Available Late November 2026
From aDifferentAngle
Lived Experience, Leadership, and the Work of Showing Up for People
Every situation has a lesson. Stay until you find it.
Lived Experience, Leadership, and the Work of Showing Up for People
Every situation has a lesson. Stay until you find it.
The Book
From a Different Angle is a book about lived experience and the lessons hidden inside it. Donovan Tezeno-Parish has spent his career learning a discipline that started long before the job: how to see a situation, and the people in it, from more than one angle, and how to find the lesson in rooms that could have broken him.
From a childhood on the Louisiana coast to the hardest year of his professional life, he shows how the situations most people write off, or walk away from, are often the ones with the most to teach, and how to stay long enough to find it.
Along the way he offers a practical method any leader can use: read what is actually in front of you, test whether the stated problem is the real one, and bring the response the moment needs rather than the one you default to.
“The angle you see a person from decides what you can do for them.”
Written for people leaders, executives, HR professionals, and anyone who aspires to lead people. A book about becoming the leader you needed and never had.
Publication status: Currently in editing. Retailer links and a firm release date will be announced here and to the mailing list.
The Cover Tells the Story
Look closely at the shoes. One holds the same ground before the storm, dry and whole. The other holds it under floodwater. That is the whole book in one image: what you see depends on the angle you stand at.
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