Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence

In a time defined by complexity, disruption, and rapid innovation, Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence offers a transformative roadmap for leaders ready to rise with clarity, courage, and conscience. Merging timeless leadership principles with modern insights in emotional intelligence, mindfulness, ethical decision-making, and AI ethics, this book redefines how leaders influence, inspire, and impact the world around them.

Across fifteen compelling chapters, Dr. Mark Bojeun presents an integrated framework for conscious leadership--one that harmonizes performance with purpose and results with relationships. Readers will explore how to cultivate self-awareness, lead with authenticity, and build the emotional resilience necessary to thrive in uncertain environments. They will discover how to foster inclusive, values-driven cultures that ignite innovation, while learning to communicate with empathy, intentionality, and strategic presence.

The book also provides guidance for navigating ambiguity, driving transformation, and leading with clarity in an increasingly AI-augmented world--all while aligning personal development with meaningful organizational impact.

Whether you are a senior executive refining your leadership presence, an emerging leader seeking deeper influence, or an educator preparing the next generation of changemakers, Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence delivers the mindset, structure, and tools to lead consciously and create a legacy built on trust, relevance, and purpose.

Lead with awareness. Influence with integrity. Transform with intention.

Dr. Mark Bojeun has more than twenty years of experience in software development, project and program management, and developing and managing program management offices (PMOs). For the last 15 years, Dr. Bojeun has taught program, project, and risk management These courses helped hundreds of Project Management Professional (PMP) candidates achieve their certification and have expanded the body of knowledge on project and program management, extending the value of the certification to government as well as to domestic and international corporations.

Dr. Bojeun has extensive experience in providing transformational leadership and strategic support to executive management professionals in the development and implementation of organizational vision, mission, and strategic objectives. He currently holds Program Management Professional (PgMP) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMI), is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), and holds an MBA from George Mason University and a PhD in organizational leadership.

Currently, a Chief Technology Officer for Viewrail, Dr. Bojeun continues to build and lead high-performing teams to exceed objectives on programs around the world. He has assisted corporations in creating their own Enterprise Project Management Offices (EPMOs) and has developed processes and best practices for organizations to leverage in consistently achieving project/program success internally and externally.