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Förmödrars makt87. Animism, AI och Ande - Sommarprat med Zara WaldebäckAnimism, AI och Ande sommarprat med Zara WaldebäckI detta avsnitt får hela redaktionen tala med en viskvinna som ihärdigt väver samman ande, berättelser och framtid genom berättandet. Vi lyssnar på allt från AI, kreativt skrivande och andlig shamansk praktik och är totalt införstådda att vi har fått en kreativ mentor som kan guida oss djupare på vår resa. Vi är stumma och imponerande. Till skillnad från väldigt många i den andliga värlen som tar avstånd från AI berättar Zara om en annan väg, e...2025-07-031h 27
The Future AgeGenerations in Action Together For a Better TomorrowBridging generational divides.In this episode of The Future Age podcast, host Zannat Reza explores how we can tackle some of society’s biggest problems, from climate change to the housing crisis, through bridging generational divides. It's not just about mentorship or passing the baton but the power of different age groups working together to build a better future. Eunice Lin Nichols, co-CEO of CoGenerate, discusses how the three P’s (proximity, place and problem solving) can create strong bonds across generations. Akaya Windwood, lead advisor at Third Act, talks about what older and younger adults...2024-11-1330 min
In the SuiteEP 89 Redefining Finance: Nia Impact Capital's Kristen Hull on Gender Lens Investing and Racial EquitySend us a textToday, we are thrilled to welcome the visionary Kristin Hull In The Suite. As the founder of Nia Impact Capital, Kristin is a true trailblazer in gender lens investing. In 2013, she launched Nia Global Solutions, fusing activism with impact investing in the public markets. Kristin crafted Nia’s six solutions-focused investment themes, expertly weaving a gender lens into every aspect of the investment process. Her forward-thinking leadership led to the launch of the Nia Growth and Dividend portfolio in 2018 and the Nia Racial Justice portfolio in 2022, both of which have set bol...2024-10-2144 min
Science FridayEmpowering Older Adults To Step Up For The ClimateIf you’re a baby boomer, you may remember the first Earth Day, the Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, and the first Pride parade. The list goes on, because the 1960s and 70s were packed with social revolutions. But the organization Third Act has a message for boomers: Your work isn’t done yet.
Third Act empowers folks over the age of 60 to get involved in the climate movement. It aims to leverage older generations’ access to power, money, and life experiences to create change.
Ira Flatow talks with Third Act founder Bill McKibben and lead a...2024-09-3018 min
Gathering GroundEpisode 54: Leading with JoyThis time on “Gathering Ground,” Mary engages in an insightful conversation with Akaya Windwood and Rajasvini Bhansali, authors of "Leading with Joy." They discuss the power of joy in leadership and team-building, creating supportive work environments, generational leadership succession, and much more.2024-04-251h 15
The Way Forward Regenerative Conversations#18: What does this moment require of leaders: A Conversation with Akaya WindwoodMany of us feel stuck in a paradigm that no longer serves us or life. Others believe “The Great Turning”, as Joanna Macy calls its, has begun? There is also an emerging request that we Boomers humbly and courageously step beside the next generation of young leaders to support and learn from them? Some call for shared leadership as a model to be embraced. Our guest Akaya Windwood, who serves as lead advisor on the Advisory Council of Third Act, explores these topics with our hosts.
Akaya Windwood has embraced transformational change since as a young black child she...2023-09-0554 min
Road to RepairLeading with Joy with Akaya Windwood*Special dedication episode to Nikishka’s grandfather, or her “Tha-Tha”*This episode – dedicated to host Nikishka's newest ancestor (her grandfather who helped raise her) – offers glimpses into personal transformation, the power of intentional choices, and alternative approaches to accountability. Akaya Windwood shares her experience as a seasoned hospice worker, death doula, and the transformative power of bearing witness to the dying process. She recounts a story of compassion and transformation about a racist woman she took care of who gradually transformed her views over time, highlighting that it is not always the burden of marginalize...2023-05-2647 min
The Sticky From The Inside PodcastLeading With Joy
With everything that’s going on in the world at the moment, could there be a better way to take a break from all that, than talking about the topic of joy? In a world where there’s a tonne of leadership books and doctrines about the choices and responsibilities of leadership, this conversation hones in on the real human side of things and speaks of transformation, love and joy in leadership that can sustain purposeful action and social change.
Andy Goram talks to Rajasvini Bhansali, co-author of the book "Leading With Joy" about why leading with joy is a serio...2023-01-1942 min
The Modern Manager237: Create the Conditions for Joy in the Workplace with Akaya WindwoodManagers often focus on creating work environments that cultivate inclusivity, productivity, and innovation - which are all important. However, when was the last time you intentionally created an environment for… joy? Turns out, when employees are joyful at work, they are more likely to be productive and work harder to achieve their goals. In fact, joy in the workplace can lead to a more successful team and a better working experience for everyone involved - and it’s up to the manager to create the conditions to make that happen.
Today’s guest is. Akaya Windwood. Akaya advise...2023-01-1029 min
THE SJ CHILDS SHOW-Building a Community of InclusionLeading With Joy with Akaya Windwood and Rajasvini BhansaliSend us a textLeading With Joy-Practices for Uncertain Times written by Akaya Windwood and Rajasvini Bhansali Do you lead with joy? What practices are you partaking of to bring joy to yourself and all those around you? In this episode, we discuss the importance of balancing joy, grief, happiness, and leadership. Come join us in learning new ways to empower yourself and those around you. https://leadingwithjoybook.com/Support the show2022-10-1951 min
Laura Flanders and Friends: Positive Independent Journalism for a Just WorldBill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate CrisisHey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits down with acclaimed author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and author Akaya Windwood to find out what's required from all of us to solve the climate crisis. McKibben was the founder of 350.org. He's the author of “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.” Windwood is co-author of the newly-released book “Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times.” The two recently launched...2022-10-0930 min
Let Your Ears Embark on a Adventure with Free AudiobookLeading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times Audiobook by Akaya WindwoodListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 629179
Title: Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times
Author: Akaya Windwood, Rajasvini Bhansali
Narrator: Pamela L. Kelly
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:53:30
Language: English
Release date: 10-04-22
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness
Summary:
In a time of increasing disconnection and uncertainty, Leading with Joy shows how leaders can reclaim their purpose and embrace joy in service of social transformation.
Leadership that connects people and centers compassion and trust instead of competition and disconnection is needed more than ever before. There are plenty...2022-10-044h 53
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureThey Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World (EXCERPT)***THIS IS AN EXCERPT***Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships – not only among people – but between people and the natural world. This astounding conversation among diverse women leaders provides a fascinating window into the soulful depths of what it means to restore the balance between our masculine and feminine selves to bring about wholeness, justice and true restoration of people and planet. Join Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Windwood to imagine a future where women, children, men and the planet can thri...2022-08-2232 min
Zestful AgingThird Act -- People Over 60 Working for Climate and Racial JusticeMany of us are aware that the over 60 demographic is the fastest growing demographic here in the US and all over the world. We have tremendous power and influence. ThirdAct.org organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. Akaya Windwood and Bill McKibben talk about their work mustering political and economic power to move Washington and Wall Street in the name of a fairer, more sustainable society and planet. Find out more: ThirdAct.org. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful...2022-05-0729 min
What Could Possibly Go Right?#71 Akaya Windwood: Eldership and Leadership with HeartAkaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and directs the Growing Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness. Akaya is deeply committed to working for a fair and equitable global society while infusing a sense of purpose, delight, and wonder into everything we...2022-03-2138 min
KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Building the Desirable FutureCaroline welcomes Akaya Windwood, and Bill McKibben as we distill the responsibility-opportunity before us all… We can see the world organizing in support of Ukraine, but still around weapons/oil… So now we know we can organize – now to animate the story and liberate the dream of humans humbly cooperating with Nature’s Guiding Genius… All clear now War/oil or Earth. Take your pick.
Akaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute, and is founder of the New Universal, w...2022-03-0359 minBioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureHeart To Heart - Womens Leadership In Transforming Culture | Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofia Quintero, and Akaya WindwoodAll too often, there’s a disconnect between how women are portrayed in popular culture and the media, and how women see and portray themselves. Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofia Quintero and Akaya Windwood take apart gender politics and put them back together with an emotional intelligence that is shifting the definition of power and fostering new models of women’s leadership.2022-01-0129 min
God, S*x, & Everything In Between with Anahita JoonNature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership with Nina SimonsNina Simons is an award-winning social entrepreneur and international public speaker who is passionate about healing our relationship with the natural world, women’s leadership and beloved community. She is Co-founder of Bioneers and its Everywoman’s Leadership program. She also co-founded and led Cultivating Women's Leadership with Toby Herzlich and Akaya Windwood, and is a longtime member of Women Donors Network. She brings her infectious vision of re-imagining how to live on Earth and with each other into organizations and training settings. In collaboration with Deborah Eden Tull, Nina co-facilitates transformative leadership intensives on Leading through Relational Mindfulness at Esa...2020-07-1548 min
World-Changing Women PodcastEp. 41: Akaya Windwood on Leadership in the Modern AgeWelcome back to the World-Changing Women Podcast Season 4! To kick off the season, we're releasing our favorite Lightning bolt speakers from past World-Changing Women's Summit Events. In this episode, we'll be hearing from leadership thought-leader, Akaya Windwood. Akaya led the Rockwood Leadership Institute for over a decade and is now a Partner at Wisebridge - a consultancy committed to creating a world where people and planet thrive. Akaya is internationally recognized for elevating the effectiveness of leadership and collaboration in the nonprofit and social benefit sectors (plus, she has always been a crowd favorite at Conscious Company events). Today, s...2020-04-2917 min
Art of Hustle: Where Art Meets EntrepreneurshipArt of Hustle 021: Rockwood Leadership Institute President Akaya WindwoodAkaya Windwood is the President of Rockwood Leadership Institute, which provides transformative leadership trainings for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations globally. She is a partner in the Opportunity Collaboration, an international conference that convenes leaders working to end poverty, directs the Mycelium Fund, which makes small grants to non-profit organizations based on generosity and interconnectedness, and is faculty on the RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital Fellowship. Akaya has been a featured speaker at the Stanford Social Innovation Institute, the Aspen Institute, and the Association of Black Foundation Executives conferences. She received an Ella Award from the Ella Baker Center for Human...2017-09-2800 min
The Bridge from The Aspen InstituteMelanne Verveer & Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Women's Rights are Human RightsAt the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, Hillary Clinton famously said "Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights." Listen to two pioneering women describe where they were and what they were thinking when they heard that phrase. Ambassador Melanne Verveer, who was then Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton, listened from backstage. She remembers the decision for Clinton to make that bold statement. Shabana Basij-Rasikh listened from Afghanistan where she, dressed as a boy, was one of few young girls able to attend school. This month on The Bridge podcast, host Peggy Clark interviews Shebana...2017-09-2753 min
The Bridge from The Aspen InstituteAkaya Windwood and Liz Ogbu: Sitting in the RiverIn what direction is the river flowing today for women in power and leadership? What tools do we have to break down walls and constructs of oppression: race, class, gender? If the politics of rage only get us so far, what kind of selves can we cultivate to take on these issues with levity, like a stream, towards tomorrow? Close friends Akaya Windwood, president of Rockwood Leadership, and Liz Ogbu, designer and social innovation strategist, dive in.
2017-08-0853 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureThey Don't Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World - Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Windwood | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships – not only among people – but between people and the natural world. This astounding conversation among diverse women leaders provides a fascinating window into the soulful depths of what it means to restore the balance between our masculine and feminine selves to bring about wholeness, justice and true restoration of people and planet. Join Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Windwood to imagine a future where women, children, men and the planet can thrive.2015-07-1329 min
Inside Social InnovationThe Art of Collaborative LeadershipGood leadership requires moving across boundaries of sector, race, ideology, class, and political affiliation. Instead of competing for resources or working in isolation, leaders should reach across divides to develop healthy networks of trust and collaboration. In this audio lecture from the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Nonprofit Management Institute, Rockwood Leadership Institute president Akaya Windwood discusses how we can get movements and sectors to work together to advance the common good. She shares specific approaches and tools for leaders to step out of their comfort zones. These enable a collective effort that builds mutually beneficial relationships. ht...2013-04-2656 min
Big Vision PodcastTransformative Leadership for Social Change: Akaya Windwood of Rockwood Leadership InstitutePresident of Rockwood Leadership Institute, Akaya Windwood is internationally recognized for elevating the effectiveness of leadership and collaboration in the nonprofit and social benefit sectors. Her vision for our global community includes infusing a sense of purpose, delight and wonder into everything we do. She brings her skills as an organizational consultant and executive coach to her lifetime commitment to working for a fair and equitable society and to Rockwood's network of 4,000 powerful, collaborative, and interconnected leaders.
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