The Unique Individual You

In The Unique Individual You, women-in-leadership strategist Naomi Harm presents compelling neuroscience research that documents how and why women's brains are wired for empathy, intuition, and collaboration-the very qualities business managers and educational administrators are looking for in their leaders of today. This inspiring and action-orientated women-in-leadership book focuses on how to build a woman's leadership confidence and cognitive presence and her sphere of influence. Mentorship stories of hope, optimism, mindfulness, and resilience drive the storyline, and they outline a creative visionary roadmap of effective women in leadership "lean-in" strategies and solutions to define and guide your women in leadership career trajectory.

Naomi Harm has 25 years of established and effective facilitation methods that model outstanding women in leadership strategies, mentoring techniques, and Total Participation Techniques (TPT) methods. These compassion-based conversations and professional development sessions and keynotes have transformed businesses and educational relationships of community practices worldwide. She shares her personal struggles as a woman leader in the IT and STEM industry, and she highlights how she overcame setbacks and recognizes her success by inspiring others with her innovative positive genius through the K12 educational lens, the corporate world of big business, and her own personal and technical lessons learned as CEO of her own EdTech women-in-leadership organization.

Throughout the book, Naomi also introduces women-in-leadership practices of how and why to develop and invest in an organization's talent: its employees. These strategies provide women leaders tools to reach their professional and personal goals, while making a significant impact in the organizations they work for and represent.

In addition, each chapter includes an action-oriented toolkit that focuses on the following:

   Empathy-based coaching

   Relationship building with gender techniques

   Mentoring and relationship culture building activities

   Reading-the-room methods on when to lean in and when to observe consciously

   Body language and conversational tone techniques to represent your best self and model your sphere of influence

   Tips to be more present in your everyday leadership experiences and conversations

   Strategies for investing in yourselves with thoughtful SEL and self-care habits

   The importance of beginning and finishing each day with a moment of gratitude

   Impactful strategies to leave your legacy of good by mentoring and aspiring our future women leaders

A plethora of snapshot learning scenarios and call-for-action reflection pieces are also presented on how to lea...