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Those roots must begin with commitment and follow-through, so change is a positive force - not something that drags people down.

Change is constant, but it doesn’t have to be chaos: This one stems from the roots of any ecosystem, or organization, Henry says.

“The ability to make decisions in a time of unprecedented unpredictability is a treasured and sought after trait.” Change “Leaders have never been so important,” Henry says. She writes that “leadership is an ever-fluid balance between…input-gathering and decision-making.” And the pandemic, of course, heightens the pressure. In our interview and in the book, Henry breaks leadership into three parts: change, teamwork and resilience. “We get so caught up in leadership development we forget that we have a gut and we should listen it. “I wanted (the book) to be a simple, accessible way to be a better leader,” she adds. “Now I have all the experience - I call it processed-driven scars.” The loose-forming idea to link nature and its ecosystems to leadership came to her in college, in the late 1990s, and has grown steadily over the years along with her career. “In a lot of ways I’ve been working on this book for over 25 years,” Henry told me in an interview last fall, before the original publication date. The book was published late last year, after the pandemic delayed the debut by a few months. If you wait for agreement, you will have a false sense of security and you are trying to be liked, not respected.”

“A leader needs to have consensus - not agreement. “You have to be comfortable with the idea of agreement versus consensus,” Henry says. That’s a must-do, she says, for any leader overseeing teams in high-pressure, fast-moving situations. One lesson leadership development consultant Julie Henry has learned through experience in her career, she says, is to spot the difference between consensus and agreement.

More recently, Henry has put her lessons in a book, Wisdom from the Wild: The Nine Unbreakable Laws of Leadership from the Animal Kingdom. That goes from on-site and online settings, and “from auditoriums and ballrooms to boats, beaches, forests, theaters, boardrooms and even underwater while feeding sharks and moray eels,” according to her website. Henry, who runs Sarasota-based Finish Line Leadership, has presented her leadership teachings before more than one million people across 32 states and six countries. (Animals filled up her previous career, too, when she held leadership posts at multiple zoos and aquariums.) Lessons from observing those critters and more have formed the backbone of Henry’s diverse leadership development and consulting career. But the wild wild, from the typical, such as sharks and bald eagles, to the more exotic, like naked mole rats and sea cucumbers. Julie Henry’s insights into leadership development are wild.