New Book “Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor” Available for Pre-Order

Logos Consulting Group is pleased to share that Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor by James E. Lukaszewski with Logos president Helio Fred Garcia is available for pre-order now. The book will be released on August 11, 2026.

“It is the honor of a lifetime for me to collaborate with Jim Lukaszewski on Influencing Leaders. Jim has been my mentor, friend, collaborator, colleague, teaching partner, writing partner, and inspiration for four decades,” Garcia shares. “No single person has had a greater or more direct impact on my career than Jim.”

Influencing Leaders provides a framework for those who seek to become a trusted strategic advisor and influencer to senior leaders. It explores the dynamics and pressures of leadership, and how trusted strategic advisors can become the partners and influencers leaders need as they face their toughest challenges.

“Becoming a trusted strategic advisor and influencer is a personal journey that requires discipline, self-reflection, and a commitment to serving leaders effectively,” says Lukaszewski. “By mastering the seven disciplines and adopting a strategic mindset, advisors and influencers can achieve the six aspirations common among all trusted strategic advisors and influencers: acceptance, access, impact, inclusion, influence, and respect, all crucial to the leaders they serve. Ultimately, the strategic influencer brings integrity based on truth and trust to everything they do.”

James E. Lukaszewski — America's Crisis Guru® — is the founder and CEO of The Lukaszewski Group and a bestselling author, national speaker, and trusted strategic advisor to business leaders navigating crises, disasters, reputation attacks, and contentiousness. Since 1974, Jim has confidentially guided hundreds of U.S. and international leaders through tough, touchy, sensitive, high-stakes situations. He is among America’s most prolific public relations teachers and writers, having published 2.5 million words. He is most known for his constant focus on ethical responses to adverse behaviors and situations.

Influencing Leaders is an updated edition of Lukaszewski’s 2008 best-selling book, Why Should the Boss Listen to You? The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor.

“Together we have developed a new book, Influencing Leaders, that takes being a trusted strategic advisor to a whole new level of competence, thinking and influence. Rather than waiting for the phone to ring, the trusted strategic influencer walks across the hall and knocks on the leader’s door,” Garcia explains.

Influencing Leaders unpacks the seven essential disciplines required for those seeking to become trusted strategic advisors: establishing trustworthiness, mastering verbal influence, developing management perspective, thinking strategically, recognizing patterns, structuring constructive advice, and teaching leaders to apply counsel effectively.

Beyond the seven disciplines, the book also provides:

• Frameworks for structuring advice that's clear, actionable, and strategically relevant.

• Pattern recognition techniques that enable advisors and influencers to forecast future challenges by identifying recurring organizational and market dynamics.

• Methods for developing a management perspective that allows advisors and influencers to see the world through the leader's eyes and understand executive priorities.

• Communication strategies for delivering counsel with the clarity, brevity, and impact that time-pressured executives require.

Influencing Leaders: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor is perfect for mid-career professionals, external consultants, and anyone aspiring to influence organizational leaders. The book demonstrates that true influence is about mastering the disciplines of foresight, strategic thinking, and trust that make trusted strategic advisors essential to leaders making their most challenging decisions.

“The mission of Influencing Leaders is to end your failed search for that mythical table everyone else searches for, and help YOU BE THE TABLE, to live it, believe it, believe in it, act like it, and succeed because of it,” says Lukaszewski. “Becoming the table, the trusted advisor and crucial influencer leaders rely on, is up to you. Influencing Leaders is your personal professional guide to providing good, sensible, wise counsel.”

Learn more and pre-order your copy of Influencing Leaders here.

P.S.: Over the coming weeks, we will be sharing excerpts of the Influencing Leaders to illuminate the seven disciplines those prepared to commit to the process of becoming the type of advisor and influencer leaders need.