Alan E. Shelton - Awakened Leadership: Beyond Self-Mastery

Praise for Awakened Leadership

If, as Alan Shelton asserts, awakening is akin to enlightenment, then every business person (and even those not in the corporate arena) should read this book. Awakened Leadership represents a bright new day in an otherwise dark world.

Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

Many of us are perpetually engaged in the quest to better know the inner world of leadership, seeking to understand how we can rise to meet the aspirations we hold for our teams, organizations, communities, and our planet. Our challenge lies in recognizing what good looks like as a seemingly endless river of leadership theory comes our way. Refreshingly, Alan opens wide a doorway and beckons us to walk with him on his personal and very touching leaders journey. It is on this journey that we experience something we did not quite expect: a new felt sense of our own authentic selves and our potential as leaders. Finally we have a leadership booka gift, reallythat gets to the heart of the matter and sparks within us a growing sense of confidence in tomorrows possibilities.

Mark Sobol, Partner, Global Head of Sustainable Strategy & Transformation, Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

Alan Sheltons Awakened Leadership inspires the revelation of our true nature so we can join hands and create what most wants to come forthgreat intimacy, vulnerability, humility, and confidencebeyond what we currently know. That is real and true leadership, beyond the conceptual and into the truly experiential. The world is ripe with anticipation of this much-needed message.

Ben Ames, Senior Project Leader, Program Development, Trane

Alan, I need to address this endorsement to you. I cannot write about you and your book; third person is too far from you. You are the source; you demand and deserve connection and intimacy. And this is the essence of your massive contribution to the literature of leadership and to world culture: Connect with and become intimate with the source of consciousness within your own Being. How bold, how brave, how profound! You have studied this, lived this, taught this, and now you embody this. I bow to you with great love and respect.

Robert Rabbin, self-awareness teacher, leadership advisor, author of A Mystic in Corporate America and The 5 Principles of Authentic Living

Alan Shelton has written a book that is both compass and catalyst for transforming the nature of leadership. These concepts will likely remain out of reach for many. But for those brave enough to take the journey, Alan provides a transformational path to leadership that is essential to human, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Calvin Klein, CEO, The Nature of Business

Awakened Leadership is a breath of fresh air in a world of leadership books that prescribe a magic series of steps to greater fulfillment and success. Alans story of his journey from successful all-American business leader to living an authentic life developing corporate leaders offers us keys to unlock our own unique experience of awakened living.

Erik Mazziotta, Managing Partner, IMI Conscious Leadership

This book describes one mans search for spiritual awakening and how he manages to integrate the search with his roles as a business consultant and business leader. If you, too, are a seeker, and looking for inspiration that awakening is possible while in the midst of being a leader, this book will be a welcome companion.

Barbara Braham, PhD, MCC, Executive Coach and author of Finding Your Purpose

How refreshing! A book that is an authentic personal story of a hard-core business person seeking to resolve his divided self and find a way to be a more effective leader. Alan Shelton has discovered that awakening makes a much more fulfilling, expansive, inclusive, and leveraged leadership available. Awakened Leadership makes it easier to meet the leadership challenges before us.

Sarah Cornally, Strategic Leadership Advisor, Founder, and Managing Director, Cornally Enterprises.

At the center of great leadership is a courageous heart. Alan Shelton has brought the heart of leadership into his book Awakened Leadership, and the world is truly better for it.

Alicia M. Rodriguez, President, Sophia Associates Inc.

I was an executive for many years and have held many leadership positions. Ive tried many approaches to leadershipwith both dramatic success and failure. As I reflected on the stories in Awakened Leadership, they helped me get clear on experiences from my own past. Ive always believed that storytelling is the best way to teach, and Alan Shelton is world class at both telling the story and ensuring that the golden core of insight is clear. The whole book resonated strongly with my heart and soul.

Hank Queen, Consultant, Axelrod Group

Awakened Leadership is a must-read for everyone, not just corporate leaders. Alans wisdom transcends our traditional thoughts on leadership, moving us beyond our professional personas into a full, authentic existence uniting all facets of our lives.

Glenn Odell, CEO, Spectrum Information Services NW Inc.

A bright and bold entrant into the tired annals of works on leadership, Awakened Leadership is a daring read for seasoned leaders willing to answer a silent call beckoning them to something greater. Enjoy this wonderfully written journey of how to leave the leader and discover leadership.

Tim JohnPress, Senior Consultant, Full Circle Group

While Awakened Leadership is a clear indicator that Alan Shelton has lived a life of leadership viscerally and emotionally, not simply intellectually, he also manages to weave in practical strategies along the way, pointing readers toward their own awakening. This book deeply resonated.

Roma Gaster, Full Circle Group, Asia Pacific

Alan writes from the heart, sharing his own journey and inspiring leaders to bring forth their own deep well of life and leadership experience. Awakened Leadership is a groundbreaking book, written with courage and authenticity.

Gretchen M. Krampf, MSOD, PCC, Process Experts LLC

My time as a seeker has been that of a curious skeptic. Ive read a fair amount of leadership and self-help writings, especially those that are business-focused, but Ive never experienced anything like Awakened Leadership. I gobbled it up and found myself stretching it out as long as I could, just so I could keep Alan with me.

Michael Gibbons, VP of Corporate Equipment, The Walsh Group

Alan Shelton has written a courageous leadership book. He challenges us to experience ourselves without limits. The growing intensity and complexity of the world that leaders face today are proving our normal approaches to design and problem-solving unviable. Alan shows us how to drop the boundaries of our conditioned mind by expanding beyond our cramped, known identities, and realizing our true nature as creative energy itself. When leaders make this shift in how they see themselves, they see the world anew and find innovation everywhere.

Chris Thorsen, Executive Liberation Consultant, Quantum Edge Leadership Mastery

Just when you thought you had yourself all figured out, along comes Alan Shelton to tell you thats not the point. Read Awakened Leadership and learn how to go beyond personal development to an awakened state from which your leadership emerges gracefully. This book isnt just for corporate leaders, its for everyone who leads, lives, and loves.

Linda Peterson, BSN, MEd, ORSCC

Awakened Leadership is a deeply personal book with a deeply personal message for all leaders who wonder how to be most effective in the biggest possible way. Alan weaves his life experience, with all its messy contradictions, into an unexpectedly neat package of realization of the oneness that unites us all. Alan reassures us that we are indeed unique players but are being lived in every moment. What a relief for the business leader to lay aside ego/doer polishing and embrace life just as it is. Thats when the extraordinary happens!