Leaders Adapt <\/p>\n
A bold, co-authored book that blends raw stories with repeatable leadership practices to help women overcome impostor syndrome, claim visible wins, and step into leadership with presence and purpose.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Power Without Permission is not another tidy leadership manual. It is a bold field guide for executive women who are done waiting to be picked, and for leaders who want their allyship to count. Written by former tech CEO\u00a0and founder of Leaders Adapt, Andreas Pettersson, with 13 women co-authors across industries including construction, technology, manufacturing, the book delivers practical tools that readers can use immediately to speak earlier, ask bigger, and convert outcomes into visible credit.<\/p>\n
Power Without Permission <\/p>\n
Why this book matters now
A 2023 KPMG study found that 75% of executive women reported experiencing imposter syndrome, and many said it intensified as they advanced. Power Without Permission begins with strategies to stop imposter spirals at work, then expands into core leadership practices: presence, purpose, sponsorship, and building the next generation. It gives women and allies tools to shut down self-doubt, set boundaries that stick, and create a steady pipeline of visible wins.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s new & useful<\/p>\n
ADAPT Framework: a 5-step system (Awareness \u2192 Direction \u2192 Action \u2192 Purpose \u2192 Transformation) that moves readers from doubt to outcomes.<\/p>\n
Leadership Awareness Ladder: a 9-rung, self-scoring tool with \u201cnext moves\u201d to turn growth into weekly practice.<\/p>\n
5-Minute Reset: cut pre-meeting anxiety in five minutes with a simple reset routine.<\/p>\n
Boundary Playbook: practical language for clean \u201cno\u2019s,\u201d tiered yeses, that result in protecting time and energy.<\/p>\n
Visibility & Presence System: keep a private \u201cwins file,\u201d share credit credibly, and strengthen communication with the Five Cs (Clarity, Conciseness, Completeness, Correctness, Courtesy) and negotiation drills.<\/p>\n
Voices from the book<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen don\u2019t need fixing. Systems do,\u201d said Andreas Pettersson. \u201cUse this playbook now. Stop spirals, ask bigger, turn results into recognition, and lead without waiting for permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMomentum began with one boundary and one bigger ask each week,\u201d said Carolina Hernandez, co-author and Founder & CEO of Louis Gloria Painting Company. \u201cThat simple rhythm changed how I led and how the room responded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third-party perspective
\u201cPower Without Permission is the book women leaders have been waiting for,\u201d says Dr. Nancy O\u2019Reilly, global advocate for women\u2019s leadership and gender equality, and the founder of Women Connect4Good, Inc. \u201cAndreas saw a problem and has set out to solve it. Every woman who\u2019s ever second-guessed herself or downplayed her power needs to read it. It\u2019s more than just a book\u2014it\u2019s a blueprint for real change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders Adapt A bold, co-authored book that blends raw stories with repeatable leadership practices to help women overcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[29198,489,156,29199,29200,111,139,69,29201],"class_list":{"0":"post-30110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-andreas-pettersson","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-executive-women","12":"tag-leadership-practices","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-power-without-permission"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}