Diana Chapman
Coach to visionary leaders, co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, and founder of The Signal Institute, a training ground for changemakers ready to trade certainty for aliveness.
thesignalinstitute.comNew edition · New introduction from the authors
Open.Curious.Committed to learning.
Closed. Defensive. Committed to being right.
At any moment, a leader is either above the line or below it. The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is the map for noticing where you are and choosing again.
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Self-published by the authors in 2015. 400,000 copies later, one of the most successful self-published business books ever.
No. 1
The world’s best-selling book on conscious leadership. Nothing else in the field has come close.
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4.6 on Amazon from 1,779 ratings
”Single most transformational framework for personal growth.” Camilla Hermann
This book changed my life and has ignited transformation in leaders, teams, and organizations around the world. Meet these pages with an open heart and an open mind, and the possibilities for how you live and lead with clarity and courage are truly limitless.
“[A] refreshing wake-up call to anyone who thinks that work is a self-driven, zero-sum game.”
“[A] serious invitation to radical self-inquiry—the kind leaders must undertake if they are to stop unconsciously passing their wounds downstream.”
“The 15 Commitments cracked something open in me that no other business or leadership book ever has.”
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The question the book begins with
Where are you right now?
The authors open every room of leaders the same way. Before any explanation, everyone picks a side.
Pick one to see what the book says
Locating YourselfThe video readers share most
Fifteen commitments.
One way of living.
Each one is a practice you can start today, at work and at home. Together they describe what it looks like to lead from above the line.
- Taking Radical Responsibility
- Learning Through Curiosity
- Feeling All Feelings
- Speaking Candidly
- Eliminating Gossip
- Practicing Integrity
- Generating Appreciation
- Excelling in Your Zone of Genius
- Living a Life of Play and Rest
- Exploring the Opposite
- Sourcing Approval, Control, and Security
- Having Enough of Everything
- Experiencing the World as an Ally
- Creating Win-for-All Solutions
- Being the Resolution
Plus: Leading from Above the Line · The Change Formula · Next Steps
A practice, not a quick fix
What you will practice for the rest of your life
These commitments are not techniques you master in a weekend. They are ways of being you live into, one moment at a time. The book gives you the practices. Life gives you daily chances to use them.
- Noticing when you are below the line. The shift gets quicker with practice. The drift never fully goes away, and that is fine.
- Taking radical responsibility and noticing when you slip into victim, villain, or hero.
- Speaking candidly with the unarguable truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
- Talking directly to people instead of about them, and inviting your team to do the same.
- Making and keeping clear agreements, and cleaning up the ones you break.
- Moving toward your zone of genius and supporting others as they find theirs.
- Letting feelings move all the way through so they inform your choices instead of running them.
- Looking for solutions where everyone wins before settling for compromise or competition.
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Hardcover, ebook, and audiobook read by Jim Dethmer. Out October 13.
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This book saved my company. This book saved my marriage. This book saved me.
What readers have told the authors, from the new introduction
From the new letter of welcome
We know now: Practicing the 15 Commitments changes people. It changes relationships. It changes the culture of organizations. Maybe, it can change the world.
Diana, Jim, and Kaley
From leaders who gift it
Leaders don’t just read it. They hand it out.
“I’ve read it multiple times, gifted it more than any other book, and used it while leading three different companies through real pressure.”
“For anyone who aspires to make real impact in the world, this is a top-five book, fiction or nonfiction.”
“If your goal is a team defined by deep candor and trust, this is the clearest path. In twenty years of leadership, I haven’t found another one.”
“This is the book I wish I had read before starting my company.”
“[A] master class in radical responsibility. This is an indispensable guide for any leader committed to a life of presence and purpose.”
“An easy-to-navigate map for noticing when we’re armored up and choosing curiosity, openness, and real connection instead.”
Free discussion guide
This book is better read together.
Gather a few people you trust, read a commitment, and talk about it. The guide gives your group a simple way to work through all fifteen.
"You don’t need a large conscious community to start. You only need a few people who are committed to exploring conscious leading and living."
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The authors
Written by three guides who have spent decades walking alongside leaders and teams.
Jim Dethmer
Coach, speaker, and co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group. He has walked alongside leaders and their teams for forty-five years, and reads the audiobook.
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Kaley Klemp
Executive coach to CEOs, executive teams, families, and couples, and an expert in conscious leadership, the Enneagram, and interpersonal dynamics.
kaleyklemp.comOut October 13, 2026
Start with Commitment 1.
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Hardcover $32 · Ebook · Audiobook, 8 hours, read by Jim Dethmer