Workbook
The Executive's Workbook
A Workbook for Leaders Navigating Complexity, Legacy, and What Comes After the Title
The title answers authority. This workbook answers what to do with it.
For the senior executive, C-suite leader, or organizational leader who has achieved significant authority and is navigating the questions that authority does not automatically answer: complexity, legacy, and what comes after the title
The Name It First Experience
Executive leadership is full of frameworks for strategy, governance, and organizational design. What is less common is a structured framework for the interior work of senior leadership: the values clarity required for complex decisions, the legacy questions that most executives avoid until the end, and the identity transition that follows a long career at the top. This workbook gives executives a structured process for examining what they actually believe about leadership, what they want to build that outlasts the role, and who they are becoming in the years after the title. The work produces a single document: The Executive Operating Plan.
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Sample questions
- What is the most important decision you are facing right now — and what is making it hard?
- What does your team most need from you right now — and are you providing it?
- What are you most proud of from your leadership so far — something you want acknowledged?
- What does leading well look like for you right now — and how close are you to that?
Research basis
Professional Identity Formation research (Cruess, Cruess, Steinert) applies to senior leaders whose identity is most fully merged with their organizational role, creating the most demanding identity transition when the role ends. Burnout and Engagement research (Maslach, Leiter) identifies the specific burnout profile of executives — driven by moral compromise, isolation, and the erosion of values-action alignment over time. Research on executive coaching outcomes (Kilburg, 2000 / ICF) identifies the gap between behavioral skill development and the interior work of values clarification and legacy construction that separates sustained leadership from eventual derailment. Career Construction Theory (Savickas) provides the framework for understanding how executive identity is authored, and what the post-executive narrative requires.
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