Admired Leadership^®

Is it more important for the leader to admire the team or for the team to admire the leader? Most leaders aspire to be admired by their team, and for good reasons. The best leaders in the world take a different view. 

Results and Followership

When leaders openly admire their people, they do their best work and reach their highest potential. Their people go the extra mile to prove they’re worthy of that admiration. This uncommon view is held by the leaders our earliest clients called “admired.” Admired Leaders thrive in a rare intersection that enables both extraordinary results and deep, loyal followership.

What is Admired Leadership^®?

At its core, Admired Leadership focuses on the behaviors and routines of the most effective leaders. Based on decades of research studying over 12,000 leaders, Admired Leadership aims to identify what exceptional leaders share in common rather than explaining leadership through personality traits, styles, or other individual differences – all of which are necessary, but not sufficient to propel leaders towards excellence.

Exhaustive interviews with leaders’ colleagues, families, and friends prove outstanding leadership depends less on what a leader knows or thinks, and more on what they consistently do. Admired Leadership provides the only major leadership framework with this view, consisting of a repertoire of hundreds of universally effective behaviors that encourage loyal followership and exceptional results.

Practical, actionable, and surprisingly simple

The critical insight? Admired Leader behaviors provide how-to ways to lead in everyday situations that anyone can learn and master. They’re practical, actionable, and can be surprisingly simple. But don’t let that distract you — these behavioral routines are powerful precisely because they represent the distilled wisdom of leadership.

To dig deeper, we invite you to explore the foundations of Admired Leadership here.

Experiences

June 23, 2025

Admired Leadership^® Interactive in New York City

This one-day event allows subscribers to go even deeper in their understanding of Admired Leadership and our behavioral approach to leadership development. It’s a full day’s immersion into the best practices of leadership excellence.

April 21-24, 2025

Admired Leadership Institute^® in Asheville

The Admired Leadership Institute combines a week of leadership learning with activities that embrace multiple experiences found in Asheville, North Carolina. This carefully balanced design provides participants with a truly memorable Admired Leadership^® experience. It is designed to create a rich dialogue among peer-like leaders.

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Connecting to Admired Leadership^®

Join any of these bi-weekly webinar discussions to learn more about Admired Leadership content, connect with other leaders, and hear from an experienced coach.