About the book.

You’re expected to show leadership skills long before you get there, and once there you’re expected to have the answers, project certainty, and lead through conditions that would unsettle anyone—all while making it look effortless. It’s a lot.

Most leadership books focus on the external, telling you what to change and how to behave differently. None of that will work, however, if you are anxious, conflicted and unsteady on the inside. The real work is to align yourself with the skills and mindsets that will create grounded, calm, and confident internal leadership.

Craig Wallace has spent over twenty years in the room with executives who are excellent at their jobs and still fighting battles no one else can see. The imposter running beneath a decorated career. The story formed decades before the corner office that still drives decisions today. The moment before the presentation that could make a huge difference in a career when a brilliant person suddenly forgets how good they are and shrinks instead of standing tall.

The Answer Is You moves through eleven areas where high-performing leaders and leaders to be most often get in their own way. It’s about repairing and replacing old thought patterns and habits and guiding you through the internal work that can change how you think, communicate, show up and lead.