In his New Release Leif Hemstad shares How to…
Cultivate Leadership That Lasts
Timeless lessons from the field and the boardroom to help you lead with purpose, build stronger teams, and leave a lasting legacy.
Whether you lead a global team, a growing business, or a local community, The Leadership Harvest will help you cultivate purpose, inspire others, and build something that lasts.
True leadership isn’t built overnight—it’s cultivated
Grow Leadership that lasts a lifetime
Like a farmer tending his fields, great leaders nurture relationships, build strong roots of trust, and harvest purpose and growth through daily choices.
In The Leadership Harvest: A Farmer’s Wisdom for Cultivating Leadership, Purpose, and Life, Leif Hemstad draws from his father’s timeless wisdom and his own leadership journey at Microsoft to explore what it really means to lead with authenticity, resilience, and heart. Through powerful stories, practical insights, and reflections from the farm, this inspiring book helps you:
- Discover how purpose takes root in your work and life
- Build authentic relationships that yield lasting impact
- Cultivate gratitude, communication, and perseverance
- Lead teams with clarity, compassion, and courage.
Whether you’re leading a company, a team, or your own family, The Leadership Harvest invites you to plant the seeds of lasting leadership—and reap a life well-lived. leadership—like a good harvest—requires patience, conviction, and care for people.
Whether you lead a global team, a growing business, or a local community, The Leadership Harvest will help you cultivate purpose, inspire others, and build something that lasts.
A Farmer’s Wisdom for Cultivating Leadership, Purpose, and Life
Between 2008 and 2017, Leif’s father wrote him a series of letters — reflections on purpose, belief, storytelling, relationships, gratitude, life transitions, and what it truly means to live a life well-lived. These letters were never meant for publication. They were written to guide a son through seasons of uncertainty, growth, and responsibility.
Those letters became an anchor — not only for how Leif leads at work, but how he lives.
Discover timeless wisdom for leading with purpose, building stronger teams, and living a life of legacy.
In today’s fast-paced world, leadership often feels like a race to keep up. But lasting success isn’t about running faster—it’s about growing deeper roots.
Doug Burgum
55th United States Secretary of the Interior
33rd Governor of North Dakota
Former CEO, Great Plains Software
“Leif Hemstad’s —The Leadership Harvest— captures how the shared values of courage, commitment, curiosity, and community, planted in humble beginnings, grew into a harvest of leadership lessons that continue to inspire. This book is both a tribute to that journey and a reminder that world‑class impact can spring from the most unexpected places.”
Ben Newman
Top 5 Performance Coach & 2x WSJ Best-Selling Author
“Leadership is built in the quiet moments, the hard seasons, and the relationships we choose to invest in. Leif brings all of that to life with honesty and wisdom in The Leadership Harvest.”
Sonja Hurlburt
Director Microsoft
“Leadership insights come alive through Leif’s masterful storytelling, elevating wisdom and a father–son bond that inspires gratitude, meaningful action, and deeper relationships—pages that quietly transform you.”
Jeni Ortgies
Director Microsoft
“Leif Hemstad delivers an inspiring guide to servant leadership, blending his humble roots, his father’s wisdom, and real‑world experience into a powerful, motivating blueprint for bringing out the best in others.”