Sheila Gujrathi

In The Mirror Effect, Dr. Sheila Gujrathi, a renaissance woman with talents spanning medicine, biotech, entrepreneurship and venture capital, unveils groundbreaking principles that are a lifeline for disenfranchised leaders—women, people of color and other marginalized professionals.
Based on extensive research and her own experience feeling "left out", Dr. Gujrathi provides a proven three-part roadmap for female leaders to reclaim their power and thrive authentically. Readers learn to dismantle their inner critic and step into true potential (“Hold Up Your Own Mirror: Know Thyself ”); to navigate toxic environments, understand unspoken dynamics and find their ideal ecosystem (“Reflect on Your Surroundings: Understand Your Environment”).; to master crucial negotiations, command the room and build a true support network (“Make a Life Worth Mirroring: Set Yourself Up for Success”).
Via concrete strategies and actionable insights, readers learn to create success on their own terms.

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P. Kelly Mooney

Katy Mooney

UP! is helping women get promoted, paid, and positioned for leadership. The book gives readers a full playbook across 34 chapters, grouped into 5 parts: leading yourself, owning your choices, finding the right fit, thinking bigger, and getting in the game. Each chapter gives women specific reflections and moves that turn insight into action.

Practically, that's showing up as career success and higher earnings. Readers are learning how to know their value and negotiate for it, ask for feedback that helps them get to where they want to go, cultivate champions, and make the ask when they want a raise or a new role. The result: more women are reaching the roles, pay, and influence they've earned.

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Helen Jonsen

Artificial intelligence, mass layoffs, restructuring—the disruptions keep accelerating, and adaptability is fast becoming the leadership skill this moment demands. This Kaleidoscope Career argues that women’s skills, talents, and experience don't disappear between roles—they resettle into something new every time. Their personal throughline makes sense of it all. The book introduces dozens of amazing women who continue to push the lens and find bold new images. With curiosity and resilience, they have risen to the heights of public office, the C-suite in multiple industries, founded and sold businesses, and become sought-after experts in a broad range of occupations. The book includes the Reframe Lens, a 7-step exercise that guides women from reconsidering their past to reclaiming their throughline, and the TKC Power Tools Kit to help early-, mid-, and late-career women stepping into their 3rd/Third proudly position their nonlinear careers.

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Emma Williams

Academia is big business - complete with its own glass ceiling. This book helps women researchers navigate those ivory towers with confidence, clarity, and a plan.The UNIque Guide for Women gives women in research the career toolkit they were never handed at the start of their PhD. It helps readers identify their strengths, own their achievements without apology, build visibility in their field, and make proactive career decisions - whether they stay in academia or step beyond it.

Rooted in over 20 years of working with women researchers at institutions including Imperial College London, King's College London, and the University of Cambridge, this is evidence-based career thinking wrapped in genuine understanding of what academic life is actually like. In the words of one reader: "Not just for women (but shh, don't tell everyone!), this is a thought-provoking, hand-holding and challenging guide to thinking deeply about what you want from your career, in research and beyond."

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