Center for Leadership
Studies

Lucira Jane Nebelung has been engaged in exploring the human mind and orchestrating large scale change for decades, playing many roles that range from scientist to coach. With a background in research psychology and experience as an executive coach on leadership effectiveness for Fortune 100 companies, Nebelung has always been passionate about leadership and helping people to find who they are as leaders. She fits into the MAOL by facilitating discussions around integrity and authenticity in leadership.

“In order for a leader to be truly authentic, or even for someone to truly be a leader, in every moment what they need to have is what we call presence,” Nebelung explains. “Being present creates a resonance of authenticity that puts you in a leadership place because you’re bringing forth who you are and what you are according to possibility and creation.”

As founder and president of Nebelung Associates, Nebelung coaches executives on implementing organization change and in achieving leadership effectiveness. Her clients include Liz Claiborne, CIGNA, Aetna, Texas Instruments, the Bureau of business Practices, and LIMRA International. In her roles, Nebelung has observed many people who are not in fact leaders pushed into leadership roles. She contends, however, that everyone has the potential to be a leader, but needs to be aware and present in order to attain effective, compelling leadership.

“People sense when one is in authenticity and they naturally want to follow them. Somebody in an executive position is also a leader and in being authentic, they give others in their organization permission to do the same,” Nebelung says. “Leadership moves from who you are, beingness, to what you do. Your actions are an expression of who you are.”

Nebelung says that she enjoys working with MAOL candidates because they bring an already high level of self-awareness and a desire for self-awareness. Drawing on her experience, Nebelung helps leaders see the patterns that impede their effectiveness as leaders, aiding them to overcome their automatic behavior. She sees her purpose as a coach and as an MAOL faculty member to bring forth the leadership capability that is already there that ego has the tendency to block, veil or hold back.

“In the MAOL we bring forth and allow them to develop fully who they are in the context of their work as leaders. It’s not a theoretical exercise if you will, or learning behaviors and traits; it’s being fully who they are and giving them space to grow and learn and bring that forth.”

Nebelung has authored a book, Leadership in Service to Life, and more than 50 business and professional articles. She is an instructor in executive business programs and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Quinnipiac University. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP), World Future Society, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).