Personal Reflections on Nathaniel Branden: My Guru and More

The author discusses how the work of Nathaniel Branden inspired him to seek out and learn from him. They coauthored an article that reached business audiences and was very well received. The two worked together to integrate segments on self-esteem in an innovative and highly acclaimed weeklong Leadership Development Program that the author had designed. Branden’s participation in these programs integrated his sentence completion techniques into leadership sessions, and posed new challenges on how to connect the insights from this exercise and its impact on leadership behaviors in the work environment.