Danah Zohar

Danah Zohar (born 1945) is a management thought leader, physicist, philosopher and author. She is known for her work on spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital.

Biography

Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United States. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT, and did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University, where she was a student of Erik Erikson. Danah Zohar has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and at the Maquarie University School of Management in Sydney, Australia. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Danah Zohar is active in management education and consultancy. She regularly speaks at leadership forums and works with corporate leadership teams worldwide. She has worked with the leadership initiatives of both local and national governments. Together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall she runs workshops for leaders on the importance of spiritual intelligence, spiritual capital and their connection with sustainability.^[1]

Work

As a one of pioneers in extending the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization, Danah Zohar wrote The Quantum Self, The Quantum Society, and ReWiring the Corporate Brain. This path has led her to write two other ground-breaking books (coauthored with Ian Marshall) SQ - Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, and Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By which constitute work on spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital. ^[2]

Applying language and metaphors from quantum physics, chaos theory and complexity science and combining them with philosophy, psychology and sociology, Danah Zohar (together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall) posit spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital as necessary tools to attain sustainability.

Main points of spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital concepts ^[3]

Spiritual intelligence (SQ) is the intelligence with which we access our deepest meanings, purposes, and highest motivations

Spiritual capital reflects what an individual or an organization exists for, believes in, aspires to, and takes responsibility for.

SQ, spiritual capital, and sustainability are crucially linked.

SQ’s sense of meaning, values, and purpose generates spiritual capital. Spirituals capital’s wealth of meaning, values and higher motivation are necessary to sustainable capitalism and sustainable society.

Connection between three kinds of capital (material, social and spiritual) and three major human intelligences (IQ, EQ and SQ):

Capital	Intelligence	Function
Material Capital	IQ: Rational Intelligence	What I think
Social Capital	EQ: Emotional Intelligence	What I feel
Spiritual Capital	SQ: Spiritual Intelligence	What I am

Selected bibliography

• The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics (1990; ISBN 0688087809)
• Quantum Society: Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision (1994; ISBN 068810603X)
• ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations (1997; ISBN 9971512149)
• Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? (1997; ISBN 0688161073)
• SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence (2000; ISBN 0747546762)
• Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By (2004; ISBN 1576751384)

See also

• List of authors published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Spiritual Intelligence
• Spiritual Quotient

References

1. ^ www.dzohar.com
2. ^ A New Capitalism We Can Live By: An Interview with Danah Zohar, Leverage Points, Pegasus
3. ^ Leader To Leader Journal, Spiritually Intelligent Leadership

External links

• Bloomsbury
• Leader to Leader
• CSA
• Pegasus Communications
• London Speaker Bureau
• MIT
• The CEO Refresher

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Name	Zohar, Danah
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Short description	American writer
Date of birth	1945
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