
Winner
Grappling: Leaders Striving to Improve
Robert E. Kaplan
We all have in common the universal struggle to improve, which includes not just knowing your worst tendencies, but also learning how to manage them. And that means grappling with yourself. The narratives in Grappling make the challenging work of self-improvement for leaders easier. I’ve written parables from my long career in executive development based on real people who represent a variety of leader archetypes . For leaders who find they want to—or have to—change in some way but find themselves stuck, this book makes the self-improvement quest relatable, inspirational, and within reach.
Winner
Level Up Your Leadership: Becoming More Conscious, Courageous & Resilient
Deborah Naish
Author Deborah Naish is a highly successful leadership coach who is now bringing to a wider audience what she personally has developed that has helped so many leaders grow exponentially – from the inside out. Under her brilliant guidance - and now, via this book - they go from stuck to unstuck; frustrated to energized; confused to clear; overwhelmed to taking action – while becoming more creative, innovative, delivering dynamic results regularly and consciously – instead of who knows when.
Leader-readers learn to do a lot more than they think they can and to understand leadership as an inside-out process (instead of only a set of skills), while exploring their beliefs, challenging unhelpful patterns, and embracing resistance as a signpost for growth.
Beyond professional advancement, it also helps these reader-leaders have balance to their lives, often for the first time.
Yes, leaders do need help and here it is, finally.
Finalist
Quiet Champions
Ian Chisholm
Quiet Champions is positively impacting others by guiding experienced professionals to become intentional, empathetic mentors who strengthen community and foster growth. It helps readers transform everyday interactions into meaningful guidance, equipping them with practical tools and reflective strategies to lead with intention.



