The Courage of a Leader

In The Courage of a Leader, best-selling author, renowned speaker, and leadership development consultant Amy L. Riley teaches leaders how to step up, inspire, engage, and get extraordinary results.


As a leader in our world today, you've got opportunities, pressures, questions, and complexities coming at you from all directions. You have team members who want meaningful work to do. You have stakeholders who need you to consistently create value. You work in dynamic marketplaces with competitive pressure. You have peers with whom you share the company's resources. These are important, complex, and competing demands. In this book, Riley covers how to powerfully and effectively lead in these stressful circumstances with courage and mastery.


In her two-plus decades of experience consulting with Fortune-50 companies, coaching executives, and developing leaders at all levels, Riley has studied leaders who thrive in these circumstances and has seen that they consistently demonstrate courage in four distinct ways. Courageous leaders:


.Uncover and share their authentic selves
.Say what needs to be said
.Declare their leadership legacy and trust the guidance it provides
.Are bold and create the extraordinary


These behaviors are embodied in The Courage of Leader 4 Pillars.


The leaders who demonstrate these pillars inspired Riley to write this book. She wanted to share examples of leadership courage, tenacity, and achievement. You will read real-life accounts and get insights from the over 35 successful executives Amy interviewed for the book.

In this book, you'll get concrete examples of leadership concepts in action; and you'll get practical guidance to help you demonstrate this type of courage in your unique ways, leveraging your individual strengths. Each chapter includes exercises and templates, enabling you to jump in and immediately apply the concepts in your circumstances. You'll learn the outlook, frameworks, and tools needed to be a courageous leader who inspires and gets extraordinary results.


You are powerful and can create extraordinary results in the world. Step forward with The Courage of a Leader.