NMMU Business School hosts Executive Workshop on Ecological Leadership

4 March 2011 - The NMMU Business School hosted a special Executive Workshop on Ecological Leadership with presenter and facilitator Prof Ian McCallum .

“Ecological Leadership – Awe, Wonder and the Willingness to be Disturbed” was an exclusive one day event at the Courtyard Hotel in Summerstrand for leaders of Nelson Mandela Bay,” said Prof Piet Naudé, Director of the NMMU Business School. 

“Environmental issues are leadership issues.  We all know that we are going to have to live differently but first, we have to think differently – about ourselves, our relationships and our place in the world.

“By drawing attention to the importance of evolutionary thinking, the event focused on identity, character and intellect.”

A medical doctor, psychiatrist and analytical psychologist, McCallum is also a specialist wilderness guide, an author and a poet.

He has spent the last ten years guiding throughout Southern Africa and parts of East Africa.

His special interests focus on evolutionary theory, consciousness and the animal-human interface, what we learn about ourselves from the animals, and astronomy.

His anthology of wilderness poems, Wild Gifts, was published in 1999 followed a year later by his novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro. His highly acclaimed book Ecological Intelligence - Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature, which addresses the interconnectedness of all living things and ultimately, the survival of the human animal, was first published in 2005 and is into its third print run. Ian has recently developed Wild Leaders and The Spoor of Influence, corporate leadership programmes based on the principles of ecological intelligence.