To honor book geeks who truly love to read books, the Goody Business Book Awards announces a new Bookworm Wednesday with 3 ways to celebrate authors each week online.
Authors, publishers, agents, publicists, and fans are encouraged to participate by sharing their book passions and favorite authors using the hashtags #BookWormWednesday and #GoodyBusinessBookAwards.
In addition to participating in Bookworm Wednesday, you canNominate Your Bookpublished to this annual book awards program that has 50 categories in 8 genres (business, entrepreneur, health, leadership, marketing, money/wealth, self-help, and technology). Any book published within 5 years is eligible.
Goody Business Book Awards was created by Award-Winning Author Liz H. Kelly, who promotes authors via her Goody PR agency. She grew up in a house with a bookworm mother and explains, “Our mother taught English at our high school for decades, including teaching us. She loves to read more than anyone I know, and averages reading a new book a week.”
So whether you read a book a week, a month or a year, here are 3 ways you can participate in our new Bookworm Wednesday:
1. Encourage others to read by sharing WHY you love to read so much on Bookworm Wednesday.
If you are truly a book lover, you read as a part of your everyday life. Instead of spending hours watching re-runs on TV, you find quality time to read and learn new skills that advance your life and/or simply entertain with a compelling story.
In “Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the bestselling “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series”, shares his five “Big Ideas”.
In this book, Jack Canfield emphasizes, “You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery—what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals.”
And this benefit is WHY we love to read self-help books to learn and move forward, started the Goody Business Book Awards, promote authors, and created our new Bookworm Wednesday.
If you are looking for answers on how to be a better leader, start a business, build wealth, strengthen relationships, eat healthier, live longer, be a better marketer and/or help you fulfill your life dream, chances are very good that someone has written a book to help you.
2. Share your Favorite Books, and how they have changed your life on Bookworm Wednesday.
Do you remember reading a book that has been invaluable to your life? Do you have favorite books that you’re read more than once?
As a book geek, one of our life-changing reads has been “Sales Dogs: You Don’t Have to Be an Attack Dog to Explode Your Income” by Blair Singer.
In this invaluable book, the author explains how you can build relationships and sell using five different types of dog analogies. For example, you may be a Golden Retriever who closes sales based on trust, loyalty and relationships versus being a Bull Dog who aggressively makes cold calls all day. This book teaches you how to overcome objections by playing to your strengths with five-revenue generating skills.
3. Explain how a specific book entertained you for hours.
Can you think of a favorite book that you couldn’t put down? Have you ever continued reading a book at 2:00am because you just couldn’t wait to read what happens next? If yes, please post it on our Bookworm Wednesday on your social media channels.
One of our favorite all-time books is “The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit” by the Director and Writer Ron Shelton.
This entertaining book is about the backstory behind making one of the most famous baseball movies in history that starred Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.
And while “Bull Durham” won many awards in 1988 for this romantic comedy sports film, Shelton uncovers these untold behind-the-scenes stories in this 2022 book. If you loved this classic, you’ll love the stories about how the award-winning director struggled to get this movie made and resolved cast conflicts.
When all goes sideways with the film, Shelton explains how he was able to save one of the most popular minor league baseball movies in history using his dry sense of humor, wit and help from Kevin Costner pitching it to investors that makes this mega bestselling book a page-turner.
So join us on Bookworm Wednesday each week by sharing your love for reading books, favorite books and stories about how a book has helped you.
Please post your favorite books, favorite authors, your WHY for reading books, and/or how a book changed your life on Bookworm Wednesday using #BookwormWednesday and #GoodyBusinessBookAwards. AND tag @GoodyBusinessBookAwards so we can re-share your post.
And if you or someone you know wrote a book that is positively helping others, you can Nominate Books for Goody Business Book Awards here using our easy 3-step process: https://goodybusinessbookawards.com/nominate-book/
To help authors receive recognition, Goody Business Book Awards and Goody PR Founder Liz H. Kelly was interviewed by Hembury Books Podcast and Book Publisher Jessica Mudditt in 2025 about their program’s origin story, WHY, and mission to “uplift author voices”. Below are some of the highlights from this interview transcript with insights for how authors can win and benefit by winning book awards.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Welcome to the Hembury Books Podcast. Today, my guest is Liz Kelly, who is the founder and CEO of Goody PRand the Goody Business Book Awards. She is the award-winning author of “8-Second PR: New Public Relations Crash Course”, and a podcast host whose mission is to magnify good. As the author of three books, Kelly knows how hard it is to promote them. After submitting many Goody PR clients for book awards, Kelly noticed few programs recognized 100% social impact authors. As a result, Kelly started the Goody Business Book Awards in 2022. Thanks a lot for coming on the podcast, Liz.
Liz Kelly:
Well, thank you so much, Jessica. I’m really honored to be here and speak to a book publisher. We have a lot of authors who have submitted their book and won awards from Australia, so it’s wonderful to say hello to everybody down there and everybody in Sydney.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Great. This is an award-winning book called “My Father’s Suitcase” by Mary Garden. She won your Self-Help Memoir category, and I remember her post the morning that she found out that she had won, and it was just so wonderful. And she’s not a Hembury Books author, but a friend who I’ve had on our podcast. She has written a beautiful book that I think is really brave and has a real social good purpose. So I leapt at the chance to have you on the podcast. Could you tell people a bit more about what prompted you to launch the awards in 2022?
Liz Kelly:
Absolutely. Well, I had submitted a lot of authors to book awards, and I submitted my own book, the “8-Second PR: New Public Relations Crash Course”. So I had been on both sides as the publicist submitting the client and then as an author submitting my own book for awards. And as a marketer and somebody who likes to magnify good, I thought, “Okay, how can I put this all together and put together a better program that has an up-to-date website and brand?”
So we went all in and built a new book awards brand with a hot air balloon logo. And the hot air balloon idea came from uplifting author voices above the rest, because they’re 46 million books, probably more on Amazon right now.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
So did you feel that the awards that existed were measuring the worth of a book with different criteria, and none of that ever included the social good? What kinds of things?
Liz Kelly:
Great question. There are a lot of book awards with a social good category, but there were none that were 100% social good….When authors nominate their book, we ask,” How is your book making a difference?”
And when we work with authors as a clients, Goody PR authors, that’s our first question. And if they are not helping other people, for example, it’s a fantasy story, it’s really hard for us to do the PR, because the media, they want to know how is your book helping people. So it really was in alignment with everything we do to focus on social impact.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Could you please tell viewers about the Goody Business Book Awards? There are 50 categories, so it’s very large. Were you quick to get to 50 categories?
Liz Kelly:
We were quick to get to 50 categories, but after the first year, we changed half the categories. We learned what was popular and what wasn’t. For example, Self-Help Memoir, Mary Garden’s book, that was the most popular category. So we thought, “Okay, how do we expand this so we can recognize more people who’ve written to tell their own story?” We added categories like Autobiography and Self-Help Inspiration to expand their options.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
And they do have business in the title, but, because one of my authors said, “Oh, my book’s not business, it is self-help”?
Liz Kelly:
Yes. As a marketer, we wanted to focus on a niche area. And if we just did Goody Book Awards, it’s too broad. And it’s worked. In 2023, we got written up as one of the top 8 business book awards by Write Business Results, and they’re based out of the UK, and we were honored to be on their list. And if we were just this one big broad book awards, we would not have gotten that recognition.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Yeah, makes a lot of sense. As a book publisher, I hear you loud and clear because words are powerful. And it is the same reason why Hembury Books is a hybrid publisher.
And people inside the publishing industry would say, “Well, technically you’re not because your authors keep 100% of their royalties, it’s not a share.” But I say hybrid is a very positive word, and people understand that concept on a broader level….And I want to be upfront that we are different, we’re not a traditional publisher.
So I wondered if you could just tell an author who would love to enter, the important things they need to know about eligibility, when judging starts, costs, those kinds of things.
Liz Kelly:
Sure, any book is eligible that’s been published within five years, and can be nominated by an author, book publisher, agent, publicist and even by fans. We made it five years because we wanted to honor many authors and good books.
And then it’s an easy 3-step process on our website to Nominate Your Book. You upload your book, cover jpeg, and then explain how is the book helping people. That’s a really important question because that’s the first thing our judges look at. And then if you win, that is what gets published on our website.
The nominations open October 1st, and then they end September 30th. We go through six weeks of judging, and then the winners are announced by November 15th, just in time for the holiday book sales, and people can say, “Oh, I’m an award-winning author,” and we promote the heck out of all the authors.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Amazing, I love it. In fact, the reason that this podcast is made possible, is because I condensed Mary’s knowledge and another author, Mark Berridge (“A Fraction Stronger”), about awards and book review sites, into a blog post. And your team found it and created a really cool, beautifully branded post on Instagram @goodybusinessbookawards. And I was sharing the link and I was so delighted that I reached out to your team, and that led to this podcast interview. And that’s never happened on a blog post before. So I do feel you are amplifying everybody as a positive, it’s a collective positive, which is wonderful. How many entries did you get last year?
Liz Kelly:
Great question. We’ve been growing a lot each year. So last year we had over 500 entries, and many nominations from their book publisher. And so it’s really been growing, and there’s been a lot of buzz. And it’s interesting that you bring it up, that you found us through one of our social media posts because we do strategy calls, and decided to promote other achievements of our award-winning authors (Winners and Finalists). We also love to work with anyone who is a literary agent, publicist or book publisher like you.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
That is so great. What are your thoughts with all your expertise in PR, on the power of a book becoming an award-winning book to sell more copies?
Liz Kelly:
Well, I love that question…I really think award-winning author now stands out more than best-selling author to a reporter, because it’s way too easy to become a best-selling author on Amazon.
It’s great, congratulations if that happened to you, but I found it was way too easy by just telling everybody to buy my book on the same day. So if you submit your book to book awards, we actually have judges that are actually reading your book and comparing it to others.
And so you are getting carefully selected as, “Hey, this is a great book.” And I think the media is figuring that out. I think it also stands out more to people who may be scrolling through social media, when they see these awards. And PS, we tell people, “Don’t just apply to our program, apply to multiple ones” because we want you to increase your chances of being recognized.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Absolutely. Apart from selling copies, making your book publisher happy, and the glory, are there some other benefits of having an award-winning book, that happens to authors?
Liz Kelly:
Well, I think one thing, we encourage authors to promote their book awards everywhere. You can put the Goody Business Book Awards seal on your book cover, your Amazon page, your website, and share it on LinkedIn. I also think it sounds good as a title to say you are an “Award-Winning Author” on all your social media, and there’s just a lot of pride. So there’s a huge digital marketing opportunity, huge sales opportunity, and it increases your credibility.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
It certainly does. I mean, the credibility of having authored a book is high, then winning an award is higher still. The future opportunities it generates professionally, I’m sure are enormous. And I think also that recognition, a book is a lot of work over a sustained period, it’s deeply intellectual. And as a book publisher, I think to get formal recognition, that must be an amazing feeling for you as a person. Talk about confidence in your ideas and how you express them.
Liz Kelly:
Well, that’s such a good point. So many writers are sitting at home with our computer. And as an author, we’re not really sure whether our book is going to resonate with people. And then you get reviews on Amazon and Goodreads and other places, which is great feedback, but it’s not the same as getting a judge to say, “This is the book that stood out in this category and this is the best book.” So it’s really rewarding to get that.
And I totally agree, books are hard to write. It’s not an easy thing to write a book, and then get a book publisher or publish it. And a lot of people, it’s their life story and life work. And so to be recognized for that work I think is really important, versus just an Amazon algorithm saying, “You’re the best-selling book today, for an hour.”
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Can we talk prizes if an author wins? Do you give them the assets and things to go on their books?
Liz Kelly:
Yes. Our winners, the Winners and the Finalists, win the lottery in terms of getting a digital media marketing campaign to promote them. Because we do everything from video, to press release, to blogs. And then we do send them the assets. We send the author, agent, publicist and book publisher the award seals, and then we also send custom banners that they can share.
And I’ve had other people say that they’ve applied to other awards programs and they don’t do half of what we do to promote our award-winning authors. So we really go above and beyond, and I think it’s just because we’re a PR agency and sincerely want to “uplift author voices”.
Host Jessica Mudditt:
Okay. Liz, thank you so much for spending time with us and sharing all those amazing insights with our listeners and book publisher clients. For authors, getting this behind the scenes glance by the person who started the Goody Business Book Awards, is amazing. So thank you very much. Wonderful.
All Award-Winning Authors have the option of purchasing the NEW crystal engraved trophy for Goody Business Book Awards Winner, Finalist and Top Impact Author Awards to celebrate your book and wins.
This timeless crystal book awards trophy has been designed by Goody Business Book Awards with Crown Awards. This beautiful impact trophy is 8″ height x 2.5″ width, and is a made out of glass.
You can order your Book Awards Trophy using these 3 easy steps:
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The Annual Goody Business Book Awards announces 9 Top Impact Author Winners received 3+ awards for 2024, out of the overall 193 Winners/Finalists.
While being recognized in any of the 50 categories is a significant achievement, these Top Impact Authors are positively impacting an even broader audience in multiple subject area genres.
The new 2024 Goody Business Book Awards Top Impact Author Winners were selected by a panel of marketing and communications judges based on their book quality, cover image, and social impact.
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. Along with all of the Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists, these 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.
2024 Goody Business Book Awards
Top Impact Author Award Winners
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1. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD
BOOK: The Compassion Advantage: How Top Leaders Build More Humanizing Workplaces
WINNER – Health – Psychology
WINNER – Leadership – HR and Employee Development
WINNER – Self-Help – Success
FINALIST – Business – Problem Solving
FINALIST – Leadership – Motivation
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2. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Colin C. Campbell
BOOK: Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.
WINNER – Entrepreneur – Entrepreneurism
WINNER – Entrepreneur – Start Ups
FINALIST – Business – Career Success
FINALIST – Entrepreneur – Small Business
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3. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Janet M. Harvey
BOOK: From Tension to Transformation A Leader’s Guide To Generative Change
WINNER – BUSINESS – DISRUPTOR
WINNER – PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
FINALIST – BUSINESS – BIG IDEAS
FINALIST – BUSINESS – INNOVATION
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4. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Ericka Sóuter
BOOK: How to Have a Kid and a Life: A Survival Guide
WINNER – HEALTH – PARENTING AND FAMILY
WINNER – SELF-HELP – GENERAL
FINALIST – SELF-HELP – HAPPINESS
FINALIST – SELF-HELP – WORK-LIFE BALANCE
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5. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Kate Toon
BOOK 1: Six Figures In School Hours
WINNER – Health – Parenting and Family
FINALIST – Business – Women in Business
BOOK 2: Six Figures While You Sleep
WINNER – Business – Big Ideas
FINALIST – Entrepreneur – Small Business
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6. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR – Tenia Davis, PhD
BOOK: The Feedback Blueprint: Unlocking the Power of Constructive Insights
WINNER – Leadership – HR and Employee Development
FINALIST – Business – Career Success
FINALIST – Business – Management
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7. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR – Joseph Hanna
BOOK: Pivoting as a Way of Life: Stop Chasing Unicorns and Product-Market Fit
WINNER – Business – Innovation
WINNER – Technology – Gamechanger
FINALIST – Business – Disruptor
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8. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, MBA, JD
BOOK: Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
WINNER – Business – Management
WINNER – Leadership – Think Differently
FINALIST – Business – Thought Leader
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9. TOP IMPACT AUTHOR: Natalie Shand-Spellman MSOTR/L
BOOK: Drop Stress Like A Hot Potato – Transformative Stress Workbook with Life Coaching for Busy Women
WINNER – Health – Wellness
FINALIST – Health – Mind, Body, Spirit
FINALIST – Self-Help – Inspiration
These Award-Winning Authors are being recognized for mostly non-fiction and some fiction books published within the last 5 years (2020-2024). 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.
These Award-Winning Authors are being recognized for mostly non-fiction and some fiction books published within the last 5 years (2020-2024). 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.
2025 NOMINATIONS are also Now Open for next year. Authors, Publishers, Agents, Publicists and Fans can Nominate Books published within 5 years now.
Congratulations to our 2024 Goody Business Book Awards Winners/Finalists!
The Annual Goody Business Book Awards announces 193 Award-Winning Authors for 2024 to shine a light on social impact authors making a difference with words. These 114 Winners and 79 Finalists won in all 50 categories in 8 genres. Out of hundreds of nominations from around the world, these Award-Winning Authors were selected by a panel of marketing and communications judges based on the book quality, cover image, and how it is improving lives.
Anyone can view the FULL LIST of Winners and Finalists below and/or see the write-ups by Category that include HOW the book is helping others, book cover, and Amazon page (please click on category name below or use the drop down menu on left panel.)
In addition, there are 9 Total Impact Authors, who received 3+ awards (Winners and Finalists) for 2024 that will receive an additional awards seal and promotions.
Some of the most popular Goody Business Book Awards categories have multiple Winners and Finalists because there were so many high quality books. The books are not ranked, and it is considered a tie for all recognized, if there is more than one.
The 5 most popular categories with the most nominations for 2024 included (in this order):
1. Leadership – Think Differently
2. Business – Thought Leader
3. Leadership – HR and Employee Development
4. Business – Personal Transformation
5. Business – Big Ideas
Winners and Finalists are also encouraged to share their awards everywhere to add value to their upcoming holiday and book marketing campaigns. For example, some of our 8 Award-Winning Author Promotion Tipsinclude sending out your own press release, adding the awards seal to your website or Amazon page, post on social media, create a video/reel and/or add the awards seal to your book cover.
Please view, share, promote and cheer our new 2024 Award-Winning Authors!
BUSINESS – AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER – Crossing the Desert – by Payam Zamani WINNER – Regarding Victory – by Joshua Wallack FINALIST – The Hidden Power of Rising Dividends – by Greg Donaldson
WINNER – Six Figures While You Sleep – by Kate Toon
WINNER – The Modern Management Mentor – by Christine Sandman Stone
WINNER – The Neurodiversity Edge – by Maureen Dunne
FINALIST – From Tension to Transformation – by Janet M. Harvey
FINALIST – TUNE IN – by Nuala Geraldine Walsh
WINNER – Own Your Career Own Your Life – by Andy Storch WINNER – The Middle Matters – by Jeff Sigel WINNER – The Resilience Plan – by Marie-Helene Pelletier PhD FINALIST – Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. – by Colin C. Campbell FINALIST – Briefly Speaking, the Deluxe Boxed Set – by Deborah Shames and David Booth FINALIST – My Curious Life – by Robert Danna FINALIST – The Feedback Blueprint – by Tenia Davis, PhD FINALIST – WINX for Employees – by Irma Parone
BUSINESS – DISRUPTOR WINNER – From Tension to Transformation – by Janet M. Harvey FINALIST – Pivoting as a Way of Life – by Joseph Hanna
BUSINESS – ECONOMICS WINNER – Understandable Economics – by Howard Yaruss FINALIST – The Practical M.B.A. on Economics – by Joseph Gulesserian
BUSINESS – ENVIRONMENT WINNER – ESG Mindset – by Matthew Sekol FINALIST – Saving Us – by Katharine Hayhoe
BUSINESS – INNOVATION WINNER – Enterprise GENERATIVE AI – by Suvoraj Biswas WINNER – Pivoting as a Way of Life – by Joseph Hanna FINALIST – From Tension to Transformation – by Janet M. Harvey
BUSINESS – MANAGEMENT WINNER – Seeking Fairness at Work – by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner WINNER – Leading Impactful Teams – by James Louttit WINNER – The Art of Managing Humans – by Tsvika Abramovitch FINALIST – Mergers & Acquisitions Cybersecurity – by Lawrence Grant FINALIST – The Feedback Blueprint – by Tenia Davis, PhD FINALIST – The Skills-Powered Organization – by Ravin Jesuthasan & Tanuj Kapilashrami
BUSINESS – PHILANTHROPHY WINNER – Money with Meaning – by Alex Johnston FINALIST – Philanthropy on a Shoestring – by Catherine Curry Williams
BUSINESS – PROBLEM SOLVING WINNER – Fierce Resilience – by Edward Beltran WINNER – Mastering Inductive Reasoning Tests – by Georgios Kalogiannidis WINNER – TUNE IN – by Nuala Geraldine Walsh FINALIST – The Compassion Advantage – by Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD FINALIST – Think Like A Doctor, Lead Like A CEO – by Mary V Mason
BUSINESS – REAL ESTATE WINNER – Private Money Lending – by Gustavo J. Gomez, PhD WINNER – Real Estate Side Hustle – by Devon Kennard FINALIST – The Realtor Investor – by Andrew Hanson & Co-Authors Erica West, Toni Boer, Karen Chenaille, Ryan Duffy
BUSINESS – NEGOTIATING WINNER – Negotiate Like A CEO – by Jotham Stein FINALIST – The Persuasion Story Code – by David Garfinkel
BUSINESS – SUCCESS WINNER – Customer Magic – The Macquarie Way – by Joseph Michelli WINNER – The Winning Difference – by Jane Hight FINALIST – Leading Without Winging It – by Jeremy Masding, Emil Ivanov FINALIST – Supercharged Leader – by Mandy Flint & Elisabet Vinberg Hearn
BUSINESS – THOUGHT LEADER WINNER – A Transformation Lens – by Gary Burke WINNER – Mastering the Data Paradox – by Nitin Seth WINNER – The Resilience Plan – by Marie-Helene Pelletier PhD WINNER – Unmanaged – by Jack Skeels FINALIST – Seeking Fairness at Work – by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner FINALIST – Future Normal – by Christopher Mark Fleming, Nick Barter FINALIST – Passion Struck – by John R. Miles
BUSINESS – WOMEN IN BUSINESS WINNER – Become A Business Money Magnet – by Justine Nicolle McLean WINNER – Light It – by Laetitia Andrac WINNER – The Goddess Guide to Branding – by Jane McCarthy & Kate McAndrew FINALIST – Humbled on Purpose – by Maggie Michaels DeCan FINALIST – Six Figures In School Hours – by Kate Toon
Entrepreneur Award-Winning Authors
ENTREPRENEUR – ENTREPRENEURISM WINNER – Regarding Victory – by Joshua Wallack WINNER – Scaling Smart – by Rich Fettke and Kathy Fettke WINNER – Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. – by Colin C. Campbell WINNER – VALUEPRENEURS – by Steve Waddell, Chris Heivly (Foreword, Co-Founder, MapQuest)
ENTREPRENEUR – SMALL BUSINESS WINNER – Forward Thinking For Your Business – by Jennifer Lynn Layman WINNER – GrowUp: Take Your Startup to the Next Level – by Michelle Denogean WINNER – High Gear: Marketing Strategies For Auto Repair Shops – by Ryan Burton FINALIST – Digital Threads – by Neal Schaffer FINALIST – Six Figures While You Sleep – by Kate Toon FINALIST – Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. – by Colin C. Campbell
ENTREPRENEUR – START UPS WINNER – Billion Dollar Bullseye – by Jonathan Cronstedt WINNER – Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. – by Colin C. Campbell FINALIST – From Oh Sh*t to I Got This – by Kate Woodward Young, M.Ed. FINALIST – GrowUp: Take Your Startup to the Next Level – by Michelle Denogean
Health Award-Winning Authors
HEALTH – DIET AND EXERCISE WINNER – Fast Like A Girl – by Mindy Pelz FINALIST – Super Gut – by William Davis, MD
HEALTH – MEDICAL WINNER – HAIR LOSS – by Gustavo J. Gomez, PhD WINNER – Healing Healthcare – by Sharon M. Weinstein and Dina Readinger
HEALTH – MIND, BODY, SPIRIT WINNER – Wellness Manual – by Leona Sokolova FINALIST – Drop Stress Like A Hot Potato – by Natalie Shand-Spellman MSOTR/L
HEALTH – PARENTING AND FAMILY WINNER – How to Have a Kid and a Life: A Survival Guide – by Ericka Sóuter WINNER – Six Figures In School Hours – by Kate Toon
HEALTH – PSYCHOLOGY WINNER – SPLIT a life shared – by Maggie Walters WINNER – The Compassion Advantage – by Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD FINALIST – A Question of Evolution: A Novel – by Spencer Daniel Rosenberg
HEALTH – WELLNESS WINNER – Drop Stress Like A Hot Potato – by Natalie Shand-Spellman MSOTR/L WINNER – UNCOVERING YOUR MIND – by Henry Oh FINALIST – HAIR LOSS – by Gustavo J. Gomez, PhD
Leadership Award-Winning Authors
LEADERSHIP – DEI WINNER – Conscious Change – by V Jean Ramsey & Jean Kantambu Latting WINNER – Inclusive Leadership – by Sile Walsh WINNER – Measuring Inclusion – by Paolo Gaudiano WINNER – The Neurodiversity Edge – by Maureen Dunne FINALIST – Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling – by Layla McCay FINALIST – Organizational Culture – by Marie Carasco FINALIST – The Intimacy of Race – by Eva Medilek FINALIST – The New C-Suite – by Tiana S. Sanchez
LEADERSHIP – HR AND EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT WINNER – 39 Ways to Make Training Stick – by Chris Fenning WINNER – CheerLEADERship – by Stefanie Adams WINNER – The Compassion Advantage – by Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD WINNER – The Feedback Blueprint – by Tenia Davis, PhD FINALIST – Can We All Just Get Along? – by Diana Peterson-More FINALIST – Rethinking Talent Decisions – by Sharna Wiblen FINALIST – Shaping a Winning Team – by Paul Fayad & Chak Fu Lam, PhD
FINALIST – Toxic Leaders and Tough Bosses – by Teresa A. Daniel FINALIST – The High-Value Writing Workbook – by Erin Lebacqz
LEADERSHIP – MENTORING / COACHING WINNER – Coaching for Performance 6th Edition – by Tiffany Gaskell WINNER – The Manager’s Guide to Coaching for Change – by John L. Bennett
LEADERSHIP – MOTIVATION WINNER – Every Storm Runs Out of Rain – by Amy Moudy Comeau WINNER – No More Gold Stars – by Carol Sanford FINALIST – The Call to Leadership – by Anita Kur Mendiratta FINALIST – The Compassion Advantage – by Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD
LEADERSHIP – TEAM BUILDING WINNER – Be a Better Team by Friday – by Justin Folin and David Butlein Greenspan WINNER – The Bonfire Moment – by Martin Gonzalez, Joshua Yellin WINNER – Weathering the storm – by Julian Roberts FINALIST – Brilliant Leadership – by Suzanne Martin FINALIST – The Purpose Playbook – by Jeff Hilimire & Teresa Caro, Megan Barney
LEADERSHIP – THINK DIFFERENTLY WINNER – Seeking Fairness at Work – by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner WINNER – The Job Well Done – by Maheshika Halbeisen WINNER – The New C-Suite – by Tania S. Sanchez WINNER – Think Like A Doctor, Lead Like A CEO – by Mary V. Mason FINALIST – A Transformation Lens – by Gary Burke FINALIST – Antidote to the Crisis of Leadership – by Stephen Wyatt FINALIST – Supercharged Leader – by Mandy Flint & Elisabet Vinberg Hearn FINALIST – The 7 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Companies – by Joel Dubin FINALIST – The Dao of Complexity – by Jean Boulton
Marketing Award-Winning Authors
MARKETING – BRANDING WINNER – Brandy – by Reilly Newman and Scott Saunders WINNER – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers – by Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel FINALIST – Managing Brand Transgressions – by Shailendra Pratap Jain FINALIST – The Goddess Guide to Branding – by Jane McCarthy & Kate McAndrew
MARKETING – COMMUNICATIONS AND PR WINNER – Marketing for Social Change – by Kian Bakhtiari WINNER – Simply Put – by Ben Guttmann WINNER – The Perfect Story – by Karen Eber FINALIST – Internal Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – by Monique Andrea Zytnik FINALIST – The Powerful Publicity Prescription – by Lillian Sue
MARKETING – DIGITAL MARKETING WINNER – 100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions, Volume 4 – by Ross Brand WINNER – Digital Threads – by Neal Schaffer FINALIST – High Gear: Marketing Strategies For Auto Repair Shops – by Ryan Burton
MARKETING – SALES WINNER – Listen to Sell– by Mike Esterday, Derek Roberts WINNER – Walk with a Humble Swagger – by Michael Palma WINNER – What Should We Do? – by Joe Crisara FINALIST – Advertising for Books – by Dale L. Roberts FINALIST – Forward Thinking For Your Business – by Jennifer Lynn Layman FINALIST – Yes, It’s Your Fault – From Blame to Gain – by Kelly Hopping & John Eitel
Money Wealth Award-Winning Authors
MONEY – PERSONAL FINANCE WINNER – Index Funds – by Mark Hebner WINNER – Private Money Lending – by Gustavo J. Gomez, PhD FINALIST – The Hidden Power of Rising Dividends – by Greg Donaldson
MONEY – WEALTH MANAGEMENT WINNER – All the Presidents’ Money – by Megan Gorman WINNER – Get Up And Get On It – by Dana Frank WINNER – Money for Tomorrow – by Whitney Elkins-Hutten FINALIST – Index Funds – by Mark Hebner
Self-Help Award-Winning Authors
SELF-HELP – GENERAL WINNER – How to Have a Kid and a Life – by Ericka Sóuter
SELF-HELP HAPPINESS WINNER – Common Wisdom – by Dr. Laura Gabayan WINNER – Highway To Your Happy Place – by Gary Sprouse, M.D. FINALIST – How to Have a Kid and a Life – by Ericka Sóuter
SELF-HELP HOW TO WINNER – The Perfect Story – by Karen Eber FINALIST – Feng Shui, A Homeowner’s Guide to Abundance – by Jane Langof FINALIST – Sell Your Business – by Jane Johnson
SELF-HELP – INSPIRATION WINNER – SUNBURNT A memoir of sun, surf and skin cancer – by Anne C. Gately FINALIST – Drop Stress Like A Hot Potato – by Natalie Shand-Spellman MSOTR/L
SELF-HELP – MEMOIR WINNER – Memoirs From The Frontlines – by Kim Sloan WINNER – My Father’s Suitcase – by Mary Garden WINNER – SPLIT a life shared: living with Multiple Personality Disorder – by Maggie Walters FINALIST – A Schizoid at Smith – by Blair Rochelle Sorrel FINALIST – Hush: A memoir unravelling the unintended legacy of family secrets – by Michelle Catherine Scheibner
SELF-HELP – PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION WINNER – From Tension to Transformation – by Janet M. Harvey WINNER – GRIEF: The Gift of Transformation – by Ave DeVelasco Guevara WINNER – Passion Struck – by John R. Miles WINNER – The Change Ninja Returns – by Tammy Watchorn WINNER – Walking In Your R.E.M.: Your Path to Purpose – by Natasha T. Robinson FINALIST – Begin With You – by Petra Velzeboer FINALIST – The Kindness Games – by Lee Oughton & Tim Wenzel FINALIST – Wellness Manual – by Leona Sokolova
SELF-HELP SPIRITUAL WINNER – The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening – by Steve Taylor FINALIST – Trekking: A Guidebook for Spiritual Transformation – by Gene Maynard
SELF-HELP – SUCCESS WINNER – The Compassion Advantage – by Andrea Hollingsworth, PhD FINALIST – Walking In Your R.E.M.: Your Path to Purpose – by Natasha T. Robinson
SELF-HELP – WORK-LIFE BALANCE WINNER – The Art of Bleisure – by Emma Lovell WINNER – Work-Life Tango – by Kristel Bauer FINALIST – How to Have a Kid and a Life – by Ericka Sóuter
Technology Award-Winning Authors
TECHNOLOGY – GAMECHANGER WINNER – Creating the Intangible Enterprise – by KP Reddy WINNER – Enterprise GENERATIVE AI – by Suvoraj Biswas and Moumita Biswas WINNER – Internal Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – by Monique Andrea Zytnik WINNER – Pivoting as a Way of Life – by Joseph Hanna FINALIST – Our Next Reality – by Alvin Wang Graylin & Louis Rosenberg FINALIST – Power of Surge – by Holly Kristin Rollo FINALIST – The Flagship Experience – by Evangelos Simoudis
TECHNOLOGY – GENERAL WINNER – Our Next Reality – by Alvin Wang Graylin & Louis Rosenberg WINNER – Taming the Machine – by Nell Watson FINALIST – Power of Surge – by Holly Kristin Rollo FINALIST – The Flagship Experience – by Evangelos Simoudis
Thank you to the Award-Winning Authors, Publicists, Publishers, Agents, book experts, readers and fans who nominated books.
These Award-Winning Author books were published within 5 years (2020-2024) 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), along with being self-published.
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