LEVERAGING LEADERSHIP GROWTH
Strength Through Great Professional Relationships
By Wes Dove · Coming November 19, 2026
Available live on November 19, 2026.
Leveraging Leadership Growth is the first release in the new nine-book Advantage series — and it's going live, not to pre-order. Buying it the day it launches is what drives the book's reach, so mark the date rather than the cart.
Foreword by Cindy Dove. Twelve chapters, each closing with real "Put-In-Play" questions instead of one more list of takeaways.
Want to be there from day one? The Advantage Launch Team is where Founding Members follow the whole nine-book, eighteen-month journey — Founding Member enrollment closes November 19.
Why LEVERAGING LEADERSHIP GROWTH Matters
"There's no such thing as a self-made leader."
Wes Dove barely graduated high school. He spent his teens on a construction crew and started operating a stamping press in a manufacturing plant before he turned twenty. By every measure that's supposed to predict success, he shouldn't have had much of a shot — and he'll be the first to tell you he didn't get here alone.
Leveraging Leadership Growth is Wes's look back at the mentors, peers, and hard conversations that actually built his career: the safety supervisor who taught him influence beats authority, the HR manager whose candor he never had to guess at, the colleagues who pulled him into rooms he didn't feel qualified for. Across twelve chapters, Wes breaks down what he's learned about building, investing in, and leveraging professional relationships — candid feedback, humility, responsiveness, knowing your own worth, and the discipline of showing up for other people — into a practical framework any leader can put to work.
"...In 37 years, I never found a better way to say it than the way Wes lived it: an injury free career."
— Kevin Arnold
Strength Through Great Professional Relationships
Written in Wes's own direct, unpolished voice and closing every chapter with real "Put-In-Play" questions instead of one more list of takeaways, Leveraging Leadership Growth is for leaders at every level who already sense that their relationships — not their resume — are their most underused asset.
What You'll Learn:
- Why building, investing in, and leveraging professional relationships is the most underused leadership asset you have.
- How candid feedback and humility do more for your career than authority ever will.
- Why responsiveness and knowing your own worth change how people trust you.
- The discipline of showing up for other people — and how it comes back around.
Wes Dove is the co-founder of Dove Development & Consulting and the author of What's KILLING Your Profitability?, Leading With A Clear Purpose, and The Values Advantage (co-authored with Cindy Dove), all #1 Amazon bestsellers. Foreword by Cindy Dove.
Keynotes and Training Packages
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