Much like GardnersMultiple Intelligences,Maulding-Green and Leonard have, inLeadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, are leaders born or are leaders made? This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting.

The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of the soft skills of a leader. There is further clarification as to why some leaders seem to have a greater intensity of these factors than their peers.

To aid the reader in relating to the theory, a conceptual model based on a GPS is threaded throughout each chapter interweaving both examples and understandable content. The model relates keeping the organization moving in atrue northfashion. The final chapters reveal how a leader can develop or enhance these skills and how he/she can avoid leadership derailment, due to neglecting them.

Wanda Maulding Green is currently a leadership faculty member at the University of South Alabama. She has served leadership roles as a classroom teacher, coach, assistant principal and principal in K-12 schools and also as a department chair, associate dean and dean at the university level.

Edward Leonard is a retired school superintendent. He has done extensive adjunct work in educational leadership for the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana University, and currently serves as an adjunct instructor of educational leadership for the University of South Alabama.

Preface
Introduction: Navigating To Your True North
Part I: Road Trip Defined
Chapter 1: Leadership Intelligence and Leadership Imprinting
Chapter 2: The Leadership GPS Model
Part II: GPS Route Guidance Available
Chapter 3: In 500 Feet, Stay Right: Leadership Credibility
Chapter 4: Recalculating: Leadership Competence
Chapter 5: Satellite Reception Lost: Leadership Inspiration
Chapter 6: You Have Arrived At Your Destination: Leadership Vision
Chapter 7: Route Guidance Suggested: Leadership Emotional Intelligence
Part III: True North Leadership Made Personal
Chapter 8: Updating Your Internal GPS: Building Leadership Intelligence
Chapter 9: A Rough Road: Avoiding Leadership Derailment
Chapter 10: Remember its all about the Journey
Appendix: Leadership Intelligence Web Site
Index