Keith Keating

Evolve. Or else. This book serves as an instrumental guide for the talent development industry by shedding light on the need to transcend outdated, ingrained practices like order-taking and by advocating for the adoption of innovative, holistic, and human-centric approaches to learning and development. It emphasizes the importance of reshaping perceptions, creating new narratives, and embracing effective strategies in L&D, thereby fostering an environment conducive to organizational and individual growth and success. By doing so, it empowers L&D professionals to become Trusted Learning Advisors, enabling them to contribute more strategically and substantively to organizational objectives and worker well-being. The insights provided by this book are helping to pave the way for a more enlightened, prepared, and progressive talent development industry, one that values and nurtures the multifaceted development of the most important asset in any organization – the people.

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Mary Kovach Ph.D.

This book delivers the full leadership spectrum by sharing nine leadership styles and allowing the reader to find his or her best fit. There are three sections to this book.
Part 1 discusses leadership styles and theories, including: Trait Theories, Behavioral Theories, Path-Goal Theory, Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Authentic Leadership, Servant Leadership, Situational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, and Transformational Leadership. Each leadership style is paired with reflection questions and a tool, to enhance leadership development.
Part 2 demonstrates how self-belief and self-doubt can influence results, with reflection questions, stories, and other techniques.
Part 3 consists of four leadership contexts (business, education, sport, and the military) from double-blind, peer reviewed, global scholarly studies that illustrate the direct impact of applying transformational leadership and prove its effectiveness.

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Joe Mull

Speaker, author, and commitment expert Joe Mull has spent 15 years teaching leaders how to be better bosses. Grounded in research and filled with captivating stories, "Employalty" provides a simple, evidence-based framework for creating the kind of employee experience that leads people to join a company, stay long term, and do great work. "Employalty" is a clear playbook for attracting and retaining talent and turning ordinary people into devoted employees.

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April Armstrong

I discovered early in my career there is a huge gap between what many of us learn in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. The Day One Executive aims to close that gap, empower you to be the chief executive of your life and stand out as a future executive in your job starting on “Day One.”

When you choose to be a Day One Executive, you are in the driver’s seat of your career. You expand your sphere of influence and become someone who can make things happen. You won’t stay stuck in a bad job or working for a bad boss, because you know you have the power to create, and recreate, your career at all times. Your work has greater impact, which is its own reward, and you also increase your earning power.

Best of all, you get to live your legacy—and you can start right now, wherever you are.

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Matthew J Louis

Dr. Anthony R. Garcia Sr.

Hiring Veterans makes the clear case for the value of employing members of today's military community. Veterans represent a real-time talent pool of experienced, trained, and dedicated professionals that, when properly harnessed, comprise an instant means of improving an organization's competitiveness and productivity. Case studies of organizations both large and small clearly demonstrate how leveraging a veteran talent-based strategy is a business imperative resulting in organizational growth.

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