
Finalist
Book Title: Future Purpose: The Playlist to Design a Career You Love
Author:Jo Ann Herold
Published:2025
How is your book helping others?
Future Purpose helps readers "do what they love and love what they do" by designing careers that spark genuine passion and purpose. Herold makes career advice accessible through her unique approach of pairing each chapter with iconic songs. The book guides readers through life's inevitable career "pivots,” teaching them to turn potential setbacks into comebacks and achieve lasting professional success.
Whether you're navigating "getting quit," mastering the serendipity of showing up, or learning to belong confidently in any room, Jo Ann provides practical tools and vision board strategies that help readers get out of their comfort zone and into their growth zone. Drawing from her thirty-year career leading iconic brands and advice from other influential leaders, she shares the practices of "wildly successful people" and demonstrates how to build careers that achieve both professional success and personal fulfillment.

