Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
Every week, you’ll get insights and actionable steps to help you navigate personal growth and professional success.
If you’ve been in public sector leadership for more than a minute, you know this truth:
It’s not the theory that gets you.
It’s the reality.
The pressure.
The politics.
The public scrutiny.
The impossible expectations.
The loneliness of sitting in a seat where no one fully understands what you carry.
This week inside the Municipal Leadership Development Circle (MLDC), we’re diving into one of the most honest books on leadership ever written: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.
This isn’t about frameworks or formulas.
It’s about leading when the stakes are high, the answers aren’t clear, and the decisions hurt.
You might not be in a crisis today, but you will be.
Every city leader eventually finds themselves in “the struggle”:
→ The people issue that won’t go away
→ The council dysfunction you didn’t create but have to navigate
→ The budget cliff with no easy path forward
→ The exhaustion that no vacation can fix
This week is for the moments when leadership stops being abstract and starts getting real.
→ A 5-part podcast series unpacking the hard things no one prepares you for:
→ Daily written reflections to help you process, apply, and lead with more courage and clarity.
→ A peer community of city managers and municipal leaders sharing how they’ve survived and grown through their own hard seasons.
→ Friday’s live Virtual Book Club, where we’ll unpack what it really takes to lead with integrity when everything feels unstable.
The best leaders don’t always have the answers.
But they know how to lead through uncertainty—with humility, with clarity, and with strength.
This week is about becoming that kind of leader.
→ Start your free 7-day MLDC trial now.
You don’t have to carry this alone. And you don’t have to figure it out in the dark.
We’re building the kind of community where honest leadership can thrive.
The Municipal Leadership Development Circle (MLDC) is a professional growth community exclusively for city managers, administrators, and municipal executives. Each week, we explore insights from transformative books and apply them specifically to the unique challenges of municipal leadership. Join Seth Winterhalter, President of HaltingWinter Municipal Solution, and leaders from around the nation to build stronger cities through stronger leaders. Learn more at HaltingWinter.com.
