Finally, a solution for dealing with complicated people

In every workplace, beyond the pressure of performance, meeting deadlines, and navigating change, a more daunting challenge lurks: working with complicated people. Their problems create untold complexity.

Do you fix them? Ignore them? Cancel them? Or, do you find a better way to work with them?

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  • Pre-Released Chapter: Now You're Speaking My Language

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“One of the greatest hurdles to loving your job isn’t the job description itself, but who you work with.”

—Author, Ryan Leak

Who is the most complicated person you work with? 

You probably don’t have to think very hard to answer that question. You already know their name, their job title, their quirks, and their flaws. You have firsthand experience with the mental and emotional fallout they leave in their wake. You’ve seen the problems their complexity creates for everyone on their team. You wish you could fix them, solve them, ignore them, or teleport them to a parallel dimension.

But you can’t. 

You have to work with them. 

(You could quit, but your next job will have a complicated person waiting for you.)

That means you need effective strategies to collaborate with (nearly) anyone. Especially the picky, prickly, problematic ones.  

Drawing from his global consulting experience with teams and leaders from the glitz of sports and entertainment, to the number-crunching world of finance, to the meticulous realms of insurance, pharma, and manufacturing, Ryan Leak provides proven strategies for…

  • Seeing challenging individuals as human beings to understand rather than problems to solve

  • Detoxing unrealistic expectations and getting comfortable with complicated

  • Learning to communicate effectively in complex environments 

  • Embracing healthy disagreement as a tool to discover better solutions 

  • Setting boundaries that let people into your world without letting them run your world

Chapter Titles


  1. The Person You Need This Book For

  2. Good, Better, and Not-So-Bad News

  3. Stop Letting Them Surprise You

  4. Same Planet, Different Worlds

  5. Collaboration Is a Mindset

  6. People Qs

  7. Age Is Just a Number…Until You Have to Work Together

  8. Now You’re Speaking My Language

  9. Don’t Shoot the Messenger

  10. Putting the “Nearly” in Nearly Anyone

  11. Choices That Change You, Even if People Stay the Same 

About Ryan Leak

Ryan Leak is a best-selling author, esteemed executive coach, and a highly sought-after transformational speaker. With an incredible reach of over 1 million people every year through his keynotes, Ryan's words have the power to transform lives. Each year, he dedicates his expertise and research to the growth of over 100,000 leaders, spanning the spectrum from Fortune 100 corporations to elite professional sports teams. While Ryan wears many hats, the ones he is most proud to wear are husband to Amanda and father to Jaxson and Roman.