Chris Ellis

Empowered Leadership provides a useful paradigm for more effectively managing work, leading people, and achieving results. Written for aspiring leaders, it combines old-school wisdom with leading-edge concepts and real-world experiences. Without long drawn-out case studies, filler anecdotes, or fluffy vignettes, this book is a clear and concise guide for young leaders in our digital world of volatility, distraction, uncertainty, and velocity. Empowered Leadership describes the nature of true power and how leaders can be more intentional, inspirational, and impactful in daily work and life.

The Enlightened Enterprise explores the frontiers of organization development, effectiveness, and meaning. Based on three decades of real-world experience, this pioneering book focuses on cutting-edge enterprise capabilities relating to conscious collaboration, workplace wisdom, managerial mindfulness, and workforce wellness. The second edition integrates the domains of behavioral psychology, contemplative traditions, living systems, organization dynamics, and proven business practices to create a blueprint for the impactful and enduring enterprise of the future.

Light Your Path is a unique guide for young people to learn more about who they are, who they can become, and what it means to live a healthy and joyful life. It seamlessly integrates wisdom teachings from many of the great schools of thought and belief systems around the world over the past several thousand years. From Confucius to Kant, Marcus Aurelius to Maya Angelou, and Lao-Tzu to Lady Gaga, it shares thought-provoking ideas from over one-hundred luminaries from ancient times up to the present day. Light Your Path distills thousands of years of wisdom into a set of engaging bit-sized teachings that will help a young adult manage stress, reduce anxiety, improve attention, increase resilience, and build healthy self-esteem. Studies show that young people raised with spiritual wisdom practices experience better overall health as they develop. With this in mind, Light Your Path blends eastern and western schools of philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, along with concepts from nature and science into a useful resource for a young person maturing in a challenging and uncertain world. With a strong emphasis on practical mindfulness and healthy habits, Light Your Path awakens a young mind to the many benefits of increased consciousness at an early age, including uncommon courage, concentration, and compassion. It is a great companion for one's amazing adventure in growing up

The illustrated story of New York graffiti artist Daze— Includes over 250 unpublished photos of '70's and '80's graffiti and modern international murals and studio paintings. Foreword by graffiti historian and chronicler Sacha Jenkins. This is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis’s successful transition from the subways to international studios and galleries. Follow his 30+ year career from his days as a teenage graffiti writer to his current life as a professional painter, mentor, and family man. This book, with more than 250 photographs, is a journey tracking the seminal moments in Daze’s life that shaped his art. View his aesthetic evolution, from “Graffiti High” (New York’s High School of Art and Design) and an “unsanctioned” street art phase to exhibitions with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Train photos from the 1970s and ’80s, a broad representation of Daze’s studio and mural works, and personal photos guide the reader through an artistic portfolio spanning five decades. Contributions by graffiti writer Jay “J. SON” Edlin and essayist Claire Schwartz, and a foreword by graffiti historian and chronicler Sacha Jenkins, complete this volume.