positive leadership

Connected – further insights from MAPP Summit October 2012

By Lisa Sansom / November 6, 2012 / 1 Comment

My previous posts about the 2012 MAPP Summit (here and here) have shared talks from MAPP Alumni and one researcher (Kathleen Vohs) and are very easily connected to the roots of positive psychology. Our next speaker was perhaps less explicitly about positive psychology, and more about the spread of positive psychology. Dr. Nicolas Christakis was a fabulous […]

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The problem with smart people

By Lisa Sansom / July 4, 2012 / 6 Comments

When I was doing my MBA, I was fortunate enough to take a course from the Dean of the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) Roger Martin. The course was titled “Learning to Learn” (or something close to that) and was largely based on the work of Chris Argyris, and it was truly transformational. […]

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Interview with Courage author – Robert Biswas-Diener

By Lisa Sansom / April 20, 2012 / 1 Comment

This interview originally appeared at Positive Psychology News Daily. What is a Unit of Courage?  Interview with Robert Biswas-Diener By Lisa Sansom on April 16, 2012 – 11:35 am Lisa Sansom, MAPP ’10, is the owner of LVS Consulting, an independent consulting firm that helps to build positive organizations. Lisa provide services such as individual […]

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Faith restored

By Lisa Sansom / January 21, 2012 / 0 Comments

This morning, I met a brilliant woman. I’d like to share some of her story, because it absolutely restored my faith in humanity and the direction of the world. This woman was born in Afghanistan and lived part of her childhood in a refugee camp, seeing the war. She was born deaf, but amazingly gained […]

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Positive regard – do you have it?

By Lisa Sansom / March 18, 2011 / 1 Comment

I subscribe to many lists and newsletters, and one of the most prolific is from Ken Pope. A recent article was sent about ‘positive regard’ – a term that, although I feel I should have known it, I hadn’t truly been aware of before. The essence of positive regard, as I glean from the excerpts […]

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What are B-schools doing now?

By Lisa Sansom / December 4, 2010 / 1 Comment

In order for MBA students to be the leaders of tomorrow, they need to keep up not only with current thinking in the business world, but they also need to value learning.

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