Social-Emotional Leadership

04 Nov

Posted at 10:20h in change-agent, Glimpse into Me, Love, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

In the past few months, there has been lots of transition and change. I started a new decade and moved to a new coast, a new city and a new life, really—from teacher to student again—this time for a PhD in applied positive psychology. It’s taken me a minute to get my feet wet, adjust to a new life(style), and find my new normal. Of course, I'm still missing my east coast family and friends.  I forgot how traumatic bold transitions can be. When I give myself the permission to be human, I let my process continue to unfold exactly...

05 Apr

Posted at 15:32h in organizational culture, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership by

CLEVELAND, OH – In May, the AI Practitioner, the leading journal for appreciative inquiry, will publish an issue of its quarterly publication on learning leaders, a special topic. The journal is delighted to convene this conversation. Learning leaders is a construct combining two words we use often but usually separately. The special editors of this edition—Louis Alloro, Cecile G. Betit, Marge Schiller, and Jacqueline Stavros—wondered, “What might happen when we fuse these words together? What and who are learning leaders? And then so what? Why does it matter?” The seeds for this conversation were planted during an Appreciative Inquiry and Education meeting at...

05 Apr

Posted at 12:51h in Glimpse into Me, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

  I wrote this in 2008. I lifted it from my MAPP capstone project, the final requirement for my advanced degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Social-emotional (SOMO) Leadership was just an idea in 2008 and I was ready to take some social-emotional leadership at that year's family Easter!   I realized the need for social-emotional leadership within my own network a few years ago when I saw one of the youngest members of our clan exhibiting some troubling behaviors on Easter. This young boy joined the men in the family room in a friendly betting pool that my Uncle Charlie,...

19 Feb

Posted at 12:13h in Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology, change-agent, Glimpse into Me, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

I post on Facebook a lot -- especially about my work. Maybe it’s too much for some of you <insert my sisters shaking their heads in agreement >, but for me it’s what I have got to do right now to survive as an entrepreneur. The way I figure is that I’ve got 4K people who have chosen to be friends with me on here. Maybe it’s because we went to third grade together—or danced at the Roxy one night long ago. Maybe it’s because you like my view of the world or share conviction that we can make a difference. Entrepreneurs...

11 Nov

Posted at 18:13h in Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

“Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.” ― C. Otto Scharmer, Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies...

28 Aug

Posted at 10:36h in Learning Lab, Moments that matter, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized by

[caption id="attachment_1386" align="alignright" width="150"] A rainbow over Cleveland; photo taken in 2012[/caption] Three years ago, I moved here from New York, NY here on an intuition: there was no formal invitation, no job waiting for me and my NYC friends thought I was crazy. I thought I was coming here to start a positive (r)evolution, but I quickly realized something had already begun, which drew me to this place. I have been honored to join and build with you. And now I’m leaving but I promise — it’s not you it’s me. No, seriously: you guys rock. Our relationship has always been complicated,...

16 May

Posted at 05:32h in abundance, Glimpse into Me, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

If you’ve been following me and the projects of Louis Alloro and Associates or SOMO Leadership Labs on any social media in recent weeks, you’ve realized that I have been here, there, and everywhere lately! Philadelphia! New York! Sayulita, Mexico! Oaxaca, Mexico! Cleveland! New Jersey! The playgrounds and experimental labs of my life and work have been expanding, integrating and bursting into new life in many locations and many ways in these weeks, so I thought I’d pause for a minute to fill you in. (Pausing to reflect, clarify and communicate is helpful for me *and* for all of us who...

11 Apr

Posted at 06:06h in change-agent, Glimpse into Me, Opportunity/Threat, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

This is a keynote presentation I gave last week in Oaxaca, Mexico at a conference that brings together social entrepreneurs from around the world working on cool ideas to solve the worlds' problems. Here's what I said (and my slides follow): This is my brother Todd (put up image of his picture and the year of his life 1971)—born 1971, probably a little taller than me – I wish you could hear his laugh --- a guy who knows pure joy and would get that ear to ear grin; lots of fun, handsome, confident, wise.…sooooo creative, a brilliant piano player, visual artist, a...

25 Mar

Posted at 07:40h in change-agent, Glimpse into Me, My life, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

I wrote this paper during my Masters in the Foundations of Education -- a year or so before I had discovered positive psychology (or as I like to think sometimes: how positive psychology found me). It was before I thought the words "SOcial-eMOtional leadership" -- I had a vision for it. I sensed/intuited the need. Rereading it now gives my life such a re-membered sense of meaning & purpose. Thank you for sharing it with me. ********* Louis J. Alloro March 18, 2006 CURR 534 Change Paper It is unfortunate that we have trained to believe that change can not happen – or at the very...

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