Start your day with Coffee with Cleo!" In this book, Cleo Franklin has successfully deployed the magical and powerful subtleties of storytelling and delivered them most engagingly. Its chapters are filled with insightful stories based on brutal honesty, personal experience, and snd self-reflections. Through artful storytelling, Cleo offers valuable leadership lessons for any spring leader or start-up business team seeking guidance and a framework to help develop and improve their leadership skills and sage advice to anyone who is searching for wisdom from someone who has learned and is still learning. For many successful executives, it will serve as a reminder that we should sometimes jog the memory for insights that have, perhaps, been long forgotten. It is a book meant to be enjoyed with a streaming cup of coffee by your side. I hope you will like it, and learn from it, as I did. - Anand G. Mahindra, retired executive chairman, Mahindra Group