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The Soul of Leadership

Become An Engaged Leader

In The Soul of Leadership, you will gain an increased awareness of your own and others’ needs and a deeper understanding of your leadership potential to make a profound change in the way you lead. Dr. Deepak Chopra offers an entirely new approach to the exciting possibilities of leadership, extending his ground-breaking books on success that combine spiritual wisdom with modern dynamic psychology. You will be inspired with insights into group dynamics, loyalty, creativity, vision, security, and achievement - and walk away with ideas you can put into action to bring out excellence at every level.

Professor Michelle Buck Deepak Chopra
Michelle L. Buck - Academic Director; Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations; Director of Leadership Initiatives Deepak Chopra - Academic Director; Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs; Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing
Upcoming Sessions (Fee includes lodging and most meals)
Session Date Cost
October 28-30, 2013 $4,400 Apply
February 10-12, 2014 - Miami Campus $5,200 Apply
October 20-22, 2014 $5,200 Apply

Program Materials

This program is designed for executives with a desire to improve their leadership ability.  Individuals seeking to drive transformation in the professional, family, or community group they lead will find this program beneficial as well.
In this program, you will learn to:
  1. Become an effective leader on a practical level with the ability to actualize a vision that will make a significant difference in your organization
  2. Develop techniques for conflict resolution and for cultivating emotional intelligence
  3. Draw upon intuition and creativity to fulfill fundamental human needs
  4. Master the entire hierarchy of group needs, from survival and achievement to vision and excellence


The Cultural Environment
  1. How the awareness of needs, responses and leadership styles creates the cultural environment in which leaders and followers co-exist and nurture each other

Factors Affecting the Leader-Follower Dynamic
  1. Seven fundamental human needs: survival, safety, creative expression, achievement, belonging, self-esteem and self-actualization
  2. Seven natural human responses to situations: fight/flight, reactive, restful alertness, intuitive, creative, visionary and unity
  3. Three domains of awareness: material, information and energy, and intelligence

The Soul of Leadership
  1. Understanding the soul as a confluence of contexts, meanings, relationships and archetypal themes
  2. Understanding your own leadership role in various contexts

Meeting Needs
  1. What can go wrong? How goal fulfillment can be hindered when needs are not met and “shadow energies” emerge
  2. Understanding the domain of spiritual intelligence and the ways that certain leaders can tap into synchronicity and the mysterious ingredients that propel them to unimaginable heights of success

Practical Exercises
  1. Understanding how responses match needs and situations, and evoking these responses spontaneously
  2. Putting the theoretical concepts discussed into practice, given specific situations
  3. Developing your own leadership story and vision
Michelle L. Buck - Academic Director; Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations; Director of Leadership Initiatives

Deepak Chopra - Academic Director; Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs; Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing

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