The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day

You can be the leader you want to be—today and every day.

Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity?

No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You're able to make a difference and achieve big goals. You feel confident and energized. On days like this, you are your best self--the leader you want to be. But on other days, you go down a different, negative path, with pressures and doubts making you feel like a lesser version of yourself.

How can you be the leader you want to be, every day? The answer is more than a time-management system or a silver-bullet solution for changing your routines. Leadership expert and coach Amy Jen Su's powerful new book helps readers discover that the answer lies within. By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements—Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace—you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your impact, with less stress and more equanimity.

Drawing on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes, as well as on research by experts, the author brings together the best of both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach.

The Leader You Want to Be is your indispensable guide to tapping into and expanding your leadership capacity so that you can be your best, sustain yourself, and thrive as a leader.

Amy Jen Su is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Mariswood Group, LLC, a boutique executive coaching and leadership development firm. Amy's work draws on decades of experience partnering with CEOs, leaders, and investment professionals to sustain and increase their effectiveness as they drive organizational change and transformation.

Amy is the author of The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles to Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day (Harvard Business Review Press 2019) and the Washington Post bestseller, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. (Harvard Business Review Press 2013).

She is also a frequent contributor on HBR.org and her thinking has been featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, and MarketWatch. Amy holds a BA in psychology from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.