Finalist
Book Title:Graceful Leadership: Inspiring hope, creativity and resilience in times of peace and crisis
Author:Will Parks
Published:2025
How is your book helping others?
Graceful Leadership responds to instability, polarisation and overlapping crises with clarity, courage and compassion. Rejecting command-and-control models, it makes a compelling, evidence-based case for compassionate, coaching-led leadership as essential to organisational and societal flourishing. Drawing on storytelling, neuroscience, organisational psychology and three decades of frontline humanitarian, development and crisis-response experience, the book offers a distinctly global, human perspective. Its lessons come not from corner offices, but from disaster zones, conflict settings, government negotiations, community dialogues and multicultural teams under pressure. These accounts turn ideas into practical insights readers can apply immediately. In an era seeking humane, high-impact leadership, Graceful Leadership is timely and transformative. Winning this award would amplify a message business and society urgently need: grace is not weakness; grace is strong humanity in action.