Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age

By Juana Bordas

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED



One of America’s historic strengths is the ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, sports, architecture, food, and fashion have all benefitted. But current leadership approaches are overwhelmingly written by White males and remain distressingly Eurocentric. Juana Bordas has set out to change this. In this influential book, she shows how incorporating Latino, Black, and American Indian approaches can enrich leadership and offers a more viable model for our expanding multicultural society.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781609941192

Juana Bordas

Juana Bordas is president of Mestiza Leadership International, a company that focuses on leadership and diversity. She immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua on a banana boat. She received the Franklin H. Williams Award from the US Peace Corps for her lifelong commitment to advancing communities of color. Bordas served as adviser to Harvard's Journal on Hispanic Policy and the Kellogg National Fellows Program, vice chair of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, and trustee of the International Leadership Association. She received an honorary doctorate from Union University in 2009 and currently serves on its board.

Reviews for Salsa, Soul, and Spirit

[breton06 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was a great book. I've been struggling to find leadership materials that don't follow a traditional, euro-centric, patriarchal concept of leadership. This book really highlights a great many aspects of leadership from a less "me" orientation and more communal perspective from a variety of other cultures and histories. I'd highly recommend it.