An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges

In An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges, Monica Hanaway progresses us forward from a brief, introductory understanding of existential thought to considering how this approach can positively address the practical leadership challenges our 21st century leaders face today.

Monica Hanaway is an executive and leadership coach, business consultant, mediator, psychotherapist and trainer. She is the author of The Existential Leader (Routledge) and runs training programmes on this approach. She is passionate in her mission to bring existential thought beyond the academic arena into the business world, believing it has much to offer leaders in these uncertain times.

Introduction; Part One: What Do We Mean by 'Existential Leadership'?; Chapter 1: What does it mean to be 'existential'?; Chapter 2: What does it mean to be a Leader?; Chapter 3: The challenge of finding a new type of leadership for the 21st century; Chapter 4: What challenges does existentialism bring to leadership?; Part Two: Working Practically with the Existential Leadership Approach; Chapter 5: An existential approach to creating, communicating and implementing a vision; Chapter 6: An existential approach to recruitment, retention and development of staff; Chapter 7: An existential approach to preventing, managing and resolving conflict; Conclusion