DEEPAK CHOPRA

IN CONVERSATION WITH LISA NAPOLI

THE SOUL OF LEADERSHIP: 

UNLOCKING YOUR POTENTIAL FOR GREATNESS

Friday, January 21, 2011

Breakfast: 7:45-8:30am

Forum: 8:30-9:30am (followed by book signing)

Zipper Hall at The Colburn School (across Disney Concert Hall

200 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90012

There is no charge for Drucker students and alumni to attend Drucker Business Forum events.

DEEPAK CHOPRA is the founder and chairman of the Chopra Foundation, founder and co-chairman of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California, Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization and is an adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches an annual course based on the principles of the Soul of Leadership. He lectures regularly on the topic of leadership to executives and corporations, including at Hewlett-Packard, Pepsi, Hearst, Harvard Medical School, among many others, and at numerous leadership and business conferences. He is a successful businessman, and the author of more than fifty books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. He is the host of a weekly Wellness Radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. TIME magazine listed Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.

The kind of leader most needed today, according to Chopra, is a leader with vision who can make that vision real. A leader, he adds, is the symbolic soul of a group. The path outlined in The Soul of Leadership applies to any business, but the same principles are relevant in every community and area of life, from family and home to school, place of worship, and neighborhood. Awareness of ones own and others’ needs and a deeper understanding of ones leadership potential can make a profound change in the way one leads.

Chopra combines spiritual wisdom with modern dynamic psychology with insights into group dynamics, loyalty, creativity, vision, security, and achievement. He utilizes examples of great leaders and a clear, concise breakdown of the virtues that a great leader must possess, plus the stories of ordinary people who have become successful visionaries.

Chopra addresses the following: Synchronicity -- the ability to create good luck and find invisible support that carries one beyond predicted outcomes to a higher plane. Emotional bonding -- clearing away toxic emotions so you can clearly understand your own specifics needs, and those of others.  Awareness -- a leader must continually ask the tough questions that underlie every challenge, such as Who am I? What do I want? What does the situation demand? Action oriented -- this requires persistence and tenacity, but also the ability to view any situation with flexibility and humor. Responsibility -- responsible leadership includes choosing considered risks rather than reckless ones, walking the talk, having integrity and living up to your inner values. 

LISA NAPOLI is a journalist and author. Over her 25 year career in media, Napoli has worked for the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and the public radio show Marketplace. She is author of the upcoming book, RADIO SHANGRI-LA: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (Crown, Feb 2011).