August 27, 2025 5:00 PM UTC
Margaret Wheatley, Ed.D., is a globally recognized speaker, teacher, consultant, and author dedicated to fostering leaders who invoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and need for community. She is co-founder and president of The Berkana Institute and has authored thirteen books, including the classic Leadership and the New Science.
Learn moreThis webinar is a first look at advayas upcoming course with Dr. Margaret Wheatley. Exploring leadership in a time of upheaval and uncertainty, how can we lead with generosity, creativity, and kindness?
In an era marked by upheaval, uncertainty, and sudden change, the question Meg Wheatley invites us to face is both simple and profound: Who do we choose to be? Claiming Leadership in This Age of Collapse and Possibility, invites you to reclaim leadership not as a title or tactic but as a calling to serve with insight, humaneness, and compassion.
Drawing on the rich insights of her most recent work Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity, Meg Wheatley offers a rare blend of grounded realism and possibility. She challenges us to face the life-destroying dynamics of this time: isolation, conflict, separation, fear, environmental breakdown, and loss of faith in one another and the sacred. Our task is to see clearly so that we can act wisely.
Once we face reality, we can identify work that best serves, that makes a meaningful contribution. Using multiple lenses to see clearly–the historic patterns of societal collapse, living systems science, and ancient wisdom traditions–she invites us to become “Warriors for the Human Spirit,” spiritual warriors dedicated to evoking our innate human qualities of generosity, creativity, and kindness.. Her writing, infused with poetry, stories, and evocative imagery, engages both mind and spirit. Her work reminds us that community and joy are always possible, even amid disintegration.
This webinar is a taster of Meg Wheatley’s new course on Advaya, expanding on these very themes. Participants will get a first look at this immersive learning journey, an opportunity to go deeper into the practices, mindsets, and moral commitments that define the leadership required of us. Moving from distraction and despair, she urges us to choose clarity over denial, service over self, engagement over withdrawal and to be joyfully devoted in serving the human spirit and the spirit of Life. Join us, in an extremely fertile moment before the school year begins, for a generative and invitational exploration.
Margaret Wheatley, Ed.D., is a globally recognized speaker, teacher, consultant, and author dedicated to fostering leaders who invoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and need for community. She is co-founder and president of The Berkana Institute and has authored thirteen books, including the classic Leadership and the New Science.
Learn moreMargaret Wheatley, Ed.D. began caring about the world's peoples in 1966, as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. In many different roles - speaker, teacher, consultant, advisor, formal leader - her work has deepened into an unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to invoke people's inherent generosity, creativity and need for community. As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. She is co-founder and president of The Berkana Institute, an organizational consultant since 1973, a global citizen since her youth, and a prolific writer. She has authored thirteen books, starting with the classic Leadership and the New Science. She has been honored for her groundbreaking work by many professional associations, universities, and organizations.