On Greenland’s west coast, residents of the town of Ilulissant – the name means “among the icebergs” – leave each day to fish, moving among the icebergs generated from the Jakobshavn glacier. Glaciers are slowly moving rivers of ice, but since 1997, the Jakobshavn glacier has doubled its speed, making it the world’s fastest glacier. It’s now moving more than the length of a football field each day. And the icebergs that break off from it are sometimes more than 40 stories high and three city blocks wide.

Imagine not knowing from day to day – or even hour to hour – what lies in the water before you. Imagine the skill and the courage it takes to navigate in such waters.

Imagine yourself succeeding.

Imagine your company succeeding.

This is authentic leadership action.

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A 2006 participant speaks regarding Mo’s leadership of a year-long leadership development program for Executive Directors of nonprofit organization at the University of St. Thomas:

"As someone responsible for the growth and professional development at a 113 year old agency, I take great pride and effort to remain on the cutting edge of everything socially responsible and educationally relevant to the work we must do at The Lighthouse, Inc.  Having attended a similar course at Harvard University last year, I must say the approach in translating relevant 21st Century organization development knowledge is comparable if not superior; throughout St, Thomas University and it's proactive faculty.  I am personally honored and count it a privilege to be amongst such colleagues while learning from such talented and esteemed professors as Ann Johnson and Mo Fahnestock." 

Dr. Gregory O'Dell McMillan, DD,CCC
Director of Planning & Organizational Development
The Lighthouse, Inc.

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Mo Fahnestock, Ph.D.   President,  Authentic Leadership Action Inc.

Mo Fahnestock brings 20 years of consulting and work experience with for-profit, not-for-profit and government entities in service delivery, leadership and organizational change. His organizational development work in creating human service delivery systems has been recognized as best practice on state and national levels. 

As leadership architect, Mo works directly with clients and ALA consultants to create, guide, and implement interventions that launch organizations into a robust and successful future.

But stepping to the edge is scary. With Mo as their guide, helping them discover “what is really going on,” leadership teams, boards and organizations take that crucial next step and are transformed in the process to new levels of performance, effectiveness, accountability and impact. This is only possible because Mo generates the deep trust that allows for such risk-taking.

Mo uses humor and insight to create fun, dynamic, engaging and meaningful training programs that build authentic relational networks – not only between teams and labor and management – but throughout all levels of organizational leadership. His greatest abilities are clarifying and effectively communicating complex ideas, constructs and processes; translating polarities into manageable scenarios, and assisting others to work comfortably in the paradoxes of our time.

His passion is to engage participants and organizations in authentic growth and development through deep listening, thoughtful dialogue and wise personal, professional and organizational leadership development programs.