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The Leader's Journey: Transforming Your Leadership to Achieve the Extraordinary
A step–by–step leadership guide from executive coach, keynote speaker, and bestselling author Donna Lichaw to transform yourself, your team, and your business into a league of superheroes poised for success.
"Finally a book that doesn’t treat leadership styles as one–size–fits–all. The Leader’s Journey helped me think through how to tell my own story as a leader." —Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build Trap and Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
No one gives you a manual for how to be a great leader. Enter leadership expert Donna Lichaw. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, design thinking, and her years of experience coaching business leaders from the likes of Amazon, Disney, Google, Mastercard, Lichaw’s tried-and-true leadership development methods will empower you to activate your superpowers, achieve your mission, and bring your team along for the ride. In this actionable four-part framework, you’ll
With compelling examples from her extensive executive coaching career, Lichaw brings her background in storytelling and filmmaking to bear in this entertaining and engaging guide. Whether you're a founder, senior leader, or still aspiring to senior leadership, The Leader's Journey is an essential resource for anyone looking to step into their power and make a difference in their business and the world.
"Finally a book that doesn’t treat leadership styles as one–size–fits–all. The Leader’s Journey helped me think through how to tell my own story as a leader." —Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build Trap and Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
No one gives you a manual for how to be a great leader. Enter leadership expert Donna Lichaw. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, design thinking, and her years of experience coaching business leaders from the likes of Amazon, Disney, Google, Mastercard, Lichaw’s tried-and-true leadership development methods will empower you to activate your superpowers, achieve your mission, and bring your team along for the ride. In this actionable four-part framework, you’ll
With compelling examples from her extensive executive coaching career, Lichaw brings her background in storytelling and filmmaking to bear in this entertaining and engaging guide. Whether you're a founder, senior leader, or still aspiring to senior leadership, The Leader's Journey is an essential resource for anyone looking to step into their power and make a difference in their business and the world.
200 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2023
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June 24, 2023
I've had quite a bit of coaching on articulating my story and then rewriting it to guide better behaviors and outcomes. Donna Lichaw offers a wonderful and actionable companion to what I've learned in the past, with concrete tips on being a better storyteller in the workplace for yourself and the teams you lead. Through vivid examples, Lichaw demonstrates how using stories can help you discover your strengths and the situations in which they're most powerful, identify your kryptonite, and help the people around you feel like heros. I'm already looking forward to trying out some of these techniques!
July 16, 2024
- read for individual personal development at work -
I cannot recommend this book enough! I think it really put to words all the things I’ve been struggling with and deciphering with my career path while at the same time giving me great leadership advice. Please read this, the world should read it.
Major Takeaways:
1) leaders are superheroes with their own a) set of superpowers, b) mission, and c) unique identity
2) you cannot be a superhero if you aren’t able to use your superpowers; otherwise, you’re wasting your time
3) know your kryptonite and how to wield it for good
4) you are at your best when you are fully invested in your own story
5) superheroes can’t win on their own
6) brains need closure to learn, rest, and build energy, so make sure to recap and celebrate at the end of your chapter/story
I cannot recommend this book enough! I think it really put to words all the things I’ve been struggling with and deciphering with my career path while at the same time giving me great leadership advice. Please read this, the world should read it.
Major Takeaways:
1) leaders are superheroes with their own a) set of superpowers, b) mission, and c) unique identity
2) you cannot be a superhero if you aren’t able to use your superpowers; otherwise, you’re wasting your time
3) know your kryptonite and how to wield it for good
4) you are at your best when you are fully invested in your own story
5) superheroes can’t win on their own
6) brains need closure to learn, rest, and build energy, so make sure to recap and celebrate at the end of your chapter/story
September 15, 2023
Solid leadership book packed with empathy-driven, human-centered insights and storytelling. Enjoyed that the author includes questions for us as readers to answer, and I look forward to using these as journaling prompts on my own and with my team. I work in product design and very much appreciated how tech-geared a lot of the conversations were. Examples of clients were very helpful, but I would have loved some very in depth case studies. Overall would definitely recommend! Well written and I enjoyed working through this.
October 22, 2024
I didn’t learn much new from this book. Few (realistic) stories about different team/boss/employee situations, plenty of superhero examples and parables. Couple of thoughts how to find your unique qualities or that changing is possible but might hurt… Not too bad but perhaps i have read enough shallow topic books about leadership and sort of everything…
August 28, 2023
This book aids in self-reflection through story-telling - surfacing what are the stories we tell ourselves and how those impact our behavior. It's all given in examples of leaders (in tech) and how their leadership effectiveness is impacted by their internal stories.
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