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The Five Intelligences of Exceptional Leaders & Organizations
By Debra Doroni, PsyD, MBA, PCC
Coming soon!
Leaders and organizations need awareness, agility, and resilience to navigate the uncertainty and competing demands of the 21st-century. The Five Intelligences™ offers a science-backed blueprint for creating human-centered organizations and thriving individuals and teams.
This forthcoming book distills years of research into a practical, evidence-based framework leaders can use to:
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Navigate complexity and change
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Build trust-based, collaborative cultures
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Spark innovation and collective problem-solving
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Strengthen resilience, well-being, and sustainable impact
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Deliver extraordinary results
Cultivate self-awareness, emotional regulation, and clarity of purpose. Strengthen the confidence, courage, and self-leadership to perform—even under pressure—and model these qualities in ways that empower others and shape healthier organizations.
Self Intelligence
Cultivate self-awareness, emotional regulation, and clarity of purpose. Strengthen the confidence, courage, and self-leadership to perform—even under pressure—and model these qualities in ways that empower others and shape healthier organizations.
Relational Intelligence
Deepen understanding of others’ needs and perspectives. Build trust, foster fairness, and create belonging in relationships. At the organizational level, this intelligence shifts cultures from hierarchy and exclusion toward empowerment, collaboration, and belonging.
Communication Intelligence
Practice active listening, inquiry, and transparent dialogue to create alignment and shared understanding. As teams and organizations embody this intelligence, communication becomes a catalyst for engagement, innovation, and collective decision-making.
Execution Intelligence
Translate vision into action through strategic thinking, purposeful goals, and shared accountability. Individually, this means leading with influence—not control. Organizationally, it builds systems that harness collective intelligence and deliver sustained impact.
Neuro Intelligence
Apply brain-based insights to calm stress responses and generate motivation, adaptability, and well-being. Leaders who practice this intelligence ignite “happy brains at work.” Organizations that embrace it create environments where people think clearly, recover quickly, and perform at their most innovative and resilient.
Whether you’re leading a team, an organization, or yourself, these intelligences offer practical pathways to transformation—from the inside out.
Who This Book Is For
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Leaders at every stage of their careers
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Coaches, educators, and OD professionals
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Professionals navigating burnout, complexity, or conflict
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Anyone seeking to build healthy, high-impact teams and organizations
The Five Intelligences™ are universal—relevant across roles, disciplines, and industries—and have been shown to drive higher engagement, innovation, satisfaction, quality, and thriving cultures. They provide a roadmap for resilient leadership and whole-system transformation.
Deb teaches leadership in graduate and continuing education programs at Harvard Medical School, the Mass General Institute of Health Professions, and Harvard University Division of Continuing Education. For more than 25 years, she was a healthcare executive in physician practice, academic hospital, and for-profit healthcare organizations. Having been compelled in the aftermath of cancer treatment and professional burnout to transform her own professional and personal life, Deb has a particular interest in supporting leaders to cultivate joy in their work, to thrive personally and professionally, and to promote human-centeredness in their teams and organizations.
Deb completed her Doctor of Psychology in Organizational and Leadership Psychology at William James College, where her area of emphasis was the Neuroscience of Leadership. Debra completed her coaching training at the Gestalt International Study Center and earned the Professional Certified Coach designation from International Coaching Federation. She is Certified in the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey® and is a Conversational Intelligence® for Coaches Enhanced Skills Practitioner. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Boston College.
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Dr. Debra Doroni is an organizational and leadership psychologist, certified executive coach, and leadership educator whose mission is to inspire leaders to create human-centered and resilient organizations. Through keynote speaking, organizational consulting, individual and team coaching, and leadership education, she supports professionals to elevate their impact, improve their professional and personal relationships, success, and satisfaction and be leaders others want to follow.
