Welcome to PositiveLeadership.com.  Here, you will learn an approach to leadership that builds individuals and organizations, starting with yourself.  The goal of all leadership should be positive growth and greater good.  To understand Positive Leadership, it helps to know about Positive Psychology—the dominant movement that is shaping our understanding of people.  It is based on three pillars.

Pillar 1
Positive Experiences and Emotions:  The goal of all people is something we can call the “good life,” however people choose to define it.  We want to feel effective.  We want to experience meaning and fulfillment.  We discovered that money and status are not enough.  We want a sense that what we do matters.  Experts in Positive Psychology believe that happiness is made up of many moments of positive experiences and emotions accrued over time.

Pillar 2
Personal Strengths and Virtues:  Each individual has unique abilities and talents combined with particular values that drive him or her.  When we participate in activities that allow us to do the things we are best and care most about we experience more of those positive experiences and emotions (Pillar 2 leads to Pillar 1).

Pillar 3
Positive Institutions:  Our lives are organized into institutions—family, religion, clubs, workplace, etc.  Positive institutions are those that support us as individuals and allow us to access our strengths and align with our virtues.  (Pillar 3 leads to Pillar 2)

Positive institutions rarely evolve by themselves.  An essential ingredient, without which positive institutions would never exist, is Positive Leadership.  It is the foundation upon which the 3 Pillars exist.  Positive Leadership creates positive institutions, which allow people to access their personal strengths and virtues, which leads to increased positive experiences and emotions. 

In this state, people are more engaged, teams are more effective, organizations produce better results.