Spirituality in the World of Business" Subject of April 5 Lecture

SALISBURY, MD---Michael Thompson, author of the Congruent Life: Following the Inward Path to Fulfilling Work and Inspired Leadership, speaks about "Spirituality in the World of Business" on Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. at Salisbury State University.

Thompson's presentation, part of this spring's lecture series, "Listening to Spiritual Perspectives," is in the Wicomico Room in the Guerrieri University Center. Admission is free and the public is invited.

Thompson is a consultant, writer, teacher and executive coach whose diverse career has given him an intimate knowledge of the worlds of business, law and academia. A licensed attorney, his legal practice afforded him an opportunity to advise business concerns ranging from the entrepreneurial to the multi-national on issues that ranged from the legal and regulatory to the strategic and managerial.

He was for eight years vice president and counsel for a Fortune 500 company and taught for seven years at the Calloway School of Business of Wake Forest University, serving for five of those years as assistant dean.

Thompson's consulting practice currently focuses on organizational dynamics and assessment, executive leadership development and executive coaching. In addition to his private consulting practice, he is senior consultant with Staub Leadership Consultants in Greensboro, NC, a consultant with R. Thomas Consulting and Training in Atlanta, an adjunct consultant with Manchester Consulting of Philadelphia and an adjunct and feedback coach with the Center for Creative Leadership.

He received his B.A. and Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a John Motley Morehead Scholar. He also studied for two years at the Washington Theological Union's Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, where he was trained in the art of Christian spiritual direction.

The spirituality lecture series is sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee on Spiritual Life and Cultural Affairs Council. For more information on Thompson's presentation, please call the Salisbury State Public Relations Office at 410-543-6030.