Brent Douglas and David Woods are seasoned executives who left corporate America two decades ago with one goal: to use their experience and expertise to make life better for other leaders. In Old Fashioned Leadership: Lessons from the Patio, together they've packed careers worth of lessons learned — from building culture to nurturing employees to growing yourself as a leader — into an approachable, functional, and actionable book dense with practical truth you can put to work this afternoon.

A C-suite veteran and engineer to the core, Brent Douglas has a knack for sifting through the clutter to arrive at precision-like clarity, and then using that clarity to design and build reliable strategy that works. The proud owner of five U.S. patents and two Master's degrees, he lives with his wife and two sons in Edmond, Oklahoma.

David Woods is a relationship artist. A consummate connector, trust-builder, and leader's best friend, he has a way of creatively framing big insights so they're easy to understand. He's also the former CEO of the world's largest underground construction manufacturer and a frequent board member to corporations, non-profits, and universities.