Practical Inspiration Publishing

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

**Goody Business Book Awards 2024: Leadership – DEI Winner**

**International Book Awards Finalist: Business**

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is under fire, but attracting and retaining talent is more important than ever. This book introduces an entirely new approach to DEI, showing how and why measuring inclusion is the key for organizations to enjoy higher performance and greater employee satisfaction, without causing any backlash.

Measuring Inclusion offers step-by-step directions, sample data, and real-world case studies to help you make meaningful and sustainable improvements in employee recruitment, engagement, productivity, and retention.

You will learn to quantify, track, and estimate the financial ROI of your organization’s DEI efforts just as you do with every other business activity—and in the process make your organization more successful and increasingly welcoming for everyone.

“A more strategic, data-informed approach to DEI.” – Tiffani Wollbrinck, Global Talent Management and Development, Levi Strauss & Co

“Practical, measurable strategies that tie directly to business performance.” – Kirsty Devine, Head of US HR and Global Projects, The Financial Times

“The analytical framework practitioners have been looking for in the area of DEI.” – Silke Muenster, Former Chief Diversity Officer, Philip Morris International

“A crucial counterpoint to the current backlash against DEI, providing a data-driven justification for why these efforts are essential for business success.” – Jennifer Brown, Keynote Speaker and WSJ best-selling author, How to be an Inclusive Leader

A former professor with degrees in mathematics, aerospace engineering, and neuroscience, Paolo Gaudiano is an entrepreneur, a teacher, a prolific writer, and a sought-after speaker. His work transforms how people think about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and what they do about it, with the ultimate goal of making our society more inclusive and equitable while driving greater economic benefits for everyone.

What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day’?

The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly collaborative, creative and productive - you will find the principles of great workshops infused throughout their culture.

This is a book about how running great workshops, and taking inspiration from them, can lead to a great team environment. Workshop Culture will show you how to create a happy and engaged team through small actions which lead to big results. It features a practical and accessible toolkit to help improve your team’s performance and productivity.

Workshop Culture gives you:

• Inspiring case studies from forward-thinking and innovative teams that have found success from a workshop culture
• A structured methodology that you can follow to bring more happiness, productivity and engagement to your team
• Practical exercises to help you build new skills and knowledge, and increase impact at work

Alison Coward is a team culture coach, consultant and founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to build high-performing, collaborative team cultures.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**

To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders.

So they hire them. And then they fire them.

It’s the open secret everyone in the leadership industry knows but nobody is addressing: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations say they want leaders to be innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. Privately, conventional leadership culture wants nothing of the sort. Leaders deemed as ‘a bad culture fit’ quickly find themselves marginalized, ostracized, and even exorcised. The qualities that get them hired are the ones that get them fired. Yet, these rebels and nonconformists often embody the very leadership qualities that organizations so desperately need to navigate disruption and adapt to the “new normal” of constant change.

Radically refreshing and practical, this book identifies five leadership qualities (F.I.R.E.D. Leadership™) that are key to tomorrow’s leadership success and offers a step-by-step blueprint to show organizations how to integrate these five crucial qualities into their current leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes.

'Exactly what we need to fix our broken leaders.’- Whitney Johnson

‘A necessary read for anyone wanting to lead bravely.’ John Spence

Leadership maverick Paul McCarthy shows organizations how to reframe how they view their troublemakers, agitators, rebels, oddballs and shit-stirrers – to see the hidden leadership qualities driving those behaviors, and why they need them so desperately.

Nobody likes to talk about endings. Here's why we need to.

Leaders spend a lot of time planning new initiatives. But what about the endings that go along with them? Most leaders are not taught how to manage themselves, let alone their teams and organization, through the messy, multifaceted discomfort of an ending. Making a team member redundant, merging two teams, cutting funding to a failed project: in all these situations we tend to focus on the new beginning, and rush past the ending that needs our care and attention. Dealing with endings well takes maturity and emotional intelligence. Leaders need to understand and process their own feelings before they can lead others through transition.

Why does this matter? Because poorly managed endings leave a scar on everyone involved. Discretionary energy and motivation are not so forthcoming. Change programmes don't get traction, resistance and cynicism take root. Change fails.

Leading Executive Coaches Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley Bowers provide this missing piece of the change leadership puzzle: a way of leading yourself and others through change in a respectful, emotionally agile way. Because better endings mean better beginnings.

‘Good Bye highlights a crucial yet often overlooked moment in leadership and organizational life, offering valuable tools and actionable guidance. It will undoubtedly benefit leaders seeking to handle moments of parting with clarity and care.' - Kirsty Devine, Head of US HR, Financial Times

‘I am adding this title to my recommended reading list!’ - Professor David Clutterbuck

Leading Executive Coaches Alison Lucas, of Randolph Partnership Ltd, and Lizzie Bentley Bowers, of The Causeway Coaching Ltd, are professionally accredited coaches and facilitators, working at board and senior level across all sectors to equip leaders to thrive in a complex and uncertain world.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

Ignite your PERSONAL POWER for a better self and better world.

How do you take what is breaking your heart and turn that into action, achieving impactful and sustainable change? Match-Striking for Beginners is your playbook to ignite power from the margin, inviting you to discover the pathway to a more just world by recognizing your personal power and unleashing the superhero within you.

In this road map for individual and collective change, Tracey Breeden draws on her own unique perspective and lived experience as a queer woman and shares actionable steps she used to amplify her own personal power to create organizational and societal change. The specific challenges and harm members of historically marginalized groups experience often slow or stop progress, but Tracey’s method incorporates essential practices and bold moves to help you break through those blockers to ignite your inner superhero, activate collective power, and drive the social change our hearts ache for.

Tracey Breeden is a thought leader, speaker, coach, advisor, and activist. From street cop to corporate executive, she spent over two decades as a safety and inclusion expert in public safety and leading efforts in Tech at Uber and Match Group, parent company of Tinder and Hinge. Her vision is to build authentic, equitable, and respectful communities, free from harm. Join her in the expansion of that vision, together empowering and igniting people toward a better self and a better world.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

The bottom line is no longer a number.

Business can be a force for good, although many companies aren’t built to make it that right now. Becoming a more competitive business that is also better for the world is simpler than you might think. It’s already happening across the globe.

Drawing on stories from fields as diverse as human rights in Syria, the UK prison system, Brazilian psychiatric care, architecture and business, Return on Humanity provides inspiring learnings and practical strategies that prove a more human approach to leadership and business will give us all a better future.

Philippa White is a global thought leader, social innovator and the Founder and CEO of UK-based company TIE. For over 20 years she has been dedicated to unlocking the potential of corporate leaders and their companies by igniting the power of a people-first approach to business.

**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024**

You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact.

Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines.

The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, morale is low.

Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention.

Do Sweat the Small Stuff challenges you to notice and own the profound impact of your micro-interactions. To explore how your speaking and listening, your habits and your behaviours affect those around you, whether you realize or not. Finally, it reveals how to reinvent those interactions to reshape how you show up as a leader and build trusting, productive relationships with your people.

Sarah Langslow distils more than two decades of hands-on experience building effective leadership skills and behaviours in the corporate and sporting world and as an executive coach into an actionable plan for sustainable transformation.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

'This is the book I really needed when I first became a working parent!' - Kathryn Bishop, CBE

Welcome to the world of working parenthood...

• Wondering how you’ll still do your job as well as being a parent?
• Want to have a conversation about changing your working pattern but not sure how to approach it?
• Don’t really know where to start with creating a return-to-work plan?

This how-to guide is designed to help you every step of the way on your journey to becoming a working parent – from before you head off on parental leave to while you’re away and on your return. Catherine Oliver has not only been there and done that but has supported many thousands who have chosen to take on the dual roles of parent and employee.

It will also be invaluable if your partner is taking a longer period of parental leave, or if you’re a manager worried about doing or saying the wrong thing. In the past this support has only been available to employees of big corporates: now you’re holding it in your hands.

Catherine Oliver is a Diversity and Inclusion Advisor who specializes in helping organizations from start-ups to the largest listed companies support working parents and their managers. She became a parent herself during her 20-year corporate career and founded Sky’s parenting network.

'An excellent practical guide to working through the many challenges of becoming a working parent.' Colin Jones, ex-COO, Sky

'As a first-time expectant parent this book was a game-changer.' Emma McKinley, Mum-to-be & Finance Director, Haleon PLC

In a world of disruptive change, uncertainty is the buzzword on everyone’s lips.

Disruptive change can throw everything into chaos unless leaders and teams have the skills to lead confidently through it. How do you lead complex change without burning out, disconnecting or losing your team?

Welcome to the age of Leading Through Uncertainty, where emotional responses to challenging situations are part of the human experience.

Drawing on numerous interviews with leaders from all walks of life demonstrating leadership in action, this new edition of the classic book on leadership and uncertainty has been revised and updated for the post-pandemic age. It explores these fundamental questions:

• How do you lead confidently and competently in uncertainty?
• How do you create human connection in a performance-driven culture?
• How do you adapt rapidly to technological advances and disruptive change without losing yourself or your team in the process?

A new approach for integrating operational risk management

Accountability continues to be a key factor in corporate scandals. While today’s governance structures are sufficient, their deployment within the operating environment may not be effective. This is because current thought leadership views accountability and empowerment from a talent management perspective. While this view remains important, organizations need to establish accountability more effectively within the context of the operating environment.

By Empowering Accountability, organizations can more effectively deploy their accountability structures. As a result, they can better achieve their business and ESG objectives. This book outlines practices that enhance the “G” of ESG by addressing today’s accountability pitfalls and providing a stronger platform to integrate ESG risk management. These practices also advance the “S” of ESG beyond the essential and fundamental concepts of equality and acceptance to drive a high-performance organization.

The ultimate sales leader playbook

Sales is the lifeblood of every organisation, and more than ever we need strong, capable, humble, authentic and inclusive commercial leaders who know how to get the best out of their sales teams.

You were at the top of your game as a sales person. But now you’re a sales leader, and getting results through a high-performing sales team is a different game. There are so many different hats you need to wear: Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Team Motivator, Chief Value Storyteller...

Discover a simple, powerful framework to help you make that transition, mastering each critical area of sales leadership step by step. Easy to read and packed with real-life examples, tips and coaching questions you can use today, together with downloadable tools and templates, this is the essential guide to success in what can be one of the toughest, loneliest jobs in business.

Amanda Downs is Director of Commercial Leadership at The Uspire Group and Founding Director of her private coaching practice, Sales Growth Expert. A sales leadership capability expert, she brings decades of hands-on management, training and coaching wisdom to her sales leader clients globally.

What if the biggest financial returns of our time come from solving the world’s greatest challenges?

Real Returns highlights the biggest opportunities in sustainable investing. It goes beyond applying ESG criteria to your investment portfolio to identify the biggest, most profitable and exciting sectors that provide both financial returns and sustainable outcomes. With strategies for your portfolio, evolving standards and frameworks and their limitations, it's a must-read for professional investors, finance professionals, chief investment officers, and business leaders navigating capital decisions.
As the climate crisis and capital markets converge, this book could not be more urgent or more empowering.

If Sunday evenings make you feel sick, it’s a sure sign you’ve fallen out of love with your job. But guess what? You – and only you – can change things! Whether you’re feeling stuck in your career, frustrated with your boss or just a bit meh, Beth Stallwood is here to help you rediscover your work mojo.

Life’s too short to be miserable at work, and only you can fix this. Discover how to upgrade your working day, in just 6 minutes!

Sales is dead. Long live selling.

The digital age has rendered traditional sales tactics obsolete. Buyers demand more than transactional relationships – they seek partners who understand their journey, anticipate friction, and deliver value at every stage.

Infinite Selling offers a revolutionary blueprint for this new era, equipping leaders with the strategies to transform revenue performance and build enduring commercial success.

At its core, the INFINITE methodology redefines selling as a dynamic, end-to-end process tailored for modern business challenges. By mastering the eight pillars – Interest, Need, Friction, Intent, Navigate, Inspire, Timing, and Execute – you can unlock a increase in deal size, a boost in revenue win rates, and a surge in cross-selling opportunities.

Grounded in digital literacy, customer-centricity and strategic agility, this is an actionable framework to navigate complex buyer journeys, from initial engagement to post-sale advocacy.

The companies that win with AI won’t be the ones that adopt it. They’ll be the ones that rebuild around it.

Your old growth playbook is breaking down. AI is collapsing moats, compressing product cycles, and reshaping how customers buy. Meanwhile, your teams are still executing strategies built for a slower, more stable world. Market-Led Growth shows you how to rebuild—fast.

This is not a book of tactics. It’s a blueprint for transforming how your company senses shifts in demand, adapts GTM in real time, and scales with the market—not against it. You’ll learn how to decentralize decision-making, embed AI into execution, and move capital, people, and priorities at the speed of market signal. If you're serious about building a company that thrives in the AI era—not just survives it—this is your operating manual.

This book will challenge everything you’ve been told about confidence and show you how to lead without having to change who you are.

Decoding Confidence is your go-to guide for building the kind of leadership confidence that transforms not just you, but everyone around you. It’s about getting real, digging deep, and finding the confidence you need to lead with authority and courage. Patel takes you on a journey of self-discovery helping you understand your strengths, embrace vulnerability, and cultivate a positive internal dialogue that will help you achieve your goals.

It’s not about being perfect; it’s about being impactful. With practical strategies, relatable examples, and a bonus 30-day confidence habit tracker to help you turn insights into daily action, the habits in this book will show you how to make confidence accessible and actionable, so you can show up as the leader your team needs.

Who’s got time for emotional intelligence when there’s work to be done? Well, you, actually, if you want to get the best out of your team. Because business is basically about people, so developing your soft skills will help you get better results, faster.

Anne Taylor sets out a practical, no-nonsense approach to building better relationships and more effective communication for anyone who’s not a natural ‘people person’, but understands that getting more emotionally intelligent as a leader is the smart thing to do. And you can make a difference in just 6 minutes!

There’s never been a better time to run a product business. With accessible selling technology and billions of people shopping online, reaching your ideal customer is easier than ever before. But making it work financially? That’s not so easy.

Making sales isn’t enough: you need to be making profits. Big retailers have spent decades developing ways to monitor profit margins, forecast and grow sales and manage stock to maximise their bottom line. And in this little book, small-business retail expert Catherine Erdly shows you how to apply those big business tools to YOUR business – in just 6 minutes!

What would it look like for you to live fully, with intention, integrity and purpose? How might you redesign your life to achieve that?

Eloise Skinner - author, existential therapist, teacher, dancer, model and entrepreneur – is on a mission to help people discover their purpose and live more fulfilled, satisfying lives. This is not a one-time job, it’s a way of life that will evolve throughout your life – but it can start right now, in just 6 minutes…

Are you ready to transform your energy and resilience to thrive in work and life?

The Wellbeing Advantage is a timely and transformative guide for modern professionals who want to feel more energised, focused and in control. Whether you’re seeking better balance, greater mental clarity or a smarter way to handle pressure, this book introduces seven simple science-backed habits to help you build resilience and protect your wellbeing, without overhauling your life.

Dr Janine van Someren, a leading wellbeing consultant and expert in wearable technology, combines insights from high-performance coaching, behavioural change and the science of wellbeing to deliver results. Learn how to:

• Build energy and resilience through small changes that deliver big results
• Unlock the power of wearable technology to monitor stress and recovery
• Maximise rest to increase your capacity and protect against burnout
• Apply coaching techniques to support sustainable personal growth
• Manage stress with practical, flexible strategies that fit real life.

From energising routines to rest that truly restores, The Wellbeing Advantage gives you the tools to bring your best self to work and home again.

You want EVERYONE to feel included in your organization, because you know that when a diverse range of people bring their whole selves to work, that’s when the magic happens.

But talking about DEI is surprisingly hard. It involves values, beliefs and change, and people get uncomfortable, which is why so many organizations get stuck. Chartered psychologist and coach Nadia Nagamootoo, MBA offers a new model to help any leader get beyond the discomfort to develop a truly inclusive mindset. It’s a lifetime’s work, but it starts in just 6 minutes!

Burnout – physical, mental and emotional exhaustion – is on the rise across all industries. But it isn’t inevitable. Rachel Philpotts has developed a simple 4-step solution to improve your mood and your energy naturally, including evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle tips to tackle fatigue and emotional overwhelm.

This is book is designed to help you beat burnout and feel revitalized, reenergized and restored – in just 6 minutes!

What happens in boardrooms? How are decisions made?

How can board directors keep on top of rapid, unpredictable change in the business environment?

How are boards and business leaders changing to remain relevant for the future?

Whether you are a business leader or a board director, this book will help your stewardship of businesses, as you navigate the dynamic world of strategic decisions in the face of complex challenges and rich opportunities.

Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is an experienced independent non-executive director and committee chair. She has served on boards of listed and privately held companies, a university and an LLP. She brings over three decades of multi-sector experience and multidisciplinary training to questions of technology and innovation, risk and foresight, and governance practices.

Agile isn’t dying—it’s evolving. Organizations stuck in outdated rituals are being left behind. Those led by adaptable, forward-thinking leaders are the ones thriving.

In The Adaptive Leader, Giles Lindsay redefines what agility means now. He dismantles the myth that Agile is obsolete and shows how it's entering a powerful new chapter—one that demands leadership, not just process.

This groundbreaking book blends bold insights with practical tools, including the CLEAR Model®, the Team Empowerment Checklist, and the Business Agility Roadmap. It bridges the gap between theory and action, giving you everything you need to embed agility into your organization’s core. You’ll learn how to:

• Shift from doing Agile to truly being Agile.
• Tackle resistance by changing leadership habits and culture.
• Measure what matters—real outcomes, not ritual checklists.
• Scale agility across every function, from HR to finance to marketing.
• Lead through disruption with confidence, clarity, and calm.

If you’re ready to stop going through the motions and start building lasting adaptability,this book is your guide. Because Agile isn’t dead. But how you lead it will decide its future.

Selling is changing. As AI becomes ever more pervasive, your ability to have conversations that customers find enjoyable, insightful and productive becomes ever more important.

How to Sell focuses on conversational rather than consultative selling, recognizing a customer’s foundational values and emotional wants as well as their more pragmatic needs. It will help you build genuine human connection, deliver more positive buying experiences and have more effective sales conversations that deliver greater sales results.

Discover:

• How you need to think - six fundamental sales mindsets;
• What you need to know - five essential areas of sales knowledge;
• What you need to do – seven steps for greater sales conversations.

This is the essential handbook for frontline salespeople who want to improve, and the sales managers and leaders who want to help them. Because if you don’t know how to sell the benefits of your product, service or idea through a short and simple conversation, then you don’t know how to sell at all.

If you run a small business, you probably wish you had access to the sophisticated market research techniques that big businesses have at their disposal. Imagine being able to really understand your customers!

Well, now you can. Katie Tucker reveals 10 simple road-tested tools and techniques that big businesses use and which YOU can use immediately to transform your market knowledge, in just 6 minutes!

Katie Tucker is an inspirational product leader with over 12 years’ corporate experience leading teams and delivering stand-out products and services. She’s the founder of Product Jungle, helping small businesses understand customers better. She is also a writer, speaker and author of the Jungle Juice newsletter.

Can we be both commercially focused and human at work?

We talk a lot about human-centric leadership – putting people, culture and inclusivity at the heart of business. Yet in today’s competitive world success is still often associated with being results-focused and aggressive, which can seem like the opposite of human. Is it possible to put humanity at the heart of what we do without sacrificing performance?

Drawing upon coaching principles, HUMAN-WISE offers a unique practical framework to help you explore these ideas for yourself, and then apply them to others around you. Helen Wada is an experienced business development leader and executive coach who specializes in developing human-centric commercial leaders. With her business,The Human Advantage she brings core coaching skills to life and linking them to a commercial focus, this book will transform how you approach conversations and help you build the resilience you need to be successful, in business and in life.

HUMAN-WISE is an essential read for any leader looking to develop themselves, grow their business and build a more human working world.

The new reputation equity for diverse CEOs

People from diverse backgrounds struggle to land C-Suite jobs and their tenures are often shorter. One key but often overlooked reason for this is the failure to capitalize on reputation management and communication as an integral part of increasing diversity at the highest levels. We Need New Leaders helps aspiring leaders from diverse backgrounds to land and keep the top jobs.

Combining her MSc research with over 20 years’ professional experience, including several years leading a global executive communications team, Charlotte Otter shows how aspiring leaders can master reputation management as a bridge to success.

Beating the odds might seem hard, but the world needs a new and better cohort of leaders. Learn what you need to do to be seen and heard as the leader you are.

‘Shows how leaders can reshape themselves in practice.’ Rupert Younger, Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

‘A powerful call to action.’ Rosie Ginday MBE, CEO and Founder, Miss Macaroon

‘A must-read for aspiring leaders and those seeking to redefine the status quo in the C-Suite.’ Frank Wolf, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Staffbase, Author of The Narrative Age

‘A book that could change the world one leader at a time.’ David Pullan, Author of The DNA of Engagement

Charlotte Otter is an author, speaker and advisor. We Need New Leaders is grounded in her experience as a communications executive, as well as her novel research for her MSc in Change Leadership from HEC Paris. It is both a handbook and a manifesto for change at the leadership level.

Healing-Centred Design is a transformation framework, rooted in trauma-informed practice.

It blends systemic, creative and reflective approaches, helping future-makers to design lasting change.

You can,

• Evolve difficult life experiences into powerful leadership qualities
• Create replenishing work despite adversity
• Make brilliant things happen

Social change designer Kerry Tottingham lives with chronic pain but hates the idea of a limited life. So, with her sister-led company A Brilliant Thing CIC, she created Healing-Centred Design and uses it everyday to dismantle inequality and channel positive power, enabling everyone to do brilliant things.

'In a world that is increasingly individualistic it can be challenging to access a sense of safety and connection. This book creates a wonderfully accessible and reassuring framework that is truly inspiring, compassionate and much needed.' - Dr Sula Windgassen PhD MSc, Health Psychologist and Director of Mind Body Blossom Clinical Health Psychology practice

Why do some of us see change as an opportunity while others see it as a threat?

Every major inflection in human history has left some people behind. Follow Shey Sinope as he fights to discover who is to blame when he falls victim to the AI revolution. In the process, you will discover a personal roadmap to keep your professional skills relevant, vibrant, and in demand and emerge entertained, amused, but - more importantly - far better equipped to ensure your career is future ready!

Drs Schuster & Oxley are long-time collaborators and former work colleagues. Their award-winning writing partnership was founded on a mission to reimagine career and professional advice books for a modern audience. They say their goal is to entertain while helping at least one person better navigate a difficult career challenge… they hope that person is you.

So you think you’re self-aware? Think again!

Most leaders believe themselves to be self-aware. But what does ‘self-awareness’ really mean? How is it different from self-knowledge or self-consciousness? Being self-aware starts with understanding what self-awareness is, so that’s where this book begins. It then goes on to explore why developing self-awareness is the route to developing deeper self-acceptance and self-connection, so that you can start to de-latch your self-worth and ego from outcomes, meaning that you become able to lead more powerfully through uncertainty.

Leaders are increasingly facing ‘wicked problems’ in this VUCA world so this book is primarily written for them; it is also highly relevant for coaches supporting those leaders and for anyone who wants to develop self-awareness more effectively.

The writing is underpinned and inspired by Julia Carden’s doctoral research into self-awareness and its role in the development of executive coaches, and includes questions and exercises for self-reflection to develop self-awareness at every step.

‘I don’t feel like I’m adding value. I’m not utilized or appreciated for my capability and skills, and I don’t know how to change that.’

Sound familiar?

People People tells the story of Joanna, an experienced Chief HR Officer who is struggling in the role. She’s lonely, underappreciated, and is reaching a crunch point over whether to continue in the role or do something else completely.

To turn things around, she goes to a coach, Nigel, who introduces the CHRO Impact framework.

By following Joanna’s story, and working through the CHRO framework alongside her, you too can reach your full potential as a CHRO, and become happier in the process.

Tom Emery is a People Performance Consultant, speaker, podcast host, and author, with over 20 years' experience working in human resource management. This has included the formulation, design, and delivery of people strategies, talent, leadership, and C-suite development, together with team and executive coaching to CEO level. He has a deep curiosity about what makes people tick and enjoys supporting people and organizations to achieve their full potential.

Through his business, HEX, Tom supports individuals, teams, and organizations, to reach their full potential through coaching, mentoring, and consultancy services.

You might think you’re not a natural salesperson, but if you don’t get comfortable promoting your business, you’re not going to HAVE a business for much longer. Luckily, Sara Nasser Dalrymple is here to help.

Discover 10 simple principles that you can apply to your business immediately to attract customers with ease. No ickiness, no gimmicks, and all in just 6 minutes!

Sara Dalrymple is a sales trainer and mentor for online business owners and the go-to sales expert for creative small businesses. She has over 18 years of sales experience spanning a corporate career in investment banking and as a small business owner, and has helped hundreds of business owners bring in consistent sales through confident, sleaze-free self-promotion.

Getting media coverage helps you stand out as a business. But how come it always seems to be your competitor, not you, who gets the headlines?

Former BBC journalist Felicity Cowie has the insider secrets you need to build great relationships with the media so that you become the go-to authority in your field. Discover how to set your business apart and secure outstanding coverage, consistently, in just 6 minutes!

Felicity Cowie is a media relations coach who has helped some of the world’s leading organisations gain extensive news coverage. Having been pitched at least 100,000 story ideas as a journalist, she has an insider’s view on what breaks through and why.

Great teams are highly collaborative, creative and productive, but that doesn’t happen by magic. Discover the small actions that lead to big results in performance and productivity by creating the right culture, because when team members are happier they are more creative and more engaged.

Team culture coach Alison Coward shows you how to take your team from meh to magnificent, in just 6 minutes!

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with forward-thinking organisations to help them build high-performing teams. She is a facilitator, coach, trainer and keynote speaker with 20 years’ experience of working in, leading and facilitating creative teams.

‘Physician, Heal Thyself!’ Market of One is a long overdue challenge to why an industry which prides itself on differentiating its clients’ brands is so averse to differentiating its own. - Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman Ogilvy UK

The best way to beat the competition is to not have any - to find a space no-one else can occupy. Market of One is a roadmap to get your agency to that rarefied place. - Greg Hahn, Co-Founder, Mischief @ No Fixed Address

The agency market isn’t oversupplied – it’s under-differentiated

Market of One is the essential guide for agency leaders who refuse to compete on price and instead want to stand out, attract better clients and build a renowned, high-margin business.

By breaking free from so-called ‘best practice’ in positioning, culture, sales and pricing, you’ll inspire your team, improve your work and create an agency that your competitors envy.

Packed with candid truths, powerful reframes and just enough healthy scepticism, Market of One offers you a step-by-step roadmap that’s both strategic and personal – blending commercial insights with the practical realities of agency life.

It’s your opportunity to design the agency you’ve always wanted to run.

Robin Bonn is the CEO of Co:definery, one of the world’s leading consultancies specialising in agency positioning. From renowned global networks, to the world’s top independents, he’s repositioned close to 150 agencies and coached dozens of senior leaders. He’s also the host of The Immortal Life of Agencies podcast and a columnist for Marketing Week.

You know you need to collaborate to achieve complex goals. You also know collaboration is a slog. Why is it so hard? Because none of us are ever taught this fundamental business skill.

Deb Mashek is here to change all that. Discover how to apply relationship science to make every workplace collaboration less painful and more productive - in just 6 minutes!

Endlessly distracted? Rob Hatch gets it. And he’s here to show you how to reclaim your time and attention in a world of technology that’s trying to take them away from you.

Improve your creativity, happiness, and success, in just 6 minutes!

If no one’s paying attention, it doesn’t matter what you’re saying.

In today’s fast-paced world, we tend to rush through interactions without building genuine connection. Whether it's ignoring the receptionist or breezing through sales conversations, our engagement muscles have become weak. This ‘engagement gap’ is widening as technology reduces our need to interact with others, while our attention is constantly fragmented by digital distractions.

But the opportunity cost of not engaging can be steep, both personally and professionally.

This book is designed to help you bridge the engagement gap by teaching you how to command attention and deepen connection. Whether you’re trying to keep your prospect’s attention during a sale, presenting content in a boardroom or trying to motivate your teams, discover how to get more out of every interaction.

Anders Boulanger CSP is founder and CEO of Engagify, a company dedicated to rehumanizing business through engagement. After spending thousands of hours engaging with people at events around the world, he has codified engagement and now trains teams on how to deepen connection and command attention.

Want to drive innovation with impact? Start here.

Innovating is no longer optional - it’s the difference between staying ahead and falling behind. Inside large companies, it often feels slow, complex, and risky. Meanwhile, agile startups are moving fast, taking bold bets and disrupting industries overnight.

This is where you come in.

INNOVATOR will help you:

• align innovation with company strategy, so leadership supports your projects
• lead innovative projects with confidence, knowing exactly which steps to take
• create solutions which delight customers, driving measurable business growth

At the heart of this book is the INNOVATOR Way™, the step-by-step system trusted by top companies in 40+ countries to turn innovation initiatives into business results. This robust roadmap takes the guesswork out of innovating, making it simpler, faster, and far less risky.

Innovation won’t wait. It's time to step up and be more INNOVATOR.

In a world where over 70% of employees feel disengaged, how do we reignite passion and purpose at work?

Organizational purpose alone isn’t enough: discover how to align individual values with corporate goals for a future-fit workplace.

This book, packed with research and real-world examples, demonstrates how meaningful work boosts motivation, well-being, and productivity. Each chapter offers practical strategies for adapting to the changing landscape of modern work and creating a vibrant workplace culture that inspires creativity and collaboration.

Embrace the New Deal of meaningful work and empower your leaders to cultivate an environment where employees feel valued and engaged throughout their careers so that both they and your organization flourish.

When you think about communications, you might immediately think about speaking. But listening well is the foundation of leading well; it’s essential if you want people to listen to you. And most leaders have little idea how to go about it.

Janie van Hool has been helping leaders understand the simple but powerful principles of listening conversations to build trust and engagement for more than 20 years. Now she’s showing you how to supercharge your own communication, in just 6 minutes!

Janie van Hool is an award-winning professional actor and communications expert. RADA-trained, she began her career as a professional actor in the theatre and on TV. Her academic research in Performance Psychology together with her experience as a performer has given her a unique perspective on how to articulate messages with confidence and skill, and informed her work as a coach, advisor and skills teacher to business leaders.

Once Upon a Deal... brought us a collection of stories that revealed how the principles of negotiation play out in everyday life. Now this new volume, published to mark Scotwork’s 50th anniversary as the world’s leading negotiation skills training company, brings even more entertaining, up-to-the-minute stories drawn from the team’s extensive and rich experience across many sectors and situations. Negotiation is everywhere: discover how to do it well.

Conflict is a constant in all areas of commerce, politics and society. As one of the most important ways to resolve conflict, having an understanding of negotiation is vitally important and whilst we believe improving capability is best done in a classroom (physical or virtual) this book will help the reader understand some of the core principles of negotiation through the lens of Scotwork’s 8-Step Framework.

Whether you’re negotiating the price of your house extension or a major commercial or trade deal, the insights from these stories will help you get a better deal.

Get ready to rethink negotiation, and discover practical tips and tricks along the way to build your skill and confidence.

Celebrating SCOTWORK’s 50th year in developing capability in negotiation. A new up-to-date set of stories drawn from the team’s extensive and deep experience in negotiation across many sectors and negotiation contexts.

Being good at your job is a great way to start your career. But to fulfil your potential and get more senior roles, you need more than technical expertise.

Joanna Gaudoin has helped thousands of bright, capable professionals master the essential skills that will take them to the next level of their careers. From making a good impression to dealing with difficult people, from building external relations to acing your online presence, here are all the skills you need to get that promotion - in just 6 minutes!

Flip the Script on Failure

By exploring your subconscious patterns of response to failure, Faceplant brings a fresh new mindset to life's tripping hazards. It's time to edit your story and let the adventure begin. Discover tools to define new patterns for yourself, create fresh opportunities for engaging in life, and support others as they navigate the gravity of their failures.

Dr. Melisa Buie is a problem-solver, lean leader and thought-challenger with 30+ years of experience in industry, government and academia. She can often be found hunting opportunities for improvement in manufacturing or playing with data.

Keeley Hurley is a squirrel-herding multipotentialite who has spent her career in the laser industry, always striving to leave the role, people, company, and industry better than she found it.

Noël Kreidler is an Associate Director of Career Development at the Santa Clara University Career Center and has 30+ years of work experience in talent acquisition, human resources, and career services.

Even if you’re used to managing small teams, you’ll find the dynamics of a big team very different. As projects scale up in size and complexity, the skills you need to manage effectively change. It’s less about the technical aspects of project delivery, more about integrating different sub teams into a cohesive whole.

Luckily, team specialist and major projects advisor Tony Llewellyn is here to provide the practical guidance you need to set up and run an effective team of teams – in just 6 minutes!

When your customers succeed, your business succeeds. Customer Success is all about generating revenue growth through customer relationships, outcomes, trust, loyalty, retention and referrals – and Kellie Lucas is a pioneer in the discipline.

Discover how to maximise customer retention, recurring revenue and growth, build a productive and balanced team and excel as a Customer Success professional - in just 6 minutes!

'I highly recommend this book for anyone who is seeking to embrace the power and potential of the new life stage of “redefinition”.’ - Berit Lewis, Author of Ageing Upwards

So, you’re leaving work: what’s next for you?

As part of the first generation of women who were told they could ‘have it all’, you’ve striven to succeed both in and out of work – to achieve status and feel valued, to have had a rewarding and fulfi lling life and career. But once you leave work, what next? How will you fill your time in a way that has purpose and meaning, and how will you keep the sense of being relevant and valued? Jane Moffett will help you understand yourself better, and expand your thinking to open up new opportunities, and new ways of finding purpose in life. By determining what it is you need and want, and focusing on where you can get it, you can design your own unique map for the future and embrace this life stage!

As an executive coach, trainer and facilitator, Jane Moffett has 30 years of experience working with women at key points of change in their lives where the professional and the personal intersect. She writes and publishes regularly in this area and is a member of staff at the Henley Business School’s Coaching Centre, and regularly attends meetings of the Women and Work All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

You are always selling.

You’re not just convincing people to buy your products or services, you’re asking them to buy into you and your ideas. In a world where attention is at a premium, we have to be able to cut through the noise. Pitches and presentations aren’t something to wing. Top performers understand the importance of preparation: knowing exactly what to say and how to say it. Get it right and you will supercharge your results and propel your career forward.

Cut-Through reveals a proven step-by-step process for crafting your ideas, then delivering a winning performance. You’ll discover how to crystallise your thinking into ‘sticky’ key messages, then wrap them into a narrative framework that makes your audience lean in and engage. Packed with easy-to-implement tools and techniques, it also gives you access to a library of powerful resources including a diagnostic scorecard, bite size videos, cheat sheets and more.

Dominic Colenso started his career as an actor, most famously playing Virgil Tracy in the Hollywood remake of Thunderbirds alongside Sir Ben Kingsley. He now works with businesses around the world, helping individuals and teams take centre stage and deliver outstanding results.

The ultimate guide for sales managers and leaders ready to elevate their game.

Sales leadership is one of the most demanding roles in business. Balancing ambitious targets, team dynamics, and a rapidly changing environment leaves little room for reflection or growth. Many leaders default to reactive management—solving problems as they arise, relying on quick fixes, and chasing short-term wins—without ever addressing the real barriers to lasting success.

Stop Managing, Start Leading is a leadership transformation manual designed to help you break free from these habits. Packed with practical tools, proven frameworks, and decades of hard-earned insights, this book provides the roadmap to shift from managing tasks to inspiring people. It’s a guide to creating a high-growth team culture, driving meaningful results, and building a leadership legacy you can be proud of.

Inside, you’ll discover:

The one key shift that transforms managers into true leaders. Strategies to prioritize your time and focus on what truly matters. Proven techniques to inspire, engage, and motivate your team for sustainable success. Tools to overcome hidden obstacles and unlock your team’s potential.

Whether you're a new manager or a seasoned leader, this book will equip you with the mindset and strategies to lead with confidence, elevate your team, and achieve enduring success.

Inspire. Lead. Grow. The transformation begins here.

Being menopause friendly is good for women, AND business

Just at the point where they have most to offer your organization, many senior, experienced women face the challenges of menopause symptoms. Without the right support this can impact their participation, performance, progression and well-being. This is costly not only for the women themselves, but for the businesses that employ them. That cost increases – both financially and reputationally – when employers fail to act.

‘Laura Haycock begins this book by saying that she hopes it ‘will help organizations support women better in the future.’ Well, I think she’s knocked it out of the park!' Professor Jo Brewis, co-author of the UK Government report The effects of menopause transition on women’s economic participation in the UK (2017)

‘Any organization who employs women should have ready access to this book.’ Dr. Louise Newson, Founder of Newson Health Group and member of the UK Government’s Menopause Taskforce

Laura Haycock is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with over 30 years of consultancy experience across all aspects of talent management. Through her business, Brew People, Laura helps good leaders become great leaders by putting inclusion at the heart of everything they do to: identify true talent; empower high performance; connect diverse teams; and develop everyone’s full potential.

In this book she sets out the business case for supporting women through menopause and a simple, evidence-based framework for creating an effective Menopause Action Plan.

Does your confidence lag behind your capability? Trying to compensate for self-doubt and overthinking can be exhausting, and you might find yourself holding back from opportunities that could be transformational. But in a complex, uncertain world, you know you can’t afford to be over-confident either.

Julie Smith has spent decades coaching some of the world’s top leaders in the fine art of humble confidence. Now she’s bringing her easy-to-use, confidence-building tools to help YOU find YOUR confidence – in just 6 minutes!

Ready for a change? Want to integrate your personal and professional life in a more satisfying way? Whether you’re considering going it alone or you just want more fulfilment at work, Ollie Henderson can help. He’s reimagined his own career, and he’s interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, leaders and experts to find out their secrets, too.

Discover 10 principles that will help you take control of your future and generate new opportunities, so you can reimagine your career for good.

Experienced founder and CEO Ollie Henderson believes work/life balance is a myth. Rather than seeing career and personal life as two opposing forces, he argues that the secret is to design an integrated approach that allows them to work in harmony. Ollie pivoted his own career while raising a young family, and he can help you make the changes you’re dreaming of too!

Coaching is being transformed. As low-cost coaching platforms and AI develop, coaches need to differentiate themselves to survive and thrive. Does that mean ironing out the wrinkles, gaining more badges and credentials? Perhaps following rules just makes us more human robots.

The truth is that you don’t need to be a perfect coach to be a transformational presence; often, your own brand of human frailty is exactly what the world - and your client - needs right now. Mature coaches can respect the rules but not be bound by them when they tap into their internal wisdom.

Karen Foy, BA, MSc is a Master Certified Coach with over 20 years’ experience, and a certified coach educator, mentor and supervisor. She has recently retired as the Programme Director of accredited coaching programs at Henley Business School, where she is still a visiting tutor and Honorary Fellow.​

How ‘sticky’ is your organization?

It’s not enough to get good people through the door: the crucial question is how long they’ll stay. When you lose hard-to-replace colleagues to competitors, self-employment, retirement or ‘a better life’, your business can quickly come unstuck.

As a leader, it’s your job to retain and motivate the people with the skills, expertise and commitment your business needs to win. So how do you create a ‘sticky’ organization that makes your most valued employees want to stay?

You give them freedom.

Helen Beedham unpacks this paradox in this insightful guide for CEOs, COOs, CPOs and any leader who wants to fuel growth and reduce risk and costs by retaining talented people. She shows how businesses that enjoy stellar rates of retention have freedom in their DNA and how you can develop this low-risk, win-win approach too.

Discover:

• The anti-freedom forces at work that weaken your glue.
• The four freedoms that your organization should be offering.
• How to measure your performance on the Freedom Index.

In Future-Fit Innovation, Barbara Salopek presents a groundbreaking approach to driving sustainable and lasting innovation in organizations.

By focusing on the often-overlooked dimensions of innovation management—individuals, groups, and organizations—this book offers a holistic framework that empowers leaders to build a culture where creativity, collaboration, and experimentation thrive.

Packed with real-world examples, practical tools, and actionable strategies, Future-Fit Innovation equips forward-thinking leaders to overcome key obstacles such as resistance to change, lack of psychological safety, and misalignment between cultural values and strategic goals.

Whether you’re leading a team, transforming your organization, or seeking to align innovation with sustainability and technological advancements, this book provides the insights you need to unlock innovation at every level and create meaningful, lasting change.

We all ‘play the game’ at work.

As we begin our journey in the professional world, we’re encouraged to compete, to participate in a system of promotions, pay raises, bonuses... but how far should we take this game? And, perhaps more importantly, where will this game take us if we limit ourselves to thinking this way?

In attempting to master and gain an advantage in the ‘system’, we use short cuts, blips, hacks, or ‘cheats’. Particularly in the early phases of professional life, it can be irresistibly tempting to focus on whatever tactics help us progress.

But this comes at a cost.

The longer we pursue this approach, the further we navigate away from meaning and purpose. The hacks and cheats start to define us. The professional persona or façade we assume becomes a parasite, feeding on our integrity and eroding our individuality.

A Groundhog Career, through a combination of the hugely entertaining Shey Sinope fable, and the accompanying deeply insightful and thought-provoking analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises faced by anyone who wants to succeed in a world where all the power seems to be in the entrenched organizational systems. It also reveals how to be more aware of the risks, to stay aligned with your core identity and your convictions, and ultimately how to take control of your own career journey... to live professional life on your own terms.

'Entertaining, wise, humorous, an intergenerational approach to career and life. So much more than just a book about career choices.' Sir Ian Davis, Businessman, formerly Managing Director of McKinsey Company and Rolls Royce Chairman.

'Career advice reimagined for our times. There is great wisdom in this highly entertaining and thought-provoking new take on how to get the most from professional life.' Trisha Conley, Executive Vice President, People and Culture at LyondellBasel

Power with Grace – solving the paradox of modern leadership

How is it that some leaders seem to pursue their mission effortlessly, and inspire others to do the same?

What sets these leaders apart is Graceful Power: an elevated and liberating level of powerfully positive influence that supercharges their ability to achieve personal ambitions and organizational goals. They have learnt to translate vision into reality by galvanizing others with self-belief, remaining focussed on priorities and tackling the difficult conversations, all the while demonstrating sincerity and self-care. In these turbulent times, this is the level of leadership we need.

For over twenty years, Sally Netherwood has transformed the mindset, behaviour and impact of some of the world’s most successful leaders to more effectively and less effortfully achieve their goals. Now she has translated her methodology into a guide for independent leadership development. Through a brilliant blend of deep self-awareness, liberating courage and conscious care for yourself and others, you will learn how to elevate your leadership impact to unexpected and transformative levels.

Wherever you are on your leadership journey, this book will accelerate your development, bringing the transcendent quality of Graceful Power to your life and your legacy.

Most people spend on average just 2 days per week doing what they think they’re supposed to be doing at work. Which means you’re almost certainly spending days each week wasting time: in meetings you shouldn’t be in, on some process that doesn’t work, battling your inbox. This isn’t what you hoped work would be when you started out. Are you condemned to a life of ongoing job misery and frustration? NO!

There are so many ways you can rebuild your career mojo. Michael Brown reveals 10 simple road-tested tools and techniques you can use immediately which will transform the way you feel about your job, in just 6 minutes!

‘Anyone interested in protecting themselves or others should read this book.’ - Neil Basu QPM, former head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing

Take the guesswork out of protecting clients.

Public figures are increasingly receiving death threats. Ordinary people are struggling with toxic behaviour in the workplace. Psychological and reputational harm are both on the rise. How can security and HR professionals identify, assess, and manage targeted threats smarter in what feels like an ever more dangerous world?

Drawing on the latest research and methodologies used by government departments, Philip Grindell, one of the world’s most trusted leaders and advisors in lone actor, fixated, and workplace threats, provides a proven, science-based framework together with practical personal security measures that will help you take the guesswork out of helping clients and colleagues feel safer.

Bringing together elements of forensic psychology, protective intelligence, and personal safety, and with contributions from experts including former members of the FBI and US Secret Service, forensic psychologists and protection specialists, he sets out a practical blueprint for an intelligence-led response to some of the most challenging security threats we face today.

'Timely and valuable to anyone in the public eye.’ - Richard Madeley , Writer and broadcaster

’Whether you’re dealing with physical security, online threats or crisis management, this book is a comprehensive and useful guide to keeping people and assets safe.’ - G.B. Jones, Chief Safety & Security Officer, FIFA World Cup 2026; former FBI Special Agent

’This book is a significant resource to anyone involved in helping others feel safer.’ - Kim Leadbeater, Member of Parliament for Spen Valley (sister of Jo Cox MP)

A highly practical, immediately implementable guide to getting good at conflict at work.

The ability to engage with healthy conflict is a crucial element of high performance, and the foundation of collaborative, inclusive and innovative cultures.

Drawing on the latest evidence and thinking from psychology and coaching research, Smart Conflict will equip you with the skills you need to manage conflict with confidence and compassion.

As experienced conflict and leadership team coaches, Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst know that not enough conflict, of the right kind, is just as damaging to teams and organizations as having too much of the wrong kind. Whether your default conflict style is avoidant, inflexible or aggressive, this book will give you the tools to embrace Smart Conflict and transform your leadership, your team and maybe your life.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

Most culture change programs change nothing. This book changes everything.

Most attempts at culture change fail because they don’t get under the hood of what’s really going on. As a result growth is slowed, or performance continues to fall off a cliff, or the toxic culture continues to make headlines.

It doesn’t have to be this way, and it’s easier than you might think to make real change right now. Andrew Saffron shows you exactly what to do - and how to do it - to get to the heart of your organization’s culture and change it for the better, fast.

‘When it comes to culture change, Andrew is my go-to expert.’ - Mark Long, CEO, Ignite

‘This very funny book will revolutionise your business. If only I had a business.’ - Jo Brand, Comedian

‘This is breathtakingly brilliant... And it will change your life. It is warm, funny, compelling and astoundingly easy to read. A must read for every leader.’ - Julie Nerney, Transformation Leader and Non-Executive Director

Have you been challenged to refresh or fix your brand to reach new buyers and grow revenue? Are you wondering where to start and what it takes to do it successfully?

Strengthening your brand will create value for your business. But too often rebrands are done the wrong way and the expected revenue doesn’t follow.

You can’t afford to wing it.

Rebrand Right is a practical guide to help you diagnose, then define and deliver changes to your brand, marketing and experience to grow your business.

Start by understanding the four brand factors that drive growth and diagnose where your problem really lies. Then work your way through step by step, from brand strategy and identity, to marketing, implementation and experience.

Based on 50 years of experience with over 90 B2B and B2C brands, this is the definitive guide to modern rebranding.

Let’s get your rebrand right.

'A definitive guide on how to help your business grow through effective brand management and strategy.' - Pete Markey CMO, Boots

'The book I wish I’d had earlier in my career. Brimming with obvious experience and practical steps to follow.' - Marisa Kacary CMO, WilsonHCG

'When it comes to rebranding, no one is more qualified than Sarah and Rachel.' - Alisha Lyndon CEO, Momentum ITSMA

The essential 6-minute hack for better work and life.

If you’re in business, you probably do quite a bit of writing. You write emails, sales copy, reports, executive summaries, blog posts, operations documents, memos and more. And each time you write, you’re seeking to inform and/or influence your reader. You are, in effect, performing.

Publisher and exploratory writing coach Alison Jones wants to get you thinking about writing in a completely different way. Rather than a stage, she wants you to see the blank page as uncharted terrain, as an opportunity for you to explore what you DON’T know, rather than simply expressing what you DO. Discover simple techniques that will supercharge your creativity, problem-solving skills and resourcefulness, in just 6 minutes!

Explore the art and science of how to create and curate transformational events

In an age of deep fakes and misinformation, business and professional events are more important than ever before. Live events are where real people have authentic conversations, where trust can flourish. They convene communities, create connections and host conversations, and ultimately they can change the world.

Events have been elevated around the boardroom table: they’re no longer simply a cost centre, but drivers of revenue and purpose. They have the power to inspire world leaders, change government policy and transform the conversation in sectors from immunology to indigenous rights. But creating such purposeful, transformational events is a strategic, not a tactical undertaking. The Chief Event Officer’s Playbook sets out a blueprint for designing the new generation of events: envisioning the narrative, articulating the purpose and curating the content.

Drawing on her decades of experience across a wide range of events - media-owned, commercial events, corporate, non-profit and association – Sasha Frieze has created the essential guide for CevOs, aspiring CevOs, Event Directors and Planners, CMOs, boards and anyone involved in delivering business and professional events.

A groundbreaking guide for the next generation of business leaders, founders, and innovators, this book unveils 50 innovative strategies to revolutionize consumer behavior to achieve the triple win: for people, the planet and universal prosperity.

How can we transform impulsive buying into meaningful action-taking, empowering people to navigate the consequences of economic growth? Essential reading for business leaders dedicated to making a significant difference, this book is a blueprint for a brighter, more sustainable world.

Elena V. Amber is a founder, researcher and award-winning author whose work sits at the intersection of leadership, psychology and neuroscience, aiming to promote sustainable consumption and business practices.

Been promoted to manager? Congratulations! Now read this…

People are full of potential and passion - they want to be engaged in what they’re doing, and valued for doing it well. Discover how to tap into this passion and potential to become the leader your team want to follow. Master the skills and strategies essential to success in your new role, with quick wins that can be put into practice immediately and deeper mindset shifts, in just 6 minutes!

More productive people and processes, fast.

In many countries, productivity growth has been sluggish for over 15 years. It is the reason why we are all working harder for less money, and yet despite many attempts to overcome this, it remains a significant challenge.

Yet productivity is a poorly understood concept - few companies measure it effectively, and even fewer understand how they can change it for the better. In UNBLOCK, Amanda Sokell sets out the root cause of a poor productivity culture and outlines four levers to transform your productivity, and therefore your profits, in only 100 days.

Amanda Sokell is a process and productivity expert who helps companies thrive. She’s also a popular speaker, author, entrepreneur, creative, polymath and educationalist; lover of learning, chocolate, dancing and difference.

In a 25-year career spanning public relations, software development, coaching, mentoring and training, Amanda has helped transform the productivity culture of organizations from global pharmaceuticals to family-run microbusinesses.

Beyond Belief is a much needed, compelling, practical guide to a creative world of coaching, with confidence at its heart.

It reimagines a way of coaching with confidence and self-belief at the very heart of all we do: highly creative, deeply rewarding and leading to beyond belief results. It explores how we create assured spaces for our coaching to flow, the sometimes rocky paths to trust and how to help those we coach prepare for their daunting challenges: confident coaches, confidence in the coach and coaching for confidence. And everything changes: how we think of and support motivation, resilience, creativity and much more.

Drawing on the inner stories of coaches and coached, endurance sports coach Mike Porteous brings to life a vision of coaching at its best, in essence coach and coached finding an easy fluency, wholly attuned mind and body to self and others and a depth of meaningful connections. A coaching book like no other.

This book could save your relationship, your job, your health, and even your life.

Sleep apnoea is one of the most dangerous and least understood of sleep disorders. But it’s one everyone should be talking about, not least because its main symptom causes the biggest battle in the bedroom: snoring.

Apnoea means the temporary cessation of breathing, and that’s serious. It impacts the oxygen getting into your body, which affects the whole body, and puts your brain and heart particularly at risk. It’s a (not-so-) silent epidemic.

The impact is devastating. Lack of sleep affects how we function: physically, mentally, and emotionally. And because snoring is so disruptive, the problem can be just as serious for the partner as for the snorer themselves.

You deserve better – and so does your partner. Discover how to solve sleep apnoea and change everything.

Dr Michael Oko is a leading consultant ENT specialist. He worked as an advisor on OSA for the Department of Health and in 2023 became a founding member of the All-Parliamentary Working Group as the ENTUK representative to advise the House of Lords and Parliament on sleep apnoea.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

Most managers who’ve tried to deliver business change have felt frustrated and disempowered by the experience. If you want to stand up and make a difference igniting and inspiring successful change but don’t know where to start, this book is for you.

Discover why change so often fails, and how to overcome those problems and make change stick. Chartered psychologist and change expert Lucinda Carney will help you change the way you do Change, in just 6 minutes!

You won’t get far in your career if you can’t present effectively. And there’s one factor above all others that makes the difference between a yawnfest and a clear, compelling, change-making, reputation-building presentation: presence.

Presence works at three levels - what you say, how you use your body, and your mindset. Discover the secret to becoming a consistently outstanding communicator, in just 6 minutes!

Become your own best publicist with these 10 top industry secrets from a PR professional. Packed with insider advice on how to get your business featured in the media, with zero fluff, it’s your essential toolkit for standing out from the crowd.

Lucy Werner founded her own PR & branding consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands, and is on a mission to help YOUR business succeed. And it just takes 6 minutes!

When you think about the tools at our disposal to address the ecological, social and biodiversity challenges we face today, accounting might not immediately come to mind. And yet it is accounting standards, not science and not public policy, that set out how profit is calculated, which in turn drives investment decisions. What if we demanded that those standards reflect the true cost of business and its consequences?

Unless we look again at these fundamental principles, which have gone under the radar for so long, capital markets will continue to contribute to inequality, nature loss and climate change. What’s remarkable is that we already have in place everything we need for a more just and complete approach to accounting, and forward-thinking businesses are beginning to recognize that.

Jeremy Nicholls – accountant, sustainability professional, historian and activist – sets out a vision for new way of accounting, and it’s one that we can adopt immediately.

There’s a global hope crisis. Here’s how to fix it.

Some people say that hope isn’t a strategy: Ian Pettigrew strongly believes that it is.

Hopelessness keeps people stuck where they are. Hope is a powerful motivator that helps you focus on what you want and do everything in your power to achieve it. It also helps you navigate the inevitable bumps in the road on the journey. Hope is active, and has nothing to do with naive optimism, wishful thinking or toxic positivity.

This book is for leaders who want to build hope in themselves, their teams, and their organizations, so that they can succeed whilst being happy, engaged, and resilient. Full of evidence-based approaches, interwoven with both extraordinary and everyday stories of hope, it explores what hope really is, and the damage caused by getting it wrong.

Hope changes lives: in this book Ian Pettigrew, strengths coach and one of HR’s most influential thinkers, provides a blueprint for leaders to discover it for themselves and to help others find it too.

We need leaders who doubt.

No playbook exists for the complexity, challenges and choices leaders are dealing with, so why do they – and we – expect certainty? Certainty does not guarantee success or the avoidance of failure. What if leaders can create better results by harnessing doubt effectively?

Doubt is complex: it can both paralyze us and propel us forward. In Brilliant Doubt, Jenny Williams challenges how we think about doubt and reveals its power. She examines the role of self-doubt and external doubts – our own and others’ – shining a light on how leaders can work with doubt to inform their decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results. Her insightful and practical approach will change your relationship with doubt forever, and show you how to harness uncertainty to inform decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results.

Jenny Williams (MCC) is a top Executive and Systemic Team Coach who has lectured at Cambridge University on leadership, entrepreneurship and creativity. She has spent thousands of hours working with exceptional clients who doubt, showing them how to leverage the power of doubt as a catalyst for clarity, creativity and confidence.

As leaders, we navigate a multitude of lines – reporting lines, dotted lines, bottom lines, deadlines. Yet amidst this web, there is one line that defines our leadership journey: our through line.

What is a through line? Your through line is the psychological core of your leadership story, the golden thread that connects who you are with how you lead. It links your decisions with what matters to you. As you face forward, understanding it provides an anchor in the face of uncertainty. As you uncover it, you discover that understanding who you are is instrumental in unlocking the impact of how you lead.

Discover a three-part framework – reach in, reset, reach out – designed to uncover your through line. Through practical exercises, you’ll identify the essence of your leadership. Through case studies and scientific research you’ll understand why this matters. Armed with this clarity, you’ll navigate change with confidence, lead with intention and inspire those around you. Because intentional leadership begins with clarity, purpose, and the courage to lead from within.

‘This book is a great guide to rediscover, renew and celebrate the genuine.’ - Ruth Dearnley OBE, President and Founder, STOP THE TRAFFIK

'If you want to connect who you are with how you lead, this book offers the clarity and heart to get you there.’ HÉLÈNE BIANDUDI HOFER, Journalist

Archana Mohan, a dynamic Chief Operations and Technology Officer, blends her multicultural upbringing with a decade in teaching and 20 years in finance to drive collaboration and innovation. Recognized for her insights, Archana holds academic qualifications from Brown, Columbia, and Yale.

Are you short-changing your digital agency with poor financial management?

If you want to grow your profits, to be confident about your cashflow and ultimately to scale successfully, you need to become financially mature. And the bigger you become, the more this matters. But what does good financial management look like for your agency?

You have a distinctive vision for your business, which means you need a distinctive financial plan and benchmarks to get you there. And that means making finance a core part of your business, not a support function. Stop comparing yourself to other businesses, start getting clear on what results you want and confident about how to get them.

Paul Barnes has been helping digital agencies achieve this for years: discover his simple methodology and scorecard, and start your own journey to financial maturity.

“This book asks all the questions you need to consider as an agency owner” - Karen L Reyburn, CPA Owner of The Profitable Firm Ltd

Paul Barnes is the Managing Director of accountancy firm and outsourced finance function, MAP, based in the UK.

His award wins include Xero Most Valuable Professional, Manchester Young Financial Professional and Xero’s Most Innovative Firm.

He is regularly found at Digital Agency events in the UK speaking about Agency Maturity, Growth and Financial Management.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

‘This book is everything I love.’ - Emma Forbes, TV and radio presenter

In today’s demanding world, achieving optimal health is more crucial than ever. This groundbreaking guide is designed to help you unlock your full potential, optimize your energy, and balance your immune system.

Uncover the eight Pillars of Health with The MitoImmune Method, designed to supercharge your mitochondria and strengthen your immune system. Rooted in functional and mitochondrial medicine, this cutting-edge, science-led approach provides evidence-based strategies to enhance your vitality, reduce toxin exposure, and address the root causes of health imbalances.

With a detailed 14-step anti-inflammatory nutrition blueprint and the essential four Lifestyle S’s — sleep, stress, strength, and social — you’ll have a step-by-step roadmap to optimal energy and immune function. Empower yourself with the knowledge and tools to thrive daily and perform at your peak consistently. Embark on a transformative journey towards becoming your Optimal YOU.

'If you want to feel better, do better and LIVE better, this book should be a non-negotiable on your nightstand!’ - Chris Ducker, bestselling author of Rise of the Youpreneur

‘Will leave you awe-inspired and ready to take action!’ - Dr Lafina Dia

Nicole Goode is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMHC), Registered Nutritional Therapist BANT CNHC and an associate of the Royal Society of Medicine. Founder of The Goode Health Clinic, awarded Best Functional Medicine Clinic for two years running in 2023 and 2024, Nicole is a postgraduate specialist in immune health, energy, autoimmune disease and optimal health. Nicole is host of The Goode Health Podcast and is featured in titles such as Women’s Health, Tatler and Marie Claire.

If you're a sustainability or ESG leader struggling to sell sustainability to your board, clients and team, this is for you.

Despite the growing public interest in sustainability, the planet is still warming up year on year, with catastrophic consequences. Resistance to change, vested interests in industry and contradictory legislation all contribute to this slow progress.

Businesses have a key role to play in addressing the issue before it’s too late, and sustainability leaders like you can accelerate this transformation with more effective and tailored communication.

Rather than simply conveying facts and data, discover how to inspire and influence others by crafting your message so that you can collaborate and co-create new futures.

Using a practical, proven framework based on coaching and negotiation techniques, this book demystifies the approach to influencing others, eliminating the frustration you experience in the boardroom and office, and empowering you to make more impact.

Your words can inspire decision-makers to commit to action beyond words: better communication is key to solving the climate crisis.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

The way we measure success is ready for a redo.

This is a handbook for a new kind of entrepreneur: the kind that wants to create not just a profitable business but a worthwhile life. With inspiration and insights from a wide range of business builders, Dr Bob Gomersall sets out a vision for a new kind of return on investment and shows you how to create this success for yourself, your way.

Whether you’re an established business leader or just feeling ready for a change, this is a blueprint for a better life and a better way of doing business.

'An inspirational guide for entrepreneurs to build businesses that allow us to flourish and thrive, rather than just survive' - Dame Linda Pollard Chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

**Goody Business Book Awards 2024: Self-Help - Personal Transformation Winner**

Following an unexpected and unwanted personal upheaval, Dr Tammy Watchorn, the original Change Ninja, became her own real-life case study.

She decided to test just how effective the change management and neuroscience tools she’d been using professionally might be outside the workplace, when the stakes were high, the emotions raw and a wrong decision could end in disaster.

Building on The Change Ninja Handbook’s gamified approach, Tammy’s story unfolds in parallel to you gaining fresh insights with practical tools that will equip you to navigate your own life’s challenges, from managing your emotions to making the right decision when you’ve no idea what to do next.

If you’re facing unwanted change in your life, you might be surprised to find that you already have many of the resources and skills you need, and this story and toolkit will ensure you can easily access them when needed.

Discover how to Ninja your life!

“I love this book. It’s practical, accessible, and full of humour.” - Jenny Landreth, Writer and script editor

"Read this book to find your own recipe and awaken your hidden ‘doer’.” - Margo Waldorf, Founder at Change Awards

Dr Tammy Watchorn’s experiences of leading transformational change in complex highly resistant environments led to The Change Ninja Handbook. She now focuses on writing, training, facilitating and coaching at all levels within and across organizations with a strong focus on change management, neuroscience, behaviours and resistance to change, effective delivery and productivity.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**

When a working woman becomes a mother, she faces what can seem like an impossible dilemma: how can she continue to excel at work AND be a good mum? In the light of childcare costs, does it even make sense for many women to continue to work at all?

Workplaces need women. And most women want to work – not just for financial security but for personal fulfilment and because their work can often be a key part of their identity.

Working Mother offers simple, practical tools for each stage of this complex but rewarding life change, allowing you to become the coach you need by your side every step of the way.

The world needs Insatiable Leaders; nothing less will do. But their superpowers to drive progress can also become their curse.

In an era of accelerated and exponential global changes, we need leaders who strive to stay ahead—agents of transformation who lean in despite adversity and constantly seek opportunities to lead themselves, their organizations, and others to new growth horizons.

Insatiable Leaders are defined by six traits that catalyse growth and transformation. However, these traits operate like a double-edged sword: they can work against leaders, limiting their impact and performance, and robbing the world of the potential of their ideas and diverse talents.

This book delves into the dual nature of the six traits that distinguish Insatiable Leaders, introducing a three-pillar model to guide their development and two meta-abilities that underpin limitless advancement. Discover a new set of insights to consistently create next-level results for yourself and your people.

Ready to explore and harness your six transformative traits?

'An extraordinary exploration into the relentless pursuit of excellence.’ - Dr. Thorsten Reiter, Author of Killing Innovation

‘A powerful book for leaders that presents timely and actionable perspectives that directly address the current complex times we are all facing right now.’ - Beatrice Hansen, Principal at Presence-Based Coaching

Misadventures in Entrepreneuring® is the brainchild of Gayle Mann and Lucy-Rose Walker who were personally involved in the start-up, growth and eventual sale of Entrepreneurial Spark. They have experienced their own 'misadventures’ as well as the many misadventures of the 4000+ entrepreneurs they have worked with along the way, most of which were entirely psychological.

It focuses on the psychology of entrepreneuring® and how crucial it is to getting in, and out, of many of the most common misadventures. Dispelling myths about the daily challenges entrepreneurs face, and providing reassurance and inspiration, Misadventures in Entrepreneuring® delivers support and guidance to entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes through the authors’ story and those of many other entrepreneurs as they cope day to day.

If you feel like your business has taken over your life, if you love what you do but struggle to juggle all your priorities, if you sometimes forget what you dreamed of when you started – this book is for you.

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

"Nothing connects people to engage emotionally with your business better than a well-told story – your story.”

From mega-large corporations to tiny start-ups, every…. single…. business always has a story to tell. Before people choose to buy your product or service, or respond to a call to action, they need to understand how you will solve their problem or fulfil their needs.

Storytelling for Business reveals why storytelling remains the most impactful way to create a meaningful and sustainable connection with the people who matter the most to your business, and how to tell YOUR story well.
For more than 25 years, storytelling has been at the core of everything Rob Wozny has accomplished as an intrepid senior journalist, creative content strategist, and proven business communicator. Leveraging his passion and experience for storytelling, Rob works with business owners and leaders to understand their goals and align them with business storytelling ideas, personalized to attract and engage the people that matter most to them.

TALES FROM THE ‘INDIANA JONES OF CULTURAL ADVENTURES’…

From New York to Beijing, Paris to Juba, Moscow to Mexico City, Ken Pasternak’s distinguished career as a banker, management consultant, executive educator, author and keynote speaker has provided a wealth of experience with people and organizations internationally. In this book he shares some of the most memorable stories from his wide-ranging travels and his many encounters with different cultures, and draws out truths that still apply today in both life and business.

‘Inspiring!… Stories that pack profound insights… A great read for the fundamentals of business.’
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

A former Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Vice President at Citibank, Ken’s unique background combines experience in executive development, management consulting, institution building and corporate banking.
He is the co-author of Managing Your Strengths and Performance at the Limit, Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**

'Navigating the world of PR is no easy feat - but this book is an indispensable guide to doing just that' Francesca Ogiermann-White, Health and Beauty Editor-at-Large, Tatler

A more beautiful way to connect with customers

PR and marketing have traditionally been seen as deceit and spin: Beautiful PR offers a new manifesto rooted in integrity. Discover how to find your true brand voice so that you can create a clear and compelling communication strategy that connects with your customers at an emotional level.

In a heavily filtered world, building a communications strategy based on honesty and authenticity is more important than ever before. Elevate your reputation and secure your place in your industry by identifying and amplifying your authentic brand heartbeat, for a more beautiful way to grow.

Sophie Attwood is an award-winning global communications expert specialising within the beauty, wellness and health sectors. Having curated a portfolio of successful PR campaigns with exceptional brands, she has become a leading voice of authority for the communications industry.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**

"We’ve all gotten stuck working with people we don’t like. Thankfully, Deb Mashek has written a lively, actionable book to fix that. Combining her expertise as a psychologist and her experience as a consultant, she reveals how we can earn trust, repair relationships, and create collaborations that bring out the best in us.”
Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

Many people have mixed feelings about workplace collaboration. On the one hand, they know collaboration is essential to achieve complex goals. On the other hand, they know collaboration is a slog. People pull in different directions. There’s desperately little communication and even less follow through. One person ends up doing all the work. The result? Friction mounts. Projects fizzle. Great people walk.

Here’s why: very few of us ever receive any formal training in how to collaborate well.

In Collabor(h)ate, Deb Mashek draws on her deep experience as a relationships researcher and collaboration facilitator to reveal everything you need to know to make workplace collaborations less painful and more productive.

Dr Deb Mashek is an experienced business consultant, professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. She applies relationship science to help people collaborate better.
Learn more at: www.collaborhate.com

Most transformations and large-scale change programs fail, but in a rapidly changing world change is becoming more and more critical for survival.

The HERO Transformation Playbook is your step-by-step playbook of EXACTLY how to deliver successful transformations and large-scale change programs with the best chance of success using the HERO Transformation Framework: a clear method to help you design transformation for maximum enterprise value creation and then deliver the outcome in a repeatable fashion.

We built our framework through trial and error, learning from our mistakes and successes and solving common issues we came across and pitfalls that we have seen time and again. We then spent many years honing the framework, removing the fluff, distilling the concepts until it contained everything you need to succeed in the challenging world of change.

In this book we teach you everything we’ve learned – including all of the roles, processes, meetings, governance, and templates for you to follow and apply to your transformation today - so that you can crack the code of change and lead successful transformations on your own. The more successful transformations that are delivered, the better the world will be for everyone!

Ever wonder how to achieve extraordinary results in a disruptive world? Exceed your own expectations and those of your competitors by unleashing your superpower. Learn how to develop your best self, build your brand, influence, engage others and transform your team and organization’s results.

In Transform to Outperform: 7 powers to transform you, your team and your results, Susie Robinson reveals practical steps towards personal, team and organization transformation, and seven powers that help you deliver extraordinary performance. Leadership is transforming outcomes, it begins with the release of personal power, activated, and amplified by goal and process power. When the right conditions are created, a performance double helix occurs between the leader and their team – people power. Those leaders who embed a concern for people, accountability, customer intimacy and excellence create culture power and a corresponding flywheel effect; an ever-increasing performance momentum which is sustained with smart power and staying power.

Informed by the latest developments in psychology, neuroscience, and performance science, this is a powerful guide to personal development and life transformation as well as a manual for modern leadership and a practical, innovative route through the maze of leading change.

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

Need your new sales hires to get up to speed faster?
Want your salespeople to stop depending on you? Like to get the very best from your sales team?

“This is the book you keep on your shelf and ‘dog-ear’ as a new or seasoned manager with tips you can action immediately. A rare find among sales books today.”
Ashton Williams – Senior Manager Revenue Enablement ADA

“A masterpiece in sales coaching. Your salespeople will become autonomous in their thinking, discovering their own answers, mastering their own objections, and you will be the guide to their success.”
Caroline McCrystal – Senior Account Manager UK&I GTM Banking Experian

“Mark does a phenomenal job demystifying sales coaching and making it actionable for frontline managers. A must-read for any sales leader unlocking the performance of their team.”
Matthew Dixon – Co-author of The Challenger Sale and Jolt

More than ever you need to coach your team so they can think for themselves, take responsibility for their performance and do what you hired them to do. If you want to turn your team into top sales performers, sales coaching must be your focus. Let this practical and easy-to-read book show you how.

Mark Garrett Hayes is an accredited coach and trainer, and is passionate about helping sales leaders to dramatically boost sales performance and accountability.

Why do some physical products succeed and others fail?

When you have an idea for a new product, it’s a pivotal moment. This device of yours will enhance the lives of the people who use it, earn you extra money, and have a significant impact on the world.

However, there’s much more to a successful product than the quality of the original idea. Why do some products fly off the shelves and others not even reach the market? That’s what this book will explain.

You’ll learn how to decide if your physical product solves the right problem, who to sell it to, and how to protect and fund it. You’ll also explore different business models and manufacturing options and discover the ins and outs of the product design process. By the end, you’ll understand what it takes to be a professional product innovator.

Gethin Roberts is an experienced product design engineer and Managing Director of ITERATE, a dynamic product design consultancy that blends creative and technical expertise to develop products from idea all the way through to production.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED TITLE***

You want to be your own boss, but how do you make the right decision and make it happen?
The world of work is unrecognizable from when you started your career. It’s full of uncertainty, but it’s also full of opportunities.
Never has it been easier to start a business and make an impact in the world.
Taking inspiration from project management techniques, Rob Kerr shows you how to test your ideas, get clarity, and launch a successful independent career. You’ll discover:

• THE S.O.R.T.E.D. FRAMEWORK – to get your mindset right.
• THE I.N.P.U.T.S. FRAMEWORK – to critically analyse your business proposal.
• THE 6-STEP F.U.T.U.R.E. METHOD – to develop and deliver your plan.

Rob Kerr had a number of false starts in his own career before finding his path. A project manager for over a decade, he set up his first business in 2014 and has since found satisfaction and balance. Now he shares his approach with aspiring entrepreneurs, contractors, and freelancers, supporting them through these critical decisions and showing them how to flourish on their own unique journey.

This Is Not a Dress Rehearsal is an open and honest account of the personal and professional journey of Michel Masquelier, the man who went from being a lowly intern to the Chairman of the media division of IMG, the world’s largest sports management company.

This unique insight into the life of someone who was at the very heart of the sports industry for 35 years is filled with colourful, larger-than-life anecdotes, as well as advice about how to balance professional success with a passion for life and about how – ultimately – the ingredients which help you build a good career can also bring you profound personal contentment.

Masquelier opens his heart to the reader, reflecting on many intimate and deeply moving experiences which have shaped his life, as well as providing up-close portraits of the giants who have shaped the sports industry over the last three decades.

Be inspired and seize the day!

If you’re at the sharp end of management, juggling conflicting demands to keep your organization’s promises to customers, with ever-reducing resources whilst implementing the latest digital change programme and keeping your team happy – this is the book for you.

Active Operations Management gives you the framework and tools to help you take control and make the most of the evolving world of service operations. The challenges of robotics, remote working and lean operations demand a new approach to give people and organizations the confidence they need to thrive and deliver in the agile age.

This ground-breaking playbook specifically addresses the practical needs of operations managers. Discover:

• The four critical activities for effective control, and the daily and weekly rhythms which make them effective and sustainable.
• Practical measures of work and performance which enable like-for-like comparisons and resource balancing across diverse teams.
• Real-world examples showing you how to raise productivity, improve staff engagement and wellbeing.
• Online resources which support your control of the truly agile operation.

Neil Bentley and Richard Jeffery have spent over 30 years working with operations managers to simplify and bring structure to the challenges of managing in complex organizations. Today their Active Operations Management methodology is used by thousands of managers, raising performance and ensuring the wellbeing of those involved.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

'This book will transform the way you lead' - Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of Energize, international Keynote Speaker and award-winning Coach.

To be the kind of leader that inspires others to grow, you need to embody the timeless principles that allow you to evolve and elevate continuously.

In our unpredictable and uncertain world, where the only constant is change, your commitment to evolution isn’t just a personal advantage — it’s an organizational necessity. So, keep evolving, because every new version of you offers fresh perspectives, richer experiences, and greater resilience. And in that continual evolution, you’ll find not just success but a deeper, more meaningful form of leadership.

‘This book is a secret weapon, providing clarity and confidence in scaling to seven figures’
Sebastian Bates, The Warrior Academy

The average B2B business takes 5 years to double its revenue; remarkable businesses double revenue every 12 months. In Remarkable Business Growth, Richard Mawer reveals how you can make YOUR B2B business remarkable and unlock predictable 7-figure business growth.

You know you need proven strategy, processes and systems to be successful. What you’re missing is the secret of making your business remarkable at every touchpoint, a business that your customers not only use, but love and remark upon.

From working with hundreds of business owners and building eight businesses of his own, Richard has developed the STEPS Growth method, to give business owners a step-by-step blueprint of processes and principles to put in place the five strategies, processes and systems that a modern business needs to grow predictably towards seven figures and beyond.

www.goberemarkable.com

If you’re a fundraiser or social entrepreneur keen to secure large gift for any kind of social cause you need to be able to ask the right people for the right money in the right way. But how do you do that?

In this ground-breaking book, global experts Bernard Ross and Clare Segal share their approach - used by major fundraising organisations from UNHCR in the Middle East to MSF in the US and from UK’s Oxford University to MEF Museum in Argentina – which has been used to secure gifts up to $110m in a single ask.

Whether you’re an experienced fundraiser looking for new ideas, a newbie keen to get to the right approach fast, or a board member anxious to help out, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for inside. The book also has a special social bonus - every copy you buy will result in a donation to the WHO foundation to pay for a Covid 19 vaccine in a developing nation. “One reasonably useful book = one life-saving vaccine.”

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

**getAbstract International Book Award 2024 Finalist**

‘An excellent, example-rich and immediately practical book which will no doubt stay close to hand and dog-eared with use for years to come.’ Dr Pippa Grange Psychologist and Author of Fear Less

Talk to anyone about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and it sparks a whole range of emotions. Why? Because DEI, at its very core, is about values and beliefs, and it’s about change. So it is no surprise then, that despite putting in place a DEI strategy and multiple initiatives, so many organizations get stuck.

Beyond Discomfort reveals a new model of inclusive leadership, which describes four belief systems and associated emotional responses to DEI.

Discover:

• real life stories and expert insights to deepen your understanding of why DEI is so knotty and complex;
• self-understanding and new perspectives to better connect with your learned leadership values and beliefs;
• reflective questions, practical tools and activities to help develop your inclusive practice.

Nadia Nagamootoo is a Chartered Psychologist, accredited coach, MBA and Founder of Avenir, a DEI consultancy. Through her multiple keynotes and popular podcast show, Why Care?, Nadia has become a profound thought leader in DEI, guiding organizations on an accelerated path to creating inclusion and belonging.