Every situation has a lesson. Stay until you find it.
From a Different Angle is a book about lived experience and the lessons hidden inside it. I've spent my 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 me.
It starts on a railroad track in south Louisiana, in hurricane floodwater, watching my parents' house go under. It runs through a school where I was the only one who looked like me, through the years of carrying things nobody had given me language for, and into the hardest year of my professional life. From a childhood on the coast to that year, the book 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 it hands you a practical method any leader can use. Read what is actually in front of you. Test whether the stated problem is the real one. Bring the response the moment needs rather than the one you default to. The method has a name in the book, and it's built to travel out of these pages and into your own hard rooms.
It's for the manager, the executive, the HR professional, and anyone who aspires to lead people, and who knows the job is not a title but being the person in someone's corner when it counts. It's a book about becoming the leader you needed and never had.