Shifting Into Leadership
This book is written for two readers: people stepping into leadership for the first time, and the leaders who decide when someone is ready to take that step. Both moments matter. When they're handled well, teams strengthen and careers open up. When they're mishandled, the impact lingers longer than anyone expects.
Most managers don't fail for lack of effort. They fail because they hold on too tight. Shifting Into Leadership gives new managers the habits that build clarity and trust — one small, consistent action at a time — and gives their leaders a framework for supporting that transition without over-managing it.
- The shift from doing the work to leading the people who do it
- How to build clarity and trust through daily habits, not grand gestures
- Leading former peers, managing up, and navigating the first 90 days
- Delegation, recognition, feedback, and creating psychological safety
- A practical 90-day roadmap with weekly self-checks
- AI workforce perspective integrated throughout
Alignment at Speed
AI is changing how work gets done — but most leadership frameworks were built for a world where humans produced every output. Alignment at Speed provides a practical model for leading when AI is doing significant portions of the work and the pace of change outstrips the pace of organizational alignment.
The book walks through the Intent Management™ discipline in full: how to define outcomes precisely, set evaluation criteria teams can actually use, structure decision authority in human-AI workflows, and keep communication tight enough that intent doesn't drift as conditions shift. Written for leaders already dealing with AI adoption who need a framework that works in the real world.
- Why AI adoption fails — and it's almost never a technology problem
- The Intent Management™ framework: four elements that keep teams aligned
- How to define outcomes, evaluation criteria, and decision authority
- Constraint boundaries — the limits that can't be traded away
- Building a rhythm that keeps alignment alive over time, not just at kickoff
- Real-world case studies from across industries
Shifting Into Leadership
The companion workbook to Shifting Into Leadership. Where the main book explains the principles and practices, this workbook creates space to apply them to your real leadership situations through structured exercises and reflection prompts.
Designed to be used alongside the main book or independently, the workbook is structured for the same 19-chapter arc — from contemplating the move into management all the way through sustaining the practice over time. It also works as a standalone development tool for managers in a group cohort setting.
- New managers working through the book and wanting to apply it to their context
- Managers being sponsored through a development program
- Coaches and facilitators using the Shifting Into Leadership framework with clients
- HR and People teams building new manager onboarding programs