The Awakened Leader: Leadership as a Classroom of the Soul by Susan Trout, PhD, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Service.
Susan has gifted a set of her four books to Healing Beyond Borders for use within our community. The Awakened Leaderhas been designated by our organization as an HBB Instructor Book read and is currently reserved for HBB Instructors only. Cost is shipping and handling with the continental USA. International instructors, please contact Healing Beyond Borders for further options.
The Awakened Leader: Leadership as a Classroom of the Soul envisions an unparalleled era of conscious leaders able to balance the virtues of heart and mind, spirit and matter, and feminine and masculine while working with shadow issues and maintaining right relations with those they lead.
Healing Beyond Borders will provide complimentary copies of The Awakened Leader: Leadership as a Classroom of the Soul for the cost of shipping only.
Instructors can request a complimentary copy of book and pay shipping costs here in the Healing Beyond Borders online shop.
About Susan Trout:
Now retired, Susan Trout has focused her life on a single purpose—to understand service as a way to live in harmony with the soul’s true nature. As a result, the teachings within her work, including The Soul and Service Trilogy including Born to Serve (on the Healing Beyond Borders Book List), The Awakened Leader, The Clarion Call, and To Show Another Way: How to Learn, Heal, and Serve at a Time of Crisis on Planet Earth (2020), synthesize universal spiritual teachings, psychological and neurological research, and inner revelation with practical applications. Susan has written and taught worldwide about service, leadership, soul development, and group life, including a keynote presentation at our 2006 conference in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Susan co-founded and pioneered the Institute for the Advancement of Service, in Washington, DC, in 1980. Its school of thought is known as The Clarion Way—the name given to the collective teachings of The Soul and Service Trilogy. Throughout the 45-year life of the Institute for the Advancement of Service, Susan served as its Executive Director and President of the Board. Following the Institute's official closing on March 1, 2025, she has continued to dedicate her efforts to sharing the transformative teachings of The Soul and Service Trilogy with individuals, leaders, groups, and organizations searching for concrete ways to usher in the new world through the free distribution of her books.
Susan holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and Northwestern University in psychoneurology and communication disorders. She has worked as a specialist and researcher in communication and neurological disorders in Alaska, Illinois, and California, including serving as a research consultant for a study of neurophysiology in children with brain disorders in Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California. In the 1970s, Susan co-founded and served as the chair of an innovative, nationally recognized clinical training program in neurological learning disorders at the University of the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Susan's work has been cited in numerous publications of various disciplines. For over 50 years, she has served leaders and organizations worldwide as they come to view their service and leadership as a classroom for spiritual development and self-transformation – a classroom of the soul.