April Armstrong

I discovered early in my career there is a huge gap between what many of us learn in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. The Day One Executive aims to close that gap, empower you to be the chief executive of your life and stand out as a future executive in your job starting on “Day One.”

When you choose to be a Day One Executive, you are in the driver’s seat of your career. You expand your sphere of influence and become someone who can make things happen. You won’t stay stuck in a bad job or working for a bad boss, because you know you have the power to create, and recreate, your career at all times. Your work has greater impact, which is its own reward, and you also increase your earning power.

Best of all, you get to live your legacy—and you can start right now, wherever you are.

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Alan Patterson

The main takeaway: There is only one person responsible for your career development. You.

"Burn Ladders. Build Bridges." tears up any idea of a playbook and helps individuals explore ways to create impact and find meaning in their work—all while enjoying the journey. This book lights a spark within readers to stop waiting and take control of their career no matter what stage they’re in—college-to-career or an experienced professional. It especially resonates with women and other marginalized professionals seeking support and leadership development.

This book provides a balance of theory & practicality. It emphasizes skill development to build trust, expertise, and credibility, while also encouraging reflections to more deeply discover oneself (connecting head & heart). All of which, lead to an understanding that one’s measure of success in life is not “what you do for a living”—rather, it’s about who you are with the people around you that creates opportunities, meaning, and purpose.

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Connie Steele

In Building the Business of You, I share future of work trends so professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, founders, and side hustlers can "skate to where the puck will be" and form their own career mashup.

The career mashup is my term for the career of the future (and increasingly the present) in which workers merge their skills, interests, passions, values, hobbies, opportunities, relationships, education, network, identity, and even multiple jobs and gigs. People no longer want to conform to one rigid and structured path. They want to reflect their multidimensional selves so they can realize their full potential.

And in this new, fluid and constantly changing world of work, the dream job is no longer something you get. It's something you create. In Building the Business of You, I provide professionals with a practical system and tools so they can create theirs.

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Matthew J Louis

Every year, 200k veterans leave the military - most of whom are unprepared for the transition. These service members have developed incredible leadership, problem-solving, and practical skills that are underutilized once they reach the civilian world, a detriment to both themselves and society. Mission Transition expertly fills this gap in support, enabling these national heroes to find full employment in optimal career fields, which - studies show - has the effect of nearly doubling their career earnings, rates of retention, and job satisfaction. Moreover, full employment is also directly correlated to suicidality in the post-9/11 veteran cohort. Put simply, this book saves lives!

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Ellen Connelly Taaffe

This book helps professional women feel seen, get unstuck, and courageously move into action. It helps them recognize how they might be holding themselves back with sky-high expectations and ingrained learned messages that no longer serve them, creating a distorted reflection that makes them think they aren't worthy or ready to take the risk whether that is to raise their hand or go for the next promotion. Through stories, research, and prompts, they build self-awareness and begin to take small steps. Readers learn the perils of the five success strategies (preparing to perfection, eagerly pleasing, fitting the mold, working pedal to the metal, and performing patiently awaiting to be noticed) and learn how they can drive performance, get sidelined with potential pitfalls personally or perceptually, and how to pivot into new actions. Readers learn to ask for help, set boundaries, show up more authentically, and ask for what they want. They build courage, community, and confidence.

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William Warren

The Conquering Creative, written and illustrated by William Warren, describes how creatives can build a real, thriving career or business out of their creative passions and dispels the myth that artists either have to sell out...or starve. They do, however, have to think critically about how their creative work is a product that creates marketplace value. As founder and CEO of The Sketch Effect, an illustration and animation company that provides businesses with creative visual communication goods and services, Warren draws upon his decades of experience in marrying the worlds of business and art. He leans on his own early struggles leaving his “real business job” at a Fortune 500 company, and lays out nine critical shifts creatives must use to build a sustainable business without sacrificing passion. This book will prove indispensable to anyone who refuses to become the “starving artist” stereotype.

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Chuen Chuen Yeo

This book helps managers and leaders adopt a new way of thinking in the volatile workplace, reducing stress, increasing a sense of ease and authenticity, and improving their resilience to excel and make a positive difference.

Readers globally have reached out to me after the book was published, sharing how the simple four-step model has offered them another perspective that is more constructive, resourceful and liberating. Many readers have also shared their insights with the rest of the world through my podcast, Agile Leaders Conversations. For some readers, the stories in the book gave them closure on the challenges they faced on their leadership journey.

In a nutshell, the stories coupled with the four-step model gives modern leaders a simple and systematic way to broaden their perpsectives, clarify their values and then leading with agility and ease. This helps them be ready for whatever changes that will come their way.

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