This book provides you with the means to set development goals and to track your progress on achieving them. Tracking your development can be captured in a few steps: articulating your goal, creating an action plan, gathering information about your behavior, identifying barriers and support, and revising your action plan. Taking these steps will greatly increase the likelihood of achieving your goal.

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is an international, nonprofit educational institution whose mission is to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. We conduct research, produce publications, and provide a broad variety of educational programs and products to leaders and organizations in the public, corporate, and nonprofit sectors.

Kelly M. Hannum is the manager of research in CCL's global research group. Her primary interest is in the application and development of research and evaluation methodologies in global contexts. She has a Ph.D. in educational research, measurement, and evaluation form the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Emily Hoole is the director of CCL's evaluation center. She is responsible for the evaluation of global leadership development efforts. She has a Ph.D. in assessment and measurement from James Madison University.