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Toggle navigation Total Leadership Home About Background The Practice How It Works Results Our Team Policy and Advocacy Awards and Recognition Press Speaking Services Overview Keynote Workshops Coaching Assessments Consulting Train-the-Trainer Books All Books Parents Who Lead Total Leadership Leading The Life You Want Baby Bust Allies or Enemies? Resource Guide Leadership Succession Radio/Podcast Resources All Resources Assessments Articles and Cases Videos MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Free Chapters Contact Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Youtube Improving performance and well-being in all parts of life by creating greater harmony among them Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Based on decades of research and practice at Wharton and worldwide, Total Leadership is a proven method for creating sustainable change as a leader in all parts of life. It’s designed for people at any level or career stage. You explore what and who matter most and then innovate by pursuing real-world experiments to produce “four-way wins,” demonstrable results that are meaningful not only for your work, your family, your community, or your private self (mind, body, spirit), but for all these different domains. Forget “balance” and learn how to find harmony and better performance, throughout life. FIND OUT MORE LEARN ABOUT OUR IMPACT SHRM’s Fall 2018 cover story Total Leadership is profiled in the lead article. Read Article Featured In Previous Next Stew Friedman Stew Friedman, an award-winning Wharton professor and bestselling author, founded Wharton’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project in 1991. He launched Total Leadership in 2000 while on leave from Wharton, serving as the senior executive at Ford Motor in charge of leadership development globally. Thinkers50 named him the world’s #1 thinker in the field of talent and the Families and Work Institute gave him its coveted Work Life Legacy Award. He is a leading voice for change in social and corporate policy to bring greater harmony between work and the rest of life. Stew earns accolades internationally as an engaging speaker and hosts a popular weekly radio show on SiriusXM. Request Stew to Speak Read Full Bio What People are Saying Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration. – The New York Times Stew Friedman brings a new definition of leadership to every sector, with “four-way wins” that will inspire leaders at every level. A rare and moving guidebook for your journey to leadership. – Frances Hesselbein, former CEO, Girls Scouts of the USA Friedman stands out. He understands better than anyone else how leadership, life, and business can fit together. – Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America Foundation This is a great manifesto for getting it done. Bravo! – David Allen Author, Getting Things Done Stew Friedman shows how to harness your passions to pursue four-way wins—in your work, home, community, and most importantly, for yourself. – Billie Jean King, sports icon and social justice pioneer Leading the Life You Want delivers a much-needed surge of inspiration. – Tom Gardner, CEO, The Motley Fool I have given Stew Friedman’s books to hundreds of people — they are that good, best-in-category by a country mile! – F. William McNabb III, former CEO, Vanguard We often hear about work/life balance, but Stew Friedman takes it two steps further. He breaks life into four parts – work, home, community, and the private realm of mind, body, and spirit – helping you lead a life that truly blends meaning and happiness. – Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Destined to be a classic, Total Leadership is a remarkable book. I have studied leadership and led organizations for over twenty years. No other book has reshaped my thinking about leadership development as much as Total Leadership . – David A. Thomas, President of Morehouse College In a world of work-life trade-offs, Stew Friedman offers what most think impossible: a field-tested program that gives you not only what you want in business, but also what you want in life. Brilliant! – Tim Ferriss, Author, The 4-Hour Workweek Essential for developing sustainable leadership, Total Leadership concepts have extraordinary strength. – Carlos Torres Vila, CEO, BBVA Stew Friedman’s framework is the most comprehensive and meaningful distillation of how to lead yourself and others that I have encountered. I use the precepts of Total Leadership in my daily life, and I’m better off for it. – Rich Smith, Finance Director, Amazon and former Infantry Officer, U.S. Army Stew understands that pitting our passions and responsibilities against each other is a losing battle. Instead, he teaches a masterful strategy to integrate self, career, family, and community—an approach that has allowed me to grow as a CEO, mother, and community activist. – Julie Smolyansky, CEO, Lifeway Foods Stew Friedman makes the idea of finding harmony between work and life not only possible, but practicable. – Neil Blumenthal, founder and CEO, Warby Parker Previous Next Stew's Bestselling Books Net profits from book sales go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life. Friedman’s award-winning bestseller provides the tools for improving performance at work, at home, in the community, and for yourself. Learn the practical, theory-driven principles that help you, no matter what your occupation, become a better leader and have a richer life. Available in many languages, it shows individuals how to find clearer purpose, strengthen key relationships, and gain support for achieving success and businesses how to develop leaders while enhancing productivity, engagement, and well-being. Learn More Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life Friedman’s second bestseller hones in on the 18 critical skills for creating harmony among different parts of life and illustrates how they were learned by six admirable (though imperfect) people, who show that, contrary to common wisdom, significant public success is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of life, but as the result of meaningful engagement in all parts. Includes evidence-based exercises anyone can use. Learn More See All Books WORK AND LIFE RADIO SHOW AND PODCAST On SiriusXM’s Wharton Business Radio , and Free Podcast Ep 161. Tom Rath: Life's Great Question Tom Rath, #1 bestselling author of non-fiction books in history, has a new book, Life’s Great Question: Discover How You Contribute to the World. Stew and Tom discuss the importance —... Listen Now Ep 160. Cali Yost: How to Make Flexible Work a Win for All Cali Williams Yost is Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, an organization of experts in flexible workplace strategy, change management, leadership, instructional design and... Listen Now Ep 159. Suvrat Bhargave: A Moment of Insight Dr. Suvrat Bhargave is the author of a new book called Moment of Insight: Universal Lessons Learned from a Psychiatrist's Couch. Stew and Dr. Bhargave discuss how shame, self-worth, the stigma of... Listen Now Learn More Subscribe for Updates Sign up to get our newsletter and instantly download a slide deck that describes Total Leadership fundamentals. RESOURCES Articles Stew writes on performance, leadership, and creating harmony among all parts of life. 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