Share the book that changed how you lead.
Leadership doesn’t change when you add more tools. It changes when you shift the context you’re leading from. The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership exposes the invisible fear-based patterns that run every team, and shows leaders how to move into responsibility, curiosity, and trust instead. The result is cultures where people own outcomes, collaborate deeply, and do the most important work of their careers.
Ten years and hundreds of thousands of readers later, the authors have revised and expanded the book for a new generation of leaders. Buy a copy for yourself, gift one to a leader you believe in, or start a book club to practice the commitments together.
Originally self-published.
Spread by word of mouth from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
Now a modern leadership classic.
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This book changed my life and has ignited transformation in leaders, teams, and organizations around the world. Meet these pages with an open heart and an open mind, and the possibilities for how you live and lead with clarity and courage are truly limitless.
Brené Brown
Originally self-published and shared among executives and coaches, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership has become a favorite in boardrooms and beyond, adopted by top companies from Silicon Valley to Wall Street and read by hundreds of thousands of leaders around the world.
Drawing upon decades of experience coaching founders and executives, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp distill conscious leadership into fifteen actionable commitments that create a sustainable model of leadership. At its heart is a radically simple choice: at any moment, we can lead consciously, open, curious, and self-aware, or unconsciously, closed, fearful, and reactive.
More than a guide to better management, this enduring classic is a roadmap to a more authentic, fulfilling life. You’ll never see leadership the same way again.
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What Leaders Say
Praise for The 15 Commitments
“This book changed my life and has ignited transformation in leaders, teams, and organizations around the world. Meet these pages with an open heart and an open mind, and the possibilities for how you live and lead with clarity and courage are truly limitless.”
PhD, Author of Dare to Lead and Strong Ground
“Chapman, Dethmer, and Klemp offer a refreshing wake-up call to anyone who thinks that work is a self-driven, zero-sum game. The 15 Commitments keenly illustrates how making great strides in business requires an awareness of self without self-righteousness.”
MELLODY HOBSON
Co-CEO & President of Ariel Investments
“The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is a serious invitation to radical self-inquiry—the kind leaders must undertake if they are to stop unconsciously passing their wounds downstream. This work reminds us that leadership is not about control or performance, but about responsibility for one’s inner life.”
JERRY COLONNA
Author of Reunion and Reboot
“Practical, actionable, and transformative, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about leadership. A must-have resource.”
Chip Conley
Founder of Modern Elder Academy
“Our culture has less drama and more creativity, productivity, and alignment because we practice The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. This is a must read for leaders looking for where the conversation on leadership is going.”
MARK KAUFMAN
“I’ve worked with Jim Dethmer at Conscious Leadership Group, and I recommend their book The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership... I think it’s very valuable.”
Tim Ferriss
Author of The 4-Hour series
“This book will likely radically challenge your conventions about how you lead and work with others; it is truly about leadership on another level.”
The Roundtable
“A 326-page earthquake of a book that has the potential to reshape the psychological landscape of companies and people.”
DBT Ventures
Don’t Just Read the Book.
Practice it together.
Start a Conscious Leadership Book Club
Reading The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership shifts how you think. Practicing it with others shifts how you lead.
The official Book Club Guide from The Conscious Leadership Group gives any leader a simple, self-guided way to gather a group and do exactly that. Sixteen sessions, one for the introduction and one for each commitment, walk your group from the ideas in the book to the practice of them.
No expertise required. One person owns the logistics, the facilitator role can rotate, and a first-time reader can lead a session well. Run it with your leadership team, a coaching community, an organization, or a group of friends, in person or virtually.
