Conforming is neither sustainable nor forever as the nature inside of us starts bursting from our ribcages. At some point, the courage arises to forge our own pathways, emerging with its own wildflowers from the terra underneath, sprouting, twisting, and evolving in the most elaborate ways.

Madeleine Rose Olson shares the journey of her tenacity and dedication needed to blaze her own trail after rigorously advocating to college administrators to create her own major. It became clear that embracing unorthodoxy was not just unique to her but part of a larger impulse. Drawing upon entrepreneurship, creativity, and mindset, she shares several stories of other thought leaders who have managed to work systematically and fruitfully in unconventional ways.

Subversive Pathways: Your Life as Transformative Design speaks to visionary leaders to start seeing authority in new ways by embracing subversion in order to thrive. Design becomes our path toward leadership. We learn to get out of our assumptions, listen to the world, test things, fail early, re-prototype, and adapt intelligently. This is the story of learning how to live life by creating what has not been conceived yet and remembering that it is our creativity and agility that bring us back to our humanity.