Loving Her Work: Leadership through crisis with Angelene Chan, CEO DP Architects

Angelene Chan speaks freely from the heart, with clarity and depth from a life that balances professional pressure in a company that stretches from Shanghai to London with family and service to others. She speaks gratefully of her professional work. “ I love my work” – she says. Meditation has helped her continue to love her family too and stay centred in her professional and inner life. In this second talk, Father Laurence asks Angelene to explain how meditation helped her with the burden of leadership that she carries, especially in times of crisis. "I feel everyone is a leader in their own right, you don't need to have a team of people under you, you can still be an example for others and be a leader. Since becoming a regular meditator my idea of professional success is grounded on how well I can align my personal value system with the business decisions I take on behalf of the organization, in other words how I can bring aspects of spirituality like empathy, inclusiveness in what is essentially a secular environment."