Step into your PLACE
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Publisher Description
Your leadership moment is already here. Will you step into it?
Leadership is more than a title, position, or measure of influence. It is revealed in who you become, the trust you build, and the faithful steps you take when the path ahead is uncertain.
In Step Into Your PLACE, Dr. Drew Howard invites you into a practical, faith-rooted journey of leadership formation; one that reaches beyond strategy and skill to shape how you lead, how you live, and who you are becoming.
The journey unfolds through five integrated dimensions: Purposeful Pursuit, Limitless Learning, Ambitious Agility, Confident Culture, and Expedient Evolution. Together, they help you pursue your calling with conviction, draw wisdom from experience, turn drive into responsible action, cultivate a culture people can trust and carry forward, and evolve through change without coming apart or losing what matters most.
Through personal stories, biblical insights, real-world lessons, guided reflection, and practical PLACE Tests, you will recognize strengths, uncover patterns shaping your leadership, and discern what deserves your attention next.
You do not need a perfect plan, another title, or permission to begin. You need the courage to take the next faithful step.
The next step is yours. Step into your PLACE.
Customer Reviews
Thoughtful, Practical, and Highly Relevant Leadership Framework
Step Into Your PLACE is more than a traditional leadership book. Drew Howard provides a thoughtful and practical framework that challenges leaders to examine not only how they lead, but also the type of organization and culture their leadership creates.
The five dimensions of PLACE, Purposeful Pursuit, Limitless Learning, Ambitious Agility, Confident Culture, and Expedient Evolution, work especially well because they are interconnected. Purpose provides direction, learning challenges our thinking, agility turns learning into action, culture embeds shared beliefs and behaviors, and evolution helps an organization continue improving.
As an educational leader, I particularly appreciated the discussions surrounding organizational culture and sustainable improvement. One of the questions the book caused me to consider is whether leadership effectiveness should be measured only by what an organization accomplishes while a leader is present, or also by what that organization remains capable of accomplishing after the leader is gone.
The book also reinforces an important distinction between simply directing people and genuinely developing them. Effective leadership should create greater ownership, confidence, judgment, and leadership capacity throughout an organization rather than making the organization increasingly dependent upon one individual.
Howard combines leadership principles, personal experiences, reflection, and faith in a way that makes the material both accessible and thought-provoking. More importantly, the book invites readers to apply the framework to their own leadership rather than simply agree with its ideas.
I finished Step Into Your PLACE with several new questions about leadership, culture, talent development, and organizational sustainability. To me, that’s one of the best things a leadership book can accomplish. Highly recommended for leaders who want to develop themselves while also developing the people and organizations entrusted to their leadership.