Leading from the Roots

Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today's World

By: Kathleen E. Allen

Narrated by: Nancy Sawyer

Can we design organizations in a way that creates a space where employees, the organization, and the larger community all thrive?

And if so, where can we go for inspiration to help us achieve this goal?

In a time of volatile and complex uncertainty, it is time to learn the lessons that nature has compiled from 3.8 billion years of research and development. Nature is an interdependent, dynamic, and living system – just like today’s organizations and communities. Kathleen Allen uses nature as a model, mentor, and muse to rethink how leadership is practiced today. Leading from the Roots takes nature as a source of inspiration to help organizations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure, applying the generous framework found in mature ecologies to human organizations.

Kathleen Allen helps shift assumptions, practices, structures, and processes of organizations to become more resilient and nourishing for all, and, along the way, design the way out of workplace dysfunction and drama.

“Leading from the Roots provides a powerful new way of thinking about organizations as living systems and delivers practical leadership frameworks for individuals to learn how to unleash the energy and create innovative, effective teams." (Anne Boneparte, CEO Appthority)

"This book is a must read for organizational leaders who are not only committed to their mission, but equally to creating a workplace that attracts and retains the brightest and the best professionals fully enabled to meet that mission." (Caryl Stern, President & CEO UNICEF USA)

©2019 Dr. Kathleen E. Allen (P)2021 Morgan James Publishing

a fresh look at leadership.

This was a very refreshing look at leadertrip. the idea that we can apply biomimicry to our leadership to ensure organizations are living thriving organisms as opposed to rigid structured machines, is an incredibly refreshing look. May Dr. Allen's message permeate all organizational structures. Some of the leadership models that were predicated on machine building auto manufacturing in such pales in comparison to the leadership. That's necessary for organizations that are made up primarily of humans.