Quantum Leadership: Creating Value for You, Business, and the World

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This course is designed to help you develop your leadership skills and capabilities aimed at flourishing, defined as "to grow well, to prosper, to thrive, to live life to the fullest." It emphasizes the growing desire for wellbeing through practices that cultivate the self, and for a better understanding of the social, ethical, and global choices facing business. One such choice is whether to focus a company's for-profit activities only on "doing less harm", or to choose to also pursue "making a positive impact" through activities that increase prosperity, improve wellbeing, and regenerate nature. Other such choices are critically examined during the semester. The goal is changing who leaders are being, not only what they are doing, through daily practices that increase their awareness of how their actions impact others and the world. Through the course, students experiment with a variety of practices in an action learning process that allows them to experience a greater connection to self, others, and nature. Recent research shows that such direct-intuitive practices support personal wellbeing, team collaboration, and corporate citizenship behavior as part of an upward spiral in leadership effectiveness and life satisfaction. The most exciting aspect of this class is encouraging students to see themselves as positive change agents, with the ability to make a positive impact on the world through living their most fulfilling and flourishing selves. Offered as ORBH 330 and ORBH 430 . Counts as a Full-Semester Wellness/Non-movement course. Counts as a Moral & Ethical Reasoning course.