Mastering Confidence: Discover Your Leadership Potential By Awakening Your Inner Guidance System

by Kathy Archer

Let’s face it, leadership has its challenges. When you get knocked down, you need a reliable system you can easily access to help you regain your footing and your confidence. Inside the pages of Mastering Confidence, you will discover such a structure. In truth, you already have this tool; you just need to uncover it.In Mastering Confidence, you will learn to awaken your Inner Guidance System and boost your confidence, giving you the strength to get through challenging meetings and difficult conversations. When you use your Inner Guidance System, you’ll not only feel more confident, you will begin to lead with purpose. Finding yourself back in control, you can once again enjoy leadership and life.

174 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2016

About the author

Kathy Archer knows what it’s like to hit a leadership wall—when the work that once felt meaningful now feels exhausting, overwhelming, and never-ending. She’s been there.
After 25 years in the nonprofit sector, Kathy faced her own leadership lows—one where burnout left her feeling lost and another when her staff filed a grievance against her. Both times, she questioned everything: Was she even meant to lead? Had she lost herself in the job?

Instead of walking away, Kathy dug deep. She rebuilt her confidence, realigned with her purpose, and discovered how to lead with integrity, balance, and impact. Now, she helps nonprofit leaders do the same.

As a leadership coach, speaker, and author, Kathy teaches women how to stop drowning in leadership stress, build their confidence, and finally enjoy leading again—without sacrificing themselves in the process.

She is the author of Mastering Confidence and Character-Driven Leadership for Women, the host of the Surviving to Thriving Podcast, and the creator of The Training Library, a membership that helps nonprofit leaders lead with confidence and control.

Reviews

[Linz Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Confidence is the belief in your head. It’s a state of mind.” - Kathy Archer

My professional association picked this Canadian pick for our September book club discussion.

Verdict: it was a hit with the group!

WHAT WE LOVED:
✔️ short & concise (under 200 pages)
✔️ easy, entertaining writing with real life examples
✔️ memorable models & practical tools
✔️ journaling exercises & extra resources
✔️ written by one of our favourite 🇨🇦 presenters @kathydarcher

This book gives you a practical and powerful road map to handling challenging leadership situations with poise. Mastering your mindset and shifting your perspective by pausing, getting curious, and reframing your thoughts you will always be able to proceed with confidence.

While written with non-profit leaders in mind, the information within is applicable to all aspects of life. These coaching techniques and the guided reflection exercises will help anyone, in any sector, deepen their self awareness and develop their emotional intelligence.

This is a perfect read for anyone but especially those moving into a leadership role or transitioning from peer to supervisor within their team.

Highly recommend! 4.25⭐️

[Blaire Bartish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! Although this book is short, it took me a long time to finish because I wanted to really practice what I was learning about and be 100% present while I read it.

Over the past 18 months, I’ve had an incredibly hard time adjusting to the ups and downs of my post-Covid career. This book has helped me grow as an employee and a person. Looking forward to reading the next book, too!

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Kathy’s newest book, Character Driven Leadership for women. Loved it, so I wanted to check this one out. It didn’t disappoint! So many golden nuggets of information and I loved how she used her personal story of having a lack of confidence in her job to help bring the teachings to life.

[Lisa La Forge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Get ready to awaken your "Inner Guidance System". Mastering Confidnece is an easy to read book that provides thought provoking information on how to become a stronger and more confident leader. As Kathy, the author, shares her real life struggles as a leader, and her now passion to help others overcome these all to familiar experiences she guides us to become a stronger more confident leader using the tools in her book as a road map to guide us in new directions.

Using the Inner Guidance System, inner confidence journal and working through the easy to follow exercises Kathy provides she gets you, the reader, thinking and planning. These tools prepare you to walk into that next difficult situation or get you thinking about where you want to take your team as you start looking at and planning how to move forward toward. As Kathy says "Leadership is about movement and direction".

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to grow as a person as you will not only enhance your confidence and leadership skills but will set out on a grand journey that leads to further success and development on both a personal and professional level. And best of all is the great surprise at the end where Kathy provides a FREE.....Mastering Confidence course to further enhance this journey of self growth and awakening.

[Chris Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mastering Confidence is a book that challenges you to really look at yourself and works to teach you how to build your confidence using practical, relatable examples and exercises. Kathy shares her own experiences and invites the reader to embark on their own journey to master confidence. The book teaches the mindset behind true leadership.

This book is practically set out and easy to read. Mastering Confidence takes you on a journey to learn more about who you are. I plan to reread this book and work through the exercises at a slower pace as I find them very effective. These exercises are extremely helpful in teaching me how to be more aware of my own thinking patterns.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to become a better leader in all aspects of their life.

[Glennie Mercer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love easy to remember models and Kathy's 4 P's are simple, practical and right on! If you need a confidence boost, Kathy reminds you to look no further than to yourself, where your own inner strength and wisdom resides. With tips and strategies at the end of each chapter, and really great questions to get you thinking, if you need a confidence boost, this book will be a useful guide.

[Lisa Schatz · Rating 5 out of 5]

An authentic guidebook for all self actualized women

A powerfully thought provoking work. I read it quickly because I couldn't wait to see what was next. I am now re-reading it more slowly so I can internalize all the thought provoking exercises. I sent a copy to my daughter because young women need the benefit of this powerful advice.