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After years of success, many leaders discover that what once drove their performance now quietly drains them. The habits, behaviours, and identities that helped them rise can begin to feel constraining, inauthentic, or exhausting.
This book explores what happens when professional competence is no longer enough-and when "executive presence" becomes a performance rather than an expression of who you truly are.
Blending psychological insight, mindfulness, and real-world leadership experience, the author invites readers to recognise the masks they wear at work and understand the cost of maintaining them. Through reflective inquiry and practical guidance, the book offers a pathway back to clarity, integrity, and grounded authority-without abandoning ambition or impact.
Designed for leaders navigating transition, reinvention, or quiet dissatisfaction beneath outward success, this is a thoughtful, accessible guide to leading from alignment rather than adaptation.
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
After years of success, many leaders discover that what once drove their performance now quietly drains them. The habits, behaviours, and identities that helped them rise can begin to feel constraining, inauthentic, or exhausting.
This book explores what happens when professional competence is no longer enough-and when "executive presence" becomes a performance rather than an expression of who you truly are.
Blending psychological insight, mindfulness, and real-world leadership experience, the author invites readers to recognise the masks they wear at work and understand the cost of maintaining them. Through reflective inquiry and practical guidance, the book offers a pathway back to clarity, integrity, and grounded authority-without abandoning ambition or impact.
Designed for leaders navigating transition, reinvention, or quiet dissatisfaction beneath outward success, this is a thoughtful, accessible guide to leading from alignment rather than adaptation.