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Facilitating Leadership

A Quick And Easy Guide To Leading with Brain, Heart & Soul

This book is the result of an experiment conducted in April 2023 with the support of ChatGPT. The experiment was based on three simple premises: 1) to write a book, 2) to document the process through at least three posts per week on LinkedIn, and 3) to ask for feedback twice during the month.

The result is a book that reveals facilitation as the missing link for leadership. On the way to that key insight, the book takes you through a journey of valuable leadership concepts, stories, and quotes to inspire and deepen your own leadership journey and enable you to lead yourself, others and entire organizations and systems. It’s like an appetizer plate of key frameworks and ideas to help leaders navigate the complex world we live in.

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Andres Marquez-Lara

About The Author

Andres Marquez-Lara is the Founder and CEO of UFacilitate, a leadership development, and facilitation training company. With more than 100 expert facilitators around the world, they help groups align toward joyful, powerful action. UFacilitate is what you get when you combine Airbnb + Deloitte + Rumi, the poet.

Andres has personally designed and facilitated hundreds of events with thousands of participants. The methodology he developed is dynamic and inclusive blending approaches from design thinking, improv theater, and systems thinking. Past clients include multiple national and international organizations that include the Inter-American Development Bank, Operation Smile, Easterseals, The Nature Conservancy, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Stanford University, and many others.

Testimonials

“It has been my pleasure to know and to work with Andres for more than 15 years. He is a gifted teacher, facilitator, and coach whose core gift is nurturing and activating the core of personal power that lies within each of us. In my work as a leader and as an educator of leaders, I have experienced so many leaders who have fallen victim to the cultural myth that “to be a leader who is sensitive to others is to be a weak leader”. Many of those leaders found themselves feeling very conflicted about what to do with their gifts of sensitivity and their ability to tune into others at both emotional and, even, somatic levels. And the more that they tried to stifle those gifts and suppress their gifts of emotional intelligence they found themselves feeling de-energized and out of touch with themselves.

I am so glad that Andres has chosen to share his journey including the self-doubts, and struggles as well as how he grew through those challenges. As a result of his life experiences and his skills of introspection and self-awareness, he has become adept at helping others to grow through realization of their inner conflicts and to summon the courage to move beyond the restrictive comfort zones imposed by our false notions of “strong leadership” and, thus, develop the kind of integrity which serves as their foundation for the kind of authentic courageous leadership which is so needed.”

Jim RobinsonExecutive Director, Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, The George Washington University

"I’m so very glad that we have come to a point in our “culture about workplace culture” where sensitivity, emotional richness and complexity, and creativity and play are acceptable subject matters in leadership courses in the university and in business environments. Marquez-Lara’ s refreshing book is in this new tradition, and shows us ways to meld the cognitive/emotive, the creative/scientific, and the pragmatic/philosophical for leaders in many different phases of their journeys. His book is an exciting addition to the leadership development conversation."

Cathy SalitAuthor of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work, CEO Emerita, Performance of a Lifetime

"Wow - what a powerful book. It is FULL of amazing and inspiring stories, tools, tips, and ideas. Truly - what a great resource. I cannot believe Andres did this using AI. I am in disbelief!"

Janet Nami McIntyre (she/her)Director, Resilience Initiative

"The other day I was working with a team of leaders preparing to navigate the inevitable complexity that the coming years will bring. I went to Facilitating Leadership: A quick and easy guide to leading with brain, heart & soul and found some very helpful frameworks and perspective that I used in my facilitation with this team, leading to better outcomes. Thank you!"

Andrew MarshallFormer VP at the Partnership for Public Service & Co-Founder & CEO, Model Leader