Visual Leadership Playbook: Insights and Sketchnotes to Elevate Your Leadership Game

"A Visual Tooklit to Spark Better Leadership, Smarter Decisions, and Stronger Teams"

Having an attitude to lead and a mindset to learn are vital to thrive in a new world of work. The best leaders are relentless learners. This is a collection of 90+ powerful and actionable insights in form of hand-drawn sketchnotes (in high-resolution). These visual insights are packed with wisdom to help you raise the bar of leadership for yourself, your teams and your organization. Ideal for senior business leaders, L&D professionals, coaches, facilitators, consultants, trainers and aspiring leaders.

What Does This Pack Include:

- 90+ High-Resolution hand-drawn sketchnotes (HD) covering timeless leadership wisdom (PDF)

- You will receive a download link to the PDF via email within a few minutes of your purchase.

Why Sketchnotes?

- Because businesses are too textual and abstract.

- Visual summaries enable quick grasp of ideas and ensures better recall.

- Visuals are great tools to "see ideas" and connections therein

- We remember 65% of what we read AND see (Source: John Medina, Brain Rules)

- Visuals are objects of social conversation that raise attention and engagement.

- Visuals trigger emotions and enable sense making.

Topics Covered

1.     What Makes An Effective Executive

2.     Leaders Need Three Kinds Of Focus

3.     Peter Drucker On Managing Oneself

4.     The Johari Window To Self-Awareness

5.     Leading The Self Before Leading Others

6.     Leadership Starts With Trust

7.     The Trust Triangle

8.     Three Levels Of Trust In Relationships

9.     Three Elements Of Trust

10.   Signs Of A High-Trust Environment

11.   Basic Human Needs For Engagement

12.   Empathy And Courage

13.   What Is Empathy

14.   Elements Of Empathy

15.   Barriers To Empathy

16.   Practicing Empathy

17.    What We Get Wrong About Empathic Leadership

18.   What Is Courage

19.   Elements Of Courage

20.   Myths Of Courage

21.   Practicing Courage

22.   Three Buckets Of Courage

23.   Nine Roles Of Great Leadership

24.   Qualities Of Heart-Centered Leaders

25.   Five Ways To Lead In An Era Of Constant Change

26.   Crafting A Powerful Message

27.    What Great Listeners Actually Do

28.   Attributes Of A Powerful Question

29.   How To Curate A Constructive Conflict

30.   Supercommunicators

31.   Peter Senge On Developing Leaders

32.   How To Accelerate Learning On Your Team

33.   Five Spaces Leaders Should Design & Nurture

34.   The Foundation Of Lasting Influence

35.   Real Influence Is A By-Product

36.   Four Choices To Scale Your Leadership Impact

37.    Five Practices Of Humble Leadership

38.   Competencies For Leading In A Vuca World

39.   Leadership Mindsets For The New Economy

40.   Building Team Emotional Intelligence

41.   Social Mindset For Engaging Talent

42.   Timeless Qualities Of True Leaders

43.   Circle Of Action And Influence

44.   What Effective Facilitation Does

45.   What Rebels Want From Their Boss

46.   The Skill And Art Of Mentoring

47.    Key Coaching Competencies

48.   Reach Model Of Coaching With Compassion

49.   How To Have An Effective Coaching Dialogue

50.   Going From Arrogance To Humility

51.   Micro-Habits Of High Impact Managers

52.   Ways Leaders Can Invest In Adaptability

53.   The Power Of Giving Away Power

54.   Psychological Safety And Performance Standards

55.   Psychological Safety – How To Say It (1)

56.   Psychological Safety – How To Say It (2)

57.    Seven Deadly Sins Of Psychological Safety

58.   How To Tell If A Failure Is Intelligent

59.   Move Fast And Fix Things

60.   Leaders Who Are Friction Fixers

61.   Boldly Inclusive Leaders

62.   Radical Candor

63.   Invisible Costs Can Cost You A Lot

64.   The Iceberg Of Organizational Knowledge

65.   Efficiency Versus Productivity

66.   Eight Questions For Effective Execution

67.    Impact Multipliers (For Change Leaders)

68.   Impact Multipliers (For Individuals)

69.   Initiative And Accountability

70.   Accountability Ladder

71.   Charles Handy’s Big Ideas

72.   Enhance Performance With Mindfulness

73.   Three Questions To Ask When Setting Goals

74.   Conducting An Effective Performance Review

75.   Feedback And Feed-Forward

76.   Nine Rules Of Innovation

77.    Seven Accelerants Of Growth

78.   Mindset Shifts For Organization Transformation

79.   Change Versus Transformation

80.   Six Rules For Change

81.   Seeing The World Through Fresh Eyes

82.   Simple Ideas For Change

83.   Four Skills That All Great Innovators Share

84.   Characteristics Of Companies That Succeed

85.   Learning Disabilities In Organizations

86.   Why Organizations Don’t Learn

87.    Disciplines Of A Learning Organization

88.   Building A Culture Of Learning

89.   Getting Employee Buy-In For Change

90.   The Power Of Quick-Wins

These sketchnotes do not represent the complete ideas and are not meant to be verbatim summaries. These are notes I created for my own learning, and sharing them here so that they can help others learn.

FAQ's

1) What are the potential use cases for this book and HD sketchnotes?

This book is more than a collection of high-resolution visual summaries - it is a visual toolkit for deepening leadership thinking, sparking reflection, and enabling meaningful conversations. Whether you are an individual contributor, a coach, an aspiring leader, or a facilitator, these sketchnotes are designed to make timeless leadership insights engaging, accessible, and actionable.

Here are some powerful ways to bring these sketchnotes to life:

• Self-Reflection and Learning: Use a sketchnote as a daily or weekly prompt. Pick one that resonates with your current challenges or aspirations. Spend 10 minutes reflecting on what the message means for you.
• Team Conversations and Facilitation: Use sketchnotes as conversation starters in team meetings, off-sites, or leadership huddles.
• Leadership Development Programs: Sketchnotes can serve as learning artifacts in your internal leadership journeys.
• Print and Display as Objects of Conversation: These sketchnotes are designed in high resolution for crisp, large-format printing.
• One-on-One Coaching and Mentoring: Whether you're coaching others or being coached, use a relevant sketchnote to unlock insight.

2) How do I access the illustrations I just bought?

Once you’ve completed your purchase, you will receive an email with a link to a PDF file containing all the illustrations.

3) Will this book be updated with new sketchnotes?

We will update the book once every quarter with new sketchnotes and insights. I will mail all my customers, the latest version of the PDF file with new illustrations.

4) Can I use the illustrations I purchased in in my commercial assignments?

These sketchnotes are licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND for non-commercial use to facilitate learning and sharing. Contact me if you wish to use some of these commercially.

5) If I'm not happy with the purchase, can I request a refund?

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the product (digital goods), we are unable to offer refunds.

6) How can I get in touch with you?

You can connect with me directly or use LinkedIn DM to get in touch.

How People Are Using These Sketchnotes?

Visuals connect people with ideas. More importantly, they connect people with each other. Visuals are powerful nudges for behavior change in collaborative contexts. It is always heartening to see #sketchnotes being used around the world to spark conversations, engage people and inspire change. Here are just a few glimpses!