Endorsements

“In this wonderful collection of essays, Nicholas and Amy explore key facets of the most vital and mysterious characteristic of leadership: how we are.”

ADAM KAHANE
Co-Founder of Reos Partners and author of Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems

“In his writing and his teaching, Nicholas possesses the rare gift not only to talk about but also to take us on a journey to a profound and precious place within ourselves. Nicholas teaches us to be intentional, to pay attention, to be aware, and to create and hold space for ourselves and the people around us in order to heal and awaken at the deepest levels.

Through the stories, personal anecdotes, and conceptual frames they share in Leading in Chaos, Amy and Nicholas provide a map on how to navigate the tensions and polarities of today’s chaotic and uncertain world with groundedness, clarity and compassion.”

ALBRECHT ENDERS
Professor of Strategy and Innovation, IMD Business School

“A necessary book for leaders during our chaotic times. In their book, Janni and Fox give leaders what most playbooks ignore: a precise, practical path to presence, healing, and service. As a practitioner in the field, I’ve seen how numbness, abstraction, and heroic over-functioning tear away at the life and effectiveness of leaders. This book names those patterns with uncommon clarity and replaces them with rituals, language and practices that restore coherence, aliveness, and courage. What I appreciate most is the integration of trauma-informed depth with enterprise pragmatism, vertical development with day-to-day relational behaviors, and contemplative wisdom with organizational realities. The result is next practice in the true sense: leaders who speak from embodied truth, build trust at speed, and make better decisions because their full intelligence is online. If you are serious about building resilient teams and cultures that can navigate today’s chaotic and turbulent times, Leading in Chaos is not optional reading; it is a must-have field guide and companion for today and the years to come.”

ALEXANDER CAILLET
Co-founder & CEO, Corentus, Inc.

“As someone who works with leaders on the long arc of vertical growth, I found Leading in Chaos to be an exceptionally honest and practical invitation to the practice of leadership from the inside out. Nicholas Janni and Amy Fox make a clear case: the capacity to lead through turbulence depends on our willingness to face our own shadow and pain, heal what is wounded, and truly connect with each-other and to something larger than ourselves. This is not theory for theory’s sake – it’s a field guide for practitioners to design and for leaders to lean into the deep work that transforms not only how they think, but who they become.”

DR. ALIS ANAGNOSTAKIS
Founder Vertical Development Institute

“In this timely and brilliant Leading in Chaos, Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox invite us into a paradox: to meet the turbulence of our times not by seeking control or certainty, but by grounding ourselves in presence. The book makes a compelling case that the outer chaos we experience is inseparable from the inner landscapes we inhabit. What we resist, numb, or fragment within ourselves is inevitably mirrored in the systems and organizations we build.

Through stories, practices, and insights drawn from decades of leadership and transformational work, the authors remind us that leadership today is not just a matter of strategy but of inner coherence. They call us to hold the contradiction of being both vulnerable and strong, wounded and wise, broken and whole.

Ultimately, Leading in Chaos is less a manual for management than a sacred invitation: to recognize that healing ourselves is inseparable from healing our organizations, communities, and planet. It is a book to be read not just with the mind, but with the heart and body, as a companion in the ongoing practice of becoming fully human amidst complexity.”

AMIR GLOGAU
Chairman and CEO, PRO EM National Event Services Founder and Managing Partner, Citrine Capital Partners
“In her rigorous and heartfelt exploration of this truly chaotic and trauma filled world, Amy makes it clear that connection is the solution and helps understand what it really means and what it really takes to connect to ourselves and each-other…I know of no other practitioner in this space who speak louder, more authentically, and more clearly about the imperative for a fundamental evolution in what it means to lead in this current maelstrom.”
ANDREW BLUM
Founder & Chairman, Trium

“In a world of increasing chaos and complexity leaders are left with two choices; the first is to try and calm the storm and regain control (which you can’t), the second is to accept it, embrace it and work with it (which is the only choice). Nicholas and Ami have written the definitive user guide to how to do the second. Leading in Chaos is a beautifully precise description of the inner capacities which we need to cultivate to navigate what is coming our way.”

ANDY KITT
Group Director, Nowhere
“Leading in Chaos is a grounding force and call to action to meet these times with grace and presence.”
DR. ANGEL ACOSTA
Principal Consultant & CEO, Acosta Institute
“Leading in Chaos is a clarion call for leaders to move beyond the limits of traditional frameworks and embrace a radically new paradigm for leadership in turbulent times. Rather than offering another set of best practices, Nicholas and Amy invite leaders to embrace deep inner work—awakening, healing, and embodying the fullness of our humanity as the true foundation for transformation. They open and nourish a new realm of sense-making that relies on us accessing all sources of intelligence and wisdom and truly inspires us to shape the future as it emerges.”
BABETTE GRAHAM, PHD
Head of Leadership Development at BHP
“This collection of essays speaks of the growing need for clear and courageous communication. Courageous, because it requires leaders to relate to others with far deeper honesty and authenticity than working culture has often encouraged. But the hour is growing late now…and these beautifully written pieces illuminate vital behaviours called for at a time of unravelling. Without the depth of resonance in our interactions that they speak of, we simply won’t achieve the level of leadership and teamwork that is now becoming essential.”
BEN WALDEN
Director of Contender Charlie Education Group
“Leading in Chaos is not a cover-to-cover read. It is a series of brief, transformative essays by two authors, each a trailblazer in the fields of leadership development and transformation. Part meditation, part heart-to-heart conversation with a beloved friend, and part wake-up call, every word is a gift from two wise souls, each manifesting an inner light in every word. Keep it close, read it often, and reflect deeply. You’ll never see leadership development and transformational change the same way again.”
CHRISTINE BARNES
Change Leader, Genetech and Author of Inclusionable: Transform How You Lead and Elevate Your Team’s Performance (January, 2026)
“A generous guide for business leaders seeking to impact our world in an enlightened way. A joyful invitation to travel the road home that leads us both back inside ourselves and into communion with others and life. And a reminder from two sages that leaders can enter the marketplace and be a force for good. Like psalms for a CEO.”
DARRAGH HURLEY
CEO, Mount Anvil
“Leading in Chaos offers a deep paradigm shift in the way we think about leadership and leadership development. The authors speak to crucial aspects of leadership that are, in mainstream thought, largely ignored, such as the effect of early trauma or the dangerous norm that leaders must split their personal lives from their professional lives. Janni and Fox provide a wide-ranging impressionistic feel for how leaders and their teachers could go about implementing a much more holistic – albeit challenging – approach. It is, quite simply, revolutionary.”
DIANNE ARGYRIS
Leading Team Theorist

“I would recommend anyone who is leading in today’s chaotic world to pick up this book. The disruption and dislocation we are feeling today can only be solved through leadership, and more specifically, leadership that starts with healing and reconciliation at its heart. Use this book for reflection to bring out the best leaders within you.”

DUSTIN SEALE
Managing Partner, Heidrick Consulting EMEA

“Janni and Fox offer a groundbreaking framework for leadership in an age of disruption. Leading in Chaos goes beyond resilience and adaptation to reveal the deeper inner capacities leaders must cultivate—embodiment, coherence, and higher consciousness. This book should be required reading for anyone serious about steering organizations through complexity toward lasting impact.”

ELIZABETH GAITO
Co-founder TruHumanitas and former SVP Global Talent Salesforce

“This is more than a book on leadership – it is a call to awaken the deeper wisdom that lives within us all. Through their authentic and courageous conversation, Amy Fox and Nicholas Janni illustrate how chaos and turbulence can become a pathway to clarity, awakening, and to purpose. Every page invites reflection, courage and soulful alignment. A transformative dance for anyone longing to lead from the inside out.”
FLORENCE MAGNE
Senior Client Partner, EMEA lead professional services Korn Ferry
“These days people are desperately seeking for new knowledge. Yet, the key question is who we are when connecting with any new content. Through these pages, Amy and Nicholas invite us to focus not on the new thing, but on our humanity, inner wisdom and the most essentials questions that will help us lead and support each other in an era in which our own depth will become a game changer.”
FRAN CHERNY
Organizational Culture expert and Author of “Be the change, the art of becoming our own innovation project“
“Amy has been widening the aperture for leadership capacity with a global perspective for decades. Leading in Chaos brings dozens of insights from this life’s work in daily, digestible notes that meet the complexity of our world.”
GEOFF MCDONOUGH
President & CEO Generation Bio
“Leading in Chaos is an important and beautiful piece of work by Amy Elizabeth Fox and Nicholas Janni. They are rare, courageous voices that are willing to talk about, and help us through the depth of personal work and evolution required for these chaotic times. May this book catch fire and we all experience the awaking and healing they’re calling for.”
GORDON RUDOW
Former Partner and Chief Learning Officer of Oliver Wyman, CEO of Agency 150

“Leading in Chaos arrives as a signal flare for a new kind of leadership—one that roots itself in presence, coherence, and the type of connection that transforms not just organizations, but the very operating system of how we lead. Amy Elizabeth Fox and Nicholas Janni invite us to pause and tune into the intelligence that lives beneath the surface—reminding us that leadership is as much about inner listening as it is about outward action. When we access this embodied wisdom, we begin to unlock the potential to heal ourselves and the systems we steward.

Their invitation is not just to integrate inner awareness with outer action, but to reimagine what is possible when we lead from a place of wholeness. This is the path toward organizations that are not only more resilient and creative, but fundamentally more alive.
This book is essential reading for anyone committed to leading with clarity, courage, and humanity in our rapidly changing world.”

JACK C. SWIFT
Former CEO of TIFIN and Liminal Collective, and Co-Founder of Sangha and Pacific Current Group

“As an executive coach and transformation partner, I see every day how leadership demands more than expertise or strategy — it requires the capacity to hold emotions, integrate shadows, and lead with generosity and higher purpose. Leading in Chaos reflects these truths with honesty and depth. It is an invaluable resource for leaders, coaches, and transformation practitioners alike.

Just finished Leading in Chaos by Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox — a book that touched me deeply as both a coach and transformation partner. It captures what I so often see in my clients: the courage to face inner shadows, the discipline to stop numbing, and the generosity to lead with presence and purpose. A must-read for anyone leading through turbulent times.

This book touched me deeply as it reflects what I see in my clients: leaders who stop numbing, face themselves, and choose generosity and service. A powerful guide for anyone serious about leading transformation in chaotic times.

It’s an honour to recommend Leading in Chaos by Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox. This important book addresses the heart of modern leadership: the inner work leaders must do to face their shadows, manage emotional triggers, and awaken to deeper intelligences of body, heart, and intuition. It offers an essential roadmap for anyone serious about leading transformation in today’s turbulent times.”

JAN H. SCHLUETER
Managing Partner, Focused. Development Ltd., Professional Association for Coaching, Supervision, and Organisational Consulting, bso, Switzerland
“In this living book – a wise and evocative companion for the journey ahead—Nicholas and Amy offer potent contemplations that, when savored, awaken the heart and illuminate the path to the kind of leadership our extraordinary and turbulent times so urgently call for.”
JOEL MONK
Founder Coaches Rising
“In a world where traditional leadership approaches are failing us, Leading in Chaos offers something far more essential than another framework—it provides a fundamental reimagining of what leadership means. Janni and Fox courageously address what many of us have struggled to articulate: that our disconnection from ourselves, each other, and the living world has created the very crises we now face. Their integration of ancient wisdom with practical strategy, of trauma healing with organizational transformation, shows us that becoming fully human—not superhuman—is the path forward. From heroic leadership to steady leadership, delivered with practicality and heart, this book transforms presence into a repeatable habit that lifts trust, clarity, and performance when the stakes are highest. Essential reading for any leader ready to become a sanctuary in the storm.”
MARK TAYLOR
Master Chair for Vistage (the world’s largest CEO coaching organization)
“Most leadership books are about performance. This one is about liberation. If you’ve ever dismissed the language of healing and awakening as soft, this book flips that on its head. In my experience, the kind of inner work Nicholas and Amy describe doesn’t just make you more human, it unleashes levels of joy, freedom, and creative power you never thought possible. And yes, it can unlock quantum levels of growth in your business too. If you’re ready to lead from a deeper place, this book is a map to the terrain.”
NORMAN CROWLEY
Entrepreneur and Founder Cool Planet, Unlimited
“Multidimensional, poetic and profound reflections on the kind of leadership the world desperately needs right now. Amy and Nicholas summarize decades of their transformative work within organizations and inspire readers to act from a wiser, whole and deeply meaningful way of being.”
PARNEET PAL
Physician-educator and Founder, Systematically Well Advisory
“In a world of unprecedented complexity, Leading in Chaos offers a roadmap for leaders to heal, awaken, and lead with deep humanity. Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox call us to step into our highest potential—both for our organizations and for the greater good.”
RASMUS HOUGAARD
Founder and Chairman, Potential Project and Co-Author of Compassionate Leadership and More Human
“Doomsayers would have us believe we are on a collision course with oblivion — but we are still here! This collection of essays provides hope and some practical ideas as to how to help others navigate these troubled times, and unlike the cockroach not merely survive, but thrive amid the chaos.”
RICHARD BOYATZIS, PHD
Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new The Science of Change: Discovering Sustained, Desired Change from Individuals to Organizations and Communities
“This gem is a heart-full oasis of profound pocket size wisdom. A beautifully written timely wake up call for leaders, HR and OD practitioners, change agents and consultants everywhere. Can we be the change we seek? The authors urge us to upgrade our internal systems to meet the unique challenge of our time and shine a light on the initiation ahead. Are we courageous enough to open our hearts, face our past, heal our wounds and realize our true potential to become one of the healers too? We are supported and lovingly challenged to reflect: If not me, then who? And if not now, then when?”
RICHARD OLIVIER
Founder Olivier Mythodrama Associates; Co-founder of Archetypes at Work
“Leading in Chaos is an essential guide and a profound wake-up call for every leader seeking to embrace embodied, courageous transformation—in themselves, their organizations, and their impact on a global scale. Nicholas Janni and Amy Elizabeth Fox draw on decades of combined experience in practical organizational transformation and confront a hard truth: leadership cannot rise above the depth of one’s own inner work. Transformation begins within; vulnerability is strength; healing and leading are intertwined. At its core, this work emphasizes that true leadership demands integrity, coherence, unity, authenticity, and courage. This work is reflective, inspirational, and urgent—a call to courage, humanity, and purpose. Leaders who engage deeply with it in an individual or peer group setting will be equipped to guide others with clarity, resilience, and profound impact in a world that urgently needs unity and coherence. This book doesn’t just teach leadership; it inspires a movement toward wiser, braver, and more connected leaders.”
RITA LALOR
Chief People Officer, CoolPlanet Ltd.
“At a time when we are sleepwalking into outsourcing our brains and our organisations to technological capabilities that are neither intelligent nor caring, we need to recapture the essence of humanity in how we approach leadership, business and life. As someone who has experienced first-hand the impact of inter-generational trauma and how it impacted my leadership at a critical time, I have the upmost respect for the work that Amy and Nicholas do for leaders in every type of organisation. Nicholas saved me from one of my darkest moments through his skill and more importantly humanity – both of which have been the cornerstones of his exceptional coaching for leaders and communities over decades. Rediscovering our authentic selves and being human is the challenge they offer to leaders in organisations of all types in this fantastic collection of thought pieces. I hope for our collective futures we find a way to accept their challenge.”
RUSSELL SHELDON
Board Member and Group COO, Anthesis Group | Member of Council, University of Essex.
“Amy is a generational American luminary whose book belongs on every leader’s bedside table. She embodies whole person leadership, and has transformed Fortune 500 companies, Presidential campaigns, and individual leaders at a scope and scale unmatched in today’s world. Read this book, yesterday.”
SARA EL-AMINE
Former National Director, Obama Campaign
Vice President, Chime
Progressive senior political strategist
“This timely-path correcting, beautiful book holds within it the blueprint for human and organizational flourishing.”
SARAH SIDDIQUE
Senior Talent and Leadership Development Expert, UAE Public Sector
Former People Team Leadership, Visa

“There is audacity behind this collective of reflections – the idea that we CAN put our walls down, that we CAN each let other’s light in. That we can allow – in our shared vulnerability and in glorious assembly – find moments of collective joy to experience. These reflections are a compelling reminder that the answer is a resounding YES! So much is needed – from each of us, and by each of us. Together, we can achieve, lead and soar. What the authors do most effectively is to invite us to shed the narratives and drop the cynicism that tells us we need to attack and defend as the means to achieving and soaring. I loved flying with them. Leading in Chaos is sheer magic … and an absolute MUST READ!!”

SIMMI SINGH
CEO, The Burr-Oak Group, former Chief People Officer, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts
“I feel like Amy & Nicholas are pointing to truth and that I had a sense of coming home. As I absorb these pages, their loving inquiry presents a wonderfully rich set of vignettes which don’t fade away, rather they bring colour and possibility across the breadth of my life. What I have here are delicious morsels of wisdom into the next layer of me and my subsequent actions in the world. And as I feast on them the tastes only get more delicious and intriguing. Thank you, Amy & Nicholas, for your invitation.”
SIMON HAMPEL
Repeat Founder
“In an age of exhaustion and uncertainty, Leading in Chaos offers sanctuary and possibility. It shows leaders how to heal, reconnect, and create organizations where meaning, belonging, and innovation flourish – and the ripple effect extends far beyond the workplace, shaping a healthier and more hopeful future. This book serves as both a mirror and a map for leaders who are ready return to humanity, and lead organizations with courage, clarity and heart.”
SIMONE AHUJA
Author of Disrupt Yourself and Jugaad Innovation
Innovation Expert and Advisor to the Center for India and Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
“Leading in Chaos is a clarion call to consciousness in the corporate world. What Fox and Janni make clear is that leaders are suffering — not just from the immense demands they’re facing in these difficult times, but also from the assumption that they should have it all figured out. Spoiler alert: they don’t. These essays help explain why not, and they illustrate the inner work is so critical to navigating the unprecedented storms leader are facing.”
TONY SCHWARTZ
Founder and Chairman of The Energy Project, author of The Power of Full Engagement and The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
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