Sophie Bretag

The Kind Way helps people create a more fulfilling and sustainable way to live, work and succeed, without constantly sacrificing themselves in the process. It challenges the idea that happiness sits on the other side of achieving more, doing more or pushing harder. Instead, it helps readers reconnect with themselves, understand what truly matters, protect their energy and capacity and make more conscious choices about how they live and lead. Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, emotional intelligence and almost two decades of HR and leadership experience, the book provides practical tools to build self-awareness, set healthier boundaries, strengthen relationships and bring greater kindness into everyday life. It helps people redefine success beyond achievement alone, creating more space for connection, meaning, wellbeing and joy. It shows that self-kindness isn't stepping away from ambition. It's a way of pursuing a successful life without losing yourself along the way.

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Miki Feldman Simon

Most leadership approaches focus on how to lead others. CORE Leadership starts from a different premise: leadership starts with leading yourself. It helps leaders create a clear vision of the person and leader they want to be and gives them practical tools to put that vision into action. Through the four-step CORE framework, readers clarify what matters to them, translate it into everyday behaviors, recognize where they have choice, and evaluate the impact they are having. Readers have shared how the framework has helped them clarify their purpose, become more aware of their impact, see choices they hadn’t previously recognized, and make intentional changes in how they lead and live. As leaders become more intentional and exercise greater agency over how they show up, the impact extends beyond them, strengthening relationships, creating healthier teams and workplaces, and positively affecting the people they lead, work with, and live with.

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Feena May

If you are slightly despairing of the state of leadership in the world today, then you need to look no further for an antidote than this marvellous book. Grounded in robust academic principles and road tested through years of May’s personal field experience, The Power of a Lollipop has given us a glimpse of how real leaders show up—and we are all the better for it.

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Elizabeth Blackley

Readers are challenged to move beyond outdated operating models and confront the organisational cost of unhealthy systems. Drawing on behavioural science and systems thinking, the book shows how work design governs human capacity and organisational risk. A Return on Wellness (ROW) is realised when businesses invest in clarity, energy, and psychological safety as core operating conditions, because individual resilience cannot compensate for systems that consistently drain capacity. The book demonstrates how healthier work environments reduce psychosocial risk and convert human capability into sustained organisational value.

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Steve Spangler

Most leadership books describe engagement. This one teaches it. The Engagement Effect gives leaders, educators, and communicators a practical framework for designing moments that earn attention, build trust, and move people to action — drawn from 30 years in classrooms, boardrooms, and television studios. Readers aren't walking away with theory. A teacher applies the strategies in a professional development session the same week she finishes the book. A corporate leader finally understands why his team isn't engaged and what to do about it Monday morning. The science is real, the stories are honest, and the methods have been tested in front of millions of people across every imaginable context. This isn't a book about what engagement looks like. It's a book about how to create it.

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