“Hortense le Gentil’s breakthrough book will enable you to unlock your humanity to reach your full potential. With the brilliant combination of deep psychological insights and personal stories, she shows how to discover the traps holding you back, find your authentic voice, and become an empowering and empathetic leader. This book is a must-read for every aspiring leader!”

“In The Unlocked Leader, Hortense le Gentil invites us on a magical journey, one that can truly free us from what has been holding us back and help each of us become the amazing, inspiring, human leader that we can be. The Unlocked Leader is the essential companion to every leader who aspires to lead with purpose and humanity.”

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“In The Unlocked Leader, Hortense pinpoints the critical and genuine role leaders play—and the skills they must develop—in unleashing a true people-focused purpose and clear direction within an organization. She offers genuine practices that we, as leaders, can all employ to be the very best and most resilient version of ourselves.”

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“Hortense has done it again! Teaching leaders to lead with heart, empathy, and authenticity, her latest book is the ultimate guide to becoming the leader your team and company need. Full of powerful stories, years of on-the-job wisdom, and profound research, The Unlocked Leader is guaranteed to help you start leading more effectively today.”

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“Hortense le Gentil both unique insights and inspiration for us to build more inclusive and emotionally informed collaborations and to lead based on genuine representations of our true selves.”

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“The Unlocked Leader is the essential user guide for leaders looking to enhance their empathetic approach to leadership. With its three basic constructs—recognizing ‘mindtraps’, planning for ‘mindshifts,’ and executing ‘mindbuils’ — it’s a practical playbook, filled with rich examples, reflections, and thought-provoking ideas. Highly recommended.”

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“The Unlocked Leader is a gift for all on the journey to becoming authentic, human leaders. It illustrates our common challenges through real stories and offers actionable tools to develop our own leadership. A practical how-to guide to one of leadership’s greatest challenges—knowing and being ourselves.”

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“Leaders must lead themselves first. In a world of exponential change, it’s easy to fall into mindtraps. Hortense le Gentil gives us a brilliant book that teaches us how to tap into our human leadership and unlock our true superpowers for inspiring, leading, and creating value.

Leaders, read this book today!”

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“Hortense le Gentil writes the way she lives—authentically. The inspiration her new book provides about being a human leader speaks to me personally. For over fifty years I have tried to lead my company not as distant employees, but as a family seeking success through shared values. I have tried to lead through empathy, sharing values that respect each of us individuals. Hortense shared with us ways to unlock the humanity that makes not only leadership. But the way we live, authentic, real, and most of all—human.”

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“What kind of leader do you want to be? Through personal stories and a simple process of unlocking our mental traps, The Unlocked Leader is a must-read for anyone aspiring to inspire and empower their teams to give the best of themselves. Behavior, courage, empathy, emotions, human connection . . . this book has it all. It will help you look deeper into your soul, conquer your fears, and be the best version of yourself. Hortense has a unique way to help people connect their heart and soul to their mind. This book will make you a better leader. It will make you a better person.”

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“Hortense le Gentil draws on neuroscience, psychology, and real-life anecdotes to show the reader how to become the kind of leader most effective in today’s world: vulnerable, authentic, and empathetic. This book is useful for leaders at every level, from the top of an organization to those leading from within a team.”

“In The Unlocked Leader, Hortense le Gentil takes us on a beautiful and soul-filled journey to find the authentic leader within —by challenging our mindsets, facing our fears, embracing vulnerability, and letting go of what no longer serves us. I will forever use her rope visualization technique in moments when I need it. Hortense’s book is deeply personal, insightful, and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this gift with all of us.”

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“An engaged workforce delivers results, or as Aristotle said, ‘pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.’ Hortense shares how, when your empathy eats your ego instead of your ego eating your empathy, you create cultures where people want to work, deliver great results, and go home happy. “

“The Unlocked Leader is an insightful, thoughtful book for anyone aspiring to become a better leader in all areas of their life. It clearly explains how both the conscious and unconscious mind can be developed to improve relationships, cultivate leadership, and just plain expand one’s ability to interact with others on an elevated and comfortable level. I thoroughly enjoyed Hortense’s easy to understand and comprehensive guide”.

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“The Unlocked Leader will quickly become an essential guide for every leader who is keen to move past what is holding us back. It is a beautifully written, inspiring pathway to becoming the most beautiful, biggest version of ourselves.”

“The Unlocked Leader could not be better times, as our new reality and multiple global challenges are forcing us to reassess who we are and how we show up in the world. Thankfully, Hortense has created a brilliant road map to enables us to emerge on the other side of this journey as more effective leaders: more in tune with our emotions, more empathetic, and more . . . unlocked.”

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“By using stories we can all relate to and introducing the simple but powerful mindtrap, mindshift, mindbuild framework, Hortense does a masterful job of guiding the reader through a process of reflection, resetting, and rejuvenation with a broader focus and purpose. An easy read and powerful tool for managers at all levels.”

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“This book holds the key to unlocking the best leader in all of us. Told with a charming fable, there are practical takeaways in every chapter. This book will not just make you a better leader, it will make you a better person.”

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“The Unlocked Leader is a masterful blend of psychology and storytelling that provokes us to bring to the surface the old beliefs and norms that hold us back as leaders. This book offers a road map for moving beyond these “mindtraps” and unlocking the empathy and humility needed to be an effective leader in today’s context.”

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“Hortense le Gentil not only explains how our mindsets—often formed in childhood—can become mindtraps, she shows how to escape those traps to fulfill our true potential as leaders.”