Taking the Cape Off
A conversation about leadership, identity, and the weight you were never meant to carry alone.
Taking the Cape Off
A conversation about leadership, identity, and the weight you were never meant to carry alone.
The Book That Started the Conversation
Taking the Cape Off is part memoir, part leadership framework. Damon Lester built a $45M enterprise, served as President of a national organization for over 15 years, and learned the hard way what happens when a leader carries more than they were ever meant to hold.
This book is not motivation. It is the conversation most leaders never get to have.
Damon Lester, the former President of NAMAD and Dealer Principal of a $45M automotive enterprise, has been recognized as a TIME Dealer of the Year nominee and was inducted into The HistoryMakers, with his legacy archived in the Library of Congress. Behind every public victory, there is a leader like Damon Lester who has faced challenges that go unseen. His journey toward executive burnout recovery and his insights as a Leadership development speaker have led him to embrace the concept of 'Taking the Cape Off,' a lesson he learned when he finally decided to put it down.