We are living in a complex world.

If you haven’t noticed, there is an aversion to the way old types of systems worked in regards to top-down management hierarchies. Men and women of diverse educational and economic background can access information and resources that were unavailable just a decade ago. Anyone with a great idea can cultivate and lead.

Command-and-Control forms of leadership are on their way to becoming obsolete…

…but learning to SHARE power in an equal and balanced way has become a great challenge.

In The Five Roles of a Master Herder: A Revolutionary Model for Socially Intelligent Leadership, best selling author Linda Kohanov addresses the changing role of leadership and offers a new approach that is rooted in equine-based wisdom and the nonverbal leadership skills of ancient herding cultures.

On Today’s Show

I will be introducing you to the author of The Five Roles of a Master Herder: , Linda Kohanov who has adapted the profound, time-tested “master herder” approach for effective use in modern life and in the current corporate structure.

Today we will learn the socially intelligent form of leadership that combines the following roles:

▪Dominant – directs and asserts

▪Leader – inspires and motivates

▪Sentinel – observes and watches over

▪Nurturer/Companion – connects and supports

▪Predator – restores balance and makes tough decisions

About our Guest

Meet Linda!

Linda Kohanov is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and pioneer in the field of equine-facilitated learning, where horses help teach people leadership, nonverbal communication, relationship, creativity and other advanced human development skills. Her organization, Eponaquest Worldwide serves clients on six continents. Linda’s five books, including her latest The Five Roles of a Master Herder, have been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Czech, and are used as texts at universities.

Linda’s clients include Nike, Raytheon, Chubb Insurance, Kaiser, and Best Friends Animal Society, as well as a number of credit unions, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs, leadership coaches, educators, counselors, spiritual leaders, social activists, and healthcare workers. Learn more—>

About the Book

Across several bestselling books, author and teacher Linda Kohanov has explored “the way of the horse,” an experiential wisdom gained by studying the nonpredatory power of horses. In The Five Roles of a Master Herder, she adapts these horse-inspired insights into useful tools for developing collaborative leadership and managing change.

Over thousands of years, Kohanov writes, “master herders” of nomadic herding cultures developed a multifaceted, socially intelligent form of leadership combining the five roles of Dominant, Leader,Sentinel, Nurturer / Companion, and Predator. The fluid interplay of these roles allowed interspecies communities to move across vast landscapes, dealing with predators and changing climates, protecting and nurturing the herd while keeping massive, gregarious, often aggressive animals together — without the benefit of fences and with very little reliance on restraints.

She includes an innovative assessment tool that will help you determine which roles you currently overemphasize and which roles you may be ignoring — or even actively avoiding. Through this powerful, at times surprising and moving book, Kohanov will show you how to recognize, cultivate, and utilize all five roles in the modern tribes of your workplace, family, and other social organizations.