“The Power of Strategic Influence: 10 Success Factors of Highly Influential Leaders” has been released worldwide. This 286-page playbook, featuring a foreword from Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington, is designed to unlock the power of personal influence with a focus on building relationships and using social responsibility to create long-term success.

The Power of Strategic Influence

10 Success Factors of Highly Influential Leaders

Introduction: Do you want to make a difference in life? To have a positive influence over people? To create valuable personal and strategic relationships through business networking?

This powerful, easy-to-read book reveals the secrets to building and using your personal influence to create success, build a great reputation, and become a highly influential leader, but also to give back by helping others succeed. Whether you’re a new arrival in a strange city or climbing the corporate ladder and haven’t gotten where you want to go, The Power of Strategic Influence teaches the Game-Changing Success Factors that will transform your life.

Some of the key concepts you will learn –

  • Understanding the marketplace
  • Specializing in your field
  • Differentiating yourself
  • Achieving competitive leadership
  • Mastering the top 10 leadership competencies
  • How to make strategic game-changing connections

Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington Praises Gary C. Laney's New Book, "The Power of Strategic Influence."

Kevin Harrington, Original Shark from ABC’s Shark Tank and Bestselling Author, praises the new book by Gary C. Laney.

Gary Laney is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur. In his book, The Power of Strategic Influence, Gary breaks down how to build influence, maximize it, and share it … to achieve true success in life.

All of us start at the bottom, on the lowest rung of the ladder, but none of us want to stay there. The trick is figuring out how to take that next step. But there’s more to it than that. You have to take the next step in the right direction. Now imagine how much easier that would be and how much more confident you would be if you had your own personal coach directing you. You don’t have to imagine. You’re holding it in your hands.

You can read Gary’s bio for yourself and see that he knows what he is talking about. He has used everything he outlines in this book to develop and leverage his own sphere of influence. Not only that, but he also warns you about outdated methods, time-wasters, and energy-stealers so you can focus on actions you can take starting today to deliver results.

The Power of Strategic Influence is a playbook for resourcefully rising to the top by purposefully utilizing tactics such as understanding the marketplace, specializing in your field, differentiating yourself, achieving competitive leadership competencies, and how to make strategic, game-changing and making valuable connections.

Gary doesn’t just teach you how to build your sphere of influence and how to seize the opportunities that it brings, he encourages you to give back at every step on your journey. Each one of the influencers he enlists for insight also models that for you.

If your goal is to rise to the top in your company or industry, read The Power of Influence by Gary Laney and learn from his powerful insight. Take it from a Shark…you’ll be glad you did.

Kevin Harrington, Original Shark from ABC’s Shark Tank and Bestselling Author

Imagine going from a follower to a leader! From living on the periphery to a respected Center of Influence! With this book, its powerful networking insights, and your hard work, it can happen for you. Packed with inspiring stories and down-to-earth advice, The Power of Strategic Influence is your indispensable guide to a better, happier, and more influential life.

Based on the author’s decades of business experience, these success factors – organized into actionable, easy-to-understand advice – teach readers to cultivate valuable professional networks, develop opportunities through trust and accountability, and discover how personal influence leads to lifelong value.

“In The Power of Strategic Influence, Gary C. Laney distills a career’s worth of wisdom into a relatable guidebook that walks you through each of the critical spheres of influence. You reap the benefits of his influence through the inside advice from other business and entrepreneurial heavyweights. His positive, proactive tone makes this a great read. No matter where you are in your career, pick up a copy and start your own journey to becoming a person of greater influence. You won’t regret it.” – J.J Hebert, #1 bestselling author featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider