Inspirational leads

About the author

contact: tony@inspirationalleads.com
Roots in teaching

Tony Mallett is a Leeds-based leadership and resilience coach, a speaker, an avid lifelong learner, and an Ofsted accredited ‘outstanding’ teacher, with twenty-five years’ teaching experience. Tony’s teaching career has always focused on enabling young people struggling with learning barriers to foster new mindsets, transforming doubt into confidence and providing them with a vision for a different, sustainable and more fulfilling future. Tony’s knack for unlocking deeper levels of self-belief in his students earned him the nickname ‘Mr Mallett Magic’ within his school’s community.


Leap into entrepreneurism

In 2019, he developed a highly innovative gamification microlearning platform designed to help young people develop greater confidence in communicating and applying twenty-four critical competency skills to help support their transition from education into the dynamic and challenging world of work.

In 2021, his ideas earnt him a place on the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programme (MIT REAP) entitled ‘BUILD’, which is run in conjunction with Leeds City Council; it focuses on building a more sustainable and inclusive future. This opportunity provided Tony with the opportunity to create wider connections and support within the West Yorkshire business ecosystem.


 
Book project

Tony’s new book ‘Inspirational leads – your complete guidebook for navigating the jungle of work life’, evolved steadily throughout this busy entrepreneurial period. Tony’s determination to embark on this project was fuelled by his desire to challenge the norm, evolve fresh and innovative ways to engage young readers, and create the holistic go-to resource that he always wished had been available early on in his own working career. Intrinsic to Tony’s approach to creating content for his book is his commitment to remaining true to his four key values: inspiration, education, creativity and personal growth.


The future

Tony is currently working on broadening the long-term vision for his business by developing a fully interactive, large-scale version of his gamification learning platform that can be used outdoors at business networking or investment events. He’s also busy developing ‘The Lead Foundation’ – a long-term vision in which a percentage of the profit from the leadership training his company provides goes toward funding international environmental projects that focus on both the preservation of plants and animals within tropical rainforests and reducing climate change.

Tony loves being creative and is a successful published song composer, musician, aviation-magazine writer, model maker and artist; he has a passion for exploring the great outdoors, especially through jogging twice a week and pottering around in his garden allotment.

Reviews


'I've read around one third of the book so far, and I've already found what I've read to be really applicable to my day to day life. It's really comforted me to know that my thoughts about life (which I believed only I held) are actually fairly common thoughts shared by others like myself. I also find the layout really useful, in the way that LEAD is a personified part of the book, so I can see how the teachings can actually work in real life. I'm looking forward to seeing what more I can learn from it.'

'A beast of a book but a really beautiful one!' 

'A real gem and the content is very strong!'

'Genius and addictive!'

'I wanted to say a thank you again. I have been reading your book and the value to me has been truly transformative!' 


This book has been a game changer for me and really allowed me to make important changes in my life that have improved both my personal and work life. I truly recommend this for everyone, as the author is so imaginative.


Inspirational leads is clearly a well thought out book, with comprehensive guides inside to self-improvement and self-help. I found this book to offer a completely different perspective on everyday life, encouraging thinking differently and the importance of education and learning. I would highly recommend this guidebook to people who feel they require guidance in their lives.