The CEO's Compass

How to Navigate Your Team Through Turbulent Times

De: Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Narrado por: Jonathan Bowman-Perks

Every leader faces storms. What separates those who drift from those who excel is not luck, but clear direction and firm resolve. The CEO’s Compass is the guide for leaders who want to navigate their teams through turbulence with courage and clarity.

Drawing from decades of business experience, military service and lessons learned from coaching over 1,500 executives and interviewing 400 world-class guests — including CEOs, entrepreneurs, Olympians and Special Forces operators — this handbook distils the practical wisdom and proven strategies that define high-performing leaders.

Inside, you will find eight actionable quotients that will help you:

• Ignite purpose to rally your team to extraordinary performance

• Build resilience by embracing vulnerability

• Inspire trust and loyalty with your authentic leadership brand

• Forge teams that thrive through change and deliver sustained results

• Lead with intention, shaping a legacy by choice, not chance

• Along the journey, you will meet remarkable guests from the Inspiring Leadership Podcast, each offering hard-won lessons in discipline, courage and excellence.

These are not abstract theories. These are field-tested truths, honed in the boardroom and in adversity, delivered with candour and humility.

©2025 Jonathan Bowman-Perks (P)2025 Jonathan Bowman-Perks

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Inspiring, thought-provoking and filled with powerful life lessons... the book we all need right now!” Admiral William H. McRaven, retired four-star Admiral, former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command

"Jonathan challenges us all to think again and perhaps reset our course.” - General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, former Chief of the General Staff

“A vital guide for any executive striving to inspire and drive results whilst doing it with humility.” - Anthony Scaramucci (“The Mooch”), former White House Communications Director

Leadership Is An Inside Out Journey

As a lover of Broadway, I am often drawn there when it comes to wisdom and guidance, whether personal or professional. While listening to the CEO’s Compass, I was taken back to this line from the incredible and innovative Broadway, musical Hamilton: “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?” One of the rivers that run through the CEO’s Compass is the critical importance that a leader, each one of us, clarify and commit to our true north. So many leaders and their organizations are missing the foundational true north upon which their leadership will draw from and lean into. I invite and challenge any leader - whether with or without position, title or declaration - to consume the CEO’s Compass as if your leadership depends on it. I assure you that it does because it is only through our commitment to impact and influence, which includes a commitment and a willingness to work on ourselves first, that we can truly lead the people who we have the opportunity to serve. The CEO’s Compass offers eight foundations upon which to build your leadership legacy.