James Carter
About the Author

James Carter

Twenty-five years inside the execution gap — the space between what leadership teams know and what they actually do.

25yrs
advising executive teams
4
bestselling co-authors
CNN
& Business Insider features
100s
of leaders on stage & off

James has spent his career on one question: why do capable teams, with the right strategy and the right people, still fail to execute?

He has co-authored alongside Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Deepak Chopra, and Brian Tracy, and been featured on CNN and in Business Insider. His work has taken him from the Siemens main stage to closed-door boardrooms — always returning to the same finding: the gap is rarely about knowledge, and almost always about lost disciplines.

Lost Disciplines of Leadership™ is the distillation of that work — the foundational text behind the Flag Model™ and the executive-performance practice at Be Legendary.

On stage · Siemens keynote

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