The Ontological Leader

Catherine Sherlock helps people and businesses explore their potential and possibilities and break through to greater levels of inner power, awareness, emotional resilience and energy.    After her Master’s, Catherine worked as an environmental and sustainability consultant. She served all levels of government, businesses large to small, non-profits and other agencies. Her work encompassed a wide range of areas from organizational development, research and evaluation to land management and education.    She loved that work – getting to work with all kinds of people and teams. Helping agencies negotiate change and create innovative solutions. Bringing people together and resolving conflict. Helping agencies tell new stories.    And yet, as much as she loved it, there was always a part that wanted more.    She felt a yearning to be able to make deeper and lasting change in the world. Solutions that were celebrated by clients still often felt like throwing tiny pebbles into a very large, deep bucket.   Over time, as she sought to facilitate greater transformation, more and more of her personal journey seeped into her work. As she did so, it became increasingly transformative for clients. She began to understand that to make real change easier required a change in the inner conditions. As people connect to their inner wisdom, they begin to see opportunities and choice points that weren’t visible before.

Website: http://www.sherlockink.com 

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

Connie Larkin is her own words:

I love anything that has to do with using my own thinking, and I am fascinated with the freedom to be. Fortunatelly, one day I met an education that 'opened the door' and I got to know my own thinking and I got free.

The great thing I found out is that educating myself depends on me alone.

This extraordinary education is called 'ontological' and its results are seen instantaneously; it makes one be aware and be filled with awe, joy, power and inspiration in the face of anything one does, now, in the present.

Learn more about Connie at: https://connielarkin.com

Connie's book: https://connielarkin.com/book/ 

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

When she was growing up, Ros wanted to be a vet or a scientist, but her fascination with human behavior and neuroscience led her to a career in organizational development, specializing in improving business outcomes by developing individuals, teams and organizations.

After more than 20 years in corporate human resources and organizational development roles, a successful battle with cancer gave Ros the nudge to take her passion for transforming leaders and improving how individuals and organizations cope with change in a new direction.

Leaving her senior corporate role in 2012, Ros established her consulting business, Shaping Change, to achieve her goals.

Ros is a solution and results oriented facilitator, with expertise spanning strategic planning, leadership development, organizational culture, change management, emotional intelligence and employee engagement.

She is also a talented executive and leadership coach, with current coaching clients at executive and senior levels in Government agencies, private enterprise and the community sector.

Recently, Ros felt compelled to look deeply at the differences in the leadership styles of men and women. The result was the Women’s Leadership Archetypes model, now being used worldwide by women to discover how they can better leverage their natural strengths to lead with purpose, authenticity and integrity.

Ros is a blogger and the author of The Resilient Employee. In addition, she contributes regular articles to Leaders in Heels, The Huffington Post and People Development magazine.

Learn more about Ros at: 

http://rosalindcardinal.com

http://www.shapingchange.net.au

http://www.shapingchange.net.au/archetype-survey/

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

The Green New Deal Resolution unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in February 2019 provided the broad brush strokes for a plan to address climate change and reinvigorate the economy.

Justine's Burt new book, The Great Pivot, describes 30 sustainability projects in five areas – advanced energy communities, low-carbon mobility, the circular economy, food waste reduction, and nature restoration – that will create millions of meaningful jobs.

Building a sustainable future will not only restore climate stability and reverse mass species extinction, it will also address the crisis in the world of work. Current trends of outsourcing, automation, the gig economy, and low levels of employee engagement have left working Americans anxious about their jobs.

Meanwhile, 37 million people of prime working age, 25-64, are not in the labor force, and the 626,000 people released from prison each year have a hard time finding work that will allow them to reintegrate into society.

Learn more about Justine at:

http://www.appraccel.com

Justine's book on Amazon: 

The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future

Join the conversation on Facebook at: 

https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpivot.org/

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

Justine Burt is the Founder + CEO of Appraccel, an environmental sustainability consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients in the private, public and non-profit sector to successfully implement projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy, alternative transportation, waste prevention, and water conservation. Clients include NASA Ames Research Center, the U.S. House of Representatives, Alameda County StopWaste, businesses in manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, and retail, various universities, the Clean Coalition and the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition.

Justine is a climate optimist who focuses on replicating and scaling projects for transformational change. 

Learn more about Justine at:

http://www.appraccel.com

Justine's book on Amazon: 

The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future

Join the conversation on Facebook at: 

https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpivot.org/

Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com

Cynthia Owyoung is the embodiment of an Ontological Leader and  Inclusive Leader — the kind of leadership that assures that all team members feel they are treated respectfully and fairly, are valued and sense that they belong, and are confident and inspired.

In her own words, she is a wife, a mother, a daughter, a daughter of immigrants, a first generation born in the Unites States, Asian, a woman... and lastly a leader.

As a D&I leader, she has established and led diversity and inclusion initiatives for nearly 15 years at organizations both large and small, including GitHub, Yahoo and Intuit. Cynthia is known for integrating a diversity and inclusion lens into all aspects of the business, from talent management to product development.

Outside leading her own organization Breaking Glass Forums, she holds the role of VP, Diversity and Inclusion, at Charles Schwab.

 

Learn more about Cindy at:

https://www.breaking.glass

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cowyoung/

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

Grant Hunter is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of corporate training, marketing and franchising experience in the U.S., Japan, and Peru. He’s been immersed in and based out of the Silicon Valley, involved in a variety of e-business activities for a Fortune 500 company and a boutique marketing startup he co-founded and later sell  in San Francisco called INBOX Marketing, and in his role as Founder/ CEO of Microfranchise Solutions (MFS). It was through MFS that he promoted enterprise solutions to poverty in the developing world first in Peru and over 30 other countries.   Higher purpose has really been the through-line of his own evolution in his role as a social entrepreneur over the last 10 years and now working with companies as a Purpose Guide and Leadership Development consultant at Syntropy.    Healing the wound between money and meaning, profit and purpose to enable business to be a force for good is his personal purpose and the work he does in the world. There is a restlessness in the marketplace for conventionally successful people in business who hunger for more, who feel called to play a bigger game and take a longer view.  Business can be a vehicle for both personal fulfillment and as a positive agent of change in the world and in fact, the two are intimately connected.  Syntropy teaches people and organizations the practices they need to catalyze this more conscious view of capitalism every day at work.   About Grant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantmhunter/ Website: www.syntropycenter.com Email: [email protected] Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com

Connie Larkin is an ontological educator who does not like titles. This is how she describes herself instead:

"I live my life with passion, in constant dance with the Present. For me, the most empowering relationships are the ones based on respect, where the people involved are open to listen and are committed authentically to evolving…in those relationships I blossom. 

For me Education is an "Inside Job"! Nobody can make you educate yourself except you. I find self-education to be the most honorable way to live life, always being committed to one's own evolution!

In the language of Possibility which I adopted in 1983 as being the only one that honors the most the human being, I am who I say I am. Who I say I am is any possibility of being that most inspires me."

Learn more about Connie at: https://connielarkin.com

Connie's book: https://connielarkin.com/book/ 

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

Matt is Co-Founder of Beneficial Ventures, the country's first B-Corp Commercial Real Estate company which he helped form in 2018, prior to that Matt spent time crafting a strategy for the first B-Corp Trucking Company, RFX Forward. His role was as Chief Strategy & Karmic Officer.

Matt has spent 8 years traveling Asia, mostly on an inward journey exploring vipassana meditation and yoga. Along this path he formed KarmaVentures, a group providing educational assistance, waste management solutions and relief efforts to communities in Nepal and Honduras.

Prior positions include Senior Managing Director at Foundation Source Philanthropic Services Inc. the nation’s leading provider of support services to private foundations.

Additionally, Matt has held executive positions with several leading financial technology companies, including:

• Chief Marketing Officer for publicly traded internet financial services provider, Corillian Corporation
• Vice President of Microsoft's Transpoint Bill Presentment Service
• Industry Executive for Microsoft's Banking Division. 

  Matt holds an MBA from University of Connecticut, and BA from Ithaca College. He currently resides in Seattle, WA.

Learn more about Matt at:

https://www.beneficialventures.com/team/ www.TheAbundanceModel.org karmaflights.org   Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com

Hi! My name is Maria Marc

I am an imperfect human & feeling is my superpower! Deep inside, I feel like a ‘modern medicine woman’, who went to business school instead!

The Ontological Leader invites us to open the covers of our life, so we can find the marvels inside. It invites us to explore our life as an ongoing narrative, where we can constantly refine the inner landscape of our being. The human soul is the hidden side of business.

I am in the job of Unearthing Treasure via: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Career Transition Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Mindset Coaching, Creativity, Authenticity, Social Intelligence, Sensemaking, Critical Thinking, Adaptive Thinking, Digital Presence, Remote Work, Generation Z, Values, Purpose, Meaning, Impact, Self-Awareness, Customized Learning Experiences for Growth and Transformation in the Flow of Work.

https://remoteclo.com

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