In September 2022, Kevin Hancock was the keynote speaker for the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP) Northeast Lean Conference. He spoke about his book The Seventh Power and how that amplifies leading, enabling, and nurturing (LEAN) through the collaboration effect. Kevin shared his journey to finding the shared leadership model, as well as what it has meant for Hancock Lumber in the past decade. He also compared how leadership styles of the past have suppressed individuality and authentic voices, but that should not be the way of the future.