When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally and personally, including revealing lessons from its legendary CEO leadership program, The Bower Forum, which has counseled more than five hundred global CEOs over the past decade. It is a journey that helps leaders hone the psychological, emotional, and, ultimately, human attributes that result in success in today’s most demanding top job.

Packed with insightful and never-before-heard reflections from leaders, including Ed Bastian (CEO of Delta Air Lines), Makoto Uchida (CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation), Mark Fields (former CEO of Ford Motor Company), Reeta Roy (CEO of Mastercard Foundation), and Stéphane Bancel (CEO of Moderna), you will learn how to:

• Assess your personal leadership approach and style objectively.
• Discover your true mandate as a leader.
• Develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both yourself and your organization.
• Create a personal commitment plan to inspire your team and cement your legacy.

The Journey of Leadership is an invaluable resource for anyone running or hoping to run an organization in today’s ever-more-complex world.

"When the pressure is on, the world's top CEOs go to McKinsey's Bower Forum to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The CEO Workshop brings the experience of the world's most prestigious, invite-only, CEO boot camp to everyone else. Today's CEOs operate in a high-risk, high-reward environment, expected to tackle much more complexity and make big swings with no second chances. It's taken a toll: the average tenure of an S&P 500 CEO is at an all-time low of under five years. Confronted with this terrain, leaders of the world's most storied, boldest, and valuable organizations from Moderna to Microsoft have turned to an inside secret: McKinsey's Bower Forum, the prestigious, invite-only "CEO workshop." Now, The CEO Workshop distills the Forum's "lifechanging experience" into a signature process to identify and implement tenure-defining bold moves: discover their true mandate as CEO assess their situation objectively, including advantages and disadvantages develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both themselves and their organizations create a commitment plan to bring the entire team along and cement their legacy Packed with insightful, vulnerable, never-before-heard reflections from leaders and attendees including Mark Fields (Ford), Jim Owens (Caterpillar), Daniel Vasella (Novartis), Wendy Kopp (Teach for America), Lynn Elsenhans (Sunoco), and Admiral Eric Olson (former head of U.S. Special Operations), The CEO Workshop is an invaluable resource for today's leader"--