Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Spirit at Work Conference. They held their annual awards and conference here in Atlanta. The conference, entitled Beyond Wealth: Creating and Measuring Authentic Success, honored companies and individuals who have demonstrated certain criteria that fosters human values like courage, compassion, faith, and hope. It was inspiring to be in the company of such purposeful, professional and committed people. There were people from all around the world who came to this intimate conference to celebrate and discuss how business can be different.

I was excited to hear Patricia Aburdeen's keynote program. She is the author of MegaTrends 2010.  She blends the practical business goals with demonstrating how companies who have followed a holistic mission of impacting "stakeholders" vs. just "stockholders" when growing a company.  She also cited Stephen M.R. Covey's (Big daddy's son) book, about trust. When trust -in an organization/team/within oneself - when trust goes up then speed goes up and costs come down.  Isn't that amazing to hear?  When we trust each other things happen at a quicker pace and it's cheaper because we're all in sync.  (isn't that beautiful to envision?) We intuitively know this to be true and yet we often  still feel pressured that the way to quick revenue to move quick regardless of the trust of the environment/circumstances/people/intuition.

I also volunteered to support a few of the conference speakers as room monitor, as well as, display the Joyful Business products in the bookstore. It was very fun to be at the author signing party sharing the Joyful Business products with spiritual minded, gratitude-loving, business people!

I have also really enjoyed getting to know Tricia Molloy, author of Divine Wisdom at Work.  I first heard  her speak a few weeks ago at the Enlightened Entrepreneurs Network.  Next thing I know I'm being the room monitor for her program at Spirit at Work. Don't you love how the universe works in synchronicities?  Or, as Tricia refers to them as "godwinks"!  She shares her 10 Universal Principles for working with Wisdom.  We're like two spirit sisters!  Be sure to check out her book on her website at Divine Wisdom at Work!

En-joy!

Laura

Comments

[Angela]

That sounds like an incredible conference! One reason I am so drawn to building a business for myself is that I want to be a part of a business with soul, with integrity and with trust and spiritual principles at its core. I've never had that opportunity in the corporate world.

[Laura West]

Hi Angela,

Oh, you are in good company! There are lots of up corporate refugees who have decided that we need to do our 'own thing" in order to create the values we want to honor when we are doing business.
I've worked with many amazing and wonderful people in corporate world, unfortunately the culture, industry we swam in didn't always encourage us to shine - especially after 5 buyout/mergers/acquisitions in 6 years!
Cheers to people creating the change they want to see!
Laura