Quick Tip Recap: “What’s a bookinar?” … a revolutionary new way to experience collaborative learning! It combines traditional book learning with live teleseminar training and breakouts during the class, allowing each participant to leverage their unique learning style. Martha is conducting a series of virtual teleseminar classes where she teaches valuable lessons from the book, using our INSPIRING WOMEN application workbook. If you are JUST beginning your leadership quest or desiring to hasten your leadership journey, this is for YOU!

Inspiring Women... BECOMING Courageous, Wise Leaders

We know how busy everyone is serving your customers… no matter what business you are in. Often times you are not taking the time for your own development in all of this busy-ness. You may even have goals to improve your leadership skills this year, but still don’t have any plans to accomplish this in a time-efficient, cost-effective way.

• Developing confidence for extraordinary leadership
• The 3 keys to leadership wisdom and
• The courage to do what is right

Martha Forlines and Thad Green

Inspiring Women: BECOMING Courageous, Wise Leaders

This book speaks directly to women leaders and those who aspire to be…

Here is a sneak preview

By way of

Excerpts from the text

And quotes included by female executives

Interviewed for the book

Every woman has the opportunity

To make more of herself than she does

So now it is about finding

That which has not yet been revealed in you

A leader without courage

Is like a car with no wheels

Believing “I can’t”

Grabs you tightly

Holds on

Holds you back

Floods you with self-doubt

The bottom line is a shocker

Seventy percent (70%)

Of employees whose leaders use

The approach in this book

Reported increases

In their performance

Debbie Storey, Senior Vice President, AT&T

“You can make the mistake

Of believing the people

You lead are motivated”

When people can’t trust their manager

To give what their performance deserves

Trouble is brewing

Like a flooding river

Crawling its way toward disaster

When everybody’s job is at stake

We see a lot of pretending

That everything is fine

How motivating is it

How much effort do people give

How well do they perform

When the satisfaction is gone

Martha Hayhurst, President, Harry Norman, Realtors

“You have to know

What is important

To each person

Otherwise how can you lead”

Rachel Russell, Vice President, AT&T

“When you use the approach in this book

Issues will be uncovered”

There is power in the beliefs

That determine how hard people work

How well they perform

And how happy they will be

Danielle Donehew, Executive Vice President, Atlanta Dream

“This is a great approach

It just makes sense”

Some of your beliefs

Work against you as a leader

You may want to get a feel

For the beliefs you hold

About how they affect you

And how they affect

The way you lead others

Marie Mouchet, VP and CIO, Southern Company, CIO, Southern Nuclear

“You are onto something

About bringing ‘how we were raised’

Into the workplace

Like the beliefs we learned

At an early age

That hold on

And follow us to work”

Aline Ward, Regional CIO, Southern Company

“Your beliefs determine

Your leadership style”

Kathleen King, Vice President and CIO, Alabama Power

“Leaders need to know their people

But they must understand themselves first”

Becky Sparks, Vice President, AT&T

“You are who you were back when”

When you aren’t getting

The results you want

Just turn to those you lead

They know solutions

That will work for them

Leslie Sibert, Vice President, Georgia Power

“Approaches like those in this book

Are becoming more important

As we move toward

A more diverse workforce”

Motivation is the fuel for performance . . . no gas, no go

Courage is the narrow line

That separates leaders

Some leaders are like

A puppet on a string

Dancing a jig

To somebody else’s music

About courage for what is right

Maybe you have slipped into a quandary

Knowing the right thing to do

Yet not

And why

About the courage to stand up to men

We have our own theory about men

Who flash aggressive intimidating behavior

It is nothing more than a cover-up

For their tightly wrapped feelings

Of inferiority and insecurity

Becky Blalock, Senior VP and CIO, Southern Technology

“Not willing to be tough

Not willing to get

In dog fights with men

Holds women back”

Suzanne Sitherwood, President, Atlanta Gas Light

“Being intimidated by men

Having a chip on your shoulder

Holds women back as leaders”

Bari Love, Partner, Jackson Spalding

“This book and its focus on female leaders

Addresses the issues

Many of us face

Especially courage”

The bottom line is this:

Leading is about wisdom and courage

Equal partners

Not to stand alone

Martha Forlines and Thad Green