Information about the leadership of the organization
He is an international development practitioner with over 20 years’ experience successfully delivering global, regional and field development initiatives with the United Nations, international companies and NGOs.
Dr. Sophia Town earned her Ph.D. in organizational communication from Arizona State University. Her research, which spans the fields of organizational communication and management, is humanistic, use-inspired and guided by one key question: “How can scholars and practitioners promote human flourishing in organizations?”
Anke Winchenbach is an ESRC funded PhD researcher and teaching fellow in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research focuses on understanding livelihood diversification from fishing into tourism in coastal communities in the UK. Utilising dignity as the guiding concept, the project will explore how people experience and understand their lives in relation to their work in times of social change and declining natural resources
Tyson Rallens is pursuing a PhD in Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research, which is sponsored by the Clarendon Fund, Green Templeton College, and the Saïd Foundation, concerns the impact of shared practices at work on the ability of organizations to change. It examines organizations as communities with distinct visions of human flourishing that are shaped by their shared practices and which shape their ability to enact specific business strategies. Tyson believes that human concerns for meaning, purpose, and wellbeing must be central in scholarship on organizations and strategy.
Dr. Castillo studies organizational leadership through the lens of complex adaptive systems. Her research investigates capitalization of nonprofit organizations, particularly how intangible assets like social, cultural, and political capital contribute to the production of social and financial returns (the double bottom line). Her scholarship is inspired by two decades of management experience in the nonprofit sector, including the San Diego Natural History Museum and Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. Read more […]
“Leading for Well-Being” represents a consortium of organizations, scholars, faith leaders, business people, media experts, and policy makers seeking to integrate the emerging practice of Humanistic Management with more sustainable practices at the corporate, community and policy levels. Its goal is to enable many of those now driving crisis to become agents of positive and profitable change. The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit is helping to lead in this initiative. Read more […]
Economy for the Common Good is a social movement advocating for an alternative economic model. It calls for working towards the common good and cooperation instead of profit-orientation and competition which lead to greed and uncontrolled growth. Christian Felber coined the term in his book Die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie – Das Wirtschaftsmodell der Zukunft, published in 2010. According to Felber, it makes much more sense for companies to create a so-called “common good balance sheet” than a financial balance Read more […]
Michael Pirson holds the James A.F. Stoner Chair for Global Sustainability at Fordham University, is Chair, Leading People and Organizations Area, and Director, Center for Humanistic Management. He is a full Professor with a focus on Global Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. He is a research associate at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program (HFP). He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is founder and president of the International Humanistic Management Association. Read more […]
Dr. Benito L. Teehankee is a Full Professor in the Management and Organization Department of the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business, De La Salle University. He teaches courses in strategic management, corporate governance, action research, and ethics. He has served as speaker or consultant to various private, government, and educational organizations including Globe Telecom, PLDT, Siemens, Andersen Consulting, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, World Health Organization, Bureau of Food and Drugs, Read more […]
Ricardo Aguado holds a BA in Economic and Business Science from the University of Deusto and a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of the Basque Country. He is currently Lecturer and Researcher with PhD at the University of Deusto, where he teaches at the Bilbao campus. He teaches BA courses in Business Administration and Management and Executive MBA Master’s degree courses. Specifically, he teaches the following BA subjects: Spanish and World Economy, Microeconomics and Economics and Read more […]
