Brilliant Glimpses of the “Why” and the “How To” of Modern Leadership in the 2020s

When 2022 dawned, it was clear to professionals of all types that the world had shifted on its axis – not, this time, because of another viral pandemic (i.e., not with the novel crises and unexpected business shutdowns we’d endured in 2020-2021), but with the “hereafter” realities of a world forever changed by the lessons, traumas, innovations, and culture shifts of the era we’d just survived. Now what?

Many of the answers to modern leaders’ most pressing new questions lie in the pages of HOPE for Leaders in the 2020s, the second volume in The HOPE for Leaders Unabridged Series. Open your mind to the possibility of building and adapting your leadership skills for a new era — and for a workforce with newly articulated needs — by digging deep into the stories, tips, frameworks, and practical exercises of a book that was written for this decade and beyond. In the chapters of HOPE for Leaders in the 2020s, leadership experts Dr. Hope Zoeller and Dr. Joe DeSensi – in collaboration with esteemed book contributors from corporate America and academia – offer new ways to think about and address contemporary business issues, including leadership mindsets, project management, organizational culture, and workplace communications.

Learn how to improve your own skills, and those of your teams, in regard to:

• Motivating and connecting with remote workers
• New metrics of success that measure what truly matters
• Workplace curiosity and servant leadership
• Leader self-care during high-stress situations
• The vital role of followership in our companies and careers
• Project management practices for effective meetings
• Creating early-warning systems to head off crisis
• Organizational adaptation after crisis
• Never letting a “lesson learned” be forgotten
• Harnessing “productive worry”
• Creating a culture of feedback
• Communicating with your listener in mind
• Adopting a growth mindset
• Becoming an empathetic and proactive communicator

In this practical leadership anthology, Zoeller and DeSensi offer a powerful “how to get out of the pandemic” guidebook for leaders at any level (i.e., executives, managers, individual contributors), with immensely practical, accessible, insightful, and timely ideas for how you can leverage the strengths you honed during the pandemic and mitigate the impact of what didn’t go so well.

A book that is particularly popular with manufacturing, nonprofit, healthcare, insurance/finance, and education (K-12 and higher education) professionals, but accessible to all readers in any industry, HOPE for Leaders in the 2020s comes complete with individual and team exercises, assessments, and other practical tools.

With key insights by Dr. Hope Zoeller and Dr. Joe DeSensi, and contributions by Dr. William Denny, Joe Hanna, Iam Bennett, and Dr. Robin Hinkle.

“The go-to resource guide for leaders who want to build the new muscle required to navigate challenging and uncertain times … and the ‘new normals’ yet to come.”— Kim Graham Lee, CEO, Integrating Women Leaders Foundation (IWL)

HOPE for Leaders in the 2020s: New Issues to Face, New Problems to Solve, New Hope for the Future is Volume 2 of The HOPE for Leaders Unabridged Series, is a collection of insight-rich, “learn-it-today-use-it-tomorrow,” refreshingly commonsensical leadership books for leaders at all levels.