Engineering Character

Six Dials to Build Better Leaders

Published by Forefront Books
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Character was once forged by necessity. Today, it must be engineered by choice. Competent managers and skilled politicians are everywhere; true leaders are increasingly scarce. Engineering Character delivers a six-dial system designed and developed through decades of global leadership, personal crisis, and hard-won lessons in what authentic leadership demands. Three dials to lead yourself. Three to lead others. This is the framework for building a better brand of leadership.

Leadership is not about charisma, luck, or circumstances beyond your control.

It is about Character. And Character is not inherited… it is engineered.

For close to three decades, John Lentini has led in the world's most demanding environments: surviving 9/11 at the World Trade Center, managing crisis during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, building teams across six continents, and navigating the toxic politics of corporate leadership. Through these experiences, he discovered that effective and ethical leaders must operate a simple control panel with six dials:
  • Three dials to lead yourself: Discipline, Mindset, and Resilience.
  • Three dials to lead others: Integrity, Empathy, and Influence.

Engineering Character breaks down how to calibrate each dial, how they interact as a system, and most importantly -- why the template you create becomes the template future leaders will follow. Illustrated through historical icons from Hannibal to Mandela, this is not aspirational theory. It is a diagnostic system for building leaders who last.

The question is not whether Character can be engineered. It is whether you will engineer it intentionally or leave it to chance.

About the Author

John Lentini is the President of BOLD Training Corp and an authorized partner of Crestcom International in the greater New York City area. He has helped to develop hundreds of leaders around the world from South Africa and the Maldives to Poland and the US.

His first TEDx Talk, Three Dials to Lead You: A Control Panel for Life & Leadership, introduced half of his 6-dial framework to build better leaders. and has garnered over 100,000 views to date.

Born and raised in eastern Queens on the outskirts of New York City, John now resides in New York's Hudson Valley. In his previous career of over 21 years, John led large Finance and Operations organizations for several global investment banks with roles based in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

John holds an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Fairfield University. His insights are drawn from a tapestry of life experience, from surviving 9/11 in the World Trade Center and building a business during COVID, to exploring over seventy countries and all seven continents, often underwater. These aren't stories he's read about. They're lessons he's lived…but, most of all, John enjoys developing tomorrow’s leaders, and helping them to maximize their true potential.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Forefront Books (July 20, 2027)
  • Length: 256 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781637635902

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