Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
In the second book, Become Who You Are Meant to Be in Your Relationships, readers are guided through the intricacies of building authentic connections in both personal and professional relationships. This book delves into how the Imposter Persona—with its self-protective patterns like a lack of relationship awareness, lack of entitlement, and over-personalizing—shapes the way you engage with others. By uncovering these unconscious behaviors, readers can better understand how they create barriers to intimacy, trust, and emotional vulnerability, preventing authentic connection.
Whether you’re navigating romantic relationships, friendships, or professional collaborations, this book provides valuable tools to address common relationship challenges such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, and relationship instability. With five strategies and five practices for each of the six core symptoms of the Imposter Persona, it offers a comprehensive roadmap for transforming self-sabotaging behaviors into lasting, fulfilling connections.
For over forty years, I’ve dedicated my life to helping people uncover who they truly are and step into their fullest potential. As a writer, therapist, and leadership coach, I’ve had the privilege of guiding thousands of individuals to break free from limiting beliefs, rewrite their stories, and achieve success—both personally and professionally.
My passion for understanding personality and behavior led me to author several books that blend the science of neuropsychology with practical tools for personal growth. My"Become Who You Are Meant to Be"series is especially close to my heart. These books aren’t just about theory—they’re a roadmap to transformation, designed to help readers understand their unique personalities and behaviors while providing actionable steps to embrace their Authentic Self.
Each book I write reflects my belief that we all have the power to overcome the patterns and narratives that hold us back. Whether it’s unlocking the confidence to lead authentically or finding the courage to live in alignment with your true self, my goal is to empower you with the tools and insights you need to thrive.
Through my writing, I aim to create “aha” moments for readers—those flashes of clarity that illuminate why we think, feel, and act the way we do. And more importantly, I strive to help you channel that awareness into lasting change.
So You Think You Can Lead? is a comprehensive guide for leaders at all stages of their careers, offering essential tools for self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership effectiveness. The book helps leaders uncover their unique strengths and address self-limiting behaviors, providing actionable strategies to build confidence, make informed decisions, and inspire teams toward achieving their full potential.
At the core of the book is the Performance Development Cycle, a framework that outlines the specific behaviors and skills leaders need to use at each stage of their employees' development. The book emphasizes that a one-size-fits-all leadership approach is ineffective, showing that leaders must be adaptable and shift their behavior and style to meet the unique needs of their team members. By understanding when and how to adjust their leadership approach, leaders can foster growth, development, and improved performance across their teams.
This practical guide challenges the notion that leadership is an innate skill and stresses the importance of continuous development. So You Think You Can Lead? offers a step-by-step framework for enhancing leadership authority and adaptability, helping leaders unlock their full potential and create lasting success for both themselves and their organizations.
Become Who You Are Meant to Be in Your Career provides a comprehensive roadmap for aligning your professional life with your Authentic Self. It tackles the most common career challenges, such as fear of failure, self-doubt, and difficulty in self-advocacy, and offers practical solutions to overcome these hurdles. Whether you're prone to procrastination, overworking, or over-preparing in response to feelings of inadequacy, this book equips you with the tools to shift these self-limiting behaviors and unlock your full potential at work.
The book delves deeply into the emotional needs and self-protective behaviors that often drive career decisions and hinder professional growth. By identifying the root causes of these behaviors, it empowers readers to understand how their Imposter Persona impacts their career trajectory. Through a series of targeted exercises and reflective practices, readers will learn how to embrace calculated risks, advocate for themselves, and step into a role of true authority and confidence in the workplace. This book serves as an essential resource for anyone ready to transcend their current limitations and achieve meaningful success in their career.
The Maximizing Your Employee Potential book series is a 16-book collection, with each book uniquely designed for one of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality types and its corresponding Striving Style®. This series provides employees with deep insights into how their personality type affects their work habits, productivity, and interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. By understanding their natural strengths and potential challenges, employees can better align their roles with their personal and professional goals, leading to greater job satisfaction and performance.
Each book offers practical tools and strategies to help employees navigate common workplace challenges, improve communication, and build stronger relationships with colleagues and managers. Tailored specifically to their MBTI type and Striving Style®, the Maximizing Your Employee Potential series equips individuals with the knowledge to unlock their full potential in the workplace, whether they are seeking career growth, looking to enhance their productivity, or striving to improve their team contributions. This series is a valuable resource for employees at all levels who are committed to personal development and professional success.
Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
In Become Who You Are Meant to Be in Your Personal Life, readers are taken on a transformative journey toward self-awareness and personal growth. By examining the impact of early conditioning and unconscious patterns, the book highlights how self-protective behaviors, rooted in childhood experiences, shape the Imposter Persona that often holds us back. Through its brain-building approach, the book teaches readers how to rewire these ingrained patterns and replace them with behaviors aligned with their Authentic Self, promoting emotional resilience and self-empowerment.
The book provides a clear framework for recognizing and addressing the six core symptoms of the Imposter Persona, such as self-doubt, fear of failure, and perfectionism. With 150 actionable practices—five unique strategies for each symptom and five practical exercises for each strategy—it offers a step-by-step guide to breaking free from self-sabotage. These practices empower readers to transform limiting beliefs into confidence and self-worth, offering tangible ways to cultivate lasting personal growth.
Who Are You Meant to Be? is a groundbreaking guide that helps readers unlock their full potential by Who Are You Meant to Be? is a dynamic, step-by-step guide designed to help you break free from limiting patterns and move from merely surviving to truly thriving. Grounded in the latest breakthroughs in brain science and based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type, the book also presents an evolution of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). It provides a fresh perspective on how your personality affects your behavior and offers a roadmap tailored to your brain’s unique wiring. By understanding how your brain operates, you’ll be able to identify and change the habits and thought patterns that keep you from living a more fulfilling, purposeful life.
The book introduces eight distinct Striving Styles, building on Jung's foundational concepts and bringing them to life through engaging transformative stories. These stories illustrate how each Striving Style influences daily decisions, relationships, and goals. By identifying the Style that resonates most with you, you’ll gain clarity on how to use your innate abilities to achieve the things you were born to accomplish, in line with both Jung’s insights and the advancements in personality theory beyond the traditional MBTI® framework. For those tired of living on autopilot, Who Are You Meant to Be? offers the tools to take control of your life, giving you the awareness and strategies needed to live authentically.
The Maximizing Your Employee Potential book series is a 16-book collection, with each book uniquely designed for one of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality types and its corresponding Striving Style®. This series provides employees with deep insights into how their personality type affects their work habits, productivity, and interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. By understanding their natural strengths and potential challenges, employees can better align their roles with their personal and professional goals, leading to greater job satisfaction and performance.
Each book offers practical tools and strategies to help employees navigate common workplace challenges, improve communication, and build stronger relationships with colleagues and managers. Tailored specifically to their MBTI type and Striving Style®, the Maximizing Your Employee Potential series equips individuals with the knowledge to unlock their full potential in the workplace, whether they are seeking career growth, looking to enhance their productivity, or striving to improve their team contributions. This series is a valuable resource for employees at all levels who are committed to personal development and professional success.
Power Past the Imposter Syndrome delves deeply into the root causes of Imposter Syndrome, offering a step-by-step roadmap for breaking free of its self-limiting beliefs. The book reveals how early developmental disruptions, negative childhood experiences, and inadequate parenting can create unconscious patterns of self-doubt and insecurity. These ingrained beliefs, etched into the brain’s neural pathways, lead to automatic behaviors that keep individuals stuck in survival mode, unable to realize their full potential. By helping readers recognize these patterns, the book empowers them to take control of their development and transform their lives.
It also introduces four survival archetypes—Child, Victim, Prostitute, and Saboteur—each representing distinct Imposter Syndrome Personas. These Personas, while designed to protect us, ultimately prevent growth and fulfillment. By becoming aware of these automatic behaviors, readers can rewire their brains to break free from the limitations of these personas and live from their Authentic Self. Through a step-by-step process, the book shows how consistent effort can shift individuals from a life defined by fear and self-protection to one focused on personal growth and fulfillment. Power Past the Imposter Syndrome provides tools to help readers cultivate a deeper understanding of their own behaviors and triggers, offering strategies to replace self-limiting habits with empowering actions.
Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
The Maximizing Your Leadership Potential book series is a 16-book collection, with each book tailored to one Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality type and its corresponding Striving Style®. This series is designed to help leaders at all levels understand how their personality type influences their leadership approach, decision-making, and team dynamics. By identifying both strengths and potential blind spots, each book provides practical insights into how leaders can leverage their unique abilities while managing challenges that may arise in their leadership style.
Whether you’re a seasoned executive or an emerging leader, the Maximizing Your Leadership Potential series offers a personalized guide to enhancing your leadership effectiveness. Each book provides tools to improve self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership presence, all framed within the context of your personality type. By aligning your leadership approach with your natural tendencies and Striving Style®, this series empowers you to lead with greater confidence, build stronger teams, and achieve long-term success in any organizational environment.
Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
Co-Authored with Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
The Maximizing Your Relationship Potential book series is a comprehensive 16-book collection, with each book tailored to one of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality types and their corresponding Striving Style®. This series dives deep into the unique ways each personality type approaches relationships, highlighting their strengths, challenges, and emotional needs. With a focus on brain organization and behavior patterns, each book provides practical insights and strategies for developing stronger, more fulfilling relationships based on the reader's natural tendencies.
Whether you’re looking to improve romantic relationships, friendships, or professional connections, the Maximizing Your Relationship Potential series offers a roadmap for understanding how your personality type influences your interactions with others. By identifying your Need Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers, each book equips you with the tools to overcome relationship roadblocks, foster deeper connections, and create lasting bonds that support your emotional and psychological well-being. Tailored specifically to your MBTI personality type and Striving Style, this series is a valuable guide to enhancing relationships in every aspect of your life.
The "Become Who You Are Meant to Be Trilogy" is a comprehensive guide for anyone seeking profound personal and professional transformation, especially those grappling with the symptoms of Imposter Syndrome. Across its three volumes, readers are taken on a journey of self-discovery, using practical exercises and expert insights to unlock their true potential. Each book builds upon the previous one, offering a roadmap for navigating the challenges of living authentically, from overcoming unconscious fears to fostering deeper connections in relationships and aligning career paths with personal values and purpose.
The trilogy emphasizes the importance of using these exercises over time to change the architecture of the brain and break free from self-protective patterns. Each volume equips readers with tools to move from self-doubt to self-empowerment, fostering resilience and self-worth. By consistently applying these strategies, readers can overcome obstacles, embrace new opportunities, and live a life filled with authenticity, purpose, and fulfillment.
The Maximizing Your Career Potential book series is a 16-book collection, with each book tailored to a specific Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality type and Striving Style®. Each book provides in-depth insights into how your personality type and brain organization influence your career choices, work habits, and professional growth. With a focus on both strengths and potential challenges, the series helps readers identify their natural abilities, Need Satisfiers, and Dissatisfiers to find careers that align with their authentic selves.
Whether you're navigating career transitions, looking to advance in your current field, or struggling with job satisfaction, the Maximizing Your Career Potential series offers a personalized roadmap for success. Each book equips you with practical tools to overcome career roadblocks, make confident decisions, and leverage your unique personality traits for long-term professional fulfillment. Tailored specifically to your MBTI personality type and Striving Style®, this series helps you unlock your full career potential and achieve meaningful, purpose-driven success.
The Brain-Based Behavioral Interview Guide is a comprehensive tool designed to help organizations identify top talent by understanding the underlying behavioral and psychological patterns that drive performance, based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and Striving Styles® Personality Assessment (SSPS®).
Unlike traditional interviews, this guide incorporates brain-based principles and neuropsychology to uncover how candidates, based on their MBTI personality type, naturally respond to stress, make decisions, and collaborate with others. By focusing on both conscious and unconscious behaviors, the guide allows interviewers to assess candidates more holistically, ensuring a better fit for the organization’s culture and specific role requirements.
This interview guide not only helps to identify technical skills and experience but also delves into emotional intelligence, resilience, and leadership potential, all framed within the MBTI personality types. Using tailored questions based on brain organization and behavior patterns unique to each type, it enables hiring managers to predict how candidates will perform in real-world scenarios. Whether you're hiring for leadership roles, team-based positions, or high-stakes environments, the Brain-Based Behavioral Interview Guide offers a powerful approach to making more informed, successful hiring decisions that align with personality strengths and contribute to long-term organizational success.