Industry Reviews
"""There Is No Box is a critically important book, offering invaluable insights and a clear path forward to becoming a relatable leader. Professor Cleveland's premise that leadership is more than a skill, it is a lifestyle, is exactly on point. And his conclusions are based on strategies drawn from real-world experience.""
—Paul A. Russo, United States Ambassador (ret.)
""Marisa and Simon in There Is No Box have captured the essence of leadership by bringing to light relatability as the primary driver to success, with communication and compassion as central elements . . . The road map to relatable leadership offers a synergistic right and left-brain perspective that will benefit anyone desiring a clear path to leadership success as presented through the lens of proven leaders.""
—Paul Dooley, former Assistant Secretary General, United Nations
""There Is No Box challenges our leaders—emerging and established—to focus on the importance of finding common ground amid a landscape of global and digital diversification. The authors weave together a method for becoming a relatable leader and taking charge of your own life. This is the book that every leader should share with their teams so they can thrive intellectually and emotionally.""
—Paul Lewis, former Special Envoy at the U.S. Department of Defense
""Today we live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. The complexities organizations face everyday cry out for effective and relatable leaders to successfully navigate change. This book provides a clear road map on how to become a relatable leader to drive change while fulfilling your destiny.""
—Timothy Mills, CSM PMP, Instructor, Agile Project Management, Harvard Extension School – Dept. of Continuing Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
""There Is No Box is a sensible, skillfully assembled, eminently readable survey of the most important aspects of being a leader and a human being. The authors inspire you to think about leadership as a state of being that can be found throughout any level and sphere of life, not just in the workplace.""
—George Moschoglou, PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director, Georgetown University
""There Is No Box is a great read for those just starting out, those sensing that they need to change their approach to leadership, or even those who just want to look outside the existing leadership style boxes.""
—Dr. Jack Deem, Academic Department Chair, School of Business and Information Technology, Purdue Global University
""There Is No Box shows us all the ways to step outside of our comfort zone, embrace ambiguity, and leverage our experiences of immovable boundaries and rigid playbooks to create a new paradigm between a leader and those they influence.""
—Mary Ludden, MBA, PhD, Senior Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost, Northeastern University"
