What are powerful proven ways to motivate or engage staff in your organization?

How can you envision and create the culture you want for success?

Why do stories and illustrations connect so easily and memorably to others to make points?

These are just some of the topics Jim Mahoney addresses in To Lead Is To Teach. His aphorisms, anecdotes, stories, and examples come from his real world experience and the research of current thinkers on selected topics.

Written in the same engaging style he uses in speaking, Jim offers practical and useful strategies after a memorable introduction of himself. While his experiences are personal, his lessons are universal.

Forever a teacher, To Lead Is To Teach is a reminder that good teaching and effective leading are interchangeable. It is hard to separate the two and after each chapter, the reader is presented with the Mahoney Three—quick applications that any practitioner can use immediately in their classroom or organization.

This new work will engage, inspire, and support you in ways to improve your own practice of teaching and leading. All told through the lens of a powerful and experienced story teller.

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Praise

“After 40 years in educational leadership, I have not read any other book that can have a greater impact on leaders, both practicing and aspiring.”

—KIRK HAMILTON, Retired Executive Director, Buckeye Association of School Administrators

“I wish I’d been able to read this book before becoming Governor. Mahoney’s charm, wit, and wisdom— drawn from deep experience—will guide today’s and tomorrow’s leaders to achieve the results they desire.”

—ROBERT (BOB) TAFT, Distinguished Research Associate (University of Dayton) and former Governor of Ohio 1999–2007

“To Lead Is to Teach is sensitive, powerful, and deeply insightful. Jim Mahoney is a masterful storyteller who beautifully weaves his personal narrative into a font of lessons for life and leading. In doing so, he captures us in a place of beautiful reflection so that we can each become stronger and wiser.”

—DEBORAH S. DELISLE, CEO, The Alliance for Excellent Education and former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Education

“To Lead Is to Teach is packed with stories and lessons for emerging and senior leaders to use as a roadmap within their own organizations. Regardless of profession, leaders can quickly reference “The Mahoney Three” and apply them now. As a Marine colonel with over 30 years of service, I have a few books I take with me in my travels—To Lead Is to Teach is one of those books.”

—JAY JOHNSON, Academy Director, George Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, Ohio University

“I couldn’t put this book down. Jim Mahoney has captured decades of wisdom in an easy-to-digest format that every leader can use to make organizations better for staff and those they serve.”

—PAUL IMHOFF, Superintendent, Upper Arlington, Ohio, AASA President

About the Author

Recognized as a dynamic international and national speaker, Jim Mahoney brings more than 40 years of real-world experience as an educational leader to inspire, motivate, and challenge audiences of all types. Jim’s extensive experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, college professor, and launching and leading a large national not for profit organization have added considerable value to his skills and expertise in strengths-based leadership, motivation, culture, engagement, and change management.

A powerful storyteller, Jim has a natural gift of connecting to audiences’ hearts and minds to work together for a common purpose. He has been honored for his work by the International Alliance for Invitational Education, Ohio Federation of Teachers, Ohio School Boards Association, Buckeye Association of School Administrators, and inducted into the Ohio State College of Education and Ecology Hall of Fame. 

He is currently an assistant professor and Executive in Residence with the George Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.