This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every educator who ever stepped up in front of a classroom and wondered, “Does my work matter?” The short answer: Yes. Teaching is a leadership position. Society may forget this, and the pay educators receive may not always reflect this, but it is true. The […]

This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every writer who ever sat down at a keyboard and wondered, “Does it matter whether I finish this or not?” The short answer: Yes. Writing is a leadership position. Society may forget this, and the pay writers receive may not always reflect this, but it […]

The crowdfunding campaign we are running for The Price We Pay — the novel being released on Path To Publishing’s traditional publishing imprint, PTP Press — is much more than a book. It is a movement to cultivate LEADERS who are not content to allow racial divisions to grow unchecked and who are willing to take action […]

It’s one thing to build a community of like-minded individuals, but to build momentum, that first community must extend beyond itself to cooperate with other organizations and communities that share similar goals. The more people that are involved, the faster progress can be made as new ideas and greater energy is added to the mix. […]

A leader who recruits individuals has followers. Great LEADERS bring those followers together into a tight-knit community that supports and encourages one another. As a unit, they stand strong and continue working together to achieve the vision even when the leader isn’t there to help guide them. Weak leaders fear people communicating, connecting, and coming […]

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt No leader, no matter how great, can accomplish anything without the support of others. They gain that support by connecting, on a personal level, with those they recruit to join them. A leader can have the greatest vision the […]

Changing the conversation around race relations requires effective leadership, which begins with clarity around the vision. That vision then fuels the goals of the movement and directs the work being done to change the conversation. For that reason, the leader must be able to clearly and effectively communicate: For people to follow a leader, they […]

Being able to engage in difficult conversations is the hallmark of great LEADERS. Great LEADERS possess clarity around their vision and mission. They know how to communicate those things to others in a way that makes the benefits of supporting the vision clear. But they don’t stop there. They are prepared for the opposition. They […]

Great LEADERS are magnetic. Rather than pushing an agenda on people, they leverage their knowledge of their ideal audience and its desires to attract supporters to them and to their vision. Being magnetic, though, does not mean that everyone will be attracted to the leader’s message and the vision it carries. It means that the […]

At Path To Publishing, our goal is to cultivate LEADERS who excel at difficult conversations because they: Toward that end, we are crowdfunding a movement using a novel approach to changing the conversation around race relations in order to generate public awareness and support for our efforts. The money raised will be used to fund […]