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Your North Star is just that: yours.
In a world that’s constantly changing, how do you make decisions with confidence and lead without losing yourself in your own and others’ expectations?
Her Leadership Playbook is a book about intelligence, intention and alignment. It will help you understand what matters to you now, notice the stories and expectations shaping your choices, recognize the season you are in, and keep adjusting as life and leadership change. Because your North Star is not a fixed identity or destination, but a vital reference point for alignment.
Blending lived experience, real leadership stories and practical frameworks, this playbook is particularly timely as women leaders face increasing visibility demands, burnout and identity fragmentation in modern workplaces. It doesn’t ask you to follow another formula or become someone else in order to lead. Instead, it embraces the inner and outer game of leadership – confidence, identity, communication, teams, bias, transitions, relationships and systems – to help you find your own path.
Pınar Oktar is a global business leader, leadership coach currently under certification, and the founder of Her Leadership Playbook. She brings over 18 years of experience from senior leadership roles across Europe and APAC, working across diverse cultures and complex markets at the intersection of strategy, commercial leadership and transformation.
With a master’s degree in technology management, Pınar has experience working with startups, investors, and individuals who want to build and grow their own ventures alongside corporate careers. She has led regional teams, carried significant responsibilities and navigated leadership from both visible and invisible positions.
That lived experience shapes her work today. Through writing, coaching, and speaking, she supports women leaders and allies who want to stop performing leadership and start leading with clarity, alignment and grounded authority.
Pinar is based in Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction
PART 1: FINDING YOUR NORTH STAR / LEADING FROM YOUR CENTRE
Chapter 1: The Invisible Years
Chapter 2: The Inner Game of Leadership
Chapter 3: Finding Your North Star Identity
PART 2: LIVING FROM YOUR NORTH STAR
Chapter 4: Communication that Connects
Chapter 5: Leading with Strength and Strategy
Chapter 6: Building Your Leadership Network
Chapter 7: The Bias You Were Never Meant to Carry
PART 3: LEADING THROUGH TRANSITIONS
Chapter 8: Managing Transitions with Clarity and Care
Chapter 9: Allies, Villains and the People in Your Story
Chapter 10: Leading Through Systems
PART 4: BECOMING YOUR NORTH STAR LEADER
Chapter 11: Becoming the Leader You Always Were
Conclusion