With a foreword by Dr. Moe Rock, the inaugural volume brings together personal stories and practical perspectives on leading in life and business.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Tribune has released Leadership Anthology, Volume 1: A Collection of Insights From Global Leaders, bringing together more than 88 thought leaders from around the world to share the principles, experiences, and hard-earned lessons that have shaped their lives and businesses.

The publication marks the beginning of a continuing series dedicated to exploring how people use their influence, put their values into practice, and contribute to the lives of others.

Rather than presenting a single formula for success, the anthology gives contributors room to explore leadership through their own experiences. Its authors include entrepreneurs, executives, educators, speakers, and community advocates. Some share personal accounts of adversity and reinvention; others examine the everyday responsibilities of building trust, supporting a team, and learning to lead oneself.

“The world does not simply need more leaders. It needs a new kind of leadership,” writes Dr. Moe Rock, CEO of The Los Angeles Tribune, in the foreword.

Rock frames the anthology as an invitation to reconsider leadership beyond professional titles. He points instead to the ways experience, values, and personal choices shape the use of influence, positioning the book as the beginning of an ongoing exchange among people from different countries, industries, cultures, and generations.

Lessons From the Boardroom—and Beyond It

The collection examines leadership not only through achievement, but through the situations that require people to earn trust, take responsibility, and make difficult decisions.

In “Leadership and Me,” E! Entertainment Television co-founder Larry Namer reflects on leading employees who were older and more experienced than he was, and later on building a television network. His account emphasizes clear expectations, listening, and fairness, particularly when an organization is growing quickly and its culture is under pressure.

Other contributions find leadership lessons in less expected settings. In “The Shoe Store Was the Classroom,” Dennis F. Bonilla recalls watching his father serve customers in a Bronx shoe store. A patient conversation about finding the right shoes becomes a lesson in attention, dignity, and understanding what someone actually needs.

Annie Boon’s “The Critical Window Principle™” draws on her aviation experience to explore judgment under pressure and the importance of pausing before an irreversible decision. Ken Ashby and Maris Segal, meanwhile, examine leadership through the quality of relationships, connecting personal and professional life through four recurring practices: respect, responsibility, reframing, and resilience.

Together, these contributions reflect the anthology’s interest in how leadership is practiced, not simply how it is defined.

A Collection Readers Can Return To

In her welcome to readers, Julie Ann Meyer, Vice President of Publishing and Broadcasting, explains that contributors were selected for the lives they have built, the work they have done, and the perspectives they bring. The intention is to broaden the conversation rather than make every contributor fit the same definition of a leader.

That approach gives readers multiple ways into the collection. Someone navigating a business challenge may connect with a chapter on accountability or communication. Another reader facing a personal transition may find value in an account of resilience, self-trust, or beginning again.

Meyer encourages readers to return to the book as a resource, revisiting chapters as their own circumstances and responsibilities change.

The Beginning of a Larger Conversation

Volume 1 establishes the foundation for further collections of global voices. In his foreword, Rock describes a vision for continuing the series across countries, industries, cultures, and generations, creating space for different experiences to contribute to a shared conversation.

At the heart of the project is a belief that leadership carries a responsibility beyond personal success. What people build matters, but so does how they build it, whom they bring with them, and what they leave behind.

For readers seeking new perspectives on leading their lives and businesses with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose, the anthology offers a place to begin.

Explore Leadership Anthology, Volume 1 at latribuneglobal.com/volume-1⁠.