SOUL BIOGRAPHY AND MEMORIAL
Nic Askew is a former geographical explorer and business director, now an educator, filmmaker, and creator of the Soul Biographies® Film Portrait Series. This film featuring Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper focuses on free spiritedness and love in business. “When you love life, when you love your customers, when you love your business you bring a different self to it, and affected leaders have to change to fall in love…”
This video is of the memorial service celebrating the life and legacy of Georgia Ann McGee-Cooper held on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at the Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ in Dallas, Texas.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO HOME FROM WORK EXHAUSTED!
This series of clips is from a seminar presented at the Cable Television News Network based on the business best-seller book
You Don’t’ Have to Go Home From Work Exhausted! by Ann McGee-Cooper and Duane Trammell.
How do you live a life with abundant energy rather than dragging yourself home from work each day? In the first clip of this series, Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper talks about the power of passion, joy, positive humor, enthusiasm, and child-like play. Ann leads us through an energy audit, asking deep questions to help identify our energy drains and discover new ways to refuel our energy resources.
Have you ever watched children playing and wondered, “where do they get all that energy?” In the second video of this series, Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper explains the secret of recapturing the vitality of childhood and how business leaders can apply these traits to build energy. Ann also explores collecting role models, the concept of genius, and the role of brain-dominance and energy.
How do we know when we are in burnout? In this video Dr. McGee-Cooper shares how to recognize the symptoms of burnout, the result of living in burnout, how to avoid traps that drain our energy, and gives us tips for ways to get our lives back into balance. Through her personal stories and vulnerability Ann helps us face similar issues in our own lives.
Do you ever feel like the more you work the more there is to do? In this video, Dr. McGee-Cooper helps us identify the traps that keep us from living high-energy lives. Ann helps us see new ways to move forward, reversing the old paradigm of finishing our work before we can play, unlearning old patterns, and imaging a balanced work-life and the importance of play.
Do you still need some convincing, or practical ways to live into your abundant energy? In this video, Dr. McGee-Cooper explains the differences between the way adults and children play and how adult play can actually steal our joy and energy. Ann also explores the difference of child-like and child-ish behaviors and shares a story of how child-like play transformed her life – at age 50!
In the concluding video of this series, Dr. McGee-Cooper illustrates the power of play and tap dances with Shirley Temple. Ann’s story helps us understand how healing, empowering, and energizing our childhood dreams can be, even after waiting decades to claim them.
WORDS MADE FLESH | ANN MCGEE-COOPER AND JACK LOWE
Ginny Gilmore, as founder of the Center for Spirituality and Leadership, and the Sophia Foundation, interviewed leaders from across the country.
These video clips are from a longer interview Ginny Gilmore did with Ann McGee-Cooper and Jack Lowe. Here they explore the spirit and soul of leadership…how to engage and connect with others through intuition and how to bring spirit and energy to your work each day.
Building Better Organizations through Servant Leadership
On February 17, 2000, Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper and Duane Trammell presented a two-day symposium for the McKinney Chamber of Commerce.
The following clips are excerpts from that presentation
MODELING THE WAY
In this 13 minute clip, Ann tells the story of two principals she served under, one a servant-leader and one who was not. Through sharing intimate parts of her life as a wife, mother, and teacher, she explains how her principal Wade Thompson not only encouraged her growth and development as a teacher, but also supported her through a difficult time in her life.
PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE IN OUR LIVES
In this 10 minute clip, Ann guides viewers through an exercise to think back through people who have been influential in their lives. She asks us to consider “what are the traits that diminish others and what are the traits that inspire us to be better leaders?”
ROBERT GREENLEAF AND SERVANT AS LEADER
In this five minute clip, Ann speaks about the life of Robert Greenleaf and tells the story of Leo, from Servant as Leader. She ends with the Best Test of Servant Leadership.
DISCOVERING THE CALL
In this 8 minute video clip, Ann shares her personal calling. As a young woman, she was inspired by a Vincent Van Gough painting, “Starry Night” which led her to a call: to recognize genius and encourage it.
AWAKENING GENIUS WITH A PERSONAL TIMELINE
In this 10 minute clip, Ann shares how to create a personal timeline of genius that can help you discover your strengths and calling in how to serve others.
In this video, Ann talks about how counterintuitive transparency can be sometimes. Also, she shares how her mentors have helped her through rough times by being authentic and transparent.
GETTING ABOVE THE LINE
UNLOCKING THE KEYS TO YOUR PRISON
In this brief video clip, Ann shares why she made the transition from academia to business. As she explores living at the higher level of INTERdendence or Servant Leadership, she challenges us to think about what accountability, conflict resolution, planning, meetings, decision-making, and performance reviews look like from this vantage point.
LIFE-WORK BALANCE
In this video clip, Ann talks about the challenge servant-leaders are faced with when they love their work, are heavily involved in the community, and have little time left for their own renewal. She references Robert Greenleaf in his understanding of how important it is “to have the ability to withdraw, use systematic neglect, and learn to pace oneself.” How can we find the energy to be our best selves?
AN INTRO TO THE SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CULTURE
In this short video, Ann introduces Herb Kellerher and Colleen Barrett and how they have built strength through difference through the years. She also introduces the SWA Culture Committee and how TMCA became a part of it.
This series of clips is from the seminar “Juggling 101: Managing Life’s Challenges” presented at the Cable Television News Network in May 2004 based on the business best seller Time Management for Unmanageable People.
SPLIT BRAIN RESEARCH
Are you constantly running out of time? Do you typically juggle several projects at once? Do you procrastinate and push deadlines? Do you have little time for family, friends, and fun? The old rules of time management fail many of us. Learn how traditional time management does not work for some because of the way their brains process information. You can learn to create your own system that works!
EXPLAINING THE RIGHT BRAIN
In this clip, Ann explains how people who have a right-brain dominance prefer to process information and work best by working on several tasks simultaneously. They also organize through pile system, like to talk a problem with people, and have a tendency to go with gut feeling as opposed to reports or data.
EXPLAINING THE LEFT BRAIN
In this clip, Ann explains how people who have a left-brain dominance prefer to process information best by working on one project to completion without interruption. They also work best in a clean, orderly environment. They like to study and analyze data to solve a problem and have a tendency to go with facts and data, rather than hunches and intuition.
WHY TRATIDIONAL TIME MANAGEMENT DOES NOT WORK FOR SOME
In this clip, Ann shows how the right brain sees planning, prioritizing, scheduling, and follow up differently from the left brain and gives examples on what to do to achieve better results. Learn how to create a system that works for you, rather than against you.
HOLISTIC PRIORITIZING THROUGH CREATIVITY
In this clip, Ann gives an example of how a right-brained person prioritizes conceptually without communicating their decisions to others. In this illustration, Ann explains how she and her Partner, Duane, created a visual structure to show how you can look at different tasks and holistically prioritize projects.
MAKING SCHEDULING FUN
Most of us use Outlook or other digital planning tools, but there are interesting tips in this clip that can still help right-brained dominant people make their calendar fun. Ann explains how you can use color, images, and plan for “invisible” time like travel, planning, unexpected conversations or meetings to help you stay on schedule. The most important element? Make it fun!!
OFFICE ORGANIZATION TECHNIQUES
In this clip, Ann shows how you can use a To-Do, Doing, Done Board to track individual or team tasks as they progress. This fun tool can also be used at home with your family. We also see a messy, out-of-control desk transformed into an organized, fun, efficient workspace. You can use these same techniques to create a great, creative environment for yourself.
A treasure recently re-found! Ann McGee-Cooper and Ray Adler talking about INTUITION
A visionary ahead of her time, Ann McGee-Cooper gave an in-depth interview over two decades ago on the role of intuition. Enjoy this great archive footage interviewed, rediscovered, and shared by Ray Adler, restored and re-edited by Luis Duran Aparicio.