If you’ve sat through many leadership trainings and always felt that something was missing, this may be the book for you.

Rather than yet another set of leadership skills, this book describes nine pairs of skills – nine for leadership and nine for followership – and shows you how they fit together. You’ll learn how to assess which role you need to stand in and how best to express it given what’s going on around you.

You may never have considered that being a follower might be a powerful and influential role. This book shows you how learning to switch back and forth between roles can provide a deep sense of purpose, bring out the best in others, and accelerate creative teamwork.

Check out my recent interview with community change specialist Tom Klaus on the core tango principles of Connecting, Collaborating, and Co-Creating, the three phases of building great working relationships.

“Lead & Follow comes at the perfect time, to bring the missing piece in the plethora of leadership models suggested for our world: that of mastering the complementary skill of followership.”
—Nilima Bhat, co-author of Shakti Leadership and Founder of the Shakti Mission and the Shakti Fellowship

“By using tango as a methodology, Sharna Fabiano masterfully advances the field and charts an exciting path forward for educators and practitioners alike.”
—Scott Allen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management, Boler College of Business, John Carroll University and host of Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders Podcast

“Poetic, innovative, and powerfully practical. This book inspires and instructs in how to leverage the subtle dance of leading and following that exists within each of us in the workplace, no matter our job title or role.”
—Amy Lombardo, Author of Brilliance and Founder of the Brilliance Academy for Personal Transformation and Social Change

“A magnificent achievement wrapped in the empathy, warmth, clarity and strength that the best teachers bring to those eager to learn.”
—Ira Chaleff, author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders

“Sharna Fabiano offers a much-needed and invaluable look at the leader-follower dynamic with this guided journey through the lens of tango dance.”
—Karen L. Gilliam, Ph.D., Agency Chief Learning Officer & Organization Development Lead, NASA

“Lead & Follow is a passionate and compassionate book, organized in a way that makes it highly usable.
—Marc Hurwitz & Samantha Hurwitz, co-authors of Leadership is Half the Story: A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration

“An aesthetic delight! Fabiano shows how to master the dual roles of co-creating at work and invites us into the beauty of the dance.”
—Ginny Whitelaw, author of Resonate: Zen and the Way of Making a Difference

“Sharna’s objective in this book is revolutionary. If we read it carefully and understand it, we can change the way we relate in all aspects of life.”
—Jose Garofalo, Director of the Cambalache Festival of Tango, Theater, and Dance and Tango Professor at the University of Buenos Aires

“By describing the interplay of leading and following, this book illuminates one of our most persistent blind spots around relationships of power.”
—Valeria Solomonoff, Award-winning Choreographer and Tango Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University