Peri Chickering is an herbalist, coach, consultant, and leadership educator. Her early career as a mountaineer and wilderness guide took her traveling around the world. Out of these years she created wilderness-based leadership schools in South Africa and Bulgaria. Taking her leadership experience from the outdoors inside, she has worked with clients in private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, her clients include Disney Theatrical, USDA Forest Service, World Bank, Stanford Woods Institute, University of Chicago, and Renaissance Reinsurance. She holds a master’s degree in human development and a PhD in human and organizational systems. Situated in the small town of Hancock, New Hampshire, she, her husband, their cat, and two horses steward fifty-five acres of beautiful woodlands passed down from her grandmother.

In this refreshing approach to leadership development, Peri Chickering offers a philosophy that is bold and current and yet, in many respects, as old as the planets: she proposes that there is a flow—an underlying rhythm to life—that fuels and evokes effective leadership, and we can all lead more productively and sustainably, in or out of the workplace, by learning to access our natural strengths and connect them with the power of the larger order of all things.

Written in a straightforward voice and peppered with practical exercises, thoughtful anecdotes, and personal stories, this guide supports new and experienced leaders alike. Chickering draws on the human relationship to the natural world, spirituality, the traditions of Taoism, and leadership structures of indigenous cultures to form specific tools and practices readers can use daily, and invites readers to understand where their natural skills fit within the wider ecosystem of life.

At once accessible and eye-opening, Leadership Flow will help readers uncover a pleasant truth: It’s far easier to get things done when we open ourselves not only to other people but also to the ever-present invitation and engagement of our connected universe. We are each here for a reason, and we are all needed.