Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future, Third Edition, Newly Revised

Much has changed in the world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce's book on authentic leadership communication. Now, more than ever, the development of a leader's message is as crucial to success as the delivery of that message. In the third edition of his classic book, Terry Pearce shows leaders in all sectors how to communicate their values and vision to inspire commitment.

In this important resource, Pearce continues to broaden the application of core principles, putting the spotlight on every day, spontaneous communication. New examples, covering the range of today's multi-faceted communication, show the application of the sage advice Pearce offers. Readers will see how to develop a Personal Leadership Communication Guide that supports any venue, through any media and in multiple cultures. This completely revised and updated version of the bestselling classic is designed to meet the communication needs of today's leaders.

• Pearce expands his exploration of the internal work necessary to create an honest and compelling vision. He emphasizes the deepening of emotional awareness necessary to inspire others
• This edition demonstrates how readers can find their authentic voices and articulate their messages with increasing confidence and empathy
• Some examples carry through across chapters, clarifying how one develops and strengthens the Personal Leadership Communication Guide over time
• The work presents new models that are applicable to the multi-cultural world in which we live. Readers, leaders of any organization, and teachers at any level will find practical illustrations of how differences can be bridged with universal principles
• Foreword by Randy Komisar, General Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and author of The Monk and The Riddle

This new edition offers information, stories and experiences that demonstrate success in authentic leadership communication, in any technology, whatever the field or venue, local or global.

About the Author

Terry Pearce is founder and president of Leadership Communication, a company that coaches high-profile corporate, political, and social leaders on the principles of the art of creating inspiration. He is widely credited for distinguishing leadership communication as a separate field in the mid-1990s.

The content and method of his coaching and consulting are radical departures from conventional wisdom, and are designed to move people to commitment rather than mere compliance, resulting in higher levels of contribution and innovation. His clients include executives, public officials, and high-level teams of Fortune 500 companies and more recently leaders of new companies that are changing the world.

Until 2005, Terry was an adjunct professor at the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, where his courses received the highest ratings from graduate students for providing useful, effective, and relevant tools for their futures as leaders in the business community, and for assisting them to explore themes that were meaningful as a life’s work. He has been a visiting lecturer at the London School of Business in the Sloan fellowship program and a contributor to the Executive Briefing Video Series at Stanford University.

Terry is particularly interested in inspiration as it applies to the entire human family, regardless of culture. He earned a master’s in comparative mythology and became a doctoral candidate at the Pacifica Graduate Institute at the age of sixty-four. He continues to speak and consult to groups about leadership communication and its role in shifting perception and instilling inspiration for change. His corporate partner, BlessingWhite, is a leading consultancy in employee engagement and leadership.

Together, Terry and BlessingWhite use his material with international clients.

Terry’s avid interest and commitment to the relationship between leadership and communication began as a student leader at Linfield College in Oregon, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in business with a strong emphasis in religious philosophy.

For the first seventeen years of his career, Terry was a manager and executive at IBM. During the 1980s he pioneered U.S. business activities in the Soviet Union as co¬founder of Partners, a firm that marketed consumer products and facilitated joint industrial projects in Russia. This experience sharpened his interest in the possibility of inspiration as a universal phenomenon.

From 1994 until 2002, he also served as a fellow and a senior vice president of executive communication for Charles Schwab Corporation.

Terry’s writings include the business bestseller Clicks and Mortar: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet-Driven World (coauthored with David Pottruck) and Leading Out Loud, hailed by “Executive Summaries” as one of the thirty best business books of 1995, and as “one of the best books on speaking ever written.” It was revised and broadened in 2003 to include all forms of communication. This current version incorporates learning and experiences from his subsequent graduate education and worldwide experience as a speaker, leadership communication consultant, and teacher.

Active in the community, Terry was the founding director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free California, and in 1989 ran across the United States as a member of “Transcon 89” to promote this cause. He is former chairman of the board of the National Endowment for Financial Education, and a board member of Up With People, and of A Network for Grateful Living. He currently serves on the boards of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and Center Point, a substance-abuse nonprofit.