The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development

“In our rapidly evolving world, elevated leadership service is needed more than ever to create working together environments with all the stakeholders to create value for all and the greater good. Ryan presents a very compelling vision, strategy, and plan to take our leadership to the next level of performance and service”. - Alan Mulally, Former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and the Ford Motor Company

“I often get asked how one can strengthen their 'positivity muscles.' This book presents cutting-edge ideas from psychology and neuroscience to teach you how to do just that. It’s a must read if you want to learn how to lift yourself up so you can lift others up!” - Jon Gordon, 13x best-selling author of The Energy Bus and Power of Positive Leadership

"Becoming our better future self requires upgrading our internal operating system, and this book clearly and powerfully explains how you can do that." - Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Author of Be Your Future Self Now

To elevate, leaders need to approach their development differently. They need Vertical Development. 

Now more than ever, leaders are faced with constant and dramatic change. They need to elevate their capacity to operate effectively amidst stress, pressure, uncertainty, and complexity.

Rooted in neuroscience and the power of the mind–leadership connection, The Elevated Leader brings cutting-edge insights and tools to help leaders understand the transformational power of vertical development and that traditional horizontal development efforts can only be incrementally helpful. 

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Ryan Gottfredson provides a roadmap with the latest research and discoveries on the mind–leadership connection to help leaders level up in their cognitive and emotional sophistication. 

In The Elevated Leader, readers will...

• Deepen their self-awareness of the current vertical altitude that they operate from
  
• Awaken to areas where they can develop greater cognitive and emotional sophistication
  
• Discover the commonly overlooked key to elevating their mind
  
• Learn the steps and techniques to level up their mind to elevate their leadership
  
• Become empowered to elevate not only their leadership, but the leaders of those they work with
  

Gottfredson guides readers on a deep, introspective journey that empowers them to go beyond their current altitude so that they can more effectively navigate their increasingly challenging world and have a greater positive and uplifting impact within their spheres of influence.

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. He is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. As a consultant, Ryan works with organizations to develop their leaders and improve their culture (collective mindsets). He has worked with top leadership teams at CVS Health (top 130 leaders), Deutsche Telekom (500+ of their top 2,000 leaders), and dozens of other organizations. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Ryan has published 19 articles across a variety of journals including: Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Journal of Leadership Studies. His research has been cited over 2,500 times since 2015. He resides in Anaheim, California. Connect with Ryan at https://www.ryangottfredson.com/.