Books by Laura Stone
Purpose
Team Purpose to Performance
A Pocket Guide to Purpose | Volume 3
A straightforward method for achieving peak team performance.
For over 30 years, Laura Stone has honed a process used by Fortune 500 companies to create high-performing teams.
This book unveils that process for everyone. It’s a step-by-step guide that goes beyond traditional team-building exercises. It delves into emotions, celebrates failures as learning opportunities, and equips teams to not just define their purpose, but translate it into actionable plans and achieve breakthrough results.
Leaders will learn how to cultivate excitement, overcome challenges, and make their teams truly impactful.
A Pocket Guide to Purpose
A quick and simple way to access and advance your purpose.
Who has time for lengthy career guides and dense self-help manuals? “A Pocket Guide to Purpose” condenses years of wisdom into bite-sized, actionable steps.
Discover your unique skills, ignite your passions, and chart a future that brings you joy. Forget the destination; embrace the journey and unlock your full potential, one empowering step at a time.
Whether you’re a CEO or a student, life’s big questions can feel overwhelming. This handy guide, packed with vivid illustrations and simple prompts, offers a refreshingly accessible path to personal transformation.
A Pocket Guide to Purpose for Leaders
A Pocket Guide to Purpose | Volume 2
A Powerful Approach to Create and Unleash Greater Innovation, Inclusion and Engagement
Struggling to ignite your team’s passion and crush those stagnant results? This is your 14-minute rocket fuel to success, with actionable strategies to weave purpose into every fiber of your organization.
Discover your own leadership purpose, unite your team under a shared mission, and unlock hidden potential within each individual. Learn to identify aspirations, craft a purpose-driven culture, and see your team flourish with impactful results.
Packed with tools, real-world examples, and clear visuals, this guide is your shortcut to a thriving organization. Invest 14 minutes and watch your team soar.
What Our Clients Say
Our success by working with Laura Stone Inc. has significantly improved the Danone Operations Board by aligning us on the work only we can do, focusing our global efforts toward being best in class. Our team is far more cohesive, authentic and performs better together because of the Team Purpose to Performance™ Process as well as all the skill building, models, tools and research Laura taught and made it all incredibly practical and powerful. She genuinely cares for our team and brings her tremendous personal energy and commitment into this work. It is paying off for us with the results we are achieving. We are forever better for it and our future success will be in part because of our work together.
Vikram Agarwal
Chief Operating Officer
Danone
We are seeing us get to the level we want to be. We are aligned and have a strategy that works from beginning to end and we never would have achieved that without you. If we are able to cure blindness you can be very proud to know you’ve been part of that work.
Dr. Ellen Strahlman
Senior VP, Chief Medical Officer
GlaxoSmithKline
Laura Stone Inc. markets themselves as a strategy firm that helps leaders and their teams develop, align, and execute their strategies. This marketing hype does not come close to describing what they do – they have a very sound forward-looking approach to driving relationships and strategy.
Paul Hutchison
Senior PE IBM
I have sat through so many meetings that fall on deaf ears, but sitting with Laura Stone, with these interactions has enabled me to prioritize better and focus on the right work. It's given me confidence, clarity and impressive results.
Edward Ring
Sales, Bonding Specialist
3M
We are deeply appreciative and grateful for the time and effort Laura Stone Inc. put into all of us. We are seeing us get to the level we want to be. We are aligned and have a strategy that works from beginning to end and we never would have achieved that without you. If we are able to cure blindness you can be very proud to know you’ve been part of that work.
Dr. Ellen Strahlman
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
GlaxoSmithKline (formerly with Pfizer)
By connecting both strategy and emotion, I was able confront an issue that was gnawing at me, but that I didn’t previously see as affecting our strategy or our business results. When I connected the dots, it became immediately clear that we needed to address the issue to move our firm forward. I wouldn’t have done this without the unique approach that Laura Stone brings.
Jack Dolmat-Connell
President
DolmatConnell and Partners, Inc.
Laura Stone gets teams to move to where they need to be without them realizing it. This is valuable because the change process often derails change. People resists change because it doesn’t feel like something they want to have happen. Purpose Stone gets them past this, so individuals see the change is worthwhile and the process is invisible. Next thing we know, “We’re here!”, at the results. Its’ the key to our success.
Gus Garfield
Director of Organizational Effectiveness Cargill, Inc.
Laura Stone enabled us to see through the haze of competing priorities, to set clear goals and establish a strategy that gets rid of hindrances, aligned our strengths and energized us to accomplishment.
Mike Sedjo
Senior Vice-President
CB Richard Ellis
When you’re in the forest, you need help. It’s like a weight’s been lifted and I now know what to focus on. I was skeptical about this process, and I came to you asking about fees, etc., and now that I’m in the midst of the process I’m seeing the clear value.
Michael Fischer
Global Leader, Organization Effectiveness Lyondell Chemical Company
Laura Stone markets themselves as a strategy firm that helps leaders and their teams develop, align, and execute their strategies. This marketing hype does not come close to describing what they do – they have a very sound forward-looking approach to driving relationships and strategy.
Paul Hutchison
Senior PE
IBM
I have sat through so many meetings that fall on deaf ears, but sitting with Laura Stone Inc., with these interactions has enabled me to prioritize better and focus on the right work. It's given me confidence, clarity and impressive results.
Edward Ring
Sales, Bonding Specialist
3M
"I now see the culture shift happening in our entire company because of the Inclusive Leadership work LSI has lead us through with our top 50. This large ship is actually turning to the direction we want because of all the work you have done with us"
Aaron Allen
Laura has been a very good balance for me, help me see people of where they are at, giving me perspective about my impact and how I want to show up.
Executive Coaching Client
Additional Reading
Brown, Brené. Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.
Burnett, Bill, & Evans, Dave. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. Knopf, 2016.
Chamine, Shirzad. Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS. Austin: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012.
Craig, N., George, B., & Snook, S. The Discover Your True North Field Book. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House, 2006.
Frankl, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning. NY: Pocket Books, 1977.
George, Bill. True North.New Jersey: Wiley 2015.
George, B. with Sims, P. Discover Your True North. New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
Hendriks, Gay. The Big Leap. HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Hurst, Aaron. The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire For Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World. Elevate, 2014.
Ibarra, Herminia. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Leider, Richard. Calling Cards: Uncover Your Calling (deck of cards), Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.
Leider, Richard. Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better. Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010.
Luna, Elle. The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion. Workman Publishing, 2015.
Passion Profiler: www.thepurposelink.com/passion-profiler-tool.
Pink, Daniel. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Hardcover, 2009.
Seligman, Martin. Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being and How to Achieve Them. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011.
Sinek, Simon. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Penguin, 2009.
Voss, Christopher. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.