“Service to others is my spiritual home.”

-Max Klau

This week Andy welcomes longtime friend, colleague, and returning Wonder Dome guest Dr. Max Klau. He’s an author, coach, developmental psychologist, and founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness, who’s work sits at the intersection of inner development and systems change. His new book, Developing Servant Leadership at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters is part-memoir, part how-to guidebook that offers candid reflections on the challenges leaders face and the importance of engaging large numbers of people, both at scale and at a distance.

Max’s work explores how individuals and societies can confront both their “light” and their “shadow,” especially in an era of political toxicity, rising authoritarianism, and declining trust in institutions. Together with Andy, they grapple with what true servant-leadership requires of us, both individually and collectively; how leaders can stay anchored in values when stepping into a political arena rife with ego and fear; and a vision for an American civic life grounded in courageous wholeness.

"For Citizenship" by John O'Donohue In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety And someone has stolen The horizons and the mountains, Our small emperors on parade Never expect our indifference To disturb their nakedness They keep their heads down And their eyes gleam with reflection From Aluminum economic ground, The media wraps everything In a cellophane of sound, And the ghost surface of the virtual Overlays the breathing earth. The industry of distraction Makes us forget That we live in a universe We have become converts To the religion of stress And its deity of progress That we may have courage To turn aside from it all And come to kneel down before the poor, To discover what we must do, How to turn anxiety Back into anger, How to find our way home.

Show Notes:

* https://www.maxklau.com

* https://www.centerforcourageouswholeness.org

* #33 The Inner Flame (with Max Klau)

* Developing Servant Leaders at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters by Max Klau

* Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

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