Integrate your purpose, identity, and actions to lead with clarity and conviction

In Leading With Your Whole Heart: Become the Leader the World Needs and You Long to Be, two senior Boston Consulting Group leaders draw on 60-plus years of combined experience advising executives at more than 500 companies worldwide. They present a framework for becoming a wholehearted leader, one whose inner values, sense of self, and outward behavior are fully aligned and mutually reinforcing.

The book introduces the integration of three core elements: Calling, Being, and Doing. Rather than treating leadership growth as a collection of isolated competencies, Wholehearted shows how to align deep purpose with daily action, build trust through genuine self-awareness, navigate difficult conversations, and develop the emotional and temperamental fortitude that contemporary leadership demands of every leader.

Readers will also discover:

• How to identify and articulate your personal leadership calling so it guides decisions, priorities, and long-term direction
• Strategies for developing the emotional, temperamental, and spiritual fortitude required to lead through geopolitical shocks and AI disruption
• Practical approaches to building trust and navigating hard conversations with authenticity rather than relying on charisma alone
• A framework that integrates Calling, Being, and Doing into a cohesive leadership practice distinct from traditional development models
• Insights drawn from the authors' work across Fortune 500 companies, multinationals, public-sector organizations, and nonprofits worldwide

Leading With Your Whole Heart is written for business professionals, managers, and leaders across industries who seek more than conventional leadership advice. Whether navigating organizational transformation, workforce burnout, or eroding trust, readers will find a rigorous, personally grounded approach to leading with purpose and conviction.

JIM HEMERLING is a Senior Advisor, Executive Coach, and Senior Partner Emeritus at Boston Consulting Group, where he spent over 30 years leading large-scale transformations, culture change programs, and leadership development initiatives across multiple sectors worldwide. He has co-authored Beyond Great and Globality, delivered a TED Talk with over 3.7 million views, and has contributed to Fortune, Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg, and CNBC.

STEPHEN REMEDIOS is a Partner at Boston Consulting Group, where he advises leaders on applied AI, transformational change, and leadership development. Previously faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership in Singapore and a decade-long veteran of Hindustan Unilever, he won the Management Innovation Exchange Prize in 2012 and has a TED Talk that explores a parenting experiment with AI.