CHAPTER 1

You and Your Inner Leader

Coaching business professionals in high-impact industries to maximize their leadership performance is my expertise. This book is the culmination of the real-life experiences that my clients have faced: how they have unleashed their Inner Leader to live their legacies and develop into world-class leaders. The pages that follow are filled with real-life case studies, exercises, and personal stories that can help leaders like you to:

  • Identify and leverage individual and team strengths to maximize performance
  • Discover and understand how personal values drive your decisions and behavior
  • Recognize and promote your career currency
  • Take successful risks by discovering personal vision and purpose
  • Build a personal brand and maximize both yours and the company's brand to make customers want to work with you
  • Learn how to be more productive and how to delegate and empower your team
  • Become a better mentor or mentee
  • Communicate powerfully by improving your personal language
  • Realize the power of networking to successfully evolve your career
  • Understand how to better use the interview process to build a world-class team
  • Determine and live your Leadership Legacy

Each chapter starts with a scenario (case study) based on a real client with whom I have worked (note that names have been changed to protect client anonymity). Each coaching session demonstrates an issue, challenge, or situation that the client has encountered. Based on this conversation, the pertinent ...

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