The book
Leaderwired: The AI-Era Leadership Playbook
For transforming how you think, decide and lead. Seven frameworks, forged in sixteen years of executive coaching, with a foreword by Ronan Dunne, former CEO of Verizon Wireless.
Paperback, Kindle and audiobook. Chapter one is free: read it now. Also on Audible and at Barnes and Noble.
Why it is here
The method behind the practice
The seven frameworks in Leaderwired are the ones Anna uses in the room. The book is the method in full. Coaching, team development and organizational work apply it to your situation, with the people around you confirming the change.
Clear-eyed, highly practical guide for leaders updating to the AI future… Sharp insights abound. Barnhill identifies outmoded patterns and demonstrates how to make transformational shifts.
Publishers Weekly
Inside the book
Seven frameworks, one system
- The 7-5-3 Human Upgrade CodeThe master architecture: where leadership stalls, and why it is rarely about skill.
- The Leadership Operating SystemWhat runs beneath every decision you make.
- The Five Mindset UpgradesThe defaults that built your career, and the one now holding you back.
- The Five Premium SkillsetsThe skills that cannot be taught, only unlocked.
- The Five AI Leadership ShiftsThe leader’s actual role when AI analyzes faster than you can think.
- The House of EmpathyCulture engineered like architecture, not hoped for like weather.
- CLEAR PACEWhy good intentions create the worst impact, and what closes the gap.
Each framework has its own page, in depth, on leaderwired.com.
From the leaders who endorsed Leaderwired
A comprehensive, multi-layered system that moves from personal transformation to team culture to the unique challenge of leading through AI. This book is a companion to a complex and challenging leadership journey, and Anna is the sherpa you want by your side.
Ronan DunneFormer CEO, Verizon Wireless
Drawing on academic rigor, neuroscience-informed insight, and deep experience developing senior leaders, Anna Barnhill offers a clear framework for why so many transformation efforts fall short in the AI era. A timely and substantive contribution to how we prepare leaders for the future of work.
Jill BruningChief Technology Officer, Amentum
Transformation begins with the ‘me’ — and LeaderWired gives leaders the mirror and the map to see clearly and move forward with purpose.
Claus Torp JensenFormer Chief Innovation Officer and EVP of R&D and Technology, Teladoc Health
Where the book lives
Everything about Leaderwired is on leaderwired.com
Chapter one free, the seven frameworks in depth, reader reviews, the audiobook, and the story of how Leaderwired came to be. This site is where the frameworks meet your situation: coaching, teams and organizations, in the room with Anna.
Read it, then bring it into the room
Thirty confidential minutes with Anna: what is at stake for you, and whether the frameworks fit the moment you are in.