Conversation Secrets for Tomorrow's Leaders: 21 Obvious Secrets Leaders Do Not Use Enough

Transformational conversations are a leader's superpower. It is estimated that 75% of work gets done through conversations.

Leaders who practice these Conversation Secrets empower themselves and their teams to ignite innovation and transform organizations. Leaders learn to be more adaptive, to lean into the language of possibility, and thrive through uncertainty. Their powerful conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust, connection, and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community. Learn these 21 Secrets to unleash your leadership superpower.

Leadership is being democratized. Command and control leadership structures are crumbling in favor of more agile and collaborative designs. The Covid-19 Pandemic induced a work from home movement that has been revealing the 'real' human side of business. We live in a vastly, ever increasingly complex world.

To effectively navigate this new world, tomorrow's leaders need to champion new conversations that recognize and elevate all stakeholders in their business, beyond just shareholder capitalism. The successful re-invention of organizations is being ignited through powerful conversations―perhaps a lost art―secrets of which this book starts to reveal.

The authors have thousands of hours of executive coaching experience which they mined to develop these 21 conversation secrets. These secrets represent the areas where leaders consistently needed support to drive up their overall impact by having powerful conversations. Specifically, these conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community.

We are each leaders in our own lives and work. Our collective success accelerates when we apply these secrets. This has the power to inspire trust, connection, and foster inclusion and collaboration, creating a ripple effect in the future of work.

Mindy Gewirtz is a Leadership, Career and Team Coach for the C-Suite and tomorrow's leaders. Mindy's clients develop a growth mindset accelerating trust, connection, and collaboration to achieve exponential results. Mindy is master level certified coach (MCC) and Adjunct Faculty at Lewis University in the master's program on Organizational Leadership. She's also faculty and mentor coach for Potential Genesis HR in India. Her global client companies span high-tech, biotech, cleantech, financial services, and government. Mindy is a speaker and co-author of five book chapters on leadership, teaming, and change.Steve Hamilton-Clark has the unique combination of CEO experience and Executive Leadership & Mentor Coach expertise. He focuses on developing future fit leaders through his global coaching practice The 18th Camel Ltd. and, as a Partner & Head of Faculty, trains Leaders as Coach through The Henka Institute, an International Coach Federation accredited program. Steve is a Canadian and British citizen born in Dubai, fluent in French, and educated around the world.Carrie Gallant is a dynamic speaker, executive leadership coach and negotiation strategist, formerly an executive, practicing lawyer and adjunct law professor at the University of British Columbia. Carrie weaves psychology, neuroscience, and improvisation with strategy as she inspires and empowers her clients to think bigger, negotiate more powerfully and step up into greater influence and impact. She is the founder of The Gallant Leader™ Institute, a Negotiation Consultant with ENS International and certified in Conversational Intelligence® and Authentic Leadership for Teams®.