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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Bring the KOAN method to your team or organization first
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.





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.