Anese Cavanaugh

“Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want” (2019)

You have the power to own your role as a leaderYou have a tremendous power to influence those around you.  YOU are contagious. Regardless of where you are in your career, how you show up matters. Your intentions, energy, and presence as a leader sets the tone creating a positive – or negative – culture and results.  In her previous bestseller Contagious Culture, Anese Cavanaugh provided leaders with a roadmap to creating a healthy corporate culture that inspires, energizes–and is positively contagious. Now, in this much-anticipated follow-up, she offers the tools and inspiration to be a dynamic leader who has the power to influence and create impactful change. The quality of our leadership all starts with our individual intentions, energy, presence, self-care, and choices. Drawn from Cavanaugh’s proprietary approach to leadership, Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP Method®), Contagious You shows you how to “own” your leadership and effectively guide, inspire, and serve those around you. Insightful stories and real-life examples address the areas of team, dealing with failure,  leading and changing culture, designing relationships, navigating conflict, transforming burnout, cultivating mindset, and more. This book is essential reading for anyone looking to foster connection, achieve great results, and become a force for good in the world.SynopsisThis insightful guide from the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) provides individuals at any stage in their careers the tools and inspiration to show up as a dynamic and positively contagious leader.

“Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives” (2015)

“The Leader You Will Be: An Invitation” ()

THE LEADER YOU WILL BE is an invitation to the leader in all of us to step up, shine bright, be real, do good, and bring our best selves to the table for (positive) impact, love, and living lives well lived. This short book is an illustrated journey of leadership and becoming, speaking to behaviors, intentions, actions, and "ways of being" witnessed, experienced, and taught by Anese in her work with business leaders, organizations, and human beings around the world over the last twenty years as a leadership advisor and lover of the human spirit.  The Leader You Will Be has been performed on stages around the country for audiences who want to have a more meaningful impact in business and life, and who want to do it in THEIR own authentic way. What started as a poem, grew into a work of love and craft created by Anese and her team and what you see here now. This poem is an invitation, not a prescription, and it is for YOU in whatever way fuels you most. Use it, share the love, keep it for yourself, read it to your kids, give it to your team, leave it as a secret leadership admirer gift for people you care about, and enjoy. Pick one thing, pick five, but dig in, and take the invitation. The time to lead is now, wouldn't you agree? So lean in, get your game on, and show up as the leader you will be... Anese Cavanaugh is the author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Create an Organization that Thrives (McGraw-Hill, 2015), she is also an award-winning speaker, advisor, teacher, and thinking partner to some of today's most innovative organizations and business leaders. In addition to creating and teaching the IEP Method (Intentional Energetic Presence), she writes a regular "Showing Up" column on Inc.com and contributes to other publications that include HBR, The Huffington Post, CEO.com, and others. Her next book, CONTAGIOUS YOU (McGraw-Hill) is in the works and will drop Fall 2019.