Leaking Authority · Leigh Toomey · Summer 2026
Somewhere along the way, the leadership industry decided that women's overwork was a confidence problem. The books it produced - full of mindset reframes and habit stacks - have left millions of capable women leaders exactly where they started: overworked, under-delegated, and convinced that something is wrong with them personally.
There is nothing wrong with them personally.
Women leaders don't have unquestioned authority. They lead in environments where their decisions get second-guessed, their instructions get softened into suggestions, and their authority erodes the moment they try to distribute their workload. That is authority leakage. And it is not their fault.
Leaking Authority names the mechanism. Explains the system that produces it. And gives women leaders a framework for stopping it built for the environment they actually lead in.
The book launches in Summer 2026. Join the pre-release list now, and you'll get early chapter access, special pre-release pricing - the lowest price this book will ever be - and first notification the moment it goes live. No spam. No sales sequences. Just the book, when it's ready, at the best price it will ever be.
Why you are overworking and why it is not your fault. Names the structural conditions that make delegation harder for women than for men, and explains exactly what authority leakage is and how it happens even to the most skilled, experienced women leaders.
The Leaking Authority system - built for the environments you actually lead in. The Delegation Readiness Profile, the 3-Part Delegation Framework, and the authority-holding phrases that keep a handoff from sliding back. Tools you can use before the week is out.
How to lead with authority in an organization that wasn't designed for you. What to do when the environment pushes back, how to name what's happening without burning the room down, and how to build a delegation culture on your team that actually holds.
Leaking Authority is most powerful when it moves through an organization as a shared framework - not as a gift, but as a common language. When the women on your leadership team are working from the same system and diagnosing delegation failures with the same tools, the results compound in ways a single reader cannot produce alone.
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Leaking Authority launches Summer 2026. In the meantime Leigh publishes every week on Substack - sharp, direct writing on authority, delegation, power, and what it actually takes to lead without apology inside organizations that weren't built for you. It's the best preview of the book that exists right now.
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