“Service to others is my spiritual home.”

-Max Klau

This week Andy welcomes longtime friend, colleague, and returning Wonder Dome guest Dr. Max Klau. He’s an author, coach, developmental psychologist, and founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness, who’s work sits at the intersection of inner development and systems change. His new book, Developing Servant Leadership at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters is part-memoir, part how-to guidebook that offers candid reflections on the challenges leaders face and the importance of engaging large numbers of people, both at scale and at a distance.

Max’s work explores how individuals and societies can confront both their “light” and their “shadow,” especially in an era of political toxicity, rising authoritarianism, and declining trust in institutions. Together with Andy, they grapple with what true servant-leadership requires of us, both individually and collectively; how leaders can stay anchored in values when stepping into a political arena rife with ego and fear; and a vision for an American civic life grounded in courageous wholeness.

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In these times when anger

Is turned into anxiety

And someone has stolen

The horizons and the mountains,

Our small emperors on parade

Never expect our indifference

To disturb their nakedness

They keep their heads down

And their eyes gleam with reflection

From Aluminum economic ground,

The media wraps everything

In a cellophane of sound,

And the ghost surface of the virtual

Overlays the breathing earth.

The industry of distraction

Makes us forget

That we live in a universe

We have become converts

To the religion of stress

And its deity of progress

That we may have courage

To turn aside from it all

And come to kneel down before the poor,

To discover what we must do,

How to turn anxiety

Back into anger,

How to find our way home.

Show Notes:

• https://www.maxklau.com

• https://www.centerforcourageouswholeness.org

• #33 The Inner Flame (with Max Klau)

• Developing Servant Leaders at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters by Max Klau

• Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf

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