The Blueprint
6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights
Part leadership manifesto, part practical manual, Doug Conant teaches leaders how to work through six incremental steps to lift their leadership and make meaningful change in their organizations and in the world.
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The Blueprint Process: 6 Steps
1: Reach High — Envision
Envision what success looks like to you and set the intention to do better. In this step, you will take your first crack at articulating your Leadership Purpose.
2: Dig Deep — Reflect
Reflect on your experiences to uncover your leadership beliefs and dig deep to uncover what makes you, you. In this step, you will uncover the life lessons that anchor your leadership and develop a deeper understanding of your unique personality and skillset.
3: Lay the Groundwork — Study
Study to fill in all the cracks from your dig, laying the groundwork with all the learnings and insights from the world that exists beyond your personal experiences.
4: Design — Plan
The fun part. Using design thinking as well as thinking prompts, Post-Its, and pen and paper, conceive your Plan: an exquisite design for your personal Leadership Model, derived from your Leadership Purpose and Leadership Beliefs.
5: Build — Practice
Practice your change process. You will brainstorm small, actionable practices that you can begin to fold into your habits and begin to create your Practice Treasury, a stable of behaviors that will help you bring to life the leadership Plan you designed.
6: Reinforce — Improve
Improve, continually learning from what you did right and what you could have done better, reinforcing the strength of your Foundation in perpetuity. Here you will also work to align your personal leadership approach with the expectations of your organization.
The Author, Doug Conant: The only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a NYT bestselling author, a Top 50 Leadership Innovator, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and a Top 100 Most Influential Author in the World.
Your Life Story is Your Leadership Story
Many of the problems leaders face today are rooted in compartmentalization. Leaders believe their work life and their “real” life are two different things, so they develop a siloed self-expression: a “work” identity and a “personal” identity. And they’re at odds. Managing this tension becomes yet another task in a crushing litany of expectations and pressures. It does not have to be this way. It’s time to try something else.
Many leadership books teach you to emulate somebody else’s leadership approach; this one empowers you to lead more like you. Leveraging groundbreaking insights from a 40-year leadership journey coupled with the most current science on habit-building, The Blueprint combines true-and-tested exercises for self-discovery with an experience-backed manifesto on the ten foundational tenets of “leadership that works” to create the quintessential treatise and manual on leadership for our times.
What Top Leadership Voices Are Saying
“Leaders at every level in today’s organizations must now be more courageous, well-equipped, and resilient than ever before. Conant’s process will help you to explore your own unique strengths—fearlessly.”
“Doug Conant is a special breed: a hard-edged corporate CEO with an introspective nature who attributes his success to reflection, study, and thoughtful inner work rather than birthright or bombast.”
“There is no other leader who has more effectively balanced enduring organizational performance with a passionate caring for people . . . take Doug as your teacher.”
“Doug Conant has long been one of America’s most effective and enlightened leaders.”
"Doug Conant has proven himself to be a very disciplined CEO. . . his example shows how effective business leaders can be quiet and bold, studious and decisive, disciplined and creative. Conant has so much to teach, and aspiring leaders at all levels would do well to learn from him."
“Doug Conant hasn’t just been a highly successful leader—he’s an unusually thoughtful one.”
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Examples to Inspire
Personal Leadership Models
Albert Morales, Chief Transformation Officer at AmerisourceBergen
(Boot Camp Alumni)
Kristen Heffernan, General Manager, Henry Schein MicroMD
(Boot Camp Alumni)
Linda Hagerty-Dotterer, Executive Director, Change Management & Culture at CSL Behring
(Boot Camp Alumni)
John Kreger, VP, Chief Operating Officer for MITRE Engenuity
(Boot Camp Alumni)
Chris Abboushi, Commercial Learning + Development, Astellas
John Wooden, Legendary UCLA Head Basketball Coach
Stephen Covey, Author of the Bestselling Book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
Organizational Leadership Models
Partnership for Public Service: Public Service Leadership Model
Centered Leadership, How Talented Women Thrive
Gallup Engagement Hierarchy
Servant Leadership Model
What is The Blueprint Process?
Doug Conant has codified over 40 years of leadership experience into his 6-step Blueprint process for reflection and model-building that he himself used to transform his own leadership trajectory and deliver top-tier results in global industry. Using this same 6-step process, you can embark on a practical exploration of your own values, beliefs, and competencies.
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The BLUEPRINT Boot Camp
Lifts Your Leadership to New Heights
Two days of virtual training. A lifetime of results. At BLUEPRINT Boot Camp—a 2-day program followed by a year of mentorship and correspondence with Doug Conant–you will experience a total immersion into the craft of leadership. Using patented prompts for reflection, high-impact exercises, and collaborative group work, participants unearth powerful insights from their own lives to develop personal leadership models that empower them to lead with greater impact.
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