Mark Samuel - B State: A New Roadmap for Bold Leadership, Brave Culture, and Breakthrough Results

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To our community of clients, consultants, and associates who have courageously cocreated B Statea new paradigm for leading organizations, communities, and families with greater purpose, psychological safety, accountability, and breakthrough results.

A special appreciation goes to all B State clients who have openly shared their challenges and successes with authenticity, vulnerability, and commitment. This book couldnt have been written without you.

Acknowledgments

There are so many people who have been loving, supportive, and helpful during the creation of this book that it would be hard to mention them all... but I will give it my best try!

I want to thank my family and extended family for all of their continued loving support. My wife, Kamin, is my rock and loving support system. Im also grateful that Ive always been surrounded by loving family, including my mom, Meta Samuel, Dad, Michael Samuel, and daughters Sarah Samuel and Leah Miller. I have so much gratitude and respect for Sophie Chiche and Nancy Grossman-Samuel, and several cousins and close friends, including Davee Gunn, Virginia Burt, Paul and Sandi Caplan, Barbara and Stephen State, Marvin and Reinette Levine, Alcene and Bob Looper, Paul and Cindy Henry, Janet and Lawrence Caminite, Chip and Kerry Clitheroe, Polly Clitheroe, Laura Hillman, Robert and Margot Hillman, Dr. Marion and Robert Bell, Martine and Claude Chiche, Sherry and Ivan Grossman, Richard and Phyllis Mitz, Mike and Carol Heiser, Elaine Heiser, Mark and Grace Hennings, Allee Willis, Prudence Fenton, and Kent and Linda Falk.

I especially want to thank Claudia Suzanne for her brilliant and steady coaching and co-writing. She challenged my old writing paradigms to make this my most leading-edge book to date.

I also so appreciate Steve Chandler for his guidance and support, in addition to the foreword he wrote for B State. As an authority on accountability, he represents the integrity, attunement, and coaching that fosters some of the best coaches I have ever met.

Thanks to my publicist, Sarah Wilson, and the Greenleaf team who supported and advised me throughout the publishing process, including Tanya Hall, Justin Branch, Tyler LeBleu, Sam Alexander, Jessica Choi, Rachael Brandenburg, Karen Cakebread, Corrin Foster, Chelsea Richards, Steve Elizalde, and Jonathan Hierholzer.

My B State Team at IMPAQ guided me, contributed to the models and thinking behind B State, and supported me for decades. I owe so much to them for their support and inspiration, especially to Annie Hyman Pratt, my business partner, and David Rodgers, my co-leader of IMPAQ. I also have the best team ever, including Jane Grossman, Sharon Rich, Thomas Hempelmann, Anthony Escamilla, Barbara Schindler, Heather McGonigal, Marcos Cajina, Marianne Kruse, Deanna Drai Turner, and Lei Lani Fera.

I would like to thank our partners in Bogot, Colombia, the Coaching Group, including Eduardo Lleras, Marcela Valencia, Ana Cecillia Guingue, Fernando (Nano) Escalon, Luis Manuel Ramirez, and Nathalie Lievano Bahamon.

And many thanks to our partners in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rainmen Group, including Edo Noppert, Marco Scheele, Robert Nieuwland, Catherine Clercx, Toon van Kleef, Geert Stradmeijer, Auke Veenstra, Ger de Kok, and Jeroen van der Valk.

There are also those individuals who directly pushed me to think outside the box, including Sinan Kanatsiz, Chris Alexandre, Newton Margulies, Marty Brotman, Sylvia Novak, John Morton, Russell Bishop, Ron and Mary Hulnick, Gay and Katie Hendricks, J-R, David Covey, Stephan Mardyks, Mrs. Reidy (sixth grade teacher), and Robert Bob Newcomb. I am grateful for the works of Esther Hicks-Abraham, Wayne Dyer, and Marianne Williamson. You always encouraged me to stretch myself and go beyond my limitations and boundaries.

As a partial history of my evolution in developing Accountable Organizations and now B State Transformation, I would like to thank the many people who contributed to my thinking along the way, including Todd Alexander, Allan Matos, J. D. Bowles, Jonathan Ellerby, David Bransky, Leslie Smith, Geri Lopker, David Covey, Nancy Brown-Johnston, Joerg Schmitz, Michael Nila, Frank Brillman, Valerie Lew-Kiedrowski, Sue and Ken Bingham, Teresa Roche, Barbara Thrasher, Cynthia David, Jonathan Wygant, Patrick Carmichael, Licia Rester-Frazee, Dr. Newton Margulies, Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick, Michael Murphy, John Morton and Leigh Taylor Young Morton, David and Kathryn Allen, Teresa Edmondson, Sally McGhee, John Wittry, Jerry Jerome, Wendy Alfus-Rothman, Tom Boyer, Andrew Muntz, Paul Kay, Vincent Dupont, Mark Lurie, AJ Berkeley, Jose Marcelo Tam Malaga (Pepe), Dan Hogan, Louis Carter, Patrick Carmichael, Jon Peters, Prajna Horn, Sondra Ford, Richard Noble, Claudia Thair, Charlie and Pam Hedges, Laszlo Retfalvi, Lois Valerga, Lynn Timerman, John Leland, Sherry Bender, Merv Donner, Susan Cullen, Jack Cullen, Len Dinnocenzo, John Hamerski, Tracie Charland, Glenn and Suzanne Hayes, Linda Watkins, Manijeh Motaghy, Willem van Esch, Wendy Newman, Carolyn Bivens, and Vivette Payne.

There are also several clients that I would like to thank for their vision, courage, and dedication to accountability and B State breakthrough change to create new business paradigms, including Dr. Edward Ellison, Julie Miller-Phipps, Paul Riley, Stephanie Jo Gomez, Frank Dulcich, George Potter, Susan Achmatowicz, Sally MacKinnon, Mathias van Alphen, Marc Fields, Vic Koelsch, Jacques Roos, Pascal Zammit, Yves Barthelet, Alison Moore, Madhu Balachandran, Susan Juris, Vanessa Sowell, Fadi Diya, Craig Robbins, Greg Nichols, Jennifer Love, John Glanzer, Dave Gravender, Damian Goldvarg, Steve Sharon, Annette Shaked, Jamie McCamus, Elaine Vincent, Jim Barnes, John Jeter, Diane Davenport, Stephen Kapinus, Anne Novak, Mark Macellaro, Mark McNeil, Bruno Van Wonterghem, Bert Hensley, Al Cornish, Thomas Vehec, Eric Larson, Reid Tracy, Margaret Latif, Sally McGhee, Edward Fitzgerald Jr., Anthony Mire-Sluis, Steven Kowalski, Meribeth Germino, William OConnell, Ira Needleman, Kathrene Hansen, (Friedkin), Gary ODell, James Tsai, Leon Ranzana, David Sanders, Patrick Carroll, Jamie Woolf, Kathy LaMarr-Bines, Fritz Smith, Scott Lockhart, Jonathan Lee, Jin Chon, Rich Abreu, Kees van Langen, Elizabeth Schulz, Yar-Khan, Syed Abbas, Joe Marques, Christina Campbell, Tara and Dave Marino, Mike Noone, Gene Gerrard, John Parrott, Darlene Crowder, Audrey Chan, Kevin Osborne, Candy Spitzer, Wendy Fletcher, Zainab Salbi, Mary Zients, Gene Thin Elk, Robin Innes, Lois Lukens, Paul Trinidad, Lois Vallerga, Anthony Shaw, Michelle Rochwarger, Jamie McManus, Sandra Summers, Brenda Raine, Runa Bouius, Naila Moloo, Praful Kulkani, Reid Tracy, Margarete Nielsen, and Mary Ann Munro.