— Bold Vision and Clear, Heart-Centered Purpose

— Conscious Transformation & Change

— Skillful Communication

— Work, entrepreneuring, and leadership as 'engaged spirituality' and 'lived purpose'

— Using guided visualizations and 'intuitive inquiry' to reconnect with intuition, personal symbolism, archetypes, and other inner-guidance that informs meaningful action.

— Using timeless wisdom and archetypes of Creativity, the Feminine, Chaos, Feminine/Masculine integration, and your unique blueprint for greater effectiveness, purpose-alignment, wisdom, brilliance, creativity, meaning, joy, and balance (individual and/or group).

— Four Pillars, Five Element theory, and 'Destiny Shifting', based on the Emei Qigong and Taoist philosophy 'Changing the Moving Program of Life' and other influences.

...and other topics aligned with the Ivy Sea^® vision and the content you see here at Ivy Sea Online.

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"Walters is a prophet of an emerging new economy of intelligent, caring, cutting edge entrepreneurs who seek to make a living — not a killing." — David C. Korten, author of The Great Turning, When Corporations Rule the World and A Post-Corporate World; former faculty, Harvard Business School; and board chair, Positive Futures Network

"As a result of my work thus far with Ivy Sea, I am opening new frontiers that I couldn’t even imagine before our work together. Jamie has a rare blend of intelligence, intuition, business wisdom, and most of all, the vision of an Eagle. Of everyone I know and have worked with, I trust her without reservation. I am honored and privileged to be on the receiving end of her many talents and gifts. For the first time I really feel truly and expertly supported." — Carmina Cuilty-McGee, President and Founder, Carmina McGee, Inc.

"As the title of her book (Big Vision, Small Business) would imply, Jamie is ambi-talented: She is extremely gifted at the art of visioning while remaining attentive to detail. Creative and resourceful, she brings wit and grace to everything she does." — Maggie Oman Shannon, Author, and Founder of The New Story

"I’ve known and admired Jamie Walters for many years. Her brainchild, Ivy Sea, along with her unique perspectives and insights, provide the fuel for our continuing dialogue on progressive organizations and the requisite communications strategies that will bring them to fruition. As an organizational psychology scholar, I eagerly anticipate my encounters with Jamie to share her latest visionary observations." — T.Q. Hill, Organizational Development and Communication Executive

"Jamie Walters is an entrepreneurial visionary — wisely focused, inspirational, calm and infectiously motivational. She regularly challenges my notions, educates my methods, and opens my ears. You can't walk away from a conversation with her without experiencing re-energized clarity and feeling compelled to rethink some key part of your process." — S.Putnam Tupper, Founder, Shelby Designs & Illustrates

"When you’re running a business, you spend all your time putting out fires. Jamie was able to pull us away from the day to day and get us to look at the bigger picture. Now the biggest "fire" is not always the client that is yelling the loudest, but the things that align with our larger goals." — P.R., Founder and COO, Deluxe Digital Media

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Jamie's media interviews and links

Jamie Walters is the founder of Ivy Sea^®, the author of Big Vision, Small Business and other works, and a guide and inspiration source for conscious-business and right-livelihood pioneers — the visionary sole-proprietors, healers, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are rising up to passionately redefine, realign, and create the new era for the way we live, interact, lead, and approach our work.

Since launching the first incarnation of her firm in 1992, Jamie and her Ivy Sea^® Collaborators have consulted to and inspired a wide variety of organizations, enterprise leaders, and entrepreneurs clarify the vision for and navigate the pathways to inspired leadership, conscious enterprise, organizational transformation, and skillful communication.

Over the years, Jamie and Ivy Sea have consulted to Fortune 500 corporations, health systems, nonprofit organizations, fast-growth companies, small enterprises, and emerging world-changers, status-quo-agitators, and paradigm-shifters.

Jamie's first book, Big Vision, Small Business (Berrett-Koehler Publishers), was released to excellent reviews and several "best of the year" nods, is translated in five languages, and has inspired thousands of solo- and SOHO entrepreneurs around the world. Jamie also contributed to Positively MAD: Making a Difference in Your Organizations, Communities, and the World, also from Berrett-Koehler, and is the author of Managerial Excellence: Leading at the Visionary Edge, forthcoming from ICFAI University Press.

In addition to her books, Jamie has published many articles, has been featured in USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, and other publications, and has enjoyed being a guest on a variety of radio shows. She's currently knee-deep in the research phase for her next book.

In the pre-Ivy Sea years of her career, Jamie worked on the legislative staffs of a New York State Assembly Speaker and a California Assembly woman; handled communication, marketing and public affairs for a cosmetics manufacturer and an environmental consulting firm; and set up and managed the Commonwealth of Virginia's Superfund Community Relations Program, which included high-visibility, sensitive-issues outreach to more than 40 hazardous waste cleanup sites throughout Virginia. The program's director commented that Jamie had "through her diligent and effective work, made Superfund cleanups a non-issue in Virginia."

From an early age, Jamie has pursued studies of humankind's spiritual, mystical, philosophical, and wisdom traditions, and has augmented her personal practice and study with committed training and ongoing practice in Taoist Qigong, intuitive development, energy healing, mindset-mastery, and engaged spirituality, which includes 'right livelihood', 'skillful communication', and inspired and integrity centered leadership.

She is a faculty member and forum guide for the Cultural Creative Network and Cultural Creative Business Network; is on the advisory council of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies); and is a behind-the-scenes Muse and advisor for other gathering forces. She is also a past-president of the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.

Jamie received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where she studied political science, english and religion.

Her continuing education has included graduate courses, intensives, one-on-one instruction, apprenticing, and personal study in mindful transformation, strategic change facilitation, coaching for performance, natural systems theory, Five Element theory, crisis communication, the craft of writing, energy healing and management, intuitive development and applied intuition, and the 'practical incorporation' of Sacred Feminine and other timeless Wisdom and important archetypes.

To deepen her gnosis of the Divine Feminine traditions, she participated in a Wisdom University graduate intensive on the Sacred Feminine & Black Madonna in October of 2005. She spent several weeks in France with the Wisdom University group, led by author and mystic, Dr. Andrew Harvey, and Indigenous Mind program founder, Dr. Apela Colorado, and then continued to Montserrat and Barcelona, Spain, on independent study.

Jamie continues her deep research into this area for her next book and ongoing writing, workshops, and consultations.

And building on more than six years years of instruction in intuitive and energy healing, in 2006 she completed Level I and II Emei Qigong intensives (81 hours), receiving direct instruction from Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong, the 13th Emei Linji Chan Emei Qigong lineage holder. She continues her studies and practice in Qigong, Five Element, and related engaged-spirituality and mind-body-spirit disciplines.

As always, Jamie looks for ways to weave together and pass along what she's experienced so that it may benefit others and make their way a bit easier and more joyful.

Though her work reaches around the world, Jamie is a New York native and has called San Francisco, California home for more than 15 years.

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What's at the core of your philosophy or approach?

How we experience our lives and the circumstances that come up depends completely on our perspective -- the way we think and what we believe. It's a choice, and that's very empowering!

And I also believe, truly, that each person has within us a Divine Spark, our little Flame of Genius, that is just waiting to be ignited in inspired expression and service in and to the world.

For me, that means rooting what we do in an audacious, heartful, joyful, colorful, juicy engaged spirituality or lived philosophy; and finding a tribe of kindred spirits that inspire and celebrate that. Why not do that with your 'one wild and precious life'?

What do you focus on, primarily, in your work and consultations?

All of the focus-areas ultimately fall under the umbrella of navigating transformation and aligning with your unique blueprint, purpose, vision, and values. And staying sane, inspired, and having a little bit of fun along the way.

This might translate to the specifics of your right-livelihood, expressed purpose and vision, skillful communication, inspired leadership, or conscious co-creation -- all expressions and potential contributions based on who you truly are.

What do your clients and readers seek from you?

Most are feeling a very deep yearning to connect with true purpose; a desire to live, work, and create authentically; a need to express a bold vision; and/or going through some sort of transformation or evolution. Many, understandably, feel overwhelmed a good bit of the time.

They're looking for inspiration, spark, clarity, a renewed sense of vision and mission, encouragement, TLC, edgy questions, and just a new or different way of seeing things.

That translates into ideas, exploration, options, possibility, dialogue, guidance, kindness, steadiness, and a very open and genuine willingness to share information and experience. They count on me to listen deeply, ask good (and sometimes hard) questions, and suggest just the right resources, reflection questions, perspectives, and practices. It's pretty organic.

How do you want others to feel after they've spoken with you?

Seen, heard, and deeply respected. Inspired or catalyzed, enlivened, in some way. I love when they say to me, "God, that is SUCH a great question!" or "I never thought of that!" And it's really great when they say, "Okay, I'm feeling a lot better about this now." Pretty cool.

What amazes you?

Everything. I read recently that awe is the gateway to being fully alive -- truly and fully living -- and my own experience leads me to believe that. Awe and joy are like heavenly elixirs.

Share some of your favorite quotations.

"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid." ~ Wolfgang von Goethe

"But a handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high" ~ Fiona Macleod (a.k.a. William Sharp)

"Sit down and be quiet, for you are drunk and sitting at the edge of the roof." ~ Rumi

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~ Oscar Wilde

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." ~ Emile Zola

If you were a non-human object/being, what would you be?

In the physical world, I’d be water. It’s fluid, gets around and into just about everything, and keeps right on flowing.

Name your biggest pet peeves.

When people are cruel or chronically inconsiderate.

What's on your reading table now?

I actually have several stacks — one of the horrible afflictions for information hounds (and writers) — because I'm immersed in the research for my next book or "body of work," which always influences my writing, consultations and personal evolution along the way.

At this moment, I'm moving back and forth between Radical Wisdom, by Beverly Lanzetta, Not In His Image, by John Lamb Lash, and Insecure at Last, by Eve Ensler. It's nuts, but they're great books.