Leadership Development Book for Building Leaders Who Build Leaders
A practical guide for building leadership capability, strengthening succession planning, and developing future leaders across teams and organizations.
Sustainable leadership development cannot rely on a small group of high-performing individuals. Building Leaders Who Build Leaders introduces a practical leadership development framework that helps organizations build leadership capability, develop future leaders, strengthen the leadership pipeline, and create a leadership culture that continues to grow over time.
About the author
Meet Sumesh Khatua, Author of a Practical Leadership Development Book
Leadership Development Practitioner | Executive Coach | Advisor | Speaker
Sumesh Khatua brings more than two decades of experience in leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational capability building. His work helps organizations move from one-time leadership programs to practical systems that build leadership capability and develop future leaders.
Across financial services, technology, manufacturing, and professional services, he has designed leadership journeys for professionals at every stage: from first-time managers to senior executives. His experience spans different geographies, including the creation of an internal capability academy that upskilled more than 65,000 professionals.
A 12-time Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award recipient and Marshall Goldsmith Certified Coach, Sumesh currently leads enterprise-wide leadership development for an organization of more than 20,000 people and supports talent strategy for an 8,000-person global business unit across three continents.
His work is grounded in a clear belief: leadership development creates the greatest value when leaders intentionally develop more leaders. That belief shaped the LEADER Multiplication Framework: Learning, Exposure, Accountability, Development, Empowerment, and Replication: which forms the foundation of this leadership development book and offers a structured approach to building leaders who develop leaders.
The measure of a leader is not what they build. It is the leaders they build."
About the book
About the Leadership Development Book
A practical roadmap for building leadership capability, strengthening succession planning, and developing leaders at scale.
Many organizations invest heavily in leadership development, yet still struggle to build strong leadership pipelines, prepare successors, and ensure managers consistently develop future leaders. The result is often a gap between leadership training and measurable leadership impact.
Building Leaders Who Build Leaders addresses that gap with a clear message: leadership development must move beyond training events and become a repeatable system for leadership multiplication. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience across industries, geographies, and organizational levels, Sumesh Khatua identifies the leadership behaviours, systems, and practices that help leaders build lasting capability in others.
At the heart of the book is the LEADER Multiplication Framework: Learning, Exposure, Accountability, Development, Empowerment, and Replication. Built from real-world capability-building experience, including an initiative that reached more than 65,000 professionals, the framework gives readers a structured way to develop leaders at scale and strengthen succession planning.
The book helps leaders shift from being central to every decision to creating teams that are confident, capable, and ready to lead.
Whether applied in a global enterprise, a growing business, or a small team, Building Leaders Who Build Leaders offers an accessible approach to leadership development, leadership culture, and future-ready organizational capability.
THE FRAMEWORK
Leadership Development Framework: The LEADER Multiplication Framework
Six practical disciplines for developing future leaders and building leadership capacity that scales.
Together, these disciplines provide more than a leadership model. They offer a practical leadership development framework for organizations that want to build a stronger leadership pipeline and create a culture where leaders consistently develop other leaders.
Learning:
Helping leaders expand their focus from personal performance to the growth of others.
Exposure:
Creating meaningful opportunities for people to contribute, decide, and lead in new contexts.
Accountability:
Making leadership development a visible and measurable part of every leader’s role.
Development:
Building structured pathways that help people grow with clarity, support, and purpose.
Empowerment:
Giving people ownership, trust, and responsibility so they can lead with confidence.
Replication:
Creating a cycle in which leaders develop leaders across teams, levels, and generations.
LEARNING NUGGETS
Leadership Learning Nuggets from the Book
Practical chapter takeaways to help readers reflect, apply leadership insights, and develop leaders in everyday work.
Each chapter of Building Leaders Who Build Leaders closes with a focused Learning Nugget: a core idea, leadership insight, practical action, and reflection question. These concise takeaways help readers apply leadership development principles, build leadership capability, and move from understanding to action.
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Connect with Sumesh Khatua
Whether you’re interested in leadership development, executive coaching, keynote speaking, workshops, or organizational consulting, Sumesh welcomes meaningful conversations about building stronger leaders and sustainable leadership cultures.