In Unlock Your Leadership Story: How to Build Understanding and Motivate Teams Using Fables and Folktales, celebrated international speaker and human resources leader Pat Wadors delivers a powerful and inspiring discussion of how you can transform yourself, your team, and your organization using some of the most well-known stories in the world. In each chapter, the author reintroduces you to one of your favorite fables or folktales, examines the meaning of the story, and explains how you can apply it to yourself and to the way you lead others. You'll learn to lead yourself first, using lessons gleaned from many of history's most enduring stories, as you inspire, motivate, and drive positive change within the people who rely on you for leadership. You'll also discover new interpretations of old stories that shed fresh light on self-discovery and growth, as well as explanations of the neuroscience behind the emotions and actions elicited by classic stories. Unlock Your Leadership Story offers a step-by-step roadmap to becoming a more complete leader. It focuses on actionable tips you can immediately apply to your own career to improve the way you deal with the people who follow you and change the way you treat yourself. Perfect for early-career professionals, seasoned managers as well as executives, Unlock Your Leadership Story is the leadership resource you've been waiting for to reshape the way you lead others--and yourself. It's an essential read for project and team leaders, human resources professionals, sales leaders, and anyone else responsible for helping others live up to their full potential.