What readers are saying ....

In a time when old systems are dying (and need too), we need leaders who can disrupt the status quo: rebels who risk trying new approaches and making things better. Mennie Scapens is such a leader, inspiring us to ponder what matters most, roll up our sleeves, reach out our hands, and go to work. Rather than mindlessly enduring the culture we have, she shows us how to co-create the living and breathing culture we yearn for. 
​Rick Jackson, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow
Center for Courage & Renewal.
Beautifully written.  A narrative woven of the complexity of Mennie Scapens' own rebel leadership experience, in and amidst powerful leadership and education theoretical frameworks. And laced with inviting questions and memorable quotes.  I opened it and read it beginning to end. What a gift!​
​Judy Brown, Maryland, USA, leadership educator, poet and writer, author of The Art & Spirit of Leadership and A Leader's Guide to Reflective Practice.
The Rebel’s Guide to Leadership is Mennie Scapens' compelling personal manifesto: an invitation and challenge for each of us to step into our own wholehearted courageous leadership as she is doing. It’s a great example of ‘praxis’: illustrating how leading edge leadership ‘theory’ can make a practical difference to how we lead in whatever organizations or communities we live in and serve. She is someone who walks her own talk and encourages us to do the same.
Michael Prince, Perth, Australia, leadership coach & facilitator with Oasis People & Culture.
The Rebel's Guide to Leadership is truly a gift to all of us who care about good schools in which staff and students can thrive! The stories of Mennie Scapens' journey are compelling and the structure of the book is unique in its direct engagement with the reader through reflective questions and invitations. I love it!!
 
As a principal for 20 years and having read hundreds of leadership books, I highly recommend this exceptionally original and grounded leadership guide.  It is also a guide for our lives: "By standing on firm inner ground...we're able to show up in our outer lives with courage and and integrity."
Kathleen Glaser, Maryland, USA, Courage & Renewal Facilitator.
The Rebel's Guide to Leadership ​is a wonderful, thought provoking book!   I feel so privileged and proud of our Matahui years. Under your 'rebel' leadership, Mennie, we were indeed connected, trusted, supported and celebrated within an environment of professional freedom and joy ( and lots of laughter!)  

Something very unique happened over those years - courage, authenticity and integrity flourished....
​and change DID happen.
How fortunate I feel to have been part of it. 
Well done, Mennie, for a magnificent effort and a very interesting, inspiring read. 
Christine Croskery,  Tauranga, NZ. Former  Matahui School teacher (1990 - 2019)
I opened this book with no clue as to what 'Rebel Leadership' was, but was quickly enthralled.  Mennie shuns the dusty conventions of traditional leadership and shares with us her exciting philosophy and strategy for making effective change.
 
As an ex-Matahui School student, I loved hearing about the challenges and triumphs of the little school which holds a big place in my heart.  As a child I was completely oblivious to the behind-the-scenes (I was too busy climbing trees and playing tackle bullrush!), but reading this book now I can make sense of what it was about my primary school that was so unique... it had a bunch of rebel leaders at its helm!  
 
The Rebel's Guide to Leadership is a must read for anyone who has a cause and wants to make a difference.  You don't have to be a CEO or politician or school principal to be a rebel leader.  You need to feel passionately about something, a willingness to put people and planet first, and be prepared to take the road less travelled, in the hope that it will one day become the road more travelled.
Juliet Earp, Auckland, NZ. Founder, The Great Eco Journey  www.thegreatecojourney.co.nz