VANCOUVER, BC, October 20, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ — As leaders face growing complexity, uncertainty, and workplace challenges, the ability to understand and work productively with emotions has become a critical leadership capability. Yet many people are taught to manage emotions without learning to harness them for strategic leadership advantage.
Leadership coach and International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Francesca Oduoza’s new book, The ARC of Progress: A Coaching Handbook for Emotional Leadership — Transforming Difficult Emotions into Purposeful Action, introduces the ARC™ Framework—Acknowledge, Reflect, Convert—a practical pathway for leveraging emotions to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support personal growth. This repeatable process helps coaches, leaders, and professionals name their emotions, understand what those emotions reveal, and turn that insight into intentional decisions and meaningful action.
“Emotions are not simply barriers or distractions; they are signals,” said Oduoza. “Much like a warning light on a car’s dashboard, an emotion can alert us that something beneath the surface deserves our attention. The choice isn’t whether to feel. It’s what you do with what you feel.”
As AI and digital transformation reshape workplaces, Oduoza emphasizes that emotional leadership remains essential for navigating relationships, managing conflict and change, and making inclusive decisions.
The handbook positions emotional leadership as a strategic unlock for effective leadership and personal growth. By examining emotional responses and the meanings and assumptions behind them, readers can create space for clearer judgment, stronger relationships, and choices aligned with their values, goals, and circumstances.
The handbook guides readers through a clear, interconnected process that moves them from emotional awareness to purposeful action:
• Acknowledge & Accept helps readers recognize and make space for their emotional reality with honesty and compassion.
• Reflect & Reframe explores the beliefs, interpretations, and stories shaping the emotional experience, opening the door to new understanding.
• Convert & Commit turns emerging insight into intentional action that lays the foundation for sustainable behaviour change.
Coaches and leaders can apply these concepts through thematic coaching domains, guided visualizations, practical prompts, and reflection exercises. Accessible language, practical examples, and memorable metaphors make the approach relatable, while its experiential focus helps readers move from understanding an emotional pattern to choosing a more productive response.
What Readers Will Find Inside
• Foundational concepts of emotional regulation and their influence on personal and leadership effectiveness.
• Real-life stories and relatable metaphors showing how emotions shape and shift leadership behaviours, relationships, and personality expressions.
• Action-oriented prompts for navigating emotional contagion and strengthening effective leadership presence.
• Structured coaching domains and emotionally focused demonstrations illustrating the ARC™ process.
• Hundreds of prompts and reflective questions to deepen coaching conversations.
• Practical exercises and facilitation tools for individuals, teams, and groups.
• A repeatable coaching method for use with clients and for self- coaching reflections.
The framework has versatile applications, including addressing leadership challenges, navigating difficult relationships, overcoming limiting beliefs, coaching through conflict, strengthening team dynamics, managing stress, developing emotional intelligence, and understanding emotional contagion. The ARC™ approach aligns with most of the International Coaching Federation’s core coaching competencies and ethical principles. The framework can be used in individual coaching, team coaching, leadership development programs, emotional intelligence coaching, workshops, and team development initiatives.
Written for leadership, life, and executive coaches; people leaders; HR professionals; educators; mentors; and anyone committed to developing others, the handbook supports both professional practice and personal growth.
Early Praise
“…a practical tool they may invite others to use to transform emotions that feel like blocks into insights and confident action.”
— Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, MCC, author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem and Breakthrough Coaching
“…a transformational tool for anyone committed to elevating human performance, emotional intelligence, and personal mastery.”
— Emmanuel Michael, SPHRi, leadership and career coach; recognized among the Top 100 Global HR Leaders
Book Details
Title: The ARC of Progress: A Coaching Handbook for Emotional Leadership — Transforming Difficult Emotions into Purposeful Action
Author: Francesca Oduoza, MBA, PCC, CPQC
Publication Date: September 15, 2026
Formats: Paperback, Hardcover, E-book
Audience: Leadership, life, and executive coaches; leaders; HR professionals; educators; facilitators; mentors
Availability
Released on September 15, 2026, The ARC of Progress is available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book through Amazon (including Kindle), Barnes & Noble, Indigo, Rakuten Kobo, and Smashwords. Formats vary by retailer.
Paperback ISBN: 9781834388854
Hardcover ISBN: 9781834388861
E-book ISBN: 9781834388878
Genre: Leadership & Professional Coaching / Personal Development
Learn more at https://francescaoduoza.com
About the Author
Francesca Oduoza is a Certified Organizational Coach and an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with more than 20 years of leadership experience, including senior leadership roles in banking. She holds a certificate in mediation and conflict resolution from Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, bringing a conflict-coaching perspective to her leadership and team development programs.
Her coaching and facilitation address personal, relational, team, organizational, and strategic leadership, supporting self-awareness, emotional agility, resilience, communication, decision-making, conflict competence, accountability, and strategic execution. She is also the author of Breaking Free from the Paralysis of Inaction: The Path from Hesitation to Bold Decisive Leadership. Francesca lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her family.
Media Inquiries and Review Copies
Francesca Oduoza is available for interviews, podcasts, speaking engagements, and expert commentary on emotional leadership, coaching, conflict competence, and leadership development. Review copies are available upon request.
Contact:
Francesca Oduoza
[email protected]
francescaoduoza.com
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