I have a background in organizational leadership including being: president of a law firm with offices in North America, Western Europe and East Asia; regional general counsel for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for Western and Eastern Europe, Great Britain and Africa: executive director of the United States Coalition of Healthy Cities and Communities; and co-chair of the Healthy Communities Global Action Network.

I have a complementary background of doing spiritual and inner work in support of greater maturity and flourishing applied to work in the world including; being a certified scorer and a teacher of adult development; being trained in spiritual work including being a bishop in my Christian tradition and being one of the first four people to be certified as a facilitator of the Big Mind process developed by Genpo Roshi in the Zen Buddhist tradition; developing, practicing, and sharing integral polarity practice (IPP) for over twenty years. IPP is an awareness, individual, and group practice which supports people in being centered, virtuous, highly functional, and over time growing into higher stages of human development in support of interrelated individual, collective and ecosystemic flourishing: www.theippinstitute.com

I speak, teach and consult in this area. All of these qualities are reflected in a non-profit initiative called YOUnify grounded in IPP principles and practices which I co-founded and chair. YOUnify is dedicated to bridging divides of all sorts in all sectors to make progress on the pressing issues of our time in support of individual, and ecosystemic flourishing. www.younify.org I may be contacted at: john@theippinstittute.com

What interests you the most about the potential for leadership for flourishing?

Leaders doing the inner work individually and collectively which generates much more centered, virtuous, loving, mature, and effective leadership in support of interrelated individual, collective, and ecosystemic flourishing.

What are you most excited about working on?

How to do the inner work to accomplish the above; how over time to achieve the developmental maturity to become a virtuous, loving, collaborative, effective, world centric, ecosytemic leader; and how to engender more flourishing organizations contributing to a more flourishing world.