Margaret Wheatley

Biography

Margaret J. Wheatley Ed. D. is a well-respected writer, speaker, and teacher for how we can accomplish our work, sustain our relationships, and willingly step forward to serve in this troubling time. She has written six books: Walk Out Walk On (with Deborah Frieze, 2011); Perseverance (2010); Leadership and the New Science; Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future; A Simpler Way (with Myron Rogers); and Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. Each of her books has been translated into several languages; Leadership and the New Science appears in 18 languages.

She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, which works in partnership with a rich diversity of people and communities around the world, especially in the Global South. These communities find their health and resilience by discovering the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment. Her numerous articles appear in both professional and popular journals and may be downloaded free from her website.

Wheatley received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Change from Harvard University, and a Masters in Media Ecology from New York University. She`s been an organizational consultant since 1973, a global citizen since her youth, a professor in two graduate business programs, a prolific writer, and a happy mother and grandmother. She has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates.

Publications

WALK OUT WALK ON:
A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now

In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities and nations?

In Walk Out Walk On, authors Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need.

From Mexico to India, from Columbus, Ohio to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that every community has the ingenuity, intelligence, and inventiveness to solve their seemingly insolvable problems. "We discovered a gift inside ourselves," one Brazilian said, "something that was already there."

Titles

Perseverance: Leadership in Turbulent Times

Turning to One Another: The Power of Conversation to Change Our World Leading in a Networked World Pioneering Leadership in Fearful Times

Let Go and Lead

For Persevering People

Perseverance

Command and Control Only Leads to More Chaos

Eight Fearless Questions

Fearless Leadership for These Times

Fearlessness in the Face of Uncertainty

Leader as Spiritual Warrior: Transforming Difficulty into the Way of Generosity and Power

Leadership and the New Science Twenty Years On