About Pat

Pat McHenry Sullivan

 I’ve been blessed to interview hundreds of people about how work can be filled with integrity, purpose and joy. An archive of columns in the San Francisco Chronicle is based on many of these interviews; the column led to my writing the book Work with Meaning, Work with Joy (Sheed & Ward 2003).  World religions scholar Huston Smith granted an interview on the wisdom of all faiths for work. Workforce Management magazine published my article on how to bring spirit into the workplace in a way that respects co-workers, employers, customers and everyone else who is affected by your work.  Thanks to Google, many more of my articles can be easily found on the internet. 

A big part of my work is helping people plan their businesses or other ventures, using a format I developed that’s utterly practical as well as essentially spiritual. It’s particularly exciting to help people discover the joy of planning, when before they have found the planning process overwhelming or scary. 

For the past two years I have focused a lot more on spirit and money, especially during meetings of the Spirit and Work Resource Center, which John and I co-founded.  At one of these meetings in late 2008, we meditated on a dollar bill, which launched a whirlwind of new insights about money, including the March 11 post Dollar Bill Wisdom 

Pat McHenry Sullivan helps people create worklife excellence and true abundance by increasing integrity, purpose and joy in their work and life.  Pat writes and speaks about how all work can be more meaningful, ethical, satisfying and burnout-free. Pat is absolutely no financial expert, but she is an expert at posing questions and at helping people discover their own visions, values and practical plans — including business plans you can take to the bank or nonprofit donors for financing.   Pat’s websites are www.workwithmeaningandjoy.com and www.spiritandworkresourcecenter.com.