What if you could have one of the world’s top leadership coaches in your pocket?
That’s what Leadership Intelligence gives you: A compelling playbook packed with science-backed strategies that leaders at all levels can use to raise their game.
Leadership can be deeply rewarding—but also deeply demanding. As a leader, you need to deliver immediate results, while also building for the long term. You have to lift yourself up to see the whole field of play, while also helping your teams move forward at ground level. Meanwhile, technology is changing faster than ever, and the division of labor between human and machine keeps shifting. What does it take to lead intelligently through all of that?
Powered by the science-based approach that made her first book, How to Have a Good Day, an instant and enduring success, Caroline Webb’s Leadership Intelligence enables leaders to excel at this unique time in history. Rooted in fresh insights from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, and brought to life by real stories of accomplished leaders, the book provides an integrated system full of original frameworks and tools that readers can put to work right away.
Arranged under three key strengths of a great leader—making wise choices, inspiring people to perform at their best, and building resilience to ups and downs—Webb distills her three decades of work advising senior executives into a guide for navigating common situations such as:
- Making important decisions and tradeoffs
- Giving feedback that drives action
- Managing conflict with key stakeholders
- Strengthening team collaboration
- Steering through uncertainty and upheaval
Clear enough to consult before a crucial meeting, but engaging enough to read in depth, Leadership Intelligence is an indispensable toolkit that successful managers will return to year after year as their roles and responsibilities grow.
The book has been described by Jonathan Haidt as “invaluable”, and by Marshall Goldsmith as "smart, insightful, and practical", written by "one of the best leadership coaches in the world." Leadership Intelligence will be published by Crown Currency in the U.S. on Sept 8 2026, and by Pan Macmillan in the UK and Commonwealth on 10 Sept 2026.
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Advance praise for Leadership Intelligence
"Caroline Webb's first book, How to Have a Good Day, is so wonderful that I assign it in every course I teach at NYU-Stern. Now she's back with a terrific book for leaders. Every page of Leadership Intelligence offers invaluable advice drawn from her long experience as an executive coach, all grounded in current research on how the brain processes information, rewards, and threats—and I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of her advice. If you want to become a wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient leader, this is the best book you can read.”
Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU Stern School of Business, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and The Righteous Mind
"Caroline Webb captures the texture of modern leadership – the overstuffed calendar, the stalled conversation, the chronic personnel headache – with the accuracy of someone who has lived it. Then she offers a suite of tools so well-designed that using them feels less like following advice and more like seeing clearly. Her frameworks for dealing with conflict, overload, uncertainty, and team dynamics are simple enough to remember and powerful enough to reshape how you work."
Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive
"Leadership Intelligence provides a great system of principles and tools for leading your team well, and for converting tough challenges into genuine learning and progress. Backed by behavioral science and vivid real-world stories, Caroline Webb explains in 21 short, compelling chapters how to focus on what really matters and make better decisions in the rush of everyday work. The result is an essential guide for anyone who wants to lead with greater clarity, impact, and humanity."
Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
"Caroline Webb is one of the best leadership coaches in the world. I know this because I've worked alongside her and seen her help leaders tackle some of their hardest business and behavioral challenges. Leadership Intelligence captures what makes Caroline so effective as a coach. It's smart, insightful, practical - and it will immediately improve the way you lead. Read it, use it, and give it to every leader you know!"
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame executive coach, New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
"In my career leading and advising organizations and governments around the world, I have had the privilege of working with many extraordinary leaders. What the best have in common is a desire to keep learning and evolving as they face new challenges—and Leadership Intelligence is a gold mine for leaders who want to keep raising their game. This book is unusually comprehensive, and full of the kind of frameworks and insights that I have seen make a difference in real-world settings. I recommend Leadership Intelligence to any forward-thinking leader who wants to take their team and organization to new heights."
Dominic Barton, Chairman of Rio Tinto, former Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, former Canadian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
“Caroline Webb is candid about why leading can feel so exhausting and lonely; she's also inspirational about its joys. Packed with practical, tactical advice as well as relatable stories, this book will reassure you that you are not alone because she is in your corner. Leadership Intelligence will help you understand your own brain--and more importantly, how to bring out the intelligence of those around you.”
Kim Scott, New York Times bestselling author of Radical Candor and Radical Respect
"Caroline Webb's Leadership Intelligence is a masterful guide to creating the conditions for people to thrive and contribute their best. She shows us that the core leadership principles of building wisdom, inspiring others, and sustaining resilience can help any leader unlock the human magic that lives within their team. In a world that desperately needs purposeful, human-centered leadership, this book is an essential compass."
Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy, bestselling Author of The Heart of Business, co-lead of Chief Executive Leadership Programs at Harvard Business School
"Leadership Intelligence is an amazing book—a veritable trove of knowledge, insights and practical advice. It answers real questions that managers struggle with, and does it in a systemic, science-based manner. The world needs more books of this kind. It deserves to become a classic, and I look forward to recommending it to every manager I meet for years to come."
Olivier Sibony, Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris, New York Times bestselling co-author of Noise, author of You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!