About The Book
The Distraction-Proof Advantage
our 2025 Leadership Edge
Amazon #1 New Release in Business Project Management!
The leadership landscape has never been more complex or distracting. As AI accelerates change and hybrid work redefines connection, extraordinary leadership requires extraordinary focus.
It's time to break free from the endless cycle of distraction, fragmented attention, and diminished impact that characterizes leadership in 2025.
Master the breakthrough approach that's transforming how leaders achieve impact in our AI-augmented, hyper-connected world.
Through the revolutionary ACT Model, you'll master:
- Evidence-based strategies to maintain strategic clarity in an AI-accelerated world
- Neuroscience-backed techniques for enhanced human decision-making when working alongside AI
- Battle-tested methods for building distraction-proof teams in hybrid environments
- Elite performance insights that scale from individual excellence to organizational impact in 2025’s VUCA (Volatile Uncertain Chaotic Ambiguous) landscape
Don't let today's leadership chaos diminish your potential. Learn to:
- Transform cognitive overload into strategic advantage
- Convert environmental complexity into breakthrough opportunity
- Build cultures where focused excellence thrives in a digital age
our 2025 Leadership Edge
- 20+ years of executive coaching with Fortune 500 leaders
- Cutting-edge research in organizational psychology
- Real-world application in aerospace and tech innovation
- Performance insights from Team USA Age Group competitions
Be among the first to discover the leadership advantage that will define success in 2025 and beyond. Your journey to extraordinary impact in our new era of leadership starts here.
Is ACT Like a Leader
Right for You?
ACT Like a Leader is for visionary executives and emerging leaders who refuse to let our distraction-filled world diminish their impact. Drawing from cognitive science, elite performance psychology, and real-world leadership experience, this groundbreaking approach will transform how you lead in today's VUCA environment.
By mastering the ACT Framework, you will:
- Develop laser-sharp focus that cuts through information overload and organizational chaos
- Master evidence-based techniques to maintain strategic clarity under pressure
- Transform your cognitive control into a leadership superpower
- Lead with unprecedented adaptability in rapidly changing environments
- Leverage neuroscience-backed strategies to enhance team performance
- Build a distraction-proof culture that drives sustainable excellence
- Apply battle-tested insights from high-stakes business and athletic achievements
- Implement micro-practices that strengthen your leadership presence daily
Discover the Distraction-Proof Advantage
Are you a results-driven leader navigating increasing complexity? Do you sense that better focus could exponentially increase your impact?
This book is for you!
In these pages, you'll discover:
- The revolutionary ACT Model – Attention, Control, and Toggle/Transition – backed by cutting-edge cognitive research
- A comprehensive framework for maintaining peak performance in high-pressure environments
- Real-world applications from Fortune 500 companies, aerospace innovators, and elite athletics
- The 30-Day ACT Challenge: A systematic approach to building your distraction-proof leadership
- Advanced techniques for managing the hidden forces that fragment focus
- Deep dives into the three core elements that determine leadership effectiveness: Focus, Adaptability, and Strategic Clarity
- Research-validated assessments and practical exercises to accelerate your development
- A powerful synthesis of organizational psychology, performance science, and transformational leadership
Transform your leadership potential into extraordinary impact. No more letting distractions derail your vision.
Are you feeeling
Distracted, Depleted, and Disconnected?
Are you proud of maintaining countless priorities, believing your ability to juggle it all proves your leadership capacity? Are you caught in the endless cycle of today's "always-on" executive culture?
The rising tide of distraction in modern leadership has become so pervasive that many accept it as an inevitable cost of success. That assumption can have devastating consequences for both leaders and organizations. Just ask Dr. Joey Collins, who witnessed this pattern derail promising executives before discovering a better way through cognitive science and high-performance athletics. And as an organizational and clinical psychologist and Team USA Age Group athlete, he recognized the parallels between peak performance and exceptional leadership.
His experience catalyzed a deeper investigation into how the brain's executive functions shape leadership effectiveness. This book synthesizes decades of research, thousands of coaching hours, and real-world validation from the highest levels of business and athletics.
In this transformative work, Dr. Collins challenges the traditional view that treats leadership challenges like fragmented focus, decision fatigue, and strategic uncertainty as separate issues. Instead, he reveals them as symptoms of "Leadership Attention Deficit," a condition stemming from unmanaged cognitive load and environmental complexity.
ACT Like a Leader offers an accessible approach for executives determined to break free from the chaos of distraction and achieve unprecedented impact without sacrificing their drive for excellence or compromising their strategic vision.
Drawing from neuroscience, elite performance psychology, and transformational leadership theory, this book provides a research-validated framework for developing the focused mind needed to thrive in today's VUCA (Volatile Uncertain Chaotic Ambiguous) environment. Leaders learn to transform potential barriers into catalysts for high performance through the ACT Model (Attention, Control, Toggle/Transition).
Rather than offering simplistic solutions, Dr. Collins provides evidence-based strategies that respect the complexities of executive leadership while delivering practical tools for immediate implementation. Whether leading a Fortune 500 company, driving innovation in aerospace, or pursuing breakthrough performance in any domain, ACT Like a Leader shows you how to develop the distraction-proof advantage that defines exceptional leadership.
Discover Your Distraction-Proof Leadership Advantage
Are you a high-achieving executive driven to create lasting impact? Do you sense that better focus could exponentially increase your effectiveness without dampening your ambition? This book is your roadmap to extraordinary leadership.
In these pages, you will master:
- The science of the Executive Mind – how cognitive loading and environmental complexity shape leadership performance in VUCA (Volatile Uncertain Chaotic Ambiguous) environments
- An understanding of how attention, control, and cognitive flexibility determine leadership effectiveness
- The ACT Model: An evidence-based framework built on decades of research in cognitive and leadership psychology
- The hidden forces fragmenting leadership focus, from technological overload to decision fatigue
- A deep dive into the three core domains that determine leadership impact: Attention Management, Cognitive Control, and Toggle/Transition
- A powerful integration of cutting-edge neuroscience, transformational leadership research, and battle-tested strategies
In these pages, you will master:
- How to maintain crystal-clear focus when stakes are highest
- Techniques to strengthen your cognitive control under pressure
- Methods to toggle seamlessly between strategic vision and tactical execution
- Ways to build organizational cultures that foster sustained performance
- Strategies to transform potential distractions into catalysts for growth
Drawing from Dr. Collins's unique combination of:
- Academic rigor as a professor of organizational psychology
- Elite performance insights as a Team USA Age Group athlete
- Executive coaching experience with industry leaders
- Evidence-based methods validated in high-pressure environments
This isn't just another leadership book – it's a comprehensive system for developing the focused mind that defines exceptional leaders. Whether you're steering a startup through uncertainty, driving innovation in aerospace, or leading organizational transformation, these tools will help you achieve unprecedented impact.
Transform your leadership potential through the science of focus.
The ACT Model offers:
- Immediate techniques for enhancing your leadership presence
- Long-term strategies for developing sustainable excellence
- Team-level applications for building focused organizations
- Cultural frameworks for fostering distraction-proof environments