Leading with Y.E.S.: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Living Your Extraordinary Story - Softcover

Van Hekken, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998713600 ISBN 13: 9780998713601

Publisher: Yes2Yes Company, 2017

Synopsis

Reading Leading with Y.E.S. is like having your own executive coach to help you fine-tune your leadership effectiveness and outlook by examining the possibilities in your life. In this eye-opening book, Maria van Hekken guides you through her unique coaching process and shows you how to explore the events of your life and retell them as Your Extraordinary Story. Her proven methods will teach you how to create a simple, engaging, and more positive story that empowers you to be a better leader and mentor. Armed with Your Extraordinary Story, you’ll think bigger, move forward with courage, and experience a new way of leading that is optimistic, inspirational, and more fun. Maria’s powerful action tools, a valuable feature of this book, will build your leadership attitude and direct you step-by-step through the process of crafting your story. When you discover and declare Your Extraordinary Story, you’ll lead with new meaning, purpose, and the capacity to energize and inspire your coworkers, teams, and family.

About this title

About the Author

Maria is a dreamer at heart. She sees what’s possible, even if it isn’t. As a child, she planted Cut & Come Again zinnias in her parents’ small garden in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which inspired her to study environmental biology and eventually lobby for an organic farming bill in the 1980s—a time when it was considered heretical. Now she delights that you can get organic anything. She worked in food, farming, and hunger for decades. While that is mostly a past life now, she still loves to see things grow. Especially people. Maria did her leadership-coach training at Georgetown University, where she is a faculty member in the coaching program at the Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is a professional certified coach through the International Coach Federation and a past president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the International Coach Federation. More than anything, she is passionate about creating new stories of hope—inspiring a positive leadership revolution that is way more encouraging than most of our bosses have ever been. For more than a decade Maria has coached hundreds and hundreds of leaders through Yes2Yes, her coaching business. It’s proved to her one thing for sure: everyone wants to be respected and feel like we’re making a meaningful contribution. So let’s do this thing. Let’s lead with Y.E.S.

Review

The power of language is never more clearly evident than in the impact of leaders' stories about themselves, their organizations, and their futures. Leading with Y.E.S. provides a practical road map for harnessing this power and optimizing real-world results. ―Chalmers Brothers, author of Language and the Pursuit of Happiness and Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence

Leading with Y.E.S. works. I've used it. And I now think much bigger than ever before about my own leadership and my life. I'm thrilled to have brought it into my associations and my company. ―Laura C. Antal, senior manager, Office of Diversity, Sodexo

This is a wise, gentle, and yet provocative book . . . recommended to everyone who yearns to live an extraordinary story . . . Maria dares us to play a bigger game and shows us the path toward making that a reality. ―Steve Heller, program director, Certificate in Leadership Coaching Program, Institute for Transformational Leadership, Georgetown University

After working with Maria's Leading with Y.E.S., you will know yourself better, feel braver, and see opportunities you didn't know you had. ―Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter, the Center for Leadership Maturity

Edition details

• Publisher: Yes2Yes Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998713600
• ISBN 13: 9780998713601
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204