Growing Leaders – A Definitive Guide

Growing Leaders offers a comprehensive guide to Leadership Development across all levels within organisational settings. The book explores an organic and structured approach to leadership development, using Sri Lankan paddy cultivation as an analogy. With deep insights and illustrative examples from various industries and organisations, the book aims to offer organisations a practical guide to grow leaders at all levels: rather than only at the top. Rather than paying lip service to popular buzz words, the book takes a ‘no-nonsense approach’ to leadership and leadership development, enabling the reader to appreciate the breath and the depth of growing leaders, whilst dispelling many popularly-held norms and beliefs. It also explores why most leadership development initiatives fail: and what to do about it.

With a Foreword by Dave Ulrich, the Father of Modern HR, the book is the result of two decades of the authors’ hands-on experience in cultivating leaders across fifteen countries, both as a Head of HR as well as a Leadership Coach and Trainer.