Thought Leader Gathering: Member Profile

 


Judi Neal
Association for Spirit at Work
36 Sylvan Hills Rd.
East Haven, CT 06516
203-467-9084

 

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Judi NealJUDI NEAL
ASSOCIATION FOR SPIRIT AT WORK
judi@spiritatwork.com
http://www.spiritatwork.com

BIOGRAPHY
After receiving her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University, Judi Neal worked 8 years full-time in industry, including 5 years as a manager for Honeywell. She has consulted to organizations for 24 years, and taught management at the University of New Haven and other universities for over 17 years. Judi is now Professor Emeritus at the University of New Haven.

She has served on the Boards of Directors of several professional, community, and academic organizations. Her clients include Pfizer, Unilever, Electric Boat, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Rodale Press, Rockport Company, Yankee Gas, Jackson Newspapers, and numerous smaller organizations.

In 1992 she made spirituality in the workplace a central focus of her research and presentations, and has gained a reputation in the national media for stressing the importance and value of spirituality into the workplace. As Founder and Executive Director of the Association for Spirit at Work, Judi helps to provide resources, information and community to those who are seeking greater integration of spirituality and work. The Association is a membership organization, and offers networking, publications, research, courses, and consulting to individuals and organizations. The Association’s website, www.spiritatwork.org, is known as “information central” of the spirituality in the workplace movement.

Judi has spoken at the United Nations, the World Business Academy, Rutgers University, The California School of Professional Psychology, Southern Connecticut State College, The Eastern Academy of Management, the National Academy of Management, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society as well as numerous national and international conferences on spirituality in the workplace.

She has also been filmed by BBC television and PBS television, and has been quoted in Business Week, Personnel Journal, CEO Magazine, American Airways Magazine, New Age Journal, The Lakewood Report, The New Leaders, The London Sunday Times, Tokyo Shimbum, The Chicago Tribune, Harvard Update Newsletter, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications.

Judi has published numerous articles on spirituality in the workplace and has edited several special editions of academic journals on the topic. She has recorded a guided meditation tape on spirituality in the workplace and a CD of original music that is used in her workshops and training. She is currently working on three books titled “Creating the Enlightened Organization,” “Virtues at Work,” and “Edgewalkers: The New Global Human” (Praeger, 2006). She published a monthly column on Amazon.com titled On the Edge.

BOOKS
Passion and Prosperity in the Workplace - Co-author with Dorothy Marcic and Steve Karnick
Author of numerous academic journal articles on spirituality in the workplace
Currently working on two books: (1) The Four Gateways to Spirit at Work, and (2) Friendly Fire: A Spiritual Warrior’s Corporate Battle.