Spirituality for Leaders

This landmark contribution bridges academic theory and lived spiritual practice in leadership. This volume is a powerful testament to the global emergence of spiritual leadership as a vital path toward human flourishing, organizational vitality, and sustainable transformation. An essential resource for all seeking to lead with wisdom, purpose, and compassion.

- Louis W. (Jody) Fry, PhD, Regents Professor of Management and Leadership at Texas A & M University and author of Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership and Spiritual Leadership in Action: The CEL Story.

This wisdom collection provides leaders with insights from Christian servant leadership, Islam and its Qur'anic values, Eastern Orthodox religion, Hinduism plus practices such as Mindfulness, Attunement and Consciousness; as well as diagnostic tools for workplace spirituality assessment. With the mounting challenges facing today’s institutions, the reader will find guidance in the rich choice.

- Prof. Dr. Yochanan Altman, WU Vienna, Austria and University of Haifa, Israel; Chair, International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion; Founding Editor, Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion.

This book does not disappoint; it lives up to its title with a collection of insights intended to assist today’s leaders. It offers a selection of practical tools that leaders can apply in their workplace (for example, mindfulness, yoga, love, from a variety of different religious contexts); while also offering insights informed by existing theories such as, for example, motivation, work-life balance, and quantum perspectives.

- Kathryn Pavlovich, PhD, Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies, within Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship; Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand; and Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion.

As the world grows more complex, leaders need to lean into inner and spiritual development to be able to thrive and be effective in this time. This book is rich with research, practices, and tips for leaders that will enable them to dance within complexity and create pro-social environments where everyone is able to do their best work.

- Stacey K. Guenther, PhD, co-editor of Leadership at the Spiritual Edge and Redefining Sacred Spaces in the Age of Technology, and assistant professor of organization development and knowledge management at George Mason University

What spiritual leadership is and how to enact it can be confusing. This book deftly integrates many views of spirituality, including mindfulness, from the West to the East, from the religious to the secular, across work domains. It provides insights from under-represented academics and practitioners on how leadership can align with one’s sense of spirituality.

- Andrew Hafenbrack, PhD, Evert McCabe Endowed Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

This volume provides helpful insights into how spirituality can infuse leadership around the world. In some workplaces, spirituality operates as a new force, while in others it re-emerges tied to extant religious traditions. This volume points to the need for deeper investigations of how such forces operate, and where they are limited by capitalism.

- Jaime Kucinskas, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Hamilton College. Co-editor of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice and Power and author of The Mindful Elite and The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting loyalties of civil servants under increasing autocracy.

I appreciated this volume’s rigorous yet accessible approach to spiritual leadership. It thoughtfully integrates diverse traditions with practical applications, offering a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners alike. The book bridges theory and practice, making it a compelling contribution to leadership studies, organizational ethics, and values-based management education.

- Mira Karjalainen, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki, with research projects: Blurring boundaries of work: a model (Foundation for Economic Education), and Friendships, networks and the blurring boundaries of work (Kone Foundation