Radical Transformational Leadership Strategic Action for Change Agents [Paperback]

Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage—not just analysts and policy-makers. Demonstrating that we all can be architects of a new humanity, Monica demystifies policy-making, planning, and implementation so that everyone can play an informed and strategic part in eradicating the world’s most intractable problems. Using real-life examples from around the world, she shows how our innate characteristics of universal compassion, equity impulse, and human capability can create new patterns that effectively address major challenges such as gross inequality, unbridled hate, conflicts based on social identity, and the never-enough mindset of greed. Written in a straightforward, accessible style,Radical Transformational Leadershipoutlines a path-breaking paradigm shift that is already generating equitable and sustainable results across the globe.


Winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Business and Leadership“Monica Sharma embodies the mindful and compassionate change agent the world needs now. InRadical Transformational Leadershipshe offers us all a map for action, and a clarion call to become the change we want to see.”
—Daniel Goleman, author of,Emotional Intelligence

“We live in a world battling for peace, threatened with violence, where inequality is justified as both means and ends. This self-destructive worldview is dominated and backed by spurious arguments for a leadership based on the idea of supremacy of a race, religion, or culture. Monica Sharma’s counterargument is gentle and persuasive. Her voice, based on experience and convictilC|