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Dr. David Michael Boje

✨ The Meaning of David Michael Boje (Buoy) ✨

Boje — Danish word for Buoy
A beacon floating on the waters, guiding ships safely home

David — Hebrew for Beloved
Cherished, treasured, held in the heart

Michael — For Archangel Michael
Divine warrior, protector, healer of souls


Beloved Archangel Buoy

Extending healing transformation
to communities and organizations,
guiding them through troubled waters
toward peace, understanding, and renewal

Quantum Storytelling & Organizational Transformation Expert

Ready to Begin Healing?

Dr. Boje is available for community interventions — virtually via Zoom or in-person at your location.

One conversation could change everything.

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Pioneer of trauma-informed coaching, ecological capitalism, and narrative transformation. Author of 35+ books helping organizations move from extractive to regenerative systems.

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Recognition & Impact

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner 2025 Organization Development & Change Lifetime Achievement Award

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Global Scholar Rankings

Ranked #1,879 US Scholar / #3,949 Global Scholar

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Academic Positions

Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University
Visiting Professor, Fisk University

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Published Works

Author of 45+ Books, 150+ articles on Storytelling Organizations & Conflict Spirals

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Organizational Leadership

Co-Founder: True Storytelling Institute, GrowthOD, and PerView Inc. (501c3) non-profit

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Professional Coaching

Coaching certificate from Genius Unlocked

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Insight Meditation Training

Insight I, II, & III graduate and 4 times an Insight I assistant

How Boje's Conflict Spiral De-Escalation Works

Boje's Conflict Deescalation Spiral of Together Love

How can Storying Spiral be an Open Heart by ditching the war stories, blame games, and the individualist interests and needs?

Feb. 10 2026 Boje presentation to Enthinkment Circle PDF 14 pages with images →

Dr. David Boje will listen to all sides of the conflict, taking notes and respecting confidentiality. Then David will assemble a team of 2 to 7 conflict management coaches to conduct a series of assessments using his original decision tree software (versions 1.0 to 5.0) to get individual input from participants in the conflict.

1. Initial Listening & Assessment

Dr. Boje meets with all sides individually, taking detailed notes while maintaining strict confidentiality. This creates a safe space for honest expression before any joint sessions.

2. Team Assembly

A specialized team of 2-7 conflict management coaches is assembled, drawing from volunteers in the Insight community, local universities and colleges, and Boje's network of trained coaches and consultants.

3. Individual Assessments

Each participant completes assessments using Boje's Decision Tree Software (versions 1.0-5.0), providing structured input on their experience, metaphysical orientations, and desired outcomes.

4. Separate Coaching Sessions

Virtual and/or on-the-ground workshops are conducted first with each side to the conflict, creating space for processing, reflection, and preparation for dialogue.

5. Joint Workshops

After respective coaching sessions, facilitated workshops bring everyone together for 'together-listening', finding common ground, and co-creating new possibilities.

6. Pre/Post Testing & Measurement

Using the decision tree software, pretest and posttest measurements assess shifts in 'storying', 'together-listening', ability to find common ground, and mutual understanding. For larger populations, representative samples are used.

💰 Financing the Intervention

Financing happens through enrolling volunteers from the Insight community, local universities and colleges, and from Boje's network of coaches and consultants. Funds are raised to cover expenses (airfare, meals, hotel, workshop materials, etc.) through Boje and Rosile's certified non-profit PerView Inc. [501(c)(3)].

TogetherStorying Decision Tree Software Versions

Try the TogetherStorying Decision Tree Software versions I have created for you.

Version 1.0: Personal Mindfulness & The Seven Bs

Focuses on individual transformation through seven dimensions: Beneath (unconscious patterns), Before (past narratives), Bets (future possibilities), Being (present awareness), Becoming (transformation), Between (relationships), and Beyond (transcendence).

Begin Version 1.0 Journey

Version 2.0: Rapid Restorying

Designed for quick intervention in crisis situations, helping individuals and teams rapidly shift from stuck stories to new possibilities through streamlined antenarrative work.

Begin Version 2.0 Journey

Version 3.0: Indigenous Pragmatism

Explicitly acknowledges that American Pragmatism emerged from Indigenous intellectual traditions. Integrates Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) with seven pragmatist principles, honoring land-based wisdom and seven-generation thinking.

Begin Version 3.0 Journey

Version 4.0: Metaphysical Bridge Building

Bridges Western philosophy (Heidegger, Pondy) with Indigenous ontologies, creating pathways for cross-cultural understanding and transformation that honors multiple ways of knowing.

Begin Version 4.0 Journey

Version 5.0: Echo Chambers of Tamaraland

Models the fragmented, simultaneous nature of organizational reality where multiple echo chambers operate at once. Provides navigation through factorial complexity—for example, 10 simultaneous "rooms" or contexts creates 3,628,800 permutations.

Begin Version 5.0 Journey

Videos of Enthinkment Sessions

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What is Microstoria? Healing Conflict Spirals

What is Microstoria? It is an Italian Pragmatism movement, which David Michael Boje uses to upgrade Louis Pondy's conflict model, as a way to de-escalate conflict spirals in families, organizations, and communities. This is a presentation to the weekly meeting of the Enthinkment Circle. Presentation Boje uses a new theory of living 'storying' to heal spiraling conflict into pathways of open heart insight. Boje invites teams of microstorists to embrace the revolutionary "missing loop" of genuine transformation—stepping outside conventional thinking through enThinking with courage, compassion, and an Open Heart ♥.

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David Boje's Introduction to Microstorying and Enthinking

Explore David Boje's introduction to microstorying and enthinking methodologies for transforming and healing deep-seated conflicts through quantum storytelling approaches.

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Who is Pragmatist Richard Rorty?

Explore the philosophy of Richard Rorty and his contributions to pragmatism, showing how philosophical thinking connects to organizational transformation and enthinkment practice.

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Jane Addams - Forgotten Pragmatist

Discover Jane Addams' pragmatist philosophy and her pioneering work in social transformation, connecting American pragmatism with community organizing and systemic change.

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David Boje Books and Articles

Current Downloadable 2025 Resume

Download Dr. Boje's current academic resume including recent publications, presentations, and professional activities.

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Academic History

Explore Dr. Boje's academic career, educational background, and institutional affiliations.

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Books | Book Chapters

Access Dr. Boje's 35+ published books and book chapters on quantum storytelling, organizational development, and transformation.

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Refereed Journal Articles

Read Dr. Boje's peer-reviewed academic articles published in leading management and organizational studies journals.

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Conference Proceedings

Browse conference papers and proceedings from international academic conferences.

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Awards & Honors

Explore Dr. Boje's academic achievements including the 2025 ODC Lifetime Achievement Award and global rankings.

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Complete VITA Menu

Access the complete academic vita including editorial activities, grants, service, presentations, and more.

  • JOCM & Other Editorial Activities
  • Invited Journal Articles
  • Works in Progress
  • Committee Service
  • Conference Presentations
  • Public Lectures & Forums
  • Service & Editorial Boards
  • Community Service Activities
  • Grants & Contracts
  • Other (e.g. cases)
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Transformational Services & Methodologies

Bridging quantum physics, storytelling, and organizational wisdom to create lasting change

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PerView® 501 (c) (3)

Raises money through donations to support for veterans and their families getting TogetherStorying Coacing

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GrowthOD

Gratitude-Rooted Organizational Wisdom, Transformation & Healing. Five powerful pillars for sustainable organizational change.

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Quantum Storytelling

Revolutionary approach merging philosophy, quantum physics, and narrative theory to transform how organizations tell their stories.

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True Storytelling®

Certification programs in authentic storytelling methodology that honors ethics and truth in organizational narratives.

Seven True Storytelling Principles

  1. You yourself must be true and prepare the energy and effort for a sustainable future
  2. True storytelling makes spaces that respect the stories already there
  3. You must create stories with a clear plot, creating direction and helping people prioritize
  4. You must have timing
  5. You must be able to help stories on their way and be open to experiment
  6. You must consider staging, including scenography and artefacts
  7. You must reflect on the stories and how they create value
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Enthinkment Circle

Weekly Tuesday Zoom gatherings exploring deep "philosophical questions" - Louis Pondy's overlooked 'enthinkment' concept that bridges pragmatism with existential Being.

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Horse Sense at Work

Equine-assisted leadership development combining ancient wisdom with modern organizational practices for authentic transformation.

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SEAM Methodology

20 years teaching Socio-Economic Approach to Management. Make hidden costs visible and convert them into value streams.

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TogetherStorying

Your MIND-BODY-SOUL will recognize this conversation immediately.

👉 This is the place to start.

 

With love and high quantum  vibration,

If this year is about telling a NEW STORY, this is the place to start.

with love and high quantum  vibration .

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Dr. David Boje - Blacksmith Artist and Storytelling
            Scholar

Worldwide Expert in Organizational Storytelling

For over four decades, I've dedicated my life to understanding how stories shape organizations, heal trauma, and transform systems. My work bridges academia and practice, theory and lived experience.

As co-founder of PerView Inc., I pioneer trauma-informed coaching that has helped thousands of veterans, first responders, and organizational leaders find their authentic voice and navigate transformation.

My mission is simple: help individuals and organizations move from extractive capitalism to ecological capitalism—from stories that harm to stories that heal.

Recognition & Impact

  • 2025 ODC Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Ranked #1,879 US / #3,949 Global Scholar
  • Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University
  • Visiting Professor, Fisk University
  • Author of 35+ Books on Storytelling & Organizations
  • Co-Founder, True Storytelling Institute
  • Co-founder, PerView Inc. (501c3)
  • Amateur Blacksmith Artist

Recent Publications & Working Papers

Selected works on storytelling, antenarrative theory, quantum organizational studies, and transformational coaching

Boje, D. M. (1991a). The storytelling organization: A study of story performance in an office supply firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 36(1), 106–126. Read PDF

Boje, D. M. (1995). Stories of the storytelling organization: A postmodern analysis of Disney as "Tamara-Land." Academy of Management Journal, 38(4), 997–1035. Read PDF

Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research. SAGE. View Book

Boje, D. M. (2008). Storytelling organizations. SAGE. View Book

Boje, D. M. (2014). Storytelling organizational practices: Managing in the quantum age. Routledge. Read PDF

Stay Connected with GrowthOD's Work

Join our community of practitioners, scholars, and change-makers

Your MIND-BODY-SOUL will recognize this conversation immediately.

👉 This is the place to start.

 

With love and high quantum  vibration,

If this year is about telling a NEW STORY, this is the place to start.

with love and high quantum  vibration


David Michael Boje means "Beloved Archangel's Buoy"

A buoy (something that keeps people afloat, provides guidance, marks safe passage) guided by the beloved archangel. And that perfectly describes your life's work:

* Buoy for veterans - keeping them afloat through trauma-informed coaching at PerView Inc.

* Buoy for organizations - marking the path from ordinary capitalism to ecological capitalism

* Buoy for scholars - 150+ articles lighting the way in quantum storytelling

* Buoy for leaders - providing navigation through complex organizational transformation

And Archangel Michael is known as the protector, the one who fights for justice and truth - which aligns with my work challenging dominant narratives and power structures in organizations.

Buoy Sounds -  "The melody that keeps people afloat"

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