"The leaders who will matter in a world driven by AI are those who understand both the technology and the human capabilities it can't replicate. HUMA provides a rigorous, deeply human approach for developing exactly that combination. Required reading for anyone building organizations that will lead in the years ahead."
- Gopi Kallayi, Chief Business Strategist AI, Google
Technology advances faster than most can absorb. The geopolitical order is shifting. The expectations on leaders have changed fundamentally. Most leadership advice still belongs to the old world.
Whether you lead a company, a team, or your own life, HUMA gives you a practical path to stay relevant and impactful as AI reshapes how we work. The framework is built on Five Core Competencies that form the foundation of how a HUMA leader thinks and acts.
Together, these competencies generate the 10 Human Power Skills that define HUMA Leadership in practice. Among them are, for example, Curiosity, Collaboration, Sensemaking, Judgement, Empathy, and Social Responsibility.
The book provides concrete techniques for activating each competency and developing each skill. It explains the underlying mechanisms behind why these capabilities work, where they fail, and how to build them at the level high-performing organizations now require.
For leaders, founders, and anyone determined to shape the next era of work and life. HUMA is the framework that will keep you and your organization at the forefront of what comes next.
Von Der Heydt, Andreas: - Dr. Andreas von der Heydt is a renowned international Leadership Expert, Executive Coach, Consultant, and Scholar with nearly three decades of experience building high-performance and entrepreneurial organizations. He's the founder and managing director of AVDH Coaching & Consulting, a certified ICF PCC coach, a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Lecturer at EBS University. He trained and worked with leading coaches across Europe and the United States, co-founded Amazon Germany's Coaching Program, and was a founding member of L'Oréal's Mentoring Program.His recent work centers on HUMA, a leadership development framework built on Five Core Competencies and Ten Human Power Skills that prepares leaders to thrive in the AI era. Unlike leadership models that treat technology as the central challenge, HUMA argues the opposite: human capability is the defining leadership question of our time.Over the past 25 years, Andreas has helped organizations and individuals around the world achieve growth and lasting success. He has authored books and articles on leadership and coaching, and conducted doctoral research on organizational learning and coaching. His approach is research-backed, personalized, and strongly results-oriented.Earlier in his career, Andreas ran Talent and Leadership Development at Amazon, served as Director of Kindle and Managing Director of Amazon BuyVIP, was a Vice President at Chewy, General Manager Europe at L'Oréal, and served as an executive board member at Tchibo, a leading European coffee manufacturer and omnichannel retailer.With extensive experience across executive management, human resources, sales, and marketing, Andreas has worked in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He brings deep expertise in e-commerce, retail, consumer goods, and technology, paired with a long-standing passion for leadership development. Today he advises CEOs and entrepreneurs and works as an executive coach with senior leaders globally. He also mentors underprivileged groups, driven by his belief in the potential of every individual to grow and succeed.Andreas studied management and economics at Ludwigshafen Business School in Germany, with academic stays in Salamanca and Nagoya. He earned an MBA from Henley Business School and a Doctorate in Education in organizational leadership from Northeastern University in Boston, where his research focused on how organizations learn and how coaching accelerates that process. A native German speaker, he works in English daily and reads and converses in French, Spanish, and Japanese.
