In this conversation with David Whyte we explore the breadth and depth of conversational leadership through the lens of Dante’s inferno and the soul-shaping that happens through life’s challenges. 

David Whyte is a poet and philosopher and an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, and The Bell and the Blackbird. His latest collection is David Whyte: Essentials.