Throughout my career, I have been fascinated by the challenges leaders and organizations face as they strive to grow, adapt, and perform.
Writing has always been one of the ways I make sense of these questions. It allows me to synthesize observations, challenge assumptions, and translate practical experience into ideas, frameworks, and tools that others can use.
To date, this work has resulted in two books: Leadership Velocity (2020) and OX – Organizational Excellence (2025). Although different in scope and focus, both are grounded in a common objective: helping leaders build more effective organizations and create the conditions in which people and teams can thrive.
OX (Organizational Excellence): A Leader’s Blueprint for Achieving Strategic Clarity, Fostering Team Alignment, and Sustaining Long-Term Success (Pub.: 2025 – available on Amazon)
My most recent book, OX, reflects lessons gathered over more than three decades of working with leaders and organizations. It introduces the Organizational Excellence (OX) framework and presents an integrated approach to helping organizations improve strategic clarity, alignment, and long-term performance.
Book Overview:
What separates truly excellent organizations from the merely functional? Most are built with good intentions, yet many struggle with inefficiency, disengaged employees, misaligned strategies, and the constant tension between short-term survival and long-term sustainability. In an era of disruption and rapid change, how do leaders ensure their organizations are not just effective – but excellent? This book offers a clear, practical answer. Organizational Excellence (OX) introduces a comprehensive yet pragmatic blueprint – going beyond conventional management wisdom to provide a systematic approach to running, improving, and sustaining organizations in today’s dynamic world. The book is structured around the OX Blueprint, a four-layer framework designed to help leaders and organizations improve clarity, alignment, execution, and long-term performance.
The OX Blueprint’s layers are: 1. Clarity (Strategy & Direction) – Define and refine what the organization should prioritize to create real value; 2. Capability (Efficiency & Execution) – Design structures, teams, processes, and systems that enable execution; 3. Credibility (Purpose & Expectation) – Align purpose with stakeholder expectations to ensure long-term legitimacy; and 4. Continuity (Governance & Orchestration) – Establish governance and decision-making that drive accountability and improvement.
Drawing on decades of experience, case studies, and practical insights, this book distills what makes organizations thrive. Unlike generic business books filled with vague concepts, it is hands-on and built for leaders who need to turn strategy into reality. This guide is for executives, managers, and change-makers seeking to build more effective, adaptable, and resilient organizations—whether leading an emerging SMB, a multinational enterprise, a government agency, or a non-profit.
Testimonial:
“At last, a comprehensive discussion of the keys to Organizational Excellence. A must read, for Leaders in any organization, that provides a solid, practical roadmap to enhancing overall business performance.”
Bill Meder, MBA. Former CEO, Investor, Board Advisor. Director at YPO Gold
Leadership Velocity: Coaching Approach, Best Practices and Tools to Accelerate the Development of Leaders (Pub.: 2020 – available on Amazon)
Written earlier in my professional journey, Leadership Velocity explores the role that coaching conversations can play in accelerating leadership growth and development. Many of the ideas explored in this book continue to influence my work today.
Book Overview:
Having better leaders within an organization brings about undeniable benefits: improved work climate, enhanced team engagement, better customer focus, increased employee productivity, higher workforce retention, etc. And coaching as a means of developing leaders from all levels is also widely accepted. These two facts are undisputed. But does coaching your leaders systematically result in improving their leadership competence? Can coaching for leadership development be used in a more efficient fashion? If so, how?
These are the questions tackled by this book. It introduces a number of concepts, best practices and tools that, when understood and applied, make coaching for leadership development more efficient. Some of the ideas and topics specifically addressed in this book include: A review of the main drivers and constraints related to leadership development; A general leadership development framework; A 3-phase leadership coaching approach along with the qualities that leadership coaches should have; Seven leadership coaching best practices; An 8-step leadership behavior change process; Eleven leadership coaching tools; and Fourteen important leadership competencies and fifteen attributes of an effective team.
If you’re concerned with the efficient development of your leaders, and you believe that coaching might be a useful approach to accelerate this development, then this book was written with you in mind.
Testimonial:
“How can we make the leadership coaching approach more efficient? By “efficient”, Patrick simply asks “can we do more (behavioral change) with less (coaching, costs)”? The author generously lets the reader peek under the hood and understand the science and the art of becoming an efficient and sought-after coach. This book is a must-read for any coach looking for a methodical approach to competency/leadership development – filled with analogies and practical examples, this how-to guide structures the coaching engagement in a powerful and effective way.”
Valerie Tremblay, MBA, PCC., Executive Coach and Master Facilitator. https://vtremblay.com/
Continuing the Conversation:
Although these two books reflect different stages of my professional journey, both are ultimately attempts to better understand the same enduring question: What enables leaders, teams, and organizations to thrive? I suspect that question will continue to shape my work—and perhaps a few future books—as the journey continues.
A Small Initiative Close to Home:
Both books are available for purchase on Amazon. Alternatively, you may purchase the charitable edition of either book directly from me. I’ve set aside 100 copies per year for this initiative, with $10 from each sale donated to the Fondation du Collège Ste-Anne (full disclosure: both of our children studied there, and we simply believe it’s an exceptional school). The funds help provide scholarships to students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to attend. If this option interests you, feel free to send me an email at me@patdoyon.com and I’ll be happy to provide the details.