The Elevated Leader: Boost Your Confidence and Transform Your Team by Mastering Coaching, Accountability, and Difficult Conversations

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By Pily Rivero

Laurie Maddalena’s The Elevated Leader emphasizes the urgent need for leaders to cultivate their abilities with intentionality in a context where the demands on managers have attained unprecedented heights. From the initial chapter, the book engages readers by asserting that leadership can be both effective and compassionate, providing practical strategies to transform not only your leadership approach but also your team's work experience. Reading it evokes the sensation of having a personal coach alongside you, expertly navigating you through the intricacies of challenging conversations, accountability, and coaching with precision and empathy. The book inspires a sense of empowerment and introspection, urging leaders to evaluate their own behaviors, preconceptions, and influence on their teams.

At its core, The Elevated Leader explores themes of confidence, accountability, and interpersonal skill. Maddalena underscores that effective leadership relies equally on self-awareness and perspective as it does on strategy and process, rendering her insights relevant across a broad spectrum of organizational contexts. The principles possess universal significance, highlighting to readers that effective leadership relies on trust, communication, and deliberate action, regardless of industry or team size.

Maddalena's writing is accurate, well-structured, and readily understandable. She integrates personal narratives, practical exercises, and systematic frameworks that render abstract leadership concepts concrete. Her voice combines compassion with authority, and her depictions of real workplace situations effectively bring her principles to life. The book’s structure efficiently directs readers from inward self-evaluation to a comprehension of external team dynamics, highlighting the central theme of comprehensive leadership.

Exceptional moments encompass Maddalena’s techniques for managing difficult conversations without conflict and her exercises designed to enhance personal confidence, demonstrating her ability to effectively translate theory into practice. The Elevated Leader makes an enduring impact by providing leaders with vital tools and insights to broaden their influence, transform their teams, and approach leadership with intent and clarity. It is a vital resource for individuals dedicated to developing into considerate and influential leaders.

About the Author 

Laurie Maddalena

Laurie Maddalena is a professional keynote speaker, certified executive coach, and leadership development consultant who is on a mission to upgrade workplace cultures and rid the world of bad management practices. As the founder and CEO of a leadership development consulting firm, she provides leadership development programs for managers and executives, leadership assessments, and an online leadership experience, The Elevated Leader program.

Laurie is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a designation earned by less than 17% of speakers worldwide.

Laurie lives in Maryland with her husband and three children.