Leadership Author Dr. Michael Corvini Releases Final Book in Award-Winning Leadership Series

Blue Water Leadership: Using Emotional Intelligence to Navigate Rough Waters completes the critically acclaimed trilogy

KNOXVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES, November 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Physician executive, bestselling author, and international speaker Michael Corvini, MD, MBA, has just released Blue Water Leadership: Using Emotional Intelligence to Navigate Rough Waters, the third and final book in his award-winning series.

“Leadership is easy in calm waters,” Corvini said. “The true test comes when pressures mount, uncertainty rises, and competing demands threaten to pull teams off course.”

In these moments, technical expertise and strategic thinking alone aren’t enough. Leaders also need the emotional intelligence to navigate complexity with clarity, composure, and confidence.

While many books explain emotional intelligence and the skills associated with it, Blue Water Leadership takes a different approach. It moves beyond simply managing emotions, to understanding them as sources of information, insight, and growth. It also provides a structured framework leaders can use to systematically develop and apply emotional intelligence when leadership matters most: during periods of stress, adversity, and uncertainty.

The publication completes Corvini’s Leadership Alchemy Series, a trilogy built around the elements of Wisdom, Intent, and Impact:

• Wisdom | The Physics of Leadership: A Common-Sense Guide to Uncommon Success explores the underlying principles that shape leadership effectiveness across execution, strategy, culture, energy, uncertainty, perspective, systems, and stewardship. It received a First Place Award for Nonfiction Business Leadership from The BookFest.

• Intent | Blue Water Leadership: Using Emotional Intelligence to Navigate Rough Waters presents emotional intelligence as a practical operating system for navigating pressure, complexity, and uncertainty with clarity, composure, and confidence. The book was just released!

• Impact | Leadership Alchemy: Essential Truths for Driving Transformational Change examines how leaders can combine high support for people with high expectations for performance to drive meaningful change when change seems impossible. It also received a First Place Award for Nonfiction Business Leadership from The BookFest.

While each book stands alone, together they tell a larger story: Wisdom shapes Intent. Intent drives Impact. And when all three align, leadership transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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About Dr. Michael Corvini:

Michael Corvini, MD, MBA, is a physician executive, bestselling author, and international speaker with more than two decades of experience practicing medicine, guiding teams through complex challenges, and cultivating emerging leaders. Dr. Corvini is available for interviews and speaking engagements.

Michael Corvini, MD, MBA
Leadership Alchemy Publishing
michaelcorvini@leadershipalchemypublishing.com
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