Leadership
Leadership by Storytelling
True-life stories that make the practice of leadership tangible.
Mentoring / Teaching & learning
Leadership is learned
with people.
Tom has taught at universities, in person and online, and worked as an educator, trainer, and coach. His leadership books bring the conversation back to trust, decisions, and the people doing the work.
By Dr. Tom DePaoli / Leadership
Servant Leadership Stories
Start with
your people.
Servant Leadership Stories explores empathy, trust, and the everyday choices of someone responsible for a team. Watch the presentation before you read, with your own colleagues in mind. What do they need from the person leading them? Use the stories as a starting point for a conversation about listening, responsibility, and taking care of people.
A reading companion / People & change
A fable
about change.
Jayson and the Corporate Argonauts
Jayson and the Corporate Argonauts follows a business transformation through a story. Read it with a question of your own: who do you need beside you, and how will you keep people involved?
Read the change-management introductionJayson and the Corporate Argonauts
The story
before the discussion.
Jayson and the Corporate Argonauts approaches business transformation through a fable. Watch the presentation for an introduction to its themes of teamwork, communication, and persistence. Think about a change your own team is working through: who needs to be involved, and what might help them take part? Bring those questions to the reading and the discussion that follows.
For the leadership question you’re carrying
Stories to read.
Questions to bring.
All fourteen titles Leadership
Servant Leadership Stories
Stories about trust, empathy, and taking care of your people.
Presentation · 2:47
Leadership
Boogeyman Leadership
Recognizing harmful leadership and workplace bullying.
Teaching & mentoring
What are you
trying to work through?
Share the question, who would take part, and the book or subject that brought you here. Tom’s teaching background includes university classrooms and online learning; any current format, scope, or availability is discussed directly.
Dr. Tom DePaoli
Educator, trainer, coach, and author. The books offer a place to begin the conversation.
A place to begin
Leadership mentoring starts with a real question
Tom’s background as an educator, trainer and coach runs alongside his books. Use the reading to name the leadership question you want to discuss: earning trust, supporting a team, or helping people through change.
Read for the people in your team
Servant Leadership Stories explores trust, empathy and taking care of people. Bring a situation from your own work to the reading, then consider what someone else involved might see differently.
Explore furtherUse a story to discuss change
Jayson and the Corporate Argonauts approaches business transformation through a fable. Read it alongside the leadership stories when you want a different way into a conversation about communication and teamwork.
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