Eric Martin, a Detroit native turned prominent leadership expert, specializes in leadership development and systems change. Eric's work has been used to tackle challenges to transition to a low-carbon economy, improve health equity and access, and evolve the role of advanced technologies in our daily lives. Over the past decade, he has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric's work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by faculty Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked.

Eric has served in an advisor/speaker/leadership trainer role at: Acumen, Rockefeller Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, White House Presidential Personnel Office, United Nations Innovation Network, World Bank, Cornell University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Sustainability Consortium, Democracy Fund, National Academy for Science Engineering & Medicine, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Forum for the Future, LEAD India, Patagonia, USAID and The Aspen Institute. Previously, he served in various roles at The Synergos Institute, a Rockefeller-affiliated international development organization. Eric holds an MS in Organizational Change Management and BS in Systems Analysis and Operations Research. Eric's work has been published in such places as: Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Environmental Leader.

Introduction: Standing in the Heat

PART ONE | WHERE TO BEGIN?

Chapter 1: Leadership Moments

Chapter 2: If Anyone Can Do It, Why Isn't Everyone?

Chapter 3: Democratizing Leadership

PART TWO | WHAT'S YOUR LEADERSHIP CHOICE?

Chapter 4: Breaking Ranks

Chapter 5: Authority

Chapter 6: Leadership

Chapter 7: Recognize Your Leadership Moment

PART THREE | WHAT'S THE "WORK" OF LEADERSHIP

Chapter 8: The People with the Problem are the Solution

Chapter 9: Recast the Work

Chapter 10: What's Your Leadership Work?

PART FOUR | WHOSE LEADERSHIP WORK IS IT?

Chapter 11: Leading on the Verge of Schism

Chapter 12: Mobilize Others

Chapter 13: What's Holding You Back from Leading?

PART FIVE | WHAT WILL YOU LET GO OF?

Chapter 14: A Separate Self...for an Interconnected Whole

Chapter 15: Authority...for Freedom

Chapter 16: Knowing...for Becoming

Chapter 17: Ready Yourself

PART SIX | A HIDDEN WHOLENESS

Chapter 18: Acceptance

Chapter 19: A Path Opens

The Purpose of Your Leadership Moment

Acknowledgements

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