Hardship and wisdom shape the best leaders in life

Are life’s challenges impacting your personal and professional goals? Do you believe that there are too many obstacles in your way to succeed?

In her internationally published leadership book, Open Your Eyes and LEAD, (Eclipse Publishing & Media UK), Nancy Capistran, PCC, CPC, reinforces the belief that we are the leaders of our own life and not the victim of circumstance. It’s how you choose to show up and react to your own personal and professional challenges that will have a major impact on your brand and future success.

“There are always choices to make no matter how insurmountable an obstacle may seem,” says Capistran who knows firsthand how life’s curveballs can throw you off course.

Available on Amazon.com, Capistran’s book gives readers an intimate look at her own life by highlighting personal and professional setbacks - some of which would send many diving for cover. By openly sharing her struggles and those of colleagues and clients she’s coached over the past three decades, readers learn strategies to enable them to not only survive these challenges, but to thrive from the experience. This book is written for those who want to become a better, stronger and more empathetic leader.

The speed of life continues to accelerate and often there aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done. In Open Your Eyes and LEAD, we learn why there are no shortcuts to leadership. If you want to build a company or a team that fires on all cylinders, this book will provide you with new tools and tips to help you and your company flourish.

When business conflicts arise, we are often so focused on our own reaction to what is being said, that we don’t often consider the bigger picture. Capistran illustrates, through her many stories from the trenches, why it’s important to not let our own feelings prevent us from making the right decision.

Open Your Eyes and LEAD covers a wide range of personal and professional topics that may be holding you back. By identifying today’s trailblazers and the characteristics they possess, Capistran shows us how these men and women have stretched beyond what they thought was possible by eliminating fear, stress, judgement and self-sabotage.

Over the course of her career, Capistran has worked with or in companies from start-ups to multi-billion- dollar international organizations to help leaders enhance their quality of life and overall success. Despite popular belief, success is never a linear path. It comes when you can truly open your eyes and view situations from a wider perspective.

Profit-driven CEO’s often don’t always see the bigger picture. Capistran illustrates why investing in the intangibles like curiosity, culture and gratitude will pay dividends that exceed the investment every time.

“Nancy Capistran’s OPEN YOUR EYES and LEAD offers us a new way to embrace a strategic change in how we think about leadership and our leaders today. As an international law firm with a strong set of core values, Nancy’s straight talk on how to create a positive and diverse work culture mirrors our firm’s goals and, importantly, helps to set a path on how to achieve them. Drawing on her professional and personal experience, Capistran’s “in the trenches” writing style is refreshing. I found myself underlining numerous passages that will help me become a better leader within my own practice group at the firm and advisor to my clients, and that I’m sure will aid me in my personal life as well.” -Lewis Segall, Partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP - Chair of M&A and Corporate Practice; Published Author

“Through OPEN YOUR EYES and LEAD, Nancy Capistran has given us a true masterpiece of what "leadership" is and should look like. Graciously sharing some real life personal and professional challenges, as well as victories, she helps open her readers' eyes to new leadership possibilities. Her book is comprehensive, but not complex, and will resonate with readers who seek to abandon status quo...a must read!” - M.L. Carr, Former Two-time World Champion Boston Celtics' Player, Head Coach and General Manager