Leadership for Flourishing

by Ritchie-Dunham, James L.; Granville-Chapman, Katy E.; Lee, Matthew T.

• ISBN13: 9780197766071
• ISBN10: 0197766072
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-10-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Leadership for Flourishing seeks to demonstrate that a group's leadership impacts the group's flourishing and that flourishing impacts leadership. The contributors develop frameworks and practices that highlight the dynamic between leadership and flourishing. They identify the positive examples around the globe that are evolving what is possible around leadership for flourishing. Flourishing is a global goal (e.g., UN SDGs), a global right (e.g., UN human development report), and becoming a global rule (e.g., ESG standards). It is time to showcase leadership for flourishing.

Divided into four parts, the book brings together leading scholars and reflective practitioners to describe the current state of what is known about leadership for flourishing; reframe what flourishing and leadership are, in this expanding context; explain how leadership affects flourishing within organizations and across ecosystems; and identify what is emerging in the practice fields of leadership for flourishing. To each chapter, the authors bring a strong understanding of the current, underlying philosophy of their field of inquiry, combined with many years of evolving their understanding through their fieldwork and practical experience, with a passionate drive towards leadership for flourishing. This work utilizes several empirical methods, including ethnographic observations, surveys, case studies, and archival data analysis within one organization or across multiple organizations.

Author Biography

James L. Ritchie-Dunham is Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Texas at Austin in the Management Department of the McCombs School of Business, research affiliate at Harvard, president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, and author/co-author of Agreements, Ecosynomics Abundance, Managing from Clarityand many chapters and articles.

Katy E. Granville-Chapman is Associate Fellow of the Oxford Character Project, Co-founder of Global Social Leaders, Deputy Head of Wellington College, Senior Fellow of the Flourishing Network hosted by the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

Matthew T. Lee is Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He is also a Research Associate and Director of Flourishing Network hosted by the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. In addition, he is a member of the Global Flourishing Study research team, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology at Stony Brook University's Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was designated as an inaugural by the EXL Center for Community Engaged Learning at the University of Akron.