Compliance Cop to Culture Coach

If you combine compassion with wisdom you get Bill Sommers. Read this book and absorb his latest insights!

-- Jathan Janove, Author, Columnist and SCC Master Coach & Practice Leader

The power of leadership and becoming a leader is through the influence one has on another person's perspective, thinking, and direction. Sommers and Grzadzielski have provided guidance and exceptional resources to this end for aspiring and current leaders in schools and business and executive leadership coaches. As they state, "You can't rely on one way to do leading, coaching, supporting, or delegating. The more repertoire, the more influence." For those who are constantly seeking to learn more about being a leader, the content of this book will be one that you will refer to often as you reflect on the influence you desire to have with others.

-- Betty Burks, Former Assistant Superintendent, San Antonio ISD; Former Assistant Executive Director, TASA

Powerful! Compliance Cop to Culture Coach is the ultimate guide to leading, inspiring and empowering your team to create a positive culture that lasts. Read this book, put it into practice, and watch the way it radically changes your business!

-- Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won

Leveraging coaching, creativity, and collaboration are key to substantive improvements in one’s life. Bill Sommers and Jakub Grządzielski inspire us to take the next steps toward “daily learning and self improvement” as the path to a “beautiful career and life journey.” Packed full with stories and examples I couldn’t put it down.

-- Stephanie Hirsh, Former Executive Director, Learning Forward

It is rare when vast and significant experience speaks with authority on bleeding edge issues. Good news…this is such a book. This textbook for leading by learning offers strong context and a potent framework to explore our post COVID environment. By understanding organizational nuance and advocating for intentional action it sits at the top of the Cultural Competency field. Specifically, I found the attention given to conflict powerful and inspiring. As leaders we must move from conflict avoidance to a radical transparent embrace of conflict. Bravo!

-- H. Watson Jordan, Founder of the Resilience Initiative; Author, “Mine, Ours, and Yours: A Father's Journey through the Life and Death of a Child” And “Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger”

I know no educator who has read more deeply about leadership and applied it so thoroughly in his own career. You will find a collection of wisdom from a consummate learner, leader and coach that will benefit all of us who want to move our profession forward, whether it's about collaboration, change management, conflict resolution, managing rapid change, or effective coaching. Specific vignettes from real events illustrate the points.

-- Jon Saphier, Founder, Research for Better Teaching

In his book, Compliance Cop to Culture Coach: Coaching Cultural Competency, co-author Bill Sommers has done it again. In everything Bill writes and every time he speaks, there is profound wisdom born of experience and voracious reading of books and messages from every corner. Bill readily shares this wisdom in an actionable way. Get ready because the teacher and principal will give you serious, life changing homework.

-- Richard Sheridan, CEO, Chief Storyteller & Tour Guide, Menlo Innovat