Rick will be conducting a panel interview with the authors of the book, How Leaders Improve Rick will be joined by John Gates, Jeff Graddy, and Sacha Lindekens. There are countless books on some variation of the topic, “What makes a leader good (or great).” However, surprisingly, there is very little written about how leaders actually get better – and even less on this topic that is based on actual research. Over a two-year period, they studied actual leaders in actual organizations who had actually improved (based on a widely accepted measure of leadership effectiveness), and then they sought to answer the question: How did these leaders actually get better? Their research led to ten key insights into “how leaders improve,” and they are now starting to share these insights with leaders, teachers of leadership, those who coach and develop leaders, and organizations that want to ensure they are getting a return-on-investment from their leadership development efforts.