Scott Thompson, IAF member and assistant executive director of the Panasonic Foundation in New Jersey, has published Leading from the Eye of the Storm: Spirituality and Public School Improvement. It has a foreword by Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science.

Leading from the Eye of the Storm explores the spiritual dimensions of leading a social system, such as a public school district, through the complexities of change. Topics include: core values, moral purpose, building shared trust, ownership, and vision. This book is intended for school superintendents, central office directors, school board members, principals, teacher leaders, and those who facilitate or provide technical assistance on systemic educational improvement.

Parker J. Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness, The Courage to Teach, and Let Your Life Speak, among other books, wrote the following endorsement of this book: "The America I love now suffers from a toxic brew of fear, cynicism, and false bravado that is taking a terrific toll on everything from individual to institutional life. If we are to deal with the spiritual emptiness behind all this -- and find responses that honor the needs of a pluralistic democracy -- our public schools must become places where questions of meaning and purpose are taken seriously. Here is a superbly written book that will help educational leaders step up to that challenge. Using tools ranging from poetry, to social analysis, to interviews with changes agents, to case studies of transformation, Scott Thompson makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the spiritual depths that are hidden, but not lost, in our individual and collective lives."