The Unity Blueprint with Mayor Jeff Williams

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Oct 9

The Dallas Cowboys don’t play football in Dallas. They play in Arlington — the same city where the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers play baseball. None of that happened by accident.

Behind Arlington’s rise as a world-class hub for sports, entertainment, and innovation is a visionary leader who built unity into the city’s blueprint. Former Mayor W. Jeff Williams turned collaboration into a superpower — and now he’s sharing that formula in his new book, The Unity Blueprint.

Unity has always defined Jeff Williams’ leadership approach. In contrast to typical “Type A” leaders, Jeff has found success through listening first, and collaborating second. As Arlington’s mayor, he leveraged his deep community connections and business saavy to build consensus and bring leaders from multiple sectors and industries together to create shared success - for them and for their communities.

Every project Jeff undertakes begins by building unity, followed by a practical implementation roadmap that leaders can embrace. Jeff values celebrating or commiserating together at the end of a project—win or lose—because such shared experiences build resilient communities, and resilient teams.

*The Unity Blueprint* is no theoretical work of academia!

In *The Unity Blueprint*, author Jeff Williams demonstrates that success isn’t achieved through individual brilliance, but through aligning diverse people around shared vision and values.
Williams shares candid stories of both triumphs and setbacks—from keeping the Texas Rangers in Arlington to navigating racial tension and pandemic challenges—offering practical wisdom **for leaders in any arena**.
Whether you’re leading a business, nonprofit, community project, or family, these timeless principles will help you build bridges between people and purpose, creating the foundation for lasting impact and fulfillment.

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Former Arlington, Texas Mayor Jeff Williams gets it. Listen in as the author of The Unity Blueprint drops some pearls of wisdom in his conversation with TD.