Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be - Softcover

Le Gentil, Hortense

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1989025900 ISBN 13: 9781989025901

Publisher: Page Two, 2019

Synopsis

Have you ever felt like you were on a roll? Time slows, and you see everything clearly. You instinctively know what to do, and have the profound feeling that you are on the right path.

This is what leadership coach Hortense le Gentil calls alignment: the congruence of who you are and what you think, feel, and love on a fundamental level with what you do, say, and envision for your future. It’s about becoming more of yourself—and transcending the limits you once thought were holding you back.

Hortense first experienced alignment as a competitive show-jumper, realized its wider application in her entrepreneurial career, and fine-tuned its message as a leadership executive coach. Now in Aligned, she delivers an essential three-part guide for anyone wanting to lead with ease, joy, and impact—and to become even more successful. Alignment helps organizations reach their full potential, and people realize their personal goals.

Alignment does not happen by itself, however. In Aligned, Hortense uses real-life examples to show you how to connect with who you truly are, do the work to become who you want to be, and project your aligned self from your inner world onto the outside one.

Told through the personal and professional victories of her clients, revealing case studies, and Hortense’s own journey towards alignment, her book is an inspiring and intuitive approach to a concept as enduring as it is momentous.

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About the Author

Hortense is an Executive Leadership Coach and the President and Founder of JAY Consulting. She works with decision makers in the business world, including many C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies, supporting them in their development and leadership by working with them on the alignment between their personal values and their professional activities. Prior to coaching full time, le Gentil spent over 30 years in business in various industries, working for leading multinational companies in the areas of media consulting, marketing, and advertising. She then founded and spent 10 years as CEO of an entrepreneurial start-up (in metals recycling). Hortense is part of the MG100 Coaches, Marshall Goldsmith's Pay It Forward project, and is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered™ Coach. She has been selected to receive a Thinkers 50 coaching award for excellence in her field. She is the author of several articles about leadership and coaching in such publications as Leader to Leader and Les Echos.

Review

"If you want to unleash your full potential as a leader, read Aligned and learn how to focus on the highest value beliefs and actions that will both play to your unique strengths and help you shed the limiting distractions that may be holding you back."JAMES M. CITRIN, Leader, Spencer Stuart CEO Practice and Author, The Career Playbook

"In Aligned, Hortense le Gentil leverages her experience as one of the world's foremost executive coaches to take us on a journey to explore who we are, who we want to be, and how to get there. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a better leader."DR. TASHA EURICH, New York Times best-selling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership

"This is a beautiful and insightful book. Hortense offers healthy doses of clarity in a form that's easy to swallow. She helps each of us find and hold onto our truths, even when chaos swirls around us."FIONA M. MACAULAY, Founder-CEO, WILD Network, Women Innovators & Leaders Development

"Aligned is one of the best leadership books I have ever read. It has the potential to help us leaders become more aligned and therefore more effective and to foster greater alignment within the organization we lead through the concept and practice of alignment of alignments."HUBERT JOLY, Executive Chairman and former CEO, Best Buy

"This book is a gift for those looking to lead more authentically and effectively at any stage in life."THOMAS S. SCHREIER, JR., Founding Director of the Inspired Leadership Initiative at the University of Notre Dame

"Aligned is the essential guide for any organization to reach its own highest potential."
FRANCES HESSELBEIN, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal, Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA

"Hortense shows us how to let go of our restrictions and old beliefs, so we can learn to behave and think differently, align our values with our actions, and learn from past experiences."MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, Thinkers50 - #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World
"In her brilliant new book, Aligned, Hortense Le Gentil shows how to perform at your peak as a leader in today's volatile world: align your authentic self in mind, body and spirit with your 'why' and then align your team with their 'why' around a common mission and values. With challenging reflections, Le Gentil provides a roadmap to your sustained success as an authentic and aligned leader."
BILL GEORGE, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; former Chair & CEO, Medtronic and author of Discover Your True North

"Hortense le Gentil provides an invaluable set of practical approaches for anyone, including experienced and aspiring leaders, who desires to unleash their full potential."
ARNOLD DONALD, CEO of Carnival Corp and PLC

"Aligned is THE book to find your perfect recipe to connect your true self and the right path to your success! I'm honored to write an endorsement for the amazing work of Hortense and I cannot wait to see who you'll become after reading. Enjoy!"GREGORY RENARD, Head of Artificial Intelligence at xBrain, Head of Applied AI & SDS at NASA FDL

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Two
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1989025900
• ISBN 13: 9781989025901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 230