Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence: How Extraordinary Leaders Build Relationships, Shape Culture and Drive Breakthrough Results - 2nd Edition

Successful leaders build and maintain productive, mutually-beneficial relationships – inside and outside of their organizations.  They purposefully shape workplace culture that retains talent, cultivates innovation and supports the organization’s goals.  And they achieve excellence in teamwork and organizational execution – the nuts and bolts of collaborative action that actually produces desired results.

 

But how, exactly, do they do this?  

 

How are they thinking about their organizations – and about themselves and their colleagues?  And how does this particular way of thinking enable them to achieve and sustain breakthrough results?

 

And what are the “tools” that these extraordinary men and women use in this work?

 

Drawing on conversations with thousands of CEO’s, business owners and senior leaders of all types over the last 10 years, Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence provides an eye-opening organizational blueprint, coupled with powerful, practical tools that leaders at all levels are employing to dramatically improve workplace relationships, shape culture and drive breakthrough results. 

 

Chalmers Brothers and Vinay Kumar introduce leaders to a startlingly powerful way of understanding language and conversations, as well as the “actual actions” of effective leaders and managers.  More importantly, however, Chalmers and Vinay invite leaders to take a new look at themselves, their colleagues and the ways in which certain internal and external conversations open genuinely new opportunities to bring about literally unprecedented results… and the ways in which others shut down creativity, damage relationships, diminish possibilities and cripple effective action. 

 

Language and the Pursuit of Leadership Excellence provides a framework for dramatically improving the three competencies that matter most to successful leaders:

 

·         Conversational competencies

·         Relational competencies

·         Emotional competencies

 

It is these, far more than technical or functional competencies, that enable extraordinary leaders to do what they do… and be who they are.

 

Full of practical take-aways, parallels from other best-selling business authors and real-world application, this book is essential for leaders seeking to significantly improve bottom-line results – however those are measured.

 

Chalmers Brothers’ first book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness:  A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Results (2005), introduced an eye-opening way of understanding language, conversations, relationships and – most importantly – ourselves.   In the years since its publication, this best-selling book has been adopted by leadership, coaching and training programs at Georgetown University, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, the Newfield Network, REI Systems – and many others.

 

Building on this success, Brothers and Kumar have also developed leadership and employee development programs based on these foundational principles, practices and distinctions.  These programs have been delivered within organizations in the US, Canada, the UK, Israel and India, and have yielded transformational shifts in awareness, emotional well-being, relationships, culture and execution.  CEO’s from these companies are available to share with you the powerful impact these new ways of understanding, new ways of thinking and new ways of taking action have had on their organizations – as well themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chalmers Brothers has spent the last 30 years as a consultant, certified executive coach, seminar leader and keynote speaker.  Since beginning his professional life with 9 years at Andersen Consulting (Accenture), he has built a career working with leaders and teams of organizations large and small, public and private.  His ongoing focus areas are leadership and personal development, workplace culture, trust- and relationship-building, emotional intelligence, teamwork and productivity.  Chalmers’ training and speaking work takes him across the U.S. and Canada.

His first book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness:  A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Results (2005) is now a best-seller and has been adopted for use by:

 ·        Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching programs

·        George Mason University’s University Life department

·        Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s leadership and management development programs

·        Newfield Network’s professional coach certification programs in the U.S., Europe and Asia

·        REI Systems, Inc.’s leadership and employee development programs

·        TEOCO, Inc.’s leadership and employee development programs

·        … and many others.

He is the former chairman of a Vistage CEO private advisory board, and has spoken regularly to Vistage groups in the U.S. and Canada for over 16 years. 

His first TED talk, entitled How Language Generates Your World and Mine, was recorded at TEDx Boca Raton in 2014.

The SOAR Program, co-created by Chalmers and Vinay Kumar, is a multi-session, cohort-based cutting-edge leadership and employee development program.  Standing for Success through Observer – Action – Results, the SOAR Program brings the key frameworks, ways of understanding, tools and distinctions contained within his books into organizations – with resoundingly positive impacts.

Chalmers has an undergraduate engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) and an MBA from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA).  He and his wife have three children and live in Naples, FL.

 Vinay Kumar provides coaching and leadership education to professionals and leaders around the globe who work in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.  His ongoing focus is supporting others in producing breakthroughs in their thinking and in their Ways of Being, which enable them to see new possibilities, take new and more effective actions, and produce breakthrough results in their personal and professional lives.

Vinay is a graduate of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching program.  His 40 years of professional experience includes management and leadership positions in Fortune 50 as well as US Federal Service organizations.  In addition, he has started and led the successful growth of privately-held businesses, where his roles have also included sales, marketing, client services, operations, training and project management.

He is actively leading the SOAR program, co-created with Chalmers Brothers, within large technology-based organizations in the US, United Kingdom, Israel and India.

Vinay holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.  He is also a first generation immigrant and embodies this experience with conscious thinking, perseverance, hard work and a passion to continue to learn and grow.  

Vinay and his wife have two children and live in Great Falls, VA.

Chalmers Brothers has spent the last 30 years as a consultant, certified executive coach, seminar leader and keynote speaker.  Since beginning his professional life with 9 years at Andersen Consulting (Accenture), he has built a career working with leaders and teams of organizations large and small, public and private.  His ongoing focus areas are leadership and personal development, workplace culture, trust- and relationship-building, emotional intelligence, teamwork and productivity.  Chalmers’ training and speaking work takes him across the U.S. and Canada.

 

His first book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness:  A New Foundation for Designing Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Results (2005) is now a best-seller and has been adopted for use by:

 ·        Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching programs

·        George Mason University’s University Life department

·        Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s leadership and management development programs

·        Newfield Network’s professional coach certification programs in the U.S., Europe and Asia

·        REI Systems, Inc.’s leadership and employee development programs

·        TEOCO, Inc.’s leadership and employee development programs

·        … and many others.

He is the former chairman of a Vistage CEO private advisory board, and has spoken regularly to Vistage groups in the U.S. and Canada for over 16 years.

 His first TED talk, entitled How Language Generates Your World and Mine, was recorded at TEDx Boca Raton in 2014.

The SOAR Program, co-created by Chalmers and Vinay Kumar, is a multi-session, cohort-based cutting-edge leadership and employee development program.  Standing for Success through Observer – Action – Results, the SOAR Program brings the key frameworks, ways of understanding, tools and distinctions contained within his books into organizations – with resoundingly positive impacts.

 

Chalmers has an undergraduate engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) and an MBA from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA).  He and his wife have three children and live in Naples, FL.

Vinay Kumar provides coaching and leadership education to professionals and leaders around the globe who work in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.  His ongoing focus is supporting others in producing breakthroughs in their thinking and in their Ways of Being, which enable them to see new possibilities, take new and more effective actions, and produce breakthrough results in their personal and professional lives.

Vinay is a graduate of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching program.  His 40 years of professional experience includes management and leadership positions in Fortune 50 as well as US Federal Service organizations.  In addition, he has started and led the successful growth of privately-held businesses, where his roles have also included sales, marketing, client services, operations, training and project management.

 He is actively leading the SOAR program, co-created with Chalmers Brothers, within large technology-based organizations in the US, United Kingdom, Israel and India.

Vinay holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.  He is also a first generation immigrant and embodies this experience with conscious thinking, perseverance, hard work and a passion to continue to learn and grow.   

Vinay and his wife have two children and live in Great Falls, VA.