Little Leaders and Their Stories

About the Book

Leadership can be learned at any age and children begin to pick up leadership skills early in life. We are leadership consultants and have four children and six grandchildren between us. As we raised and advised our own children, we heard so many stories that we decided to put them in a book for parents to read to their children.

Together, you can discuss and learn essential lessons about how to act like a leader. The stories cover different topics, but the message is that a child can be a leader anytime and anywhere. We hope you enjoy this book as much as we enjoyed writing it and that your children can use the stories to shape their own leadership as they grow and develop.

About the Author

Molly D. Shepard

Molly is Chief Executive Officer of The Leader’s Edge/Leaders By Design, a company dedicated to the advancement of executive and high-potential leaders. Molly is an author of four books including co-author with Peter on The Bully Proof Workplace and Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, and Preparing for Your Prime Time. Molly holds a B.A. from Wheaton College, a Masters Degree in Counseling from University of Pennsylvania and a MSM in Leadership from The American College, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from West Chester University.

Peter J. Dean

Peter is the head of Leaders By Design, the men’s leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leader’s Edge. He is a prolific author whose articles have frequently been published in a variety of news outlets and he has also written 11 books including: Cultivating Leaders, Leadership for Everyone, and The Coachable Leader. Peter holds his Ph.D. in Learning Psychology and Human Resources Management from the University of Iowa and a MS degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, Peter received an Applied Neuroscience Certificate on the Science of the Art of Coaching endorsed by ION, ICF and the Association for Coaching.