Empowerment Tool Shed Overview
The Leadership Garden® tools provide a FRESH and empowering view of leadership development.
True leadership is not a position, job, or title; it’s a way of life that expresses your unique purpose and aim. Leadership in this context applies to everyone.
Your home, classroom, community, church, or business environment serve as a training ground for leaders to grow. Is the environment fertile ground or rocky soil? Either way, there is always room to grow and expand. Our cultivation tools help turn the soil and empower fertile ground.
Kids Tools - our new release has arrived

U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
Book

Geared toward 8-12 year-olds, this full-color adaptation of the adult book is told in a straight fable format. It is intended as a read aloud book with a grandparent, parent, or teacher - or chapter book for students, depending upon the setting, skill level, and interest of the child.
Ideal for use in families, schools, churches, or youth development group environments over an eight-session period.
An activity packet will also be available for students to help reinforce the message of each chapter and encourage age-appropriate leader-friendly gardening practices .
Adult Tools
U.N.I.Q.U.E.: Growing the Leader Within
Book and Audio Book

The book offers a clear path to the personal power and renewed energy necessary to create a nurturing environment that increases your capacity to seed and nurture the greatness in those around you.
Ideal for grandparents, parents, teachers, and human service professionals who are responsible for youth and adult development.
We created the fable of the lost sheep Hugh - the heart, mind, and spirit in each of us - to convey the Leadership Garden Legacy message and the eight principles and practices of thriving leadership.
Coupled with human experiences, lesson interludes, reader exercises, and illuminating illustrations - the story of Hugh is designed to help you reach back to a time when your imagination allowed for infinite possibility.
Don’t let the gentle format fool you. The lessons are real and are applicable to everyone. All it takes is allowing yourself to dream like a child again.
Hugh’s journey on the Leadership Farm helps reignite long forgotten dreams and builds a new foundation for the future in each of you.
The Leadership Garden Guidebook:
Cultivating organic experiences, actions, and results that empower you and those around you.
Workbook - NEW
The Leadership Garden Guidebook can serve as a stand alone tool. It contains the Leadership Garden lessons and expanded exercises from the book, minus the fable.
Ideal for use in classes on leadership, team training, and other group settings.
It was designed to enhance the learning experience of the book and functions as the workbook for the Leadership Garden Empowerment Workshops and Courses led by Licensed and Certified Facilitators.
In ALL products, you will visit the:
- Understanding Field to learn how to balance four key leader behaviors
- Nurturing Meadow to learn leader-friendly gardening practices
- Inventive Roost to formulate a unique purpose and aim
- Quality Yard to learn the attributes necessary for all leadership
- Unstoppable Pasture to remove barriers and commit to a thriving future
- Expression Pen to learn the art of communication and give voice to your leader within

Allow Hugh, and his Border collie tour guide, Annabelle, show you the way to lead the life you truly desire.
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