What people say about Leadership Alchemy
“Maiken has brilliantly combined a deep knowledge of spiritual intelligence and her experience as a leadership consultant to create an outstanding book. If you think about the leaders you most admire you will see they share certain characteristics: authenticity, noble purpose, courage, and wisdom. These must be grown inside before they can manifest effectively in your leadership. Become the expanded self you are meant to be. This book will be your guide.” |
“Leadership Alchemy has been an eye opener for me. I chose to read this book to explore a different approach within leadership, and found myself in a process of personal development. As I read through the book I got inspired and had a lot of reflections and thoughts, which evolved me in new ways. Revisiting earlier chapters or the whole book continuously adds more value, as new dimensions appear every time reaching new levels of awareness.” |
“With great skill and accomplishment, Maiken brings together her extensive knowledge of our evolutionary journey as human beings and her deep, intuitive wisdom of what it means to touch the ineffable Source that is always present for us on the other side of our day-to-day reality. In doing so, Maiken invites us to consider the small, gentle voice within that may be whispering to us to awaken our potential. She guides us expertly in what it means to live a full and meaningful life, and to practice the kind of leadership alchemy that brings the very best of us to creating ripple effects in service of the world. If you are drawn to the idea of transforming yourself through timeless, sacred principles and contemporary examples, this is your guidebook.” |
“Leadership Alchemy” is essential reading for anyone who says they are or aspires to be a true leader. Maiken pulls together, in an incredibly understandable, impactful and holistic way, all the essential ingredients to understanding and prompting true leadership. She challenges us to dig deep and really commit to behaving with congruency, compassion, love and purpose - and invites each of us to embark on and achieve the journey from limited to expanded self. Practical, meaningful, purposeful - I recommend you whole heartedly embrace this work not only to achieve fulfilment for yourself but for those that you aspire to lead and influence too! A combination of the Universe and Maiken’s own spiritual intelligence has conspired to bring us the priceless piece of art and science just at the time it’s most needed." |
"Leadership Alchemy is a book for our time. ‘Management’, is a concept that belongs to a mechanistic past. Leadership Alchemy takes us by the hand and confidently leads the reader into a new level of integrity and personal mastery. |
“Spiritual Intelligence is an aspect of business leadership that is of great significance to those of us who use it, yet it is often not easy to talk about. Leadership Alchemy makes the whole topic more accessible by providing a very well-researched and in-depth insight into spiritual intelligence as an intrinsic part of effective business leadership. It’s also immensely reassuring to read the stories of several executives who are demonstrating this in their own everyday leadership in a way that is both inspiring and exemplary.” |
“Leadership begins from the inner transformation. Maiken Pills offers not only a theoretical framework but also a step by step guide to releasing the power of spiritual intelligence within each of us. The practical cases show that by evolving toward an ever-higher level of spiritual awareness, we can change our lives and the world itself. In the book manifest the invitation to bring the truth of your authentic essence into your leadership to create a better world. It is a call to awaken the inner alchemist, who exist in us, and our transformational powers to actualize golden potential that serve us and humanity. It is a call to be the kind of leader the world needs in the days of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The author brings a broader, more vibrant and non-marginalizing conceptualization of leadership and a deeper consciousness about why and how spiritual intelligence can create more value in all senses of the word. |
“In this ground-breaking book, Maiken Piil has skillfully brought together the wisdom of several spiritually intelligent leaders, aligned this wisdom to the SQ21 skills of Spiritual Intelligence, and then provided a pathway that any leader can choose to follow in order to develop their spiritual intelligence. The end result can help leaders to flourish and succeed in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. I highly recommend this book to anyone, and especially leaders who wish to develop their capacities and who want to make a positive difference in the world.”
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