The new book from Daniel A. Guglielmo with June M. Carter
The Field
You Create
How Leaders Who Coach Shape the Conditions Where Teams Perform
Every leader creates a field. The only question is whether you're creating it on purpose.
The room organizes around the leader.
Walk into a meeting and something shifts before you say a word. People lean in or hold back. The truth gets told or gets edited. Ownership spreads through the team or lands back on your desk. That atmosphere, the felt condition people enter when they come into a room with you, is the field you create. Most leaders build it by accident.
Drawn from more than a decade of coaching CEOs, the book makes a simple and demanding case. The outer transformation of a team follows the inner transformation of its leader.
Inside the book
Two rails, held by intention
The Energetic Arc is how you show up. The Coaching Triad is where your attention goes. Held together by intention, they describe one pathway. The Arc's five movements aren't steps to master. They're rhythms to recognize, and a leader can pass through all five in a single conversation.
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Merge
The Power of Resonance
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Move
From Chaos to Clarity, Riding the Emergent Wave
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Trust
Nurturing the Space Within
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Choose
Building the Bridge
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Integrate
The Hum of a Whole System
The Coaching Triad
Task, Relationship and Development are the three domains your attention is always shaping, whether you mean to or not. The work is to notice that shaping and get more skillful at it.
Inside, you'll learn how to
Stop needing to be the answer.
Real stories carry the ideas. A plant leader turns around a failing operation by asking one operator a single question. A founder's strength has become his company's ceiling. A CEO peer group watches eight members graduate in eighteen months. Every chapter closes with a summary, questions to sit with, and one practice to try.
- Pause before you name a problem, and notice how much your interpretation shapes what your team can see.
- Read the emotional weather in a room, and shift it with your state before your words.
- Use the Trust Equation to understand why doing everything right still may not build trust.
- Stop needing to be the answer, so your people own both the decision and the outcome.
- Tell the difference between a leader who wants change and one who is ready for it.
- Align state, story, and structure so a team works as one system.
“I only wish I had encountered this book years earlier, as its core insights would have dramatically deepened my leadership impact... For contemporary leaders steering through intricate, rapidly evolving environments, this text is essential reading.”
“What makes The Field You Create so distinctive is its powerful insight that leadership is not primarily about directing people, but about shaping the conditions in which they can thrive... This is a rare leadership book that changes not just what leaders do, but who they become.”
“There is a universe of excellent books on leadership and coaching, but Dan's book stands out because he captures the human experience—and deep emotional aspects—of leading and coaching better than any of them. I wish he had written it 40 years ago.”
“For the leader who has mastered the metrics and still can't move the team, The Field You Create is the missing piece. Dan Guglielmo makes a compelling case that presence outperforms pressure, and that asking before telling isn't soft. It's strategy. Practical, human, and long overdue.”
“A gem of a book with a distinctive and powerful perspective on leadership: the Leader as Coach. If you lead a group of people and want to make a meaningful difference in their lives and what they can accomplish together, this book is for you.”
“Dan has a remarkable ability to make you think differently about how you show up as a leader and coach. His work has helped me focus less on having the answers and more on creating the conditions for others to discover what they're capable of.”
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You don't invent the light. You learn to hold it.
For CEOs, executives, and managers who care about relationship as much as results, and who sense that the next stage of their leadership isn't a better technique. It's a steadier presence.
Second edition. Previously published as The Power to Coach.
Dan Guglielmo
Dan is the founder and CEO of MindfulCEO, an executive leadership consulting practice based outside Boston. A longtime Vistage Chair and executive coach, he also has more than 30 years of experience as a succession planner and tax lawyer.
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June M. Carter
June is the founder and CEO of Tango Leadership, and a coach with more than 25 years of experience working with executives and their teams. She is based in Charlotte, N.C.
A practice cohort with Dan Guglielmo
Leading from the Center
Bring the book's movements into a room of experienced leaders. Live online, in 90-minute gatherings, with an anticipated start in late February or early March 2027.
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