Representation Matters: Spirituality in the Boardroom

To my closeted Spiritual Leaders,

We need you. And we need your leadership.

I understand your hesitancy to “come out”. And I understand the resistance to being fully expressed in the workplace: you’re afraid of bleeding clients, losing credibility, being labelled as a weirdo. The perceived cost is high, I get it.

And, more than ever, we need you to lead.

We’re in the midst of the largest recovery in modern times. We are a fractured society recovering from massive inequality, social dissonance, racial injustice and a global pandemic. We’ve suffered deep collective trauma and are in desperate need of healing and holistic solutions. To do this, we need spiritual leadership at communal, organizational and institutional levels. 

We need you to show up.

As a spiritual leader, you have vision beyond this reality. You have experiential knowledge of Divine, and you possess the skills, wisdom and felt sense of wholeness and love. 

This is a rare gift. It is meant to be shared. 

Right now, droves of employees are resigning at unprecedented rates, the highest in more than two decades. Why? Because they can’t be their full selves at work. They’re traumatized from the constant yo-yo between who they are at home and who they “need” to be at work. Ultimately, they're resigning because core needs aren’t being met.

Representation matters. 

We need you to show up: fully human and fully divine.

We need you to show up as Whole, especially the workplace.

When you allow yourself to live into your wholeness, you give permission for others to do the same. When you show up as fully integrated - mind, body, spirit, soul - you invite aliveness into your workplace. And most importantly, when you own your spirituality and give voice to your true essence, you feel at peace with yourself and your world. 

An integrated world requires your integrated self. 

I recently wrote an article about spirituality in the workplace, specifically how I’m working with leaders in the Akashic Records. While the article received positive feedback, I was surprised by the influx of closeted leaders privately thanking me for my boldness.

Many remarked, “I just loved how you owned it. I wish I could be fully expressed.”

Here’s my invitation: Be who you are. 

To deny your spirituality at work is to deny your core essence. Give yourself permission to be all of your beauty. Be Whole.

Be the Leader you’ve longed for.

Here’s the truth: I get nervous talking about “it”, too. 

The supernatural is difficult to “summarize”. I often find myself using Crayola to describe Adobe Illustrator experiences, it feels rudimentary at best.  

But here's what I know: everyone has a Soul that recognizes eternal Truth. Whether people are consciously aware, their inner being reverberates when they sense the Divine. With this knowledge, I don’t seek to push, prove, or argue my way through. I share my personal experiences balanced with intentionality, purpose and groundedness. 

When I speak, I connect to people’s highest expression, trusting that their internal navigation system lights up with resonance. Love always orients people along their path. My job is to show up and offer an opportunity for transformation.  

If you are reading this, it’s likely that you’ve been called to show up more authentically. If you’re scared and you don’t know how, please ping me, I’m happy to help you navigate this terrain. 

Stop seeking permission. Be the leader you’ve longed for.