S4-Ep5: Dialogical Leadership: Understanding How It Impacts Success

Guest: Rens Van Loon, PhD

This interview explores dialogical leadership. At a high levels, dialogical leadershp involves ideas such as truth is a relational construct between the individual and society. Everything we think about truth is relational and is created in the minds of people. Second, the self-narrative is the story one constructs about the self. In this philosophy, there is no core self, just what we construct and re-construct about ourselves. By understanding the changes in the self narrative over time, we can see how this narrative impacts actions. By understanding that culture is socially created, we have the freedom to help shift it. The core of this work is that by reconstruction of the self narrative and looking at what is truly important, we can bring more of our self to every situation. We do this by asking questions and reflection to assimilate the multiple aspects of the self in our life to bring the gifts of each one into every situation.