On a recent episode of the JSN’s Ignatian Inquiry Podcast, we welcomed Dr. Karin Botto, who serves as the Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Syracuse University, and also teaches individual and collective discernment at the masters level at Le Moyne College. In 2015, Dr. Botto co-developed and published a model of Ignatian Leadership in the Journal of Jesuit Business Education, which became the backbone for several leadership development exercises across the United States. She completed her dissertation research at Creighton University on the Fourth Universal Apostolic Preference entitled, Developing the Ecological Self for Sustainability Leadership in Jesuit Higher Education in the United States.

https://soundcloud.com/user-399747186/episode-6-dr-karin-botto-on-the-ecological-self

Our podcast conversation focused on the story of one leader’s journey into the connection between ecological conversion and Ignatian leadership, of understanding how to support and develop individuals to activate their leadership around environmental sustainability. Dr. Karin Botto’s concept of the ‘ecological self’ is an important one for the Universal Apostolic Principles that are at the heart of so much of our work in Jesuit secondary and pre-secondary education. Her curiosity and foundation in research around the ‘conversion of self,’ of ‘being’ that leads to ‘doing’ is interesting and relevant to the daily efforts of teachers and leaders within our schools.

Listen to this and other episodes of the Ignatian Inquiry Podcast here!