S4-Ep7: 11 Steps to Help You Heal Divides from the Centre for Peace & Security

Guest: Mike Hardy, founder & former director, Coventry University’s Centre for Peace & Security

Is peace relevant to business?

 

Absolutely, according to Mike Hardy. Profits and stability arise from peacefulness, yet we relegate its pursuit to nonprofit and government leaders. In this episode, Mike shares both his research and diplomatic experience to show how leaders in all sectors can create, and benefit from, peace and security in their communities and around the globe.

Here's what Mike and Maureen cover:

1. Why you have just as much of a leadership role in fostering peace and security as any Prime Minister or President;
2. How an experience in Iceland brought him to focus on the interplay of trust, peace, and social relations; and
3. Why Star Wars provides a perfect model for inclusion and DEI in real life.

 

Produced in partnership with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/.

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

• Former Prime Minister Papandreou’s Path to a Just World with George Papandreou and Jorrit Volkers
• Empathy, Dialogue, & a Good Mood: An Ambassador Reveals What Leaders Need in Crisis with Thomas Greminger & Peter Cunningham
• Peace through Better Leaders with Mike Hardy
• Work, War, and In-Between: An International Peace Negotiator’s Top Tips for Resoving Conflict with John, Lord Alderdice

 

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RESOURCES:

The Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, now called the Centre for Peace & Security, is online at https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/peace-and-security/.

 

Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here. 

 

Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8 . The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.

 

Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here. 

Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:

• Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A by Steve Robinson; it’s available in hardback at https://amzn.to/460LnmQ, on Kindle at https://amzn.to/3RVXhZs, and as an audiobook at https://amzn.to/3xPjBgn.
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Paperback = https://amzn.to/3VEl7cU, Kindle = https://amzn.t