Description
To be elegant is to be simple, clear and effective. Elegant Leadership offers a methodology for leadership practice that is clear, simple and fit for purpose. It brings intentionality to day-to-day leadership, identifies core behaviours that work well and provides a framework for stretching further.
Elegant Leadership is about finding a balance between the styles of pleasing people and needing to be right. Using the ‘knowing–doing–being’ model of leadership, it promotes goal-setting and regular reflection in the quest for self-awareness and insight into what works best in a given context.
Leadership involves more than knowing what to do in difficult times and big moments. Effective leadership is often about the micro-moments, and is usually judged on the basis of small actions that accumulate over time. Elegant Leadership contains an A–Z of keywords that promotes actions that are simple, clear and effective, and offers workspace for personal contemplation, planning and regular reflection.
About the Author
Kris Cooper has over thirty years’ experience in planning, human resource management, marketing, training and consultancy roles, mainly in senior leadership. She has facilitated countless leadership development programmes and coached hundreds of people, from CEOs to specialist staff members. She is a regular facilitator for executive education programmes at the University of Otago, and has taught on MBA programmes at Otago and the University of Canterbury. Kris likes to support and challenge clients to be the best they can be, and to see people and organisations setting and achieving their goals.
Kris has an MCom with a thesis on the impact of CEO leadership style on strategy adoption. She is a distinguished fellow of Human Resources New Zealand, a chartered member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors and an accredited mediator.
She lives in Rangiora with her partner, dog and cat. Her family and two adult sons have brought welcome perspective to her work and life.
Specifications
ISBN: 978-1-99-110385-7
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm (portrait)
Format: Paperback
Author: Kris Cooper
Published: 20 October 2025
