10Addressing diversity, equality and inclusion through transpersonal leadership

Danielle Grant and Frederick Hölscher

DOI: 10.4324/9781003150626-13

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Proverb

Overview

Dealing with diversity is not a new challenge for leaders. Martin Luther King Jr gave a famous 12-minute speech of 1964 on his American dream for equality and a society that includes everyone on the basis of freedom and justice, which was voted the most influential speech of the 20th century. Nelson Mandela was another 20th century leader to face the challenges of exclusion or ‘Apartheid’ as it was called. As we write this chapter way into the 21st century, we have been seeing a large number of headlines ...

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