Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots and Transform Your Organization

Do you want to move your company in a new direction?

Fearless Leadership provides you with the tools to successfully drive change, overcome obstacles, and engage and align people in working effectively together to achieve your business objectives.

Leadership guru Dr. Loretta Malandro has developed a groundbreaking behavior-based methodology that is used around the globe to create top-performing leaders and high-performance organizations. It is based on a simple but profound concept: In order to change your organization, you must be willing to alter your behavior and help others make the choice to change their behavior. This means demanding 100% accountability from your people--and yourself.

In today's ultra-competitive business environment, a new leadership approach is needed. Fearless Leadership takes you step by step through the process of raising behavioral standards that directly impact the bottom line. You will learn the secrets behind:

• Confronting the blind spots that sabotage success
• Overcoming the success-strangling “need to be right”
• Eliminating silo mentality and building committed partnerships
• Ending compliance and gaining full support and alignment
• Talking straight and confronting difficult situations head on
• Building a culture of 100% accountability

Too many people in leadership positions attempt to enact change through systemic means, such as restructuring or altering processes. The secret to real and lasting change lies in changing behavior--how people work together. Change the level of ownership and performance of people and you will transform your organization.

Leaders who are able to act courageously when faced with uncertainty or fear, take bold stands, and engage with people in very real ways are those who generate great and long-lasting results. Fearless Leadership shows you how.

About the Author

As president and CEO of Malandro Communication since its inception in 1980, Loretta Malandro has built a leading business consulting firm that specializes in leadership and organizational transformation.

Delivering its proven technology—100% Accountability™—the Malandro organization works worldwide with CEOs, executives, and leaders to take their corporations to new levels of performance by skillfully aligning and mobilizing people to drive enterprise objectives. The 100% accountability methodology is a beginning-to-end process for achieving leadership alignment, building a culture of accountability, and producing lasting behavioral change to ensure sustainability.

A key differentiator of the Malandro group is the ability to combine a strong business and organizational perspective with expert intervention. The Malandro behavioral experts relentlessly uncover and permanently resolve the root cause of leadership and organizational ineffectiveness. Their services include executive consulting and coaching, breakthrough project consulting, high performance leadership sessions, high performance team sessions, and turnkey communication tools for rapidly diffusing cultural change throughout an organization.

Delivering consulting services globally and at its corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, the Malandro organization develops and customizes the approach best suited to address the unique needs of each client. Providing full support for leadership and organizational transformation, Malandro certifies client candidates in the 100% accountability process to deliver the methodology throughout their organizations.

Selected clients include AngloGold Ashanti, CNA, De Beers, DuPont, Farm Credit Canada, Finning International, IBM, Idaho Power, Intel, Nexen, Placer Dome Inc., Rabo AgriFinance, Rohm and Haas, Xerox, Vale Inco, and Zurich Financial Services.

Dr. Malandro is the author of the international book Say It Right the First Time and other landmark books, including Courtroom Communication Strategies and Nonverbal Communication. She is a former professor at Florida State and Arizona State universities. She received her Ph.D. in communication theory and research from Florida State University and her undergraduate degree from Kent State University. The recipient of many academic awards, Malandro was on the first international debate team cosponsored by the U.S. government and the National Speech Association, where she and teammates debated in the Russian language throughout the former Soviet Union.