The Self-Aware Leader: Reinventing Your Value as a Middle Manager

Grow Your Self-Awareness, Reinvent Your Value

There’s a moment of hesitation surfacing today in organizations. Executives want middle managers to operate more cross-functionally so they can scale performance. Middle managers are waiting for permission from executives to activate their leadership voice and create more value. Written by leadership expert and coach Dan Gallagher, The Self-Aware Leader sharpens the self-awareness of middle managers to drive productivity and career growth.

Gallagher presents a model that emerging leaders, middle managers, and senior executives can use as a catalyst to grow their leadership value. Based on empirical research and more than two decades of use, the model fully integrates a deep focus on self-awareness and reinvention with the practices of servant leadership and business transformation.

This second edition includes additional thought exercises, new research on the Self-Aware Leader model and Generosity Quotient, and real examples of how increased self-awareness grows a leader’s value.

As founder and CEO of Gallagher Leadership, Dan Gallagher is a transformative, inclusive, and self-aware leader with success in accelerating the growth of leaders, the performance of teams, and the scaling of organizations. He currently works on consulting, coaching, and development engagements with clients including Fortune 1000 corporations, start-ups, and nonprofits. Dan spent 19 years at Comcast, focusing mainly on inclusive leadership development and training strategies. He holds a master of science in training and organizational development and a bachelor of science in sociology from Saint Joseph’s University. He lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife, Suzanne, and their four sons.