The Taos Institute
Steve Lawler is an experienced professional in organization development, executive coaching, and leadership facilitation. Currently serving in special projects at Eden Theological Seminary and as an associate at The Taos Institute, Steve has a long-standing role as an organization development consultant with The Lawler Organization since 1997. Previously, Steve was the founding director of Walker Leadership Institute at Eden Seminary and rector at Saint Stephen's & The Vine, where leadership was provided to the Episcopal parish, and a community initiative was co-founded. Tenure at Washington University in St. Louis involved strengthening courses in global leadership and management, sustainability, and healthcare. Additional roles include managing director positions at Opinions Incorporated and ExpertEyes NV, as well as serving as chief possibilities officer at xplane and associate rector at The Church of St. Michael & St. George. Steve holds advanced degrees in critical theory, parish ministry, and sociology, along with an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
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The Taos Institute
The Taos Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value. We are a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations around the world. Social constructionist theory and practice locates the source of meaning, value and action in the relational connection among people. It is through our social and relational processes that we construct the world. We achieve our educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, certificate programs, distance learning programs, newsletters, and web-based offerings. We work at the interface between the scholarly community and societal practitioners from communities of mental health, social work, counseling, organizational change, education, community building, gerontology, healthcare and more. We develop and explore the ways in which scholarly research can enrich professional practices, and practices can stimulate scholarly inquiry.