Personal, Educational and Organizational Transformation: Leading During Times of Metacrisis

Judi Neal, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Global Consciousness Institute and the President of Edgewalkers International. Her primary focus has been on workplace spirituality, transformation, and global consciousness. After receiving her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University, she served as an internal consultant to Honeywell for eight years. Judi then taught management at the University of New Haven for 17 years. Her research was on business leaders who have a strong commitment to their spirituality, and she researched the ways in which they bridged the invisible world of spirituality and the material world of business.

Judi was founding director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the University of Arkansas. She was a cofounder and former chair of the Management, Spirituality and Religion (MSR) Interest group has served on the MSR Executive Committee. She chairs the MSR Scholarship Committeeand was founder of the MSR Flamekeeper Committee. She also serves on the boards of Octave Institute and INDICA Academy. As one of the founding editors of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion (JMSR), she is on the journal’s editorial board and is also on the board of the journal’s parent organization – the International Association of Management, Spirituality, and Religion (IAMSR).

Judi is the author of ten books on workplace spirituality and transformation as well as numerous journal articles in the field. She is the editor of The Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace, The Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation, and a co-author of Spiritually and Developmentally Mature Leadership, all published by Springer.