From the Foreword
As the level of unpredictability and chaos exponentially rises leaders will need a profoundly new orientation to prepare their organizations to be Future ready. Here, ancient wisdom traditions speak to quarterly earnings.
Trauma healing becomes organizational strategy. The body’s intelligence supersedes the mind’s calculations. Prayer and spreadsheets coexist. This isn’t New Age wishful thinking but a rigorous argument that unless we reunite body and mind, heart and strategy, sacred and secular, we will continue to create the conditions that threaten our species’ survival.
MICHAEL WATKINS, Author of The First 90 Days
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, IMD Business School
In Leading in Chaos, Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox offer a compelling articulation of why leadership today must be fundamentally redefined. They illuminate how trauma-informed healing and the awakening of higher consciousness can unlock unprecedented creativity, resilience, and unity—essential capacities in this era of polycrisis. Far from abstract theory, this poetic and practical book provides living practices and resonant stories that show how transformation happens at the deepest level.
CHIP CONLEY, NY Times bestselling Author & Founder of the Modern Elder Academy
NICHOLAS JANNI has been guiding CEOs and senior teams globally for over twenty-five years, and teaches at two of the world’s leading business schools, pioneering a new vision and practice of leadership. Formerly a theatre director, he bridges the worlds of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a uniquely powerful, relevant and accessible way. His book Leader as Healer: A New Paradigm for 21st Century Leadership was published to wide acclaim in 2022 and won UK Business Book of the Year at the Business Book Awards 2023. Since an awakening at the age of 16, Nicholas has devoted his life to the development of human potential and has studied and practiced many different forms of personal and spiritual development, the healing of personal and collective trauma, and the states of ‘flow’ and ‘the zone’ of peak performance. He is the co-founder of Matrix Development. www.thematrixdevelopment.com
AMY ELIZABETH FOX, MA has served since 2005 as one of the founders and Chief Executive Officer of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm. For the last twenty years she has served as a leadership and culture change advisor to eminent professional services firms and Fortune 500 companies and facilitated immersive executive development programs for senior leaders. Amy is considered an expert in healing individual, family and collective trauma and has been a pioneer in introducing trauma-informed development and psycho-spiritual principles into the field of vertical development. She is also a thought leader in transformational facilitation and group process work. In addition to her work with Mobius, Amy is a senior student of mystical teacher Thomas Huebl and together they recently guided a first of its kind global training in Trauma Informed Coaching and Consulting. Amy has a Masters in Counseling from Lesley College and a BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University. www.mobiusleadership.com