Summary
Bring Your Spirit to Work: One Woman at a Time speaks directly to leaders who daily make the commitment to bring their authentic, whole person to their work. Building upon the tradition of Leadership and the New Science, Capturing the Heart of Leadership, and The Servant as Leader, Martha Geaney, leadership consultant, coach, and professor, addresses the need for a new leadership model in the workplace. Drawing from her own interviews with scores of business leaders and perspectives from a range of leadership literature, Geaney provides a conceptual framework for the many practical tools she has developed to assist readers to gain insight and competence. Geaney eloquently demonstrates that authenticity and bringing the whole self to one’s work is what truly brings a sense of purpose, meaning, and creativity into the workplace. She provides a uniquely practical roadmap for maximizing a person’s ability to bring their best to their role. Emotional intelligence, insight, core values, and dreaming big combine with one’s personal gifts to allow a trust-based sharing of skills, goals, and accomplishments. This edition is written for women who are on a journey to understand and cherish their spirit, and bring their whole self to their work, families, and communities. It is for individuals who want to assume a significant role in accomplishing the organization’s mission and purpose in a manner that promotes vision, trust, competence, creativity, stewardship, sustainability, and servant leadership. Each chapter ends with reflection questions for the reader to journal about as they explore their values, emotional intelligence, strengths, and how they want to bring their leadership perspective to the world.
About the Author
Martha M. Geaney is executive director in The Geaney Group and Director of the MBA in Innovation/Entrepreneurship program at Felician College. Since 1985, she has been an organizational change consultant, business development executive and key note speaker. Her roles range from developing business for global management and technology firms to launching new products and teams. She has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, working with teams to design new leadership and sales processes, and has also developed proficiencies in group processes and conflict motivation, leadership values and stewardship, creativity, community building, and transformational leadership. Having encountered many styles of leadership and leaders, Dr. Geaney is convinced that leadership begins with the individual. In March 2004, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a concentration in Business Administration from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
