Guest Scholars:
Dr. Judi Neal (Global Consciousness Institute, United States).
Dr. Julia Storberg-Walker (The George Washington University).
Sook Yee Tai (AITIA Institute, Malaysia).
Topics Include:
What is meant by the term Spirituality?
What is the connection between Spirituality and the concepts of work and the workplace?
What is the relationship between Spirituality and HRD?
What is the relationship between Spirituality, meaningful work, and employee engagement?
What advice do you have for HRD professionals on specific steps they could take related to Spirituality in the workplace?
Bios:
Dr. Judi Neal is the Executive Director of the Global Consciousness Institute, committed to creating global consciousness as a new field of study and practice. She has a Ph.D. from Yale. Judi was the founding director of the Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the University of Arkansas. She serves on the boards several organizations related to workplace spirituality and global consciousness, and co-founded the Management, Spirituality and Religion interest group at the Academy of Management. She authored eight books on workplace spirituality and transformation and is president of Edgewalkers International. She plays electric bass in an all-woman band.
Dr. Julia Storberg-Walker is Department Chair, Department of Human and Organizational Learning, at The George Washington University. For the past four years, Julia has been led to re-define herself and her work in leadership studies. While her work history suggests a sustained commitment to legitimizing diverse ways of leading (through theorizing and teaching) and justice (through critical/gender research and activism), she is now in a place where she sees the immense value of contemplative practices in leading, justice, and peace and is transferring her deep experience with research, grants, educating, and leading from an exclusive scholarly focus and to a more ‘pracademic’ one.
Sook Yee Tai has years of experience leading family businesses and multinationals. She believes that leaders require a shift from doing to being. Sook Yee has pondered questions such as, “Where is east, where is west?”, “What does it mean to be Chinese?”, “Who am I in this world?”, and discovered how answers reflect constructs from cultural and social conditioning. As a third generation Malaysian-Chinese, Sook Yee benefited from a western education system. The fusing of her eastern roots and western education has given rise to a tacit power that fuels her flourishing. Sook Yee now spends time with AITIA Institute and GCI, advocating quantum leadership and new socio-economic models for well-being of systems.
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Sponsor:
This episode is sponsored by: The Academy of Human Resource Development, which encourages you to register for their 30th International Research Conference in the Americas in Minneapolis, MN, March 1-4, 2023. For full details, visit https://www.ahrd.org/.
