Leading from the Roots

Nature Inspired Lessons to Build Healthy Businesses

Course curriculum

    1. Lesson 1: Course Overview - Why Learn from Nature?

    2. Lesson 2: Living Systems

    3. Lesson 3: Applications for Leadership - The Dynamics of Living Systems

    4. Lesson 4: Reflecting on the Quality of Energy in Your Organization

    5. Lesson 5: Reflecting on Energy in Organizations Handout (Downloadable PDF)

    6. Lesson 6: A Summary of Dr. Allen’s Paper, “Optimizing Energy: The Theory of Action” - (Downloadable PDF)

    1. Lesson 1: Lessons from Nature

    2. Lesson 2: Nine Design Lessons Found in Nature (Downloadable PDF)

    3. Lesson 3: Leadership Lessons - Organizational Photosynthesis

    4. Lesson 4: Blog - Organizational Lessons from Water

    1. Lesson 1: Weak Forms, Strong Purpose

    2. Lesson 2: The Ecocycle

    3. Lesson 3: Thresholds of Rigidity and Scarcity

    4. Lesson 4: Reflecting on Your Organization's Ecocycle

    5. Lesson 5: Organization Ecocycle Reflection Sheet (Downloadable PDF)

    6. Lesson 6: Blog - Paying Attention to Thresholds

    1. Lesson 1: The Fragility of Sameness

    2. Lesson 2: Lessons from Nature

    3. Lesson 3: Leaderships Lessons that Invests in Diversity

    4. Lesson 4: Blog - The Link Between Resilience and Diversity

    1. Lesson 1: Lessons from Nature - Feedback Loops

    2. Lesson 2: Leadership Lessons for Curbing Excess from Within

    3. Lesson 3: Blog- The Relationship Between Organizational Feedback and Dysfunction

    4. Lesson 4: Blog - What Nature Can Teach Us About Listening?

    1. Lesson 1: Nature’s Lessons

    2. Lesson 2: Lessons from Nature - Self-organization

    3. Lesson 3: Leaderships Lessons - Local Expertise & Self-organizing

About this course

  • $87.00
  • 33 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content