-five years of leadership experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, including roles he served as the Director of People and Organizational Development at Business for Social Responsibility, Executive Director of Indochinese Housing Development Corporation and as the founding Program Director of the Presidio World College MBA in Sustainable Management.  He is passionate about what humanity has to learn from reconnecting to our values and the natural world.