A BOOK BY TEAM TREK
Where trust leads, results follow.
Employees are disengaged. Teams are underperforming. Leaders are working harder than ever — and the results still aren't there. Transformational Trust makes the case that the answer isn't strategy or process. It's trust.
Mike Gore, with Conrad Lehfeldt & Nick Williams
Something is broken
in the modern workplace.
Research confirms a widening trust gap between those who lead and those who follow — and that gap is costing organizations more than they realize, in productivity, in talent, in potential left unrealized.
Drawing on timeless principles and real-world insight, this book gives leaders a clear understanding of why trust breaks down, what it costs when it does, and how to rebuild it in a way that transforms not just performance — but people.
THE CASE FOR TRUST
What high trust produces
260%
more motivated to work — employees who strongly trust their organization's leadership
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2023
76%
higher engagement reported by employees at high-trust companies vs. low-trust peers
Paul Zak, Trust Factor
50%
less likely to seek new employment when employees strongly trust their leadership
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2023
INSIDE THE BOOK
From self-protection to peak performance
Transformational Trust gives leaders a clear-eyed look at why teams hold back — and a practical path to move them from managed to motivated.
Why it breaks down
The Trust Gap
What's really driving disengagement, and why most leaders are solving the wrong problem when results stall.
What it costs
The Price of Low Trust
How self-protection quietly shows up as turnover, stalled initiative, and teams that show up but don't step up.
How to rebuild it
From Compliance to Ownership
A practical shift — from managed to motivated — that turns compliance into ownership and shows up in real results
"The Team Trek team helped us create a compass and align our top 100 leaders to drive the development of the right kind of culture and produce extraordinary results. Team Trek works!"
Ken May, Retired CEO of Topgolf
Written from thirty years in the room
Transformational Trust is published by Team Trek, a leadership development company built on more than three decades of experience helping leaders build high performing cultures.
The book is written by Mike Gore, with contributions from Conrad Lehfeldt and Nick Williams — bringing the same framework Team Trek uses with its clients directly to the page.
Mike Gore
Author
Conrad Lehfeldt
Contributing Author
Nick Williams
Contributing Author