Leading Lightly: Lower Your Stress, Think with Clarity, and Lead with Ease

A Conscious Approach to Leadership and Life

Leading lightly is about looking at what you do through a radical new lens. It's a way to powerfully transform your performance, make better decisions, gain greater self-awareness, and develop the capacity to manage your work and life with enduring ease and clarity. An alternative to the everyday stress, pace, challenges, and burdens that weigh you down, leading lightly shows you how to shift your mindset, live lighter, and optimize your effectiveness. Part leadership, part mental fitness, part health and wellness guide, Leading Lightly empowers you to work at your best and operate at your fullest potential.

Stress and difficulty don't have to be a given. Learning to lead lightly and live mindfully can profoundly change the trajectory of your day. This book is for anyone who finds themselves overloaded, frustrated, anxious, or exhausted by their life circumstances. It offers more than just tactical strategies for sustained optimal performance at work, but transcends that, helping you develop a conscious approach to all the facets of your life, so you're able to leverage the choices you have each day and take action that puts you in control of your experience. You'll not only be able to create better outcomes but also do this in a way that energizes and enlivens you.

​In Leading Lightly, author Jody Michael brings together 20+ years of her research and work as a psychotherapist, Master Certified Coach, and leadership expert to provide you with a practical, measurable, and proven process for developing your mental fitness. You'll increase your emotional intelligence, discover how to respond to situations with more agility, build stronger interpersonal relationships, and find that the ability to thrive in leadership and life is within your grasp. This book will show you how to think differently, feel lighter, and achieve personal and professional well-being. You'll notice the results immediately, and those around you will too.

Author: Jody Michael
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Published: 06/28/2022
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781626348998


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 03/08/2022
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
PW Booklife Reviews 07/18/2022

About the Author

Jody Michael is a Master Certified Coach (a distinction held by less than 1% of certified coaches), Board Certified Coach, University of Chicago-trained psychotherapist, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She's the founder and CEO of Jody Michael Associates, a premier coaching company specializing in executive coaching, career coaching, wellness coaching, trader coaching, and organizational consulting,

Jody has over 20 years of experience with executive, career, and trader coaching and 15 years of experience in corporate leadership in the finance industry with Goldman Sachs, Chicago Research and Trading (CRT)/NationsBank, and Kidder Peabody. She has a unique combination of theoretical knowledge, extensive coaching, and corporate experience.

Jody was one of the first female traders on the Chicago trading floors and one of the first coaches in the country. In the mid 80s, she convinced Goldman Sachs to sponsor her participation in one of the earliest coaching foundation programs in the country, Ontological Business Design. She spent three years studying with thought leaders in the field of coaching and learned how to bring coaching to her leadership positions.

She's consulted and coached in a wide range of organizations, from Fortune 10 to small businesses, and she's worked with market leaders, including BP, Abbott, Accenture, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Sara Lee, Motorola, Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers, General Mills, The Dial Corporation, Forsythe, Hitachi, Northwestern University, and Kraft Chemical Company.

She's also been featured on MSNBC Primetime, Discovery Channel, CNN, NBC's Today Show, National Public Radio (WBEZ), and in the Chicago Tribune.