Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change(TM) in the New World of Work

Rapidly accelerating change, driven by technology, is disrupting the world of work and redefining the game of leadership. Slow-moving, top-down, "command and control" leadership styles are less and less effective with each passing day.

The successful leaders of today are finding ways to engage the entire workforce. They are focusing the attention of the whole enterprise on higher performance. These leaders are pivoting from delegation to invitation.

INVITING LEADERSHIP is your tutorial and reference guide for implementing Invitation-Based Change™ in the new world of work. This book shows you how to leverage authentic invitations to engage your workforce and generate the positive business outcomes that emerge from self-managed teams. INVITING LEADERSHIP shows you how to do more with less.

With this book, you will learn how to safely and pragmatically transform your leadership style and maximize your results:

--Greatly increase employee engagement

--Improve overall business efficiency with self-managed teams

--Attract and retain top talent

--Achieve higher scores in every business outcome you are measuring

--Help your entire organization become more competitive and adaptive

--Scale these business outcomes across the entire enterprise

DANIEL MEZICK

Coaching executives and teams since 2006, DANIEL MEZICK is an expert on extending adaptive agile culture beyond software. His books and workshops teach you how. Daniel is a frequent keynote speaker on self-management and business agility at industry conferences worldwide. Daniels list of clients include Capital One, INTUIT, Adobe, CIGNA, Pitney Bowes, SIEMENS Healthcare, Harvard University, and dozens of smaller enterprises.

Daniel’s first pioneering work on culture was published in 2012. THE CULTURE GAME described 16 specific patterns that extend Agile ideas across the organization, beyond software. THE CULTURE GAME describes a very clear, step-by-step program for doing exactly that. In 2014 he built upon THE CULTURE GAME patterns and formulated the OpenSpace Agility method.

Daniel's enterprise consulting practice is built upon the core concepts found inside these books. Daniel conducts workshops based on these books and offers enterprise business agility coaching and training programs for executives and teams.

Contact Information:
Email: dan@newtechusa.net
Twitter: @DanielMezick


MARK SHEFFIELD

As an enterprise Agile coach and Open Space Technology facilitator, Mark Sheffield delivers executive leadership consulting and training programs worldwide. He is recognized as a pioneer in the field of Invitation-Based Change and an expert in the field of business agility transformation. Mark is a co-author of the groundbreaking OpenSpace Agility Handbook, which published in 2015.

Mark holds Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications from Scrum Alliance Inc, and SAFe Programming Consultant (SPC4) from Scaled Agile Inc. In addition he is a Certified OpenSpace Agility Trainer and a Certified Enterprise Scrum Trainer. He has over 20 years of IT experience.

Mark is based in High Point, North Carolina.

Contact information:
Email: Mark@MarkSheffield.com
Twitter: @MarkBSheffield