The Recipe for Empowered Leadership: 25 Ingredients for Creating Value & Empowering Others

In his late twenties, Doug Meyer-Cuno decided to abandon his budding corporate career to found his own company.
He would go on to grow Carolina Ingredients from a one-person operation into a multimillion-dollar manufacturing company with an international customer base, eventually selling the company to Mitsubishi. The pages within detail and examine the recipe Doug used for his own success to help others find their own, categorized into five main principles: Vision, Core Culture Values, Authenticity, Transparency, and Gratitude.
The Recipe for Empowered Leadership: 25 Ingredients for Creating Value and Empowering Others recounts the lessons Doug learned along that journey, from facing down his micromanager tendencies to embracing servant leadership as a coach and mentor to his team. Brimming with easy-to-read leadership strategies and the life-changing “defining moments” that developed them, Doug reveals the value that a strong, yet grateful leader adds to any organization and how to incorporate those principles into your own leadership practice and life.

DOUG MEYER-CUNO founded Carolina Ingredients in 1990, where he served as CEO for the next twenty-nine years and led the company from a single staff member to a nationally recognized and award-winning industrial seasoning manufacturer. He would go on to sell the company to Mitsubishi Group in 2019, becoming the first privately owned company to be purchased by the conglomerate. Doug has also founded Compaction International, DMC Enterprises LLC, and Merisal LLC. Recently, he created Empowered Leadership, a consultancy that helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs scale their companies.

Doug graduated from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program in 2004.