Queering the Way: Navigating Leadership Ethics from the Margins

By Darren Stehle

What if your queerness is the most important leadership asset you have?

Queering the Way: Navigating Leadership Ethics from the Margins is a philosophy of leadership built from the experience of living outside the heteronormative status quo - the conviction that everything queerness has taught us about thinking for ourselves, reading the room, and building ethics without a blueprint is exactly what leadership needs more of right now.

This is not a leadership framework to install or a method to follow. It is a living practice - grounded in the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, queer theory, and decades of ethical inquiry - structured around six principles: FEEL, KNOW, THINK, VOICE, DREAM, LEAD.

This book is for the queer and trans leaders, change-makers, and social entrepreneurs who are done compromising and ready to lead from the full truth of who they are. Not despite their identity. Because of it.

If you have been leading from exhaustion or reaction, if the gap between your convictions and your daily work has become too wide to ignore, or if you simply want to lead with the kind of clarity and integrity that does not require anyone else's permission - this book was written for you.

Queering the Way is where queer ethics meets practical leadership. It is also, if you are willing, where we begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973882360
• ISBN13: 9780973882360
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Darren Stehle
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"