The Courageous Wholeness Podcast

Meet Dr. Laura Hembley Lovett, an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, author, podcast host and internationally recognized thought leader on creating healthy workplace cultures and eliminating toxic leadership. Her new book is called   I Wish I'd Quit Sooner: Practical Strategies for Navigating and Escaping a Toxic Boss, and it's full of sage advice for anyone in this deeply unple...

Meet Faith Addicott, an experienced organizational development consultant focused harnessing the wisdom of OD to respond to the challenges of this moment. She is Founder of Confluence Consulting Northwest, and is deeply involved in designing and implementing OD Out Loud, a peer-led conference that will occur in Kansas City this coming October. In this conversation, we talk about Faith’s unique pat...

Meet Zander Martin, a facilitator, coach and educator who uses the outdoors as a context for leadership development. Zander is a lifelong explorer who was named Outside Magazine's "Adventurer of the Year" in 2011. He’s been involved with NOLS–the National Outdoor Leadership School-since 2008, and is currently a Senior Faculty.  He’s the Principal consultant at Treeline Development, h...

In this first ever solo episode, host Max Klau shares a moment from his journey that had a major impact on the development of the work of Courageous Wholeness. Max tells the story of the semester in graduate school in which he first encountered the moral development work of Carol Gilligan and the adaptive leadership work of Ron Heifetz...and how those two courses led to a major awakening that occu...

Meet Adam Yukelson, an expert on how to create large-scale transformational experiences in the virtual space.  He helped Otto Scharmer and the team at the Presencing Institute build an online version of their Theory U training, and then went on to help the team at Thich Naht Hahn's community of Plum Village take their "Zen and the art of Saving the Planet" course online.  He’s been i...

Thomas Legrand is an expert on sustainability, a spiritual seeker, and the author of a powerful book called The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for a New Developmental Paradigm .  Thomas has a PhD in economics and  he currently serves as the Lead Technical Advisor for the Conscious Food Systems Alliance convened by the United Nations Development Program. He spends his days working to make ou...

Peter Cobabe is a visionary entrepreneur and technologist working at the edge of the effort to elevate human potential through the responsible use of artificial intelligence. A longtime student of contemplative practice and the science of consciousness, Peter seeks to weave together conscious evolution, spiritual development and technology. In this conversation, we explore the implications of bein...

Amy Elizabeth Fox is the visionary founder of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm bringing deep spiritual transformation to some of the biggest companies in the world. Over the course of 20 years, Amy has cultivated a community of some of the most important thought leaders working in the space of human potential and transformation, and has found ways to bring dee...

Meet Tim Van Ness,, a leadership coach and consultant who uses his passion and skills as an actor to help individuals and organizations grow and evolve. Tim has over 25 years of experience as a coach, consultant, and master facilitator. In this conversation, Tim describes his work using a process called Playback Theater to help organizations see their own shadows and blindspots, allowing them to a...

Meet Vlada Lisinenko, a coach, facilitator and artists based in Sweden. She designs transformative, research-informed programs that enhance resilience, connection, and emotional well-being, helping individuals and organizations harness joy as a powerful tool for healing and human flourishing. Vlada has been following her calling for years, and today has found ways to share her many gifts with the...

Janet Echelman is one of the most influential and impactful public artists working in the world today. She is best known for the giant, hanging net sculptures that spans hundred of feet, and that sway and ripple in the wind high above public spaces.  She has created hundreds of installations across five continents in locations like Singapore, Sydney, Shanghai, Santiago, Beijing, Boston, New York a...

Meet Cami Travis Groves, a transformational coach who works with creatives and creative entrepreneurs.  She is an artist and a painting instructor who seeks believes that creativity is an essential act of self-care.  Cami’s expertise is in helping clients shift their relationship with that voices in their head that say that they are not artistic, that they aren’t creative, and that what they bring...

Meet Sabina Nawaz, an executive leadership coach, consultant, and speaker, and the author of the recently published book You’re the Boss:  Become the Manager You Want to Be (And Other’s Need ).  She has over 25 years of experience advising C-level executives and high-performing teams at Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions across more than 30 countries.  Pr...

I'm excited to share this special episode of the podcast that features a conversation with Cristin Talentino and Sydney Bloom, two skilled leadership development practitioners based in Canada who are doing deep and transformational work. This episode came about when Cristin tagged the Center for Courageous Wholeness in a post on LinkedIn. She noted that when she first heard about our work, she was...

Meet Duygu Ozen, the Founder of We7 AI, a marketing firm focused on changing the way marketing works.  She’s also a board member of the New York chapter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and is very involved in the effort to bring a higher consciousness to the realms of business and marketing. Duygu is at the leading edge of a movement to make marketing healthy for our souls and for our planet...

Stephanie Simpson is an executive coach, speaker, and leadership consultant based in Connecticut. Her path into this work is a bit unusual: She began her career as a professional dancer and choreographer, so she brings a grounding in the embodied arts to her work as a coach and consultant. She has an MFA in Dance as well as a Masters in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on spirituality, mind an...

Meet Michal Klau-Stevens: A clinical social worker based in West Hartford, CT doing fascinating work healing trauma. She is an expert in the modalities of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Her work raises profound questions about how to relate to trauma, how healing happens, and the nature of wholeness. She's also my sister, and one of my favorite thought part...

On this episode, I’m sharing an interview with Dr. Angel Acosta, Founder of the Acosta Institute.  Angel is a friend, a colleague, and an invaluable mentor to me as I seek to launch and grow the Center for Courageous Wholeness.  In this conversation, Angel interviews me about the ideas at the heart of the courageous wholeness model, why I'm launching the Center, and what my hopes are for this work...

There is no better way to launch this new podcast than by lifting up the voice and wisdom of my dear friend, Shmuly Yanklowitz. Shmuly is currently launching a new initiative called Thrive By Character that seeks to inspire deeper reflection on the most noble virtues that help us, individually and collectively, to thrive in life. Shmuly's achievements are remarkable. He has twice been named one of...

Welcome to the Courageous Wholeness Podcast, where inner transformation meets social change. The show is hosted by Dr. Max Klau—a Harvard-trained developmental psychologist, author, speaker, Integral Master Coach, and thought leader in the field of servant leadership.  Max is also the Founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness, an educational institution dedicated to guiding purpose-driven ind...