The Power of Partnership: Inspiring Transformative Leadership

Editor’s Note: Academy Fellow Riane Eisler has worked as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist over the last 20 years. She introduced the Partnership Model and the Domination Model as two underlying possibilities for structuring beliefs, institutions, and relations that transcend categories such as religious vs. secular, Right vs. Left, and technologically developed or undeveloped. Her pioneering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children.
Last week she delivered the closing keynote to 1,800 people at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Coaches Federation, the largest professional association for business and life coaches.
This speech introduces the audience to the dialectic between the Domination and Partnership models of society, and speaks to the role of business leaders in fostering a more humane and balanced approach to civilization.