Gary Waddell, Ed.D.
Signal: Leadership and the Art of What Matters
Signal: Leadership and the Art of What Matters is a book about what leadership looks like at its most genuine and human. At the precise moment when AI is automating the transactional work of leadership while our public spaces grow more fractured and divided, Signal asks the question this moment makes urgent: what can only a fully present, creatively alive human being do? Drawing on anthropology, neuroscience, and thirty years of experience leading complex organizations, Gary Waddell, Ed.D., takes readers through the moments that reveal what leadership actually requires — from a hallway floor where a tantruming six-year-old shattered everything he thought he knew about authority, to a Stanford designer who brought artists into corporate boardrooms and watched executives freeze in something like awe. Signal doesn't offer a framework or a system. It offers a reorientation — shifting from notions of leadership and command and control to a new leadership defined by creativity and connection. It offers an invitation to hear the signal that has always been in the room, waiting for a leader present enough to receive it.Signal is forthcoming! Subscribe to the newsletter below to stay informed!
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Gary Waddell, Ed.D.
Gary Waddell, Ed.D., spent thirty years leading complex educational organizations in California — as Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and county-level executive — while never quite believing that the artist and the leader were different people. He has training in arts, counseling, and leadership all of which contribute to his unique approach to a new kind of leadership.
Signal is what he learned when he abandoned command and control for a leadership defined by creativity and connection. He lives in Palm Springs, California, where he writes the Letters2Leaders newsletter, consults with leaders across the state, and supports the local arts community.You can contact Gary at [email protected]