Present Company: Cultivating Cultures of High Performance in Teams and Organizations

Being present is more than just a trendy catchphrase. In Present Company, Timothy Dukes and Michael Landers reveal how the art of presence can enhance your creativity, productivity, and engagement-ensuring that you enter any situation with confidence and a newfound awareness.

As a transformative resource, the authors introduce the four powers of presence—Induction, Awareness, Authenticity, and Connection—the key to cultivating cultures of high performance in teams and organizations. Through Induction, you'll learn how to enter a moment with the right mindset. With Awareness, your mind is trained to hold space for differing opinions and perceptions. By risking Authenticity, you explore vulnerability and truth while fostering Connection—true engagement. By bringing these powers into focus, leaders can create dynamic and welcoming cultures that maximize their teams' potential.

This book is for those who take responsibility for fostering growth and change with the intention to overcome obstacles, communicate successfully, and pave the way for their families, teams, or organizations to take success to the next level.

Timothy Dukes, PhD, is a veteran psychotherapist, leadership adviser, and father. His expertise in creating and holding a transformational process instills Presence in Leadership for the individual, partnership, family, team, and organization. Tim consults in a variety of institutional settings, working with established business leaders, political visionaries, and emerging innovators. His unique program for individual and organizational development-distilled from thirty years of clinical work, academic research, and contemplative practice-resolves contradiction and opposition through a clarity-based evolutionary practice. His book The Present Parent Handbook speaks to his work with families. Learn more at www.drtimothydukes.com.

Michael Landers, MA, is the founder and president of Culture Crossing Inc., a global consulting company dedicated to finding innovative solutions for groups and individuals working in the multicultural marketplace. Over the past twenty years, Michael has worked with global executives and teams from leading organizations to build essential skills in arenas such as global leadership, coaching, cross-cultural communication, sales and customer service excellence, sustained employee engagement, and cultural diversity and inclusion. His workshops, seminars, and speaking events have drawn more than seventy thousand people on five continents. Although American, Michael was raised in Colombia, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. Fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, proficient in Japanese and Italian, he is the author of the best-selling book Culture Crossing, the essential primer to working, living, and thriving in today's increasingly multicultural marketplace and communities. Learn more at www.culturecrossing.net.