The Brink: How Great Leadership Is Invented

Leadership is built not born, and it is not built in a vacuum.

Great leaders are most powerfully created on the way toward a great endeavor, or in the face of a great challenge. The Brink is a leadership model that uses climbing a mountain as a metaphor for that challenge, and is a guide to creating and fostering that endeavor into reality for you and your leadership.

Leadership is not built in comfortable, settled, and unchallenged people. There is nothing for it to feed and grow on in that emptiness.

There is no reason or urgency to lead in the absence of a great challenge. Whether you have your own great challenge already or not, The Brink is the environment and the pathway to create and nurture that challenge in service of your leadership on purpose.

On The Brink, you do not have to know how in order to start building leadership. You only need to know that you want to and are willing. This choice takes courage, and the rewards are dynamic and limitless-for you and the world around you that needs your leadership.

The Brink speaks to you as an individual willing to take on your own leadership, guiding you to use your own great challenge as the stone upon which your leadership will be sharpened. You will be confronted and forever changed along the way, in some places that are familiar and many that are completely new to you.

Designed for the executive, the entrepreneur, the dreamer, and the action junkie, The Brink is a revelatory philosophy of leadership distilled into clearly actionable steps. Leadership is invented and honed on the brink, and you will be changed forever by walking this path to leadership.

The world needs you to be a leader. There are so many reasons not to, and a few very good reasons to lead that you cannot afford to ignore any longer.

Mark Hunter is the president and founder of Pinnacle Coaching, LLC, an international leadership coaching company that works mostly with organizations and executives around leadership and team development. He holds the designation of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, serves as the executive team's chief development officer, and is senior program leader for Accomplishment Coaching, LP. He holds a BA in math and economics from Wesleyan University, is a founding member of the Maryland Chapter of the International Coach Federation, and sat on the board of directors for that chapter in its founding year.

Mark is a guest coach on various radio-show interviews and has penned articles for AffluentInvestorMonthly.com as an expert contributor. A keynote speaker at private and corporate events, he leads corporate executive leadership workshops internationally and contributes to the development of hundreds of business and community leaders.

Mark is an adventurer at heart, having traveled the world. He is a certified rescue diver through PADI International, certified snowboard instructor through American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI), and certified wilderness first responder through Wilderness Medical Associates. An avid cross-fit athlete, he has a passion for challenging limits and discovering new opportunities to step outside comfort zones.