Authors
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Olen Gunnlaugson
Université Laval, Faculty of Business (FSA ULaval), Québec, Canada
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Keywords:
Collective Leadership,
Presencing,
Leadership Development,
Social Fields,
Field-Based Leadership
Abstract
This editorial introduces Volume 3, Number 1 of the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching, devoted to the theme of Collective Leadership. Drawing together contributions from diverse perspectives, the issue explores how collective leadership emerges through relational, field-based, developmental, and presencing-oriented approaches. The editorial situates the articles within the broader evolution of presencing scholarship, highlighting several conceptual blind spots and emerging directions for research and practice. The contributions in this issue advance a field-based understanding of collective leadership and offer new perspectives on how presencing can be cultivated, embodied, and sustained within collective contexts.
Author Biography
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Olen Gunnlaugson, Université Laval, Faculty of Business (FSA ULaval), Québec, Canada
OLEN GUNNLAUGSON, PH.D. is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Coaching at Université Laval’s Business School in Québec, Canada, where he specializes in transformative and wisdom-based leadership and coaching practice.
His current research in Dynamic Presencing explores how the inner conditions for transformation can be cultivated across professional and personal life as an integrated whole. It examines how these conditions enable individuals to foster a wisdom way of being, uncover a basis for deep sanity, and thrive with resilience amid an increasingly destabilized and uncertain world. Dynamic Presencing introduces a presence-sourced, presencing-guided, and field-attuned approach to leadership, coaching, and a wisdom-guided way of living.
To date, his research contributions have appeared in over 55 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and in 15 edited, authored, and forthcoming books, including the three-volume series Advances in Presencing, which brings together leading-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from the global presencing community. His latest book offers an introduction to this presencing approach, with two additional volumes currently in development that further articulate its core practices and frameworks.
His passion for creating meaningful and transformative learning environments for MBA students has been recognized through five prestigious faculty awards for excellence in teaching in Canada and the United States. At Université Laval and other universities internationally, he mentors MBA and PhD candidates in exploring emerging frontiers of research in leadership and coaching.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching (IJPLC), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal supported by Université Laval that bridges emerging scholarship and practice in presencing-based leadership and coaching.
He is also the founder of Dynamic Presencing Coaching (DPC), a transformative coaching approach and living lineage of practice. As his principal focus of applied research, DPC integrates his teaching, coaching, and presencing-related scholarship into a unified body of work that continues to evolve through engagement with global MBA classrooms and international communities of practice.
