Leading with Y.E.S.: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Living Your Extraordinary Story

Reading Leading with Y.E.S. is like having your own executive coach to help you fine-tune your leadership effectiveness and outlook by examining the possibilities in your life. In this eye-opening book, Maria van Hekken guides you through her unique coaching process and shows you how to explore the events of your life and retell them as Your Extraordinary Story. Her proven methods will teach you how to create a simple, engaging, and more positive story that empowers you to be a better leader and mentor. Armed with Your Extraordinary Story, you’ll think bigger, move forward with courage, and experience a new way of leading that is optimistic, inspirational, and more fun. Maria’s powerful action tools, a valuable feature of this book, will build your leadership attitude and direct you step-by-step through the process of crafting your story. When you discover and declare Your Extraordinary Story, you’ll lead with new meaning, purpose, and the capacity to energize and inspire your coworkers, teams, and family.

Maria did her leadership-coach training at Georgetown University, where she is a faculty member in the coaching program at the Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is a professional certified coach through the International Coach Federation and a past president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the International Coach Federation. More than anything, she is passionate about creating new stories of hope-inspiring a positive leadership revolution that is way more encouraging than most of our bosses have ever been. For more than a decade Maria has coached hundreds and hundreds of leaders through Yes2Yes, her coaching business. It's proved to her one thing for sure: everyone wants to be respected and feel like we're making a meaningful contribution. So let's do this thing. Let's lead with Y.E.S.