Leading with Gratitude: 21st Century Solutions to Boost Engagement and Innovation - Softcover

Leading with Gratitude: 21st Century Solutions to Boost Engagement and Innovation is a low-cost, easy-to-start solution for leaders, aspiring leaders, and those who coach leaders and managers. Using gratitude to create a sustainable primordial foundation, you will experience these key benefits: healthier leaders, teams, and individuals—physically, mentally, and emotionally innovative teams that are able to handle difficult and complex situations while learning and changing, and engaged leaders and team members who welcome challenges. Some of the most successful CEO's aspire to create a culture of gratitude. Examples from the experts show what works as well as the challenges of creating a gratitude practice. Using science, facts, and stories you will learn how gratitude works. Leading with Gratitude is packed with practical tools and tips, including a gratitude assessment, a sample plan for you and your team, plus a gratitude inventory. You will explore the benefits along with learning how to shift quickly to gratitude when facing a difficult situation. This is an indispensable book for those seeking to improve their leadership skills and obtain better outcomes in their personal and professional lives.

Star Dargin has been coaching and teaching since the year 2000. Prior to that she had an 18-year career in the corporate world, starting as a software engineer then quickly promoted to Director of Engineering. As a director, she managed hundreds of professionals and at one point had a bestselling software product that produced over 500 Million in yearly revenue. She's worked with hundreds of clients and organizations from state and federal government, like NASA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to high-tech companies like TEL, Kronos, and many others. Star is a highly interactive nationally recognized presenter and workshop leader specializing in building strong, successful, and grateful leaders who lead from the middle of businesses. Star has developed an inspiring and interactive approach that helps leaders find the best possible way to see, tackle the challenges, and grow in a way that is actionable and authentic. She helps leaders build their brand of leadership, with gratitude being the foundation. She's a lifelong learner, reader, and reviewer of books. Her family is heavily invested in sports and music. She actively coaches her two grown sons and calls them her petri dish, some of their stories appear in her books and talks. Star Dargin, PCC, CPCC, has been inspiring and changing lives for decades. She's proud of her ability as a coach and is asked frequently about her career change from engineering to coaching, two seemingly different occupations. They are not different in her mind. She incorporates both in making intangibles tangible, measurable, and achievable. She loves hearing and connecting with folks from her past whom she helped make a difference. Whether she's delivering a keynote speech or workshop, her straightforward, commonsense approach always yields positive results.