Transform the next generation of talent into capable and productive leaders

In Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders , distinguished executive coach Lori Mazan delivers an exciting new approach to leadership development tailor-made for the 21st century. Drawing on lessons learned from coaching top executives for 25 years and from democratizing executive coaching by founding a cutting-edge scalable leadership coaching firm, you’ll learn how to attract and retain talent by accelerating and individualizing their professional growth and how to re-think leadership in the new remote and hybrid work environment.

You’ll also discover how to help your staff flourish by relying on a sense of community and shared purpose, even when they’re working from a distance. The book includes:

• Concrete, hands-on strategies for becoming a leader who develops other leaders
• Ways to avoid the creation of a gap between the upper echelon of executives and high-potential managers and grow a diverse leadership pipeline
• Techniques for carefully considering a potential leader’s skills, experiences, and interests while moving them up the leadership ladder
• Deep understanding of how leadership coaching opens the door to breakthrough thinking and results
• How to move from the traditional focus on measuring activities to measuring and cultivating true developmental and organizational impact

An invaluable and practical strategy guide for leadership and talent development, Leadership Revolution is the perfect resource for managers, executives, coaches, and other business leaders looking for proven ways to shape the next generation of leaders in their firms.

From the Inside Flap

One of the most difficult aspects of leadership is identifying and cultivating other leadership candidates. All too often, companies find themselves with cavernous talent and capability gaps between the executive and managerial levels, unable to replace or revitalize the upper echelons of their firms thanks to a lack of suitably prepared leaders.

In Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders , veteran executive coach and strategist Lori Mazan delivers an exciting and eye-opening new take on leadership development that’s tailor-made for the twenty-first century. Drawing on the lessons she’s learned over the last 25 years of coaching executives at firms of all types and sizes, Mazan explains how you can attract and retain talent by accelerating and individualizing their professional growth. You’ll learn how to rethink leadership in the new remote and hybrid work environment.

You’ll also discover how to help your staff flourish by creating and promoting a sense of community and shared purpose, even when they’re working from a distance. The author shares concrete, hands-on strategies for becoming the type of leader who develops other leaders, and for growing a diverse leadership pipeline that consistently and reliably feeds high-potential managers into the upper echelon of executives.

You’ll explore techniques for carefully considering a potential leader’s skills, experiences, and interests as you move them up your organizational ladder.

Leadership Revolution insightfully explains the difference between measuring activities and measuring and cultivating true developmental and organizational impact. It furthers your understanding of how leadership coaching opens the door to breakthrough thinking and results.

A practical and invaluable strategy guide for leadership and talent development, this book is the ideal resource for managers, executives, directors, coaches, entrepreneurs, founders, HR practitioners, and other business leaders exploring effective, innovative strategies to help shape the next generation of leaders in their firms.

From the Back Cover

Build a high-quality leadership pipeline that never runs dry

Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders is an inspiring and exciting new discussion of how contemporary business leaders shape new leaders. Veteran executive coach and strategist Lori Mazan explains how you can close the talent gap between the executive and managerial levels of your organization and create a consistent, reliable, and smooth pipeline of leadership candidates. You’ll learn how to accelerate and individualize your people’s professional growth and rethink what leadership looks like in the new remote and hybrid work environment.

The author discusses how to create and promote a sense of community and shared purpose amongst your leaders and shares concrete, hands-on strategies for becoming the kind of leader who builds leadership skills in others. You’ll also discover how to reliably identify and evaluate the skills, experiences, and interests of your company’s leadership candidates.

A must-read roadmap to a perpetually renewable field of high-quality, innovative leadership candidates, Leadership Revolution walks you through the steps you need to take to ensure your leadership pipeline never runs dry.

About the Author

Lori Mazan is Co-Founder, President, and Chief Coaching Officer of Sounding Board, Inc., an organization that offers executive style coaching for leaders when they need it most. She has 25 years’ experience coaching Fortune 100 C-suite executives at companies like Tapjoy, Coverity, Achaogen, Chevron Corporation, and Citibank.