Contact Information

Name: Deborah M Meehan
Address:
City: Oakland
State: CA
E-Mail Me
Website: www.leadershiplearning.org

Leadership Development

Background in leadership development (Education and/or Experience):

Being a Kellogg Fellow had a profound impact on my ideas about how we could work more strategically for change. For 17 years I worked in the non-profit sector and wondered continuously about how we might overcome the fragmentation that prevented us from working together to address the root causes of leadership development. Being part of a fellowship that brought people together from multiple organizations, experiences and sectors led me to believe that leadership development programs could serve to cross the silos and connect our efforts to achieve systems change.

Current leadership development work (Roles and/or Positions):

I am part of the leadership team for the Leadership Learning Community and on the Board of the International Leadership Association. My passions at LLC are creating a gift economy, exploring the limitations of current leadership paradigm to understand collective leadership processes, developing leadership that can address the intrinsic problems of the non-profit sector...especially organizational hierarchy and disfunction, leadership and social movements and much much more.....

What do you hope to gain from and contribute to the learning community:

I hope to build meaningful relationships with others who share a passion for exploring what we know and what we need to learn in order to transform individuals and society.

Personal areas of interest or expertise:

• Boundary-crossing
• Collaboration
• Evaluation
• Facilitation
• Networking and social capital
• Program Delivery
• Program Design
• Recruitment and Selection
• Shared leadership
• Urban leadership

Other:womens leadership

Regional Learning Circles:

Washington D.C. Area

Interest-oriented Learning Circles

• Evaluation Learning Circle
• Funders Learning Circle
• Health Learning Circle

More About You

Other Interests:

• literature
• salsa and hiking

Current Questions about Leadership & Leadership Development:

How can we create a more inclusive leadership culture?

Favorite Quotes:

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’ –a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest…a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is kind of a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace al living creatures and the whole of nature in its beaut