REAL LEADERS FOR THE REAL WORLD

Real Leaders are not robots. They do not fall into the standard stereotypes, nor do they subscribe to a ‘one size fits all’ approach to leadership development. Real Leaders have their own approach and bring their unique set of skills and personality to their role. These people are currently rare in our society, though where they exist they achieve great things and the world needs more of them.

Now! This book unpacks the psychological and behavioural traits of good leaders and shows how you can develop these traits and remain true to yourself and your own style. Following their research with leaders in different contexts ranging from business to families, Karen and John have developed an accessible, practical and powerful approach for leaders at all stages of their experience and development.

Before they set up Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy in 2007, Karen and John both had successful careers in business. Karen worked in fund management and John was a chartered accountant and financial director on the board of many companies. Whilst studying for her MBA, Karen became fascinated by the psychological make-up of people who are great at what they do and used her knowledge to recruit and train for all types of roles in her organisation.

John had always been more interested in people than accounting and used his sense of humour and depth of understanding to help businesses and business owners be successful and live more fulfilling lives. Then they met. Karen and John are not academics. What they do is take the latest scientific and academic thinking out there and make it usable. They integrate this thinking with their own experience, business understanding and psychological training, make it practical, easy to understand and translate it into something people can do something with. Their goal is that people bring more of themselves to their lives, make their lives easier and be successful in whatever they choose to do.