Cultivating Women’s Leadership with Bioneers co-founder, Nina Simons – show 37

Nina Simons is one of those rare teachers who encourages and emboldens at the same time that she inspires curiosity about the topics of service, gender, and leading from the heart. She speaks here about the importance of collaboration between women (and between men and women) as we all strive to reinvent a model of leadership that can help steward the current changes taking place on our planet. “Liberate your own capacity,” she suggests “and get out of your own way!”

Nina’s book, Moonrise, is an anthology of over 30 voices and stories that illuminate how women and many men are redefining the leadership landscape across a diversity of perspectives, generations and ethnicities. Their narratives explore how they cultivated their leadership impulses and their “feminine” strengths, reinventing leadership to prioritize community, collaboration, the environment, and the common good. Illuminating a path to progressive environmental and social change, their passionate stories of joyful, creative, collaborative, and sacred leadership ignite within each reader the power to help co-create a healthy, peaceful, just, and sustainable world. Check it out!

About my guest: Nina Simons is co-CEO and co-founder of Bioneers, a national nonprofit that identifies, gathers, and disseminates breakthrough solutions to environmental and social challenges. A speaker and teacher on the environment, restoring the sacred feminine, and the call to engaged action, she gives workshops on cultivating women’s leadership and co-produces the annual Bioneers Conference. She lives outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Nina’s links:

• www.bioneers.org
• www.bioneers.org/moonrise
• www.bioneers.org/campaigns/cultivating-womens-leadership
• www.dreamingnewmexico.org

Photo of Nina Simons by Jennifer Esperanza, a super talented photographer living in Santa Fe, NM.

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