EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP BY DESIGN

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply Design Thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that actually work.

This collection of stories, examples and narratives about exceptional leadership by design provides readers of all levels of experience with tangible, real, and heartfelt examples of how the design process can be applied to leadership. It will show how we:

• Inform greatleadership with design
• Strengthen our ownleadership by design
• Redesign heroleadership for more inclusivity
• Redesignorganizations for Fe+Male leadership synergy
• Design leadershipfor a VUCA world
• Design flow-basedleadership
• Designorganizations that build resilient leadership
• Design leadershipfor innovation
• Design culturallyintelligent leadership
• Build leadershipinto our spaces and places

Madeleine ("Mads") van der Steege, MA (Soc. Sc.) is a managing editor, award-winning female entrepreneur, master coach, researcher, and writer. She was ‘Woman of the Year Regional Entrepreneur’ in South Africa in 2004. In 2009, she established European operations for Cranimals, an organic pet food company based in Vancouver. In 2013, Madeleine founded Synquity, and acts as a business catalyst for international companies setting up in the Netherlands. She is also Adjunct Professor at Webster University, Leiden, and a management board member of TheBridge2Hope project.

Judith L. Glick-Smith, Ph.D. has been a knowledge management and leadership consultant since 1983. She is the author of Flow-based Leadership: What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You about Leadership and Making the Hard Decisions. Judith is the founder of MentorFactor, Inc., which focuses on helping organizations facilitate flow-based work environments and to prepare for the unexpected. She has been studying flow-based leadership in the fire service since 2007.

Jennifer Moss Breen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Program Director for Creighton University’s Interdisciplinary Leadership Ed.D. Prior to this, she served as inaugural Director of Bellevue University’s Human Capital Management Ph.D. program. Her passion is working with emerging leaders and helping them to thrive in complexity. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.