The 2025 Annual Goody Business Book Awards announces 8 Top Impact Author Award Winners whose 6 books received 3+ awards, out of the overall 188 Winners/Finalists worldwide.
While being recognized in any of the 50 Goody Business Book Awards categories is a significant achievement, these Top Impact Author Award Winners are positively impacting an even broader audience in multiple subject area genres – through their words.
The new 2025 Goody Business Book Awards Top Impact Author Award Winners were selected by a panel of marketing and communications judges based on their book quality, cover image, and social impact.
Along with the 2025 Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists, these Top Impact Author Award books are helping readers live longer, start a company, be a better marketer, be a better leader, build wealth, use technology to improve, start a charity and more.
Please join us in big cheers for the 2025 Top Impact Author Award Winners and books:
2025 Goody Business Book Awards
Top Impact Author Award Winners
1. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Dr. David R Oxley and Dr. Helmut Schuster
BOOK: A Groundhog Career: A tale of career traps and how to escape them
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WINNER – BUSINESS – CAREER SUCCESS
WINNER – SELF-HELP – SUCCESS
FINALIST – SELF-HELP- HAPPINESS
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: A Groundhog Career, through a combination of the hugely entertaining Shey Sinope fable, and the accompanying deeply insightful and thought-provoking analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises faced by anyone who wants to succeed in a world where all the power seems to be in the entrenched organizational systems. It also reveals how to be more aware of the risks, to stay aligned with your core identity and your convictions, and ultimately how to take control of your own career journey… to live professional life on your own terms.
2. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Tony Jeton Selimi
BOOK: Climb Greater Heights: How to Accelerate Your Business Growth, Amplify Your Success, and Build a Legacy of Significance
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WINNER – BUSINESS – THOUGHT LEADER
FINALIST – ENTREPRENEUR – ENTREPRENEURISM
FINALIST – BUSINESS – PHILANTHROPY
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: Climb Greater Heights is helping ambitious entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries unlock the architecture of a life well-lived. Through Tony J. Selimi’s 12-Step Growth Accelerator Method®, the book guides readers to master mindset and emotional intelligence, architect values-driven businesses, and reignite purpose and performance. By blending neuroscience, spirituality, and strategy, Selimi empowers individuals to heal inner wounds, scale their impact, and position themselves as trusted authorities in their industries. Readers are learning how to publish their expertise, build magnetic brands, leverage publicity, and forge legacy-driven partnerships.
3. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Nil Demircubuk
BOOK: Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life
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WINNER – LEADERSHIP – THINK DIFFERENTLY
WINNER – SELF-HELP – PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
FINALIST – SELF-HELP – RELATIONSHIPS
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: Down to Earth offers a rigorous, practical framework for harnessing intuition to make better decisions, improve relationships, and enhance self-care, setting it apart from typical books that simply advise readers to trust their inner wisdom. Author and intuition teacher Nil Demircubuk delivers actionable, research-informed methods for identifying and cultivating intuition, while encouraging readers to question and critically evaluate their insights, just as they would advice from a wise friend. The book features techniques tailored to diverse learning styles and demonstrates their application in real-world business and personal scenarios.
4. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Laura DeKraker Lang-Ree
BOOK: The Cancer Parent’s Handbook, What Your Oncologist Doesn’t Have Time to Tell You
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WINNER – HEALTH – MEDICAL
WINNER – SELF-HELP HOW TO
FINALIST – HEALTH – MIND, BODY, SPIRIT
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: The Cancer Parent’s Handbook was written to help parents of kids with cancer who are thrown into the terrifying, overwhelming world of childhood cancer, one where there’s no manual, just shock, medical jargon, and impossible decisions. It’s the first guidebook of its kind, and is desperately needed by the 400,000 families diagnosed this year. I began writing TCPH when my own child was in treatment to help parents navigate their new normal. It contains practical tips, clever tactics, and the honest advice they need to survive the marathon of pediatric cancer while maintaining their role as a strong parent.
5. TOP IMPACT AUTHORS: David Sinkinson and Chris Sinkinson
BOOK: Startup Different: The Myth-Busting Blueprint for Your Multi-Million Dollar Business
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WINNER – ENTREPRENEUR – START UPS
FINALIST – BUSINESS – SUCCESS
FINALIST – ENTREPRENEUR – ENTREPRENEURISM
FINALIST – ENTREPRENEUR – SMALL BUSINESS
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: Startup Different, provides you with a chronological framework for building your business—everything from idea generation to selling for millions and moving on—that dispels the common assumptions that come with starting your own business. You too can make your business legit and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams.
6. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Lindsay K Barnett
BOOK: Working Hell to Working Well: Making Your Company Work For You
2025 GOODY BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS
WINNER – BUSINESS – CAREER SUCCESS
FINALIST – SELF-HELP – SUCCESS
FINALIST – SELF-HELP – WORK-LIFE BALANCE
HOW IS YOUR BOOK HELPING OTHERS?: “Working Hell to Working Well” was written as both a response to this crisis that nearly half of American employees report experiencing burnout, and a roadmap out of it. It is helping readers navigate the realities of corporate systems in ways that allow them to move forward with greater clarity and strength. Rather than viewing burnout as an individual failing, it provides practical tools and mindset shifts that empower people to advocate for their needs, set boundaries, and build the staying power required to thrive when work won’t sit still.
Over the next 3 months, these Total Impact Authors will receive an additional digital marketing promotions and a special awards seal to shine a light on their far-reaching positive impacts.
You can View FULL LIST these Winners and Finalists here:
2025 Goody Business Book Awards and Top Impact Author Awards here: https://goodybusinessbookawards.com/new-2025-goody-business-book-awards/
These Award-Winning Authors are being recognized for mostly non-fiction and some fiction books published within the last 5 years (2021-2025). The books were published by traditional publishers (Wiley, HarperCollins Leadership, Penguin Random House SEA, Doubleday, New Harbinger Publications, Atria Publishing Group, a division of Simon & Schuster), independent publishers (Kogan Page Inc., BiggerPockets, ForbesBooks), hybrid publishers (Page Two, Amplify) and self-published authors.
2026 NOMINATIONS are also Now Open for next year. Authors, Publishers, Agents, Publicists and Fans can Nominate Books published within 5 years now here: https://goodybusinessbookawards.com/nominate-book/
