Leading with Purpose

Winner of the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards -- Entrepreneurship & Small Business Category

Winner of 2015 USA Best Book Award ― Leadership Category

Winner of 2015 Barnes & Noble Book Seller Recommended Business Books

Leadership Lessons from the US Submarine Force You Can Apply to Your Business

In 2005, Marc Koehler was brought in to turn around a struggling $7M US-based manufacturing company. He quickly identifies that the business analysis tools he is using for this small firm are drowning it. He decides to go back to his time as a US Nuclear Submarine Officer and recognizes many similarities. Both his sub & the business have a mission, a small team, limited resources, and a dynamically changing environment.

With similar conditions, why was the submarine successful, able to accomplish so much under extreme conditions? What tools did it use? What were its best practices? Marc decides that he can apply the same leadership approach and tools to the struggling company. The results are tremendous. He sees the same team of people who were struggling before, lead the company back to stability and profitability.

Over the next 10 years, Marc has similar success in many other small businesses he is brought in to turnaround. He refines the tools into a system and discovers type or size of business don't matter, the tools are universal whether you are a $10M Manufacturer, a $4M Law Firm, a $110M Service Company, or a $5M Non-Profit.

Leading with Purpose provides a simple, but powerful blueprint to get everyone on the same page, passionate about what they are doing, and focused on what matters most. It steps you through the creation of a simple, but powerful single-page plan and then shows you how to use it to develop an engaged and empowered team that collectively drives success, solves problems, and manages change.

If you are interested in creating a culture where your employees are galvanized around a common vision and a shared purpose, understand their specific role, help manage the day-to-day chaos, and stay focused on the goals that matter most, this is the book for you.

Leading with Purpose has a foreword by L. David Marquet, author of the business bestseller Turn the Ship Around!

The book's single page plan coordinates with the Lead with Purpose online platform (www.leadwithpurpose.com) where leaders can manage their plan in the cloud for FREE.

Marc Koehler is the President of Lead with Purpose. He brings over 30 years of business experiences that include US Navy Submarine Officer, Interim CEO/COO, and entrepreneur. Over the last decade, Marc has been brought into distressed companies as an interim CEO/COO to lead them back to profitability. He is on the speaker's bureau of several well-known national executive and life coaching organizations and has been all over the United States spreading his message about leading a more purposeful life. He holds a B.S in both Physics and Mechanical Engineering and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Author of the bestselling business book, Turn the Ship Around!