The Energy Advantage

How to Go from Managing Your Time to Mastering Your Energy

By: Ricardo Sunderland

Narrated by: Ricardo Sunderland, Fred Sanders

How do you maximize your success and impact as a leader while maintaining your stamina and sanity? The answer doesn’t lie in simple “efficiency.” It’s not about making better use of your time and resources. It’s about understanding how energy works and how to tap into its power.

Many people live lives of intense, and false, emotional compartmentalization. For example, they strive to be one person in the corner office (invincible warrior) and another person at the dinner table (sensitive spouse), and they struggle to keep those two lives from bleeding into and contradicting each other. But as it turns out, this takes a tremendous amount of energy and is almost always impossible. One person can’t be two different people.

So how do you live an integrated life of fulfillment, purpose, and success? How do you create an alignment between head, heart, and the creative power that is in coherence with your true self? The answer is both simple and complex: You need to move from managing your time to mastering your energy.

For more than a decade and a half, Ricardo Sunderland has worked with the leaders of some of the largest and most recognizable companies in the world. He has learned firsthand that for today’s leaders—at all levels in their organizations—mental and physical energy are no longer all you need for success. Today’s leaders must bring emotional and spiritual energy to their roles and create a space in which both they and their team members feel safe to challenge each other, grow together, and thrive.

Given this major leadership challenge, leaders must gain the energy advantage.

You will learn:

• What gives you energy.
• How to identify the energy blockers that are holding you back.
• That every situation presents a choice for you to unlock the transformational source of energy within you.
• The path to gaining the energy advantage on seven distinct levels.

©2024 Ricardo Sunderland (P)2024 HarperCollins Leadership

Deep yet Practical for senior leaders

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. When opened the book on a long flight, I could not stop reading. The real coaching stories plus the practical framework for ‘How’ is fascinating and grounding. It is and it is laying out a path leading to a much more spacious life where one can meet big challenges with energy, groundedness and much less anxiety and stress. I have since recommended the book to senior leaders in my network and all are keen to learn from it!

Introducing the abstract topic of human energy in a practical and grounding way

An inspiring book which I listened to together with my wife while driving across Italy for our summer vacation. Gave excellent food for thought and reflection and exciting themes to discuss and explore not only as a couple but as ‘allies’ which I imagine Ricardo would refer to it as 😉