Leading with Spirit, Presence, and Authenticity: A Volume in the International Leadership Association Series, Building Leadership Bridges

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, PhD, sociologist, organizational consultant, and educator, supports leaders in moving with awareness through challenging change. She has helped hundreds of executives to cultivate healthy organizations and creates learning about organizational health, ethics, sustainability, research, and consulting skills for graduate students at Alliant International University. Dr. Goldman Schuyler has published widely on leadership and change and is the author of INNER PEACE--GLOBAL IMPACT: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work (IAP-2012).

John Eric Baugher, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His recent research and teaching activities concern emotional and spiritual dimensions of transformational learning, bereavement, and end-of-life care. Dr. Baugher is a member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the social science editor for the Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. He provides training in spiritual care to hospice and other organizations.

Karin Jironet, PhD, theologian, Sufi murshida, and Jungian psychoanalyst, is dedicated to leadership development in times of transition. Specializing in applying psychospiritual principles to boardroom dynamics for more than a decade, she counts as her clients the major international banks. Her latest book, Female Leadership, was nominated for best book of the year by the Gradiva Award, New York 2012. She is a board member of the Dutch Association of Analytical Psychology.

Lena Lid-Falkman, PhD, focuses on value-based, authentic leadership and on leadership as communicative and rhetorical. Her PhD thesis was elected the best in business administration in Europe 2010 by the European Doctoral Programme Association in Management and Business Administration network. She was a Marie Curie Scholar at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain for three years and is now back on the faculty of the Stockholm School of Economics.