ep 120: ecologies of leadership: feminine wisdom, the interdependence of human and planetary health, and redefining leadership

About this episode

Nina Simons discusses feminine wisdom and the interdependence of human and planetary health in redefining leadership.

Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers , and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. She loves convening – for mutual mentorship and shedding conditioning, and to explore methods and practices for reinventing leadership, reclaiming our whole selves, connecting across difference and co-creating communities of belonging. Nina co-edited (with Anneke Campbell) Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart , and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices, which won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice.She’s also a contributor to the anthology Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices . All three are being used to ignite liberatory learning in individuals, circles and classrooms…

People in this episode

Guest: Nina Simons

Topics covered

• leadership
• feminine wisdom
• human health
• planetary health
• community building
• mutual mentorship

Keywords

• leadership development
• women leaders
• social entrepreneurship
• mutual learning
• community belonging

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bioneers

Books & works: Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices

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