Finding Your Granite My Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership

In "Finding your Granite", Executive Leadership Coach and Mentor Douglas Pflug walks you through some of the life experiences, lessons and key take-ways from his years as a dual sport university athlete, 28 years as a police officer, 30 years as an elite strength and conditioning coach, mentor and leader. Douglas accomplishes this through four very dynamic, energetic and heartfelt sections entitled: "The Struggle" "Dash Leadership" "Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership" and "Rise Up and Excel". The Author’s mentoring and protégé process and implementation of #RiseUpAndExcel and #StrongerFasterFitter methodologies assists people in discovering "who they were, who they are and whom they want to be" moving forward in this post COVID 19 world. This book was written through the eyes of an "everyday guy" and designed to educate, entertain and inspire front line 911 emergency workers to seek and achieve their potential. Additionally, this book will also be an essential resource for individuals and business leaders who wish to stay ahead of the evolving leadership trends of strategic thinking, inspiration and motivation, strong interpersonal skills, vision, decisiveness and passion.

1. That little sucker won't die 2. The early years: Digging deep and building a foundation for potential success 3. “Ram Tumkur and my crash into the abyss. Welcome to the planet, Doug” 4. The University of Guelph “Gryphon” Football & Wrestling 5. “Answering the Call to Serve and Protect” 6. When darkness creeps in, try to focus on any light you can find 7. “The crash into the pit of despair” 8. Lessons learned as an Elite Strength and Conditioning Coach 9. My Dream Job 10. Sgt. Pflug goes back to the Uniform Division 11. “Rebirth out of the ashes and #RiseUpAndExcel”. 12. Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership 13. “Understanding their “why”. 14. The Four Cornerstones of personal leadership 15. “NO or Next Opportunity”, 16. Time to practise what I teach 17. What’s next? Actionable goals for you to #RiseUpAndExcel” 18. Covid-19 and "#RiseUpAndExcel" 19. Multimedia Resources, where else can you find Doug 20. Significant career achievements 21. Final thoughts Appendices Index

Douglas Paul Pflug, Executive Leadership – Cornell University. Executive Leadership Coach, Instructor, Mentor, Keynote Speaker and Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach. Doug retired as a Sergeant with the Guelph Police Service on September 28, 2017, after 28 years of exemplary service. He holds his Executive Leadership, High-Performance Leadership, Change Leadership and Managing for Execution certificates from Cornell University, Ithica NY. He was awarded the Sovereign Medal for Volunteers in 2020, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, and the Governor General-Police Exemplary Medal in 2010. In 2016, he was awarded the City of Guelph Mayor's Award for his outstanding and ongoing commitments to Guelph in both his personal and professional capacity.