Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise, and Impact

This is not your typical leadership book. Growing Influence delivers fresh, insightful principles in a way that prompts deep introspection and inspires action. Prepare to grow alongside the characters.
--Abbey Louie, founder, lan Consulting Group

This book captures the heart of leadership. Ron and Stacy provide a clear road map to lead and grow your influence from a place of integrity and authenticity. Women and men will both benefit from the authors' experience and guidance.
--Amanda Visosky, program director and leadership coach, Idaho Women in Leadership

Growing Influence is an excellent read for those who feel stuck at any stage or level of their career. Approachable and insightful, this business fable provides both spiritual nourishment for the corporate soul as well as practical strategies for how to take back control over your career and parlay that into a purpose you are leading and enthused about. It's an especially good read for rising stars who have hit barriers created by the 20th century fixed mindsets purported by those who still use a 'management' style approach to leading people. Growing Influence is clearly ushering in the next generation of truly accountable and empowered self-leadership.
--Emily Soccorsy, cofounder, Root + River

Growing Influence weaves an accessible story using allegory and addresses timely issues about character and inter-generational communication. Using story and connection, this book tells the tale of empathy and mentorship and reminds us that sometimes we find the greatest gifts for our work in the most unexpected places.
--Courtney Feider, behavioral strategist and executive coach

Growing Influence uses the #metoo theme to teach all of us how to have a more positive influence and greater success in our careers, marriages, and families. Whether you are a CEO or just starting down the leadership path, Growing Influence provides practical principles that can transform leaders, their teams, and the companies they work for. The book provides a tutorial for success through positive influence if you work hard, have talent, and are committed--whether you are female or male, young or old, or any ethnicity.
--Rick Stott, CEO, Superior Farms

Growing Influence skillfully examines one of the most complex concepts in today's world: how to create influence in a way that makes meaningful change for an individual and the organization of which he or she is a part.
--Rick Bowers, president, TTI Success Insights

It is hard to write a business fable that's the right blend of business and story. Ron and Stacy have certainly done that with Growing Influence. The story moves along at a brisk but believable pace--with the lessons and nuggets of wisdom artfully placed in key points of the story. From a purely practical perspective, Growing Influence should be in the library of every high-potential emerging leader. The lessons on how to truly create influence are both contemporary and timeless. Definitely a must-read to our circle of influence.
--Justin Foster, cofounder, Root + River

The book is a wonderful narrative on the power influence has in the development of different leadership traits that can be applied for both personal and professional development. It provides numerous examples from the authors' over forty years in the study of leadership, offering powerful tools, through the art of storytelling, for growth throughout the journey of life.
--May Lam, executive director, TTISI China

One of the greatest gifts is a new way of thinking and understanding that enables true personal growth. In Growing Influence, Ron and Stacy offer a simple, elegant model, as only real masters can--one that can actually be applied right now, to grow as individuals and influencers. Read and implement this book for a lifetime of influence.
--Padraig Berry, founder and CEO, OneFocus

Growing Influence gave me a much-needed fresh view on how to tackle small obstacles we face while pursuing a goal, and above all it reminded me how very important personal accountability is in creating a path for reaching goals. I am now planning on adding discretionary time to my daily schedule so I can work on strategy before the everyday hustle starts. Finally understanding that 'I cannot control everything 100 percent with my kids' helps me stop fighting the interruption of plans due to situations out of my control and instead focus on the solution for that unexpected event.
--Vanessa Boettcher, vice president, TTI Success Insights