FORTHCOMING · FALL 2026 · LIFEWISE BOOKS
Aligned
Lead with purpose. Live with zest.
The way back to alignment and to yourself. For the leader who built it all and lost themselves inside
it. For the team ready to do this work together. For the coach walking others home.
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"Misalignment rarely arrives as a crisis. It arrives as a quiet ache you learn to ignore."
Endurance built our careers. It is also breaking us.
This is the book Kit Fucile wishes someone had handed her ten years earlier and the one she now hands to every leader who has built it all and is wondering why it doesn’t feel more alive.
It is not a book about burnout. It is a book about the way back.
THE WORK
Frameworks. Story. The way home.
Aligned moves through three movements:
MOVEMENT 1 · DISORIENTATION
The honest portrait of what is happening to high-capacity leaders right now. Why the techniques that built us are now breaking us. The five archetypes that lead us under pressure. The drift signals we have been trained to ignore.
MOVEMENT 2 · REORIENTATION
The frameworks that change the path: the Aligned Leadership System, the Aligned Leadership Index, Whole Self Fitness, the Return Loop. Not theory. The actual tools Kit has used with leaders for forty years.
MOVEMENT 3 · EMBODIMENT
The integration that holds. What it looks like to lead from alignment, not armor. How to come home to yourself in real time, every day, inside the work and life you have already built.
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If you have built a career through endurance, capacity, and the willingness to hold it all together. This is the book that will tell you the truth about what that has cost. It is also the book that will tell you the way back. Aligned is the work of forty years of coaching leaders through the quiet ache of misalignment, and the proof that the bootstraps don’t have to keep running out.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kit Fucile
Kit Fucile is a life and leadership coach with nearly forty years of experience guiding leaders through the terrain where ambition meets exhaustion, and walking alongside them back to their true self. She is the founder of TLR Leadership and Coaching Academy and the developer of the Aligned Leadership System.
Aligned: Lead with Purpose. Live with Zest. is her first book.
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Aligned arrives Fall 2026.
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