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A Leadership Fable · Pre-Launch Journey
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The Diver publishes February 16, 2027.
About the book
In The Diver: Navigating the Depths of Curiosity and Connection to Build Organizational Flow, bestselling authors Katie P. Desiderio and Michael G. Frino present an engaging leadership fable about organizational level leadership. Like a diver exploring beneath the surface, effective leaders must cultivate curiosity to examine themselves, their teams, and their organizations more deeply to foster lasting development.
Readers will find
The authors
Professor of Management at Moravian University's School of Business, where she leads the corporate partnership program. Managing Partner at Proximal Development LLC, her leadership consulting company, and an authorized DiSC partner specializing in leadership development and the advancement of performance through learning.
Commercial learning and development executive with 25 years in healthcare and MedTech sales and sales leadership. Today his focus is organizational and leadership development, helping companies transform their culture around the growth and development of their people. Wiley DiSC Partner and certified facilitator.
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What type of diver are you?
Are you The Explorer, The Anchor, The Current, The Scout, or The Deep Sea Diver? Take our 2-minute quiz and find out. Every team needs all five.
Take the Diver Quiz NowFour months. Four depths. One launch.
The questions you have not asked yet. The assumptions you have never examined. The silence that costs more than you know. 15 days of daily reflections designed for leaders who want to go further.
15 days · 1 reflection per day · Earn your Curiosity Diver badge
The invisible distances on your team. The people carrying weight no one acknowledges. The trust that makes depth possible. Connection is not the soft side of leadership — it is the infrastructure everything is built on.
15 days · 1 reflection per day · Earn your Connection Diver badge
What holds you in place. What holds you back. What is worth keeping as The Diver launches. The deepest divers descend deliberately — knowing what they carry, knowing when to hold and when to release.
15 days · 1 reflection per day · Earn your Anchoring Diver badge
The final descent. Eight conditions of flow. Thirty days of daily challenges with The Diver already in your hands. Curiosity, connection, and anchoring all come together here — this is what it builds toward.
30 days · 1 challenge per day · Earn your Flow Diver badge
