Introducing the Author

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Over the years, through various jobs and locations around the world, as well as related education and training, I have gained a deep understanding of self-improvement, self-mastery, stress management, motivation, goal setting and achievement, continuous process improvement, and leadership. 

Along the way, I developed and refined a repeatable methodology that I consistently applied to manage my self-improvement and career development.

I continuously applied this methodology to rise from the lowest enlisted rank of Private, Army pay grade E-1, to the highest pay grade in the General Schedule for federal employees, GS-15, after being promoted nine times.

Throughout my 40 years of service, I also applied this change methodology to initiate, plan, organize, direct, and sustain numerous large-scale organizational changes that directly impacted hundreds of thousands of Soldiers, employees, and leaders across the Army.

After retiring for the third time, I reflected on the components of successful change management at various levels, from personal to organizational.

And then I decided to distill this knowledge into a self-improvement book series that I'm publishing with the freedom of an indie (independent author).  

 These are insights that can be useful in managing your change, regardless of who or where you are or where you need or want to be

In sum, this stuff works.   

In this first book, you'll learn the principles of self-mastery that are essential for managing personal growth and change.

These principles are presented in Managing Change: A User’s Guide to Self-Improvement, Book One—Change Starts Here.

I hope it’s helpful to you on your journey of change. 

All the best, 

PB