Character Driven Leadership for Women: A 5-Step Guide to Shape Your Own Nonprofit Management Style with Strong Values, Ethics, and Morals

Channel authenticity for effective leadership and a balanced life

Do you dream of leading an engaged team towards making a difference, but feel like you’ve gotten lost on the way? Is burnout looming? Your reputation slipping? Are you ready to make a change? Leadership development coach Kathy Archer has been right where you are—stuck in a trap of pleasing, performing, perfecting, and leading in survival mode—but she found her way out, and so can you.

In Character Driven Leadership for Women, Archer provides a framework you can follow and return to time and time again, to develop and sustain a leadership style that feels true to you. As she breaks down her five-step Infinite Leadership Loop, you will engage in a cycle of growth and development through self-reflection. By creating and committing to your own character development plan, you will begin to understand what truly matters to you and why it is vital to prioritize that in your leadership style.

Written with a real-world focus, Archer draws on the highs and lows of her own nonprofit leadership career as well as a wide variety of leadership scenarios to demonstrate how leading well and living balanced go hand in hand. Character Driven Leadership for Women will help you realign yourself so that you can honour your integrity while leading your mission-driven teams towards making the difference you all dream of.

Kathy Archer is a leadership development coach who has helped women build confidence, maintain their composure, and lead with integrity for the last thirteen years. She brings twenty-five years of experience leading programs in the social profit sector to her coaching practice and is the author of Mastering Confidence as well as the host of the podcast Surviving to Thriving. You can join her membership, The Training Library, and read her blog for women leading in nonprofits at her website www.kathyarcher.com. She lives in northern Alberta, Canada.