LEADING AS SACRED PRACTICE

GISELA WENDLING, Ph.D. is CEO and Senior Consultant of The Grove Consultant International. She is author of the recently released book, the Liminal Pathway Study and is also co-author of the Leading as Sacred Practice eBook and  Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change. With more than 25 years of experience, Gisela has supported transformational learning and change processes within a wide range of private and public organizations. Her doctoral work let to reconceptualize rites of passages as a human systems change framework and since then she has been actively integrating indigenous understandings into a more complete approach with her clients. Gisela is also co-founder of The Global Learning & Exchange Network (The GLEN), supporting the evolution of collaboration within and across organizations, communities and cultures. Her deep appreciation for indigenous people is informed by field experiences in Peru, Africa, and Australia, North America. www. giselawendling.com; www.glencommunity.org

DAVID SIBBET is founder and senior consultant of The Grove Consultants International, leaders in applying visual practice to innovation and change. He is co-director of the Global Learning & Exchange Network (The GLEN) and author of Wiley & Sons’ best-selling Visual Facilitation Series: Visual Meetings, Visual Teams, Visual Leaders, and Visual Consulting (Co-authored with Gisela Wendling). David is designer of The Grove’s Sustainable Organizations Model, the Grove Team Performance System^TM, The Grove’s Visual Planning Systems, and Facilitation Series. He is a recipient of the Organization Development Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award. David is a long-time student of Arthur M. Young's Theory of Process. The son of a Presbyterian minister, David understands Christian Protestant perspectives but is also a long-time vision quester and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Seeking an integral perspective across these traditions is a passion. www.davidsibbet.com; www.thegrove.com

ALAN BRISKIN, Ph.D. is an award-winning author, artist, and leadership consultant. His most recent book, The Power of Collective Wisdom, was a Nautilus Silver Award winner in the category of Conscious Business and Leadership. His other books include The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Bringing Your Soul to Work, Daily Miracles, and Centered on the Edge. A co-founder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative, his consulting practice spans thirty-five years of helping leaders and teams apply practical wisdom to complex issues of organizational change and transition. He has given keynotes and conducted workshops throughout the United States and internationally, including co-leading retreats with spiritual leaders Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Reverend Lauren Artress, whose rediscovery of the labyrinth has become a world-wide movement. www.alanbriskin.com

HOLGER SCHOLZ is the founder of Kommunikationslotsen, an dialogic OD consultancy in Germany. His is author of the recently released Facilitation – the Path to Dialogue and Action-oriented Organizational Development (available in German only). His professional passion is cultivating our natural, Earth wisdom based capacity for facilitating and mentoring as a practical means of working with leaders and organizations. As a Kommunikationslotsen consultant, he has worked with individuals, groups and entire organizations. Holger became involved with large- group interventions in the 1990s. During this period, he came into contact with North-American indigenous worldviews. Much of Holger’s work is based on his training as a large-group facilitator, coupled with his unique encounter with Lakota traditions, ceremonies and cultural techniques he learned in Germany and later in the United States. www. kommunikationslotsen.de