Leadership Integrity Framework℠:

How to Stay Grounded, Build Trust, and Lead with Wholeness in Uncertain Times

For Leaders Ready to Lead from Wholeness

You’ve built a successful career. You’ve navigated complexity, made tough decisions, and delivered results that matter. But somewhere along the way, you may have noticed something stirring—a sense that your leadership could feel more integrated, more sustainable, more you.

This book is for that stirring.

Leadership Integrity Framework℠ offers a fresh approach to leadership development—one that moves beyond isolated skills and competencies to explore what it actually means to lead from wholeness in an era of unprecedented complexity.

A Framework, Not a Formula

What’s Inside

This isn’t another leadership checklist. Maria Wade’s Leadership Integrity Framework℠ maps leadership across four essential dimensions—Purpose, Presence, Partnership, and Perspective—showing how they work together to create sustainable, authentic leadership.

Part I: Building Leadership Integrity Understand what integrity actually means in leadership—not moral perfection, but coherence. Learn how the framework was born from over 3,000 hours of coaching senior executives through real challenges.

Part II: Exploring the Four Dimensions Go deep into each dimension with practical guidance, reflection prompts, and examples drawn from leaders navigating complexity in real time.

Part III: The Framework in Motion Follow complete leadership journeys—Sarah finding her voice, Ron transitioning to systems leadership, Dina mastering delegation—and see how the dimensions integrate in practice.

The Challenge This Book Addresses

We’re leading in a time that doesn’t follow familiar patterns. What once felt stable—organizational structures, team norms, leadership expectations—can shift overnight. The pressure to respond is relentless. And the challenge isn’t just the pace of change; it’s the type of change we’re facing. Layered, unpredictable, nonlinear.

In this environment, tactical fixes and surface-level skills won’t carry us far. We need something sturdier. Something that helps us stay grounded and alert, open and discerning.

That’s what the Leadership Integrity Framework is designed to support.

What Makes This Approach Different

Most leadership development focuses on competencies—what you need to DO differently. This framework focuses on integration—how you can BE more coherent across all dimensions of your leadership.

It draws from:

  • Neuroscience — how the brain supports (or undermines) sustainable leadership
  • Adult Development Theory — how leaders grow in their capacity to handle complexity
  • Systems Thinking — how to see patterns and leverage points others miss
  • 3,000+ Hours of Executive Coaching — what actually works when the stakes are high

The result is a framework sophisticated enough for senior leaders navigating real complexity, and practical enough to apply immediately.

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • A clear understanding of your leadership signature strength
  • Practical tools for staying grounded when the ground is shifting
  • Language for what you’ve been sensing but couldn’t quite name
  • A sustainable approach to leadership that doesn’t require you to become someone you’re not

A Note from Maria Wade

“I didn’t write this book from certainty. I wrote it from commitment.

Over years of coaching senior leaders—watching brilliant, capable people get stuck not because they lacked skill, but because something deeper wasn’t lining up—I kept seeing the same pattern. Their inner clarity, outer presence, relationships, and systemic awareness were operating like separate franchises instead of a coherent whole.

This framework emerged from that observation. It’s been tested in real coaching conversations, refined through honest feedback, and shaped by leaders who were willing to do the deep work of integration.

I wrote this book to be useful. Honest. Maybe even a little liberating. If you’ve ever wrestled with your own voice, your own doubts, your own impulse to wait until everything is polished and proven—welcome. You’re not alone.”

Meet Maria

“Reading Maria Wade’s Leadership Integrity Framework feels like sitting down with a trusted mentor. It doesn’t preach; it invites. Wade shows how real leadership starts with alignment, not perfection, and provides a framework for staying grounded, building trust, and leading with authenticity when it matters most.”

“This book doesn’t just redefine what effective leadership looks like—it reminds us why integrity must sit at its core. A must-read for leaders committed to lasting impact.”

“A thoughtful and practical guide for leaders at any level—and a dynamic, integrated working framework for coaches to explore, discover, and support their clients’ growth.”

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