My co-author, Leanne Atwater, and I wrote our first two books, Applied Leadership Development and Becoming A Leader, to provide practical tool kits for leaders at any career level. Our new book, Deepening The Leadership Journey, applies these tools to current situations for which leadership is an imperative. We take deep dives into the following:

• Resolving Inequality – we call this “Breaking The 4th Wall”
• Organization Culture – creating and sustaining healthiness
• Digital Maturity – being viable in the rapidly changing digital world
• Workforce Motivation & Resilience – we call this “The Glow”
• Quality Decisions – how to make them in uncertain and shifting environments
• Godliness vs. Machiavellianism – implications for leadership

As an added bonus we have included a chapter at the beginning of the book – “Back to the Future” – in which we refresh for readers our Nine Elements of Leadership Mastery. We have also included highlights of improvement actions that we have used to coach clients over the years to address feedback from bosses, peers, and direct reports. We hope you will find the improvement actions to be a valuable resource.

The behavior guidelines provided in our chapter “Breaking the 4th Wall” were chosen as the basis for an “Equality Pledge” by Community Associations Institute (CAI), an international organization with over 40,000 members. We are proud to be a part of CAI’s journey of building better communities worldwide – those that promote togetherness, neighborliness, belonging, and connection.