Influence Your Organization and Lead Change
Anyone can be a leader. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.
Anyone can be an influencer. Author and leadership expert Eric Martin has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric's work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked. Your Leadership Moment teaches Martin's expansion on Adaptive Leadership in a way everyone can understand.
Anyone can change the world. Your Leadership Moment is for real people who seek to create consequential, meaningful change despite having little to no authority or power. In this book, you will discover:
• What a Leadership Moment is and the key concepts of Adaptive Leadership
• How to stop solving the wrong problems perfectly and start solving the right problems creatively
• How to think politically and mobilize others to help you make real, positive change
Readers of leadership books like The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Leadership on the Line, Leadership Without Easy Answers, or Immunity to Change won't want to miss the incredible leadership training in Your Leadership Moment.
Eric Martin, a Detroit native turned prominent leadership expert, specializes in leadership development and systems change. Eric's work has been used to tackle challenges to transition to a low-carbon economy, improve health equity and access, and evolve the role of advanced technologies in our daily lives. Over the past decade, he has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric's work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by faculty Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked.
Eric has served in an advisor/speaker/leadership trainer role at: Acumen, Rockefeller Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, White House Presidential Personnel Office, United Nations Innovation Network, World Bank, Cornell University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Sustainability Consortium, Democracy Fund, National Academy for Science Engineering & Medicine, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Forum for the Future, LEAD India, Patagonia, USAID and The Aspen Institute. Previously, he served in various roles at The Synergos Institute, a Rockefeller-affiliated international development organization. Eric holds an MS in Organizational Change Management and BS in Systems Analysis and Operations Research. Eric's work has been published in such places as: Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Environmental Leader.
