Patty Civalleri

Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot.
Joe Coulombe founded what would become Trader Joe’s in the late 1960s and helped shape it into the beloved, quirky food chain it is today. Realizing early on that he could not compete and win by playing the same game his bigger competitors were playing, he decided to build a store for educated people of somewhat modest means. He brought in unusual products from around the world and promoted them in the Fearless Flyer, providing customers with background on how they were sourced and their nutritional value. He also gave the stores a tiki theme to reinforce the exotic trader ship concept with employees wearing Hawaiian shirts.

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Mary Childs

Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.

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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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Gary Lai

As Tom Gundy, the editor of Hong Kong Free Press, wrote: Gary Lai “addressed poverty by raising awareness of the different inequalities it has caused and proposing reforms to combat the worst forms of chronic deprivation.”

Lai’s birthplace is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. Luxury brand bag-toting women can often be seen walking past beggars on the sidewalks of busy streets.

Inequality has been steadily increasing from 1976. Poverty makes people more vulnerable and corruptible. This book ascertains the extent of poverty in Hong Kong, in the context of the experiences in other parts of the world. The meditations in this book include essays that Gary has published in the popular media, thus proven to have relevance and influence. An eternal optimist, Lai believes that understanding the destitute in Hong Kong can yield something more universal.

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Anupam B Jena

Christopher Worsham

Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments—random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects—Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie?  Do you really need the surgery your doctor recommends? These questions are rife with significance; their impact can be life changing. Addressing them in a style that’s both animated and enlightening, Random Acts of Medicine empowers you to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work—and how it could work better.

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Solitaire Townsend

As the title claims, this book aims to provide solutions for businesses and individuals to put sustainability at the forefront. In a positive light, 'The Solutionists' provides readers with hope to help solve the environmental crisis as well as drive business growth and innovation.

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Jon Gordon

Damon West

From bestselling author Jon Gordon and rising star Damon West comes The Coffee Bean: an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change.
Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel like a pot of boiling hot water. The environments we find ourselves in can change, weaken, or harden us, and test who we truly are. We can be like the carrot that weakens in the pot or like the egg that hardens. Or, we can be like the coffee bean and discover the power inside us to transform our environment.

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Nathan C Chappell

Brian Crimmins, Michael Ashley

The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges, delivers a startling analysis of the changing nature of generosity in America and why its decline could herald the end of the modern nonprofit.

The Generosity Crisis has been published with the explicit goal of inspiring a different future. In a world fractured by crises of generosity, reciprocity and love, what would it take to launch a return to humankind’s inherent propensity toward interconnection?

Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this ambitious book shows us that humanity’s best days may very well lie ahead; but only if we’re willing to rethink everything we think we know about connection.

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Melisa F Galasso

Nonprofit board members serve because they want to make an impact. They know their nonprofit must be financially healthy to do the most good. However, some of the best board members are not numbers people and even those with a business background often find nonprofit financials hard to decipher. Money Matters for Nonprofits was written to demystify nonprofit financial statements and accounting. Heather Blake, CFO of Girls on the Run International, "recommend[s] nonprofit board members, executive directors, or anyone that works with nonprofit finances read this book to deepen their understanding of nonprofit financial concepts and better equip themselves to deliver on their missions.” Empowering board members to better advise their organizations helps them to make an even greater difference in the world. As a professional trainer with a background in adult learning theory, Galasso makes complex topics easy to understand using relatable stories, simple diagrams, and real-world examples.

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