Shifting Context
Can one person make a difference?
Can one person’s every day acts have a huge impact?
BUT really, can what YOU care about influence entire communities, organizations, and even the world?
Can one person’s every day acts have a huge impact?
BUT really, can what YOU care about influence entire communities, organizations, and even the world?
The answer to these three questions is a resounding “YES!”. This book illustrates how.
Authors
Linda T. Alepin
Barbara E. Key
Leadership Springs from Within is for you
About Shifting Context
Shifting Context shows real social change and the leadership principles that contribute to it. If you are passionate about creating social impact, Shifting Context: Leadership Springs from Within is for you. The stories of leaders from around the world bring social change efforts to life. They bear witness to people who have taken on the challenge of demonstrating that leadership starts from within.
These courageous people have adopted new ways of listening, of shedding limiting beliefs, and of connecting deeply with what they care about. They are examples of people living up to one’s leadership potential and, through that process, creating extraordinary results. The book makes the invisible visible — it looks behind the actions of leaders to expose the leadership approaches that made them successful. It is our hope that this book cultivates a belief in you that you can overcome even seemingly insurmountable problems and effect change.
Barbara and Linda spent decades working with leaders in industry, academia, and civil society guiding them to live up to their full leadership potential. Through that process, these activists created extraordinary results by letting leadership spring from within. Find out for yourself what is possible when you learn to shift context.
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What People Say About Us
Shifting Context …describes many useful principles, such as leading in terms of values, listening, and embodying. It celebrates the sheroes and heroes leading grassroots movements around the world
Anne Firth Murray
Founding President of the Global Fund for Women, and author
Answering the simple question ‘What do you truly care about?’ is no easy task. Some leadership books provide exercises to coach us towards our answer; others seek to inspire us through the leadership journeys of others. Shifting Context: Leadership Springs from Within does both—combining the power of storytelling with a structure for personal reflection that pushes us to think differently, dream, and birth our own values-based leadership story
Jodi Morris
Success Coach & Founder, Connecting Growth Globally
Shifting Context is a celebration of the best, most effective, life-giving ways of leading: from the courage of the heart on behalf of the world
Karen Wilhelm Buckley
Principal Organizational Development Consultant and host of the Wisdom and Power of Women Leaders
This book is a gift for every one of us committed to creating a better future. Inspiring and actionable lessons are drawn from the lived stories of people from all around the world—urging us to speak up, make tough choices, live into our leadership potential, and embrace the most important challenges of our times
Steven Kowalski
PhD. Founder, Creative License Consulting Services; author, Creative Together (May 2022)
This book identifies patterns of belief, which lead to altered practices, which in turn became amazing results. It shows pathways we can all follow to become world-changing leaders
Linda Lubin Thompson
President, L2T Leadership Development
Women and men who dare must lead us out of the toxic patriarchy into a world where the divine feminine intelligence has as much room, potency, and validation as the healthy masculine. This is the Sophia Century, and this is one of the books that can lead us all there.
Lynne Twist
Co-Founder, The Pachamama Alliance, Founder & President, Soul of Money
Linda and Barbara are inspiring the readers to listen to their inner messages and step up and lead. They introduce the new generation of leaders, leaders for our time and current challenges. They astutely focus on the common characteristics of these leaders that reveals their core values, what they care about, how they embody their purpose and inspire others to follow.
Dr. Mehrad Nazari
Author of Enlightened Negotiation
Our promise is that there will be leadership inspiration and learning beyond any you have experienced,’” the authors write in the introduction to Shifting Context. I’ve known Linda Alepin for thirty years, and she delivers. If you want to lead change effectively, read this book!
Paola Gianturco
Photojournalist and Author
As a professor teaching leadership courses at Santa Clara University, I have witnessed firsthand the unstoppable power that comes with a shift in context
Phyllis Brock
Principal, Highland Team Consulting and Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University
Shifting will inspire you, move you, and remind you of the hidden power that women have to make in all of our lives better. Kudos to Linda and Barbara for their essential leadership in this movement for social entrepreneurship!