The Mentally Strong Leader: Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors - Hardcover
by Scott Mautz (Author)
2025 International Book Award winner!
"This book will prove an indispensable resource again and again."--Dan Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret, When, and To Sell is Human Train your brain for achievement. 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 superpower of our times. Mentally strong leaders are confident and in control of themselves and their environment; they have endurance, they stay disciplined, and stress only makes their decision-making sharper. They manage themselves internally to lead others externally. The Mentally Strong Leader gives readers a mental exercise plan to become that person. Readers begin with a diagnostic Mental Strength Self-Assessment, and receive a customized plan of 50 proven, science-based tools to build their six core mental muscles:
- 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 biggest 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 strength for readers.
Author Biography
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).