Our Mission
The Institute for Generative Leadership has been producing leaders and effecting change in organizations for over 20 years. Robert “Bob” Dunham founded the institute after spending time at Stanford, Motorola and Business Design Associates and years of study with prominent teachers. The Institute for Generative Leadership produces embodied learning, rather than just theory, in management and leadership, and draws on the work of Dr. Fernando Flores in ontology, language and action, and the work of Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler in the discipline of Somatic Leadership.
The Foundations of Generative Leadership course is a transformative introduction to the principles of Generative, language, action, commitments and leadership. FGL is the entry point to the multi-year The Generative Leadership Program (for Managers and Executives) and Coaching Excellence in Organizations (for Executive Coaches). The offer of the Institute is a working professionals learning experience, designed for individuals and/or teams to develop real world strategies and tools that are not just theoretical but embodied. You develop skills while actively engaged in your work be it as a manager, business leader, executive or coach. This Generative Leadership experience is impactful both personally and professionally. It helps today’s developing leaders invent a better future for themselves, their families and their organizations. Take a moment and fill out the information request form ->
Foundations of Generative Leadership goes beyond conceptual understanding into experiential learning. You will learn the power of continued leadership practice. After the workshop you will produce actions, conversations, and results that you couldn’t before. Through the practices you will build your capabilities and prepare for the CEO or GLP programs. Read More
Coaching Excellence in Organizations provides the opportunity to study with Bob Dunham, founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership. It’s the only graduate-level training program offered for experienced coaches. Nothing like this exists in the coaching or corporate training world and the learning is applied to current clients. Read More
Generative Leadership Program is an opportunity for teams, executives and managers to create more effective organizations. participating in GLP you will develop into a more effective leader and will emerge from the experience with a permanent new way to see action and opportunity in the world with enhanced power to produce extraordinary results. Read More
Featured IGL Posts
The Institute offers learning and programs for both generative leadership and coaching for leadership. In fact we have found that effective leaders have to coach, and effective coaches have to lead. The generative leadership discipline supports both professional communities. In the coaching world the International Coaching Federation (ICF) sets standards for coaching competencies. In this video we show what needs to be added to these standards to elevate the positive impact coaches can have in
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Register for our free conference call on this topic on May 7, 12 pm PT, 3pm ET by CLICKING HERE. One of the skills available to us as leaders and coaches is to bring our world into a new focus in order to see new opportunities. If we take a step back and look at how we see our world we find that every individual is a unique kind of “observer” of the world. Different people see differently. Just as a physician sees different bodies than those not trained in medicine, the entrepreneur sees opportunity where others don’t. Innovators smell
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Foundations of Generative Leadership Workshop
The Foundations of Generative Leadership (FGL) workshop takes you past the blind spots of mainstream culture to explore how the aspects of communication, coordination, language, emotions, and embodied learning enable us to more powerfully generate the future we care about instead of living with our unexamined limits. More Details…
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