The Mentally Strong Leader: Tools for Pushing to Something Exceptional Through Something Challenging

Manage yourself internally so you can lead better externally

Award-winning, bestselling author Scott Mautz defines mental strength as the ability to self-regulate emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve exceptional outcomes, despite adversity. It’s the leadership superpower of our times. Mentally strong leaders are confident and in control of themselves and their environment; they have endurance, are disciplined, and external stressors make their decision-making sharper. They’re a safe port in a storm for their team.

The Mentally Strong Leader gives readers a mental exercise plan to become such a leader. Readers will walk away with a menu of over 50 proven tools they can choose from to build a tailored set of habits in six areas that will make them mentally stronger:

• Fortitude
• Decision-making
• Confidence
• Goal-focus
• Boldness
• Messaging

Inspired by Mautz’s hit LinkedIn Learning course, ＂10 Habits of Mentally Strong People,＂ his 25 years leading some of Procter & Gamble’s multi-billion-dollar businesses, and over 30 years of studying this topic, The Mentally Strong Leader relies on mental models, data and research, habit-building science, and practical tools and exercises to create enduring understandings for readers. Mautz begins with a compelling explanation of the power of mental strength, and offers a Mental Strength Self-Assessment. He finishes, as he has in his past titles, like Leading from the Middle, and Make it Matter, by providing a Mental Action Plan (MAP) to help readers create their own, tailored practice.

Scott Mautz is the founder and CEO of Profound Performance(TM), a keynote, training, and coaching company that helps people ignite profound performance and develop their skills in leadership, managing world-class teams, increasing employee engagement, thriving in change, and creating meaning at work. Scott is a former Procter & Gamble senior executive who successfully ran four of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses and transformed organizational health scores along the way. He’s a multi award-winning author of Leading from the Middle, Find the Fire, and Make It Matter, and has been named a ＂CEO Thought-leader＂ by The Chief Executives Guild and a ＂Top 50 Leadership Innovator＂ by Inc.com, where he was a top columnist with well over 1 million monthly readers. Scott is faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for Executive Education, where he teaches others-oriented leadership and the secret to sustaining motivation, and is a top instructor at LinkedIn Learning. Scott lives in San Diego, CA with his wife and daughter (who is growing up too fast).