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Margaret Benefiel

Margaret Benefiel

Phone: ext. 2367

Website: http://www.executivesoul.com/

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Biography:

Dr. Margaret Benefiel is an adjunct faculty member at Andover Newton, in the area of spirituality and congregational/organizational leadership. For the 2003-2004 academic year, she held the O'Donnell Chair of Spirituality at the Milltown Institute in Dublin, Ireland. She is also CEO of ExecutiveSoul.com, working as a consultant and trainer with businesses, non-profits, and churches.

She has served as Chair of the Academy of Management's Management, Spirituality, and Religion Group, and has served on the governing board of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. She is the author of Soul At Work(Seabury, 2005) and The Soul of a Leader (Crossroad, 2008) and co-editor of The Soul of Supervision (Morehouse, 2010).

Dr. Benefiel has also written for The Leadership Quarterly, Management Communication Quarterly, Managerial Finance, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Organization, Personal Excellence, America, Presence, The Way, Studies in Spirituality, Radical Grace, and Faith at Work.She is a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting in Boston and lives in Boston with her husband. She enjoys hiking, cycling, reading novels, and scuba diving in her free time.

Courses:
CMLE/CHRS 704/804W: Leading from Within: Spirituality and Leadership

Publications:
Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions
The Soul of a Leader
Pathfinders and Trailblazers
Strange Bedfellows or Natural Partners?
How Organizations Listen
The Second Half of the Journey
Soul at Work
Business by Margaret Benefiel
Leadership by Margaret Benefiel
Walking the Red Carpet
Irreconcilable Foes