About The Armchair Buddha
The Armchair Buddha is a self-coaching leadership development guide designed to help aspiring leaders who are interested in a unique tool for increasing their personal leadership effectiveness. The book includes a brief overview of four timely critical leadership themes then goes on to identify some of the most common ways these themes show up and how to work with them. These themes, including case studies combined with self-coaching exercises, are offered in a format that is designed to facilitate self-reflection and personal growth.
By the time a reader has completed The Armchair Buddha, they will have learned a form of self-coaching that will support increasing leadership capability. They will have learned the four core themes that derail many leaders. This book is designed as an easy-to-read guide tailored for individual use. The Armchair Buddha: A Roadmap for High Potential Leaders is a fresh take on a very timely topic.
About the Author
Jane Cruz, Ph.D. has led and facilitated teams and coached hundreds of leaders globally through her more than 30 year career in executive coaching, consulting, human resources, organizational development, strategic planning, and teaching. Prior to consulting, she served as a senior human resource leader in entertainment, retail, and other industries. In addition, from 2009 trough 2019, she taught the Leadership Concentration at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, California.
Jane holds a BS degree in Applied Economics from the University of San Francisco, an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA and Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacific Graduate Institute.
The Armchair Buddha is her first book written for mainstream publication. Her article, Pilgrimage in Leadership, published in 2017 in the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, is an excerpt from her academic research on the individual process of leadership development.
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