Lead Through Anything Harness Purpose

The logical, inspirational, and simplified approach you need to lead through unprecedented chaos―and help your teams and organizations thrive

In today’s world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history’s tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges.

Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader. It walks you through the process of developing a leadership mentality that balances three key elements to achieve sustainable success:

• Purpose: Create and share a vision that motivates collective achievements and aspirations 
• Vitality: Generate a high level of connection and trust within your teams and organization
• Agility: Inspire and empower yourself and others to continuously learn and improve

Lead Through Anything focuses on a wide variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture.

Dustin Seale is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office, managing partner of Heidrick Consulting in Europe, and part of the leadership team for Heidrick & Struggles and the CEO & Board of Directors Practice in Europe and Africa. He focuses on CEO and board advisory coaching and consulting, specifically on improving leadership and talent, and transforming organizations through culture. Seales’s experience spans a broad range of industries, including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive, banking, consumer goods, technology, and more. 

Ed Manfre is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Los Angeles office, a trusted leadership and culture advisor, and accredited executive coach (ACC) with nearly two decades of experience helping CEOs and C-Suite leaders achieve greater levels of performance by energizing and aligning their organizations. His clients include members of Fortune’s “World’s Best Places to Work” and “World’s Most Admired Companies” lists. Manfre advises leaders widely across industries, from start-ups to the Fortune 500.