the KOAN method
Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World
Jennifer Lyn Simpson, PhD
It is time to build a better way of leading and organizing
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KOAN Keynote
$10,000.00Be the first to share the KOAN method live. Being an early supporter at this level gets you an on-site keynote address, and a 2-hour session with the CEO and/or Executive team, plus books for up to 100* leaders. Now booking in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024
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KOAN Conversation
$2,500.00Get the conversation started. Digital content introduces the KOAN method to your team while the book is in press, followed by a 90-minute virtual session with your team and books for up to 25* leaders.
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KOAN Collector
$75.00Show your support for the KOAN method by purchasing an autographed limited-edition hardcover along with a custom-designed bookmark
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KOAN Crew
$35.00When you buy the book now, we’ll add you to the list to receive pre-release content, and ship you a copy of the book two weeks before sales open to the public
Fundamentally, this project is not about breaking down and examining, it is about weaving and connecting. It honors the shoulders it stands on and makes an attempt to “put the pieces back together again.”
Meet the Author
Jennifer Lyn Simpson, Ph.D. is (she/her) is Integrated Work’s CEO. She developed the KOAN method as an outgrowth of more than 30 years of working in and with organizations across the private, public, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors to create more meaningful and effective ways of living and working together across differences.
In Zen Buddhism, a KOAN is a saying or mantra designed to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning for achieving enlightenment.
The KOAN concept is also a helpful framework for imagining new models for living and organizing in Kind, Open, Adaptive, Networks.
Rooted both in ancient wisdom, and cutting-edge research, the KOAN method gives us an alternative model for evaluating and evolving how we come together as humans to solve the important issues facing our world today.
Be the leader you’ve been waiting for
the KOAN method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World confronts the failure of yesterday’s models of leading and organizing to solve today’s most pressing problems and makes the case for a new, and better, way.